John Solomon, Just the News, March 16, 2020: Obama DOJ officials privately told Mueller they were alarmed by FBI treatment of Flynn. The article paraphrases Mueller-office correspondence about interviews with former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord.

As Just the News renders the Mueller summary: McCord said FBI agents did not tell Flynn he was under investigation and did not give a Title 18 U.S.C. section 1001 warning; the FBI did not want to insinuate the existence of a criminal investigation. Separately, the summary as quoted: McCord said that upon learning of Flynn’s phone calls with Ambassador Kislyak, a Logan Act prosecution seemed like a stretch to her. Solomon repeated the Logan Act paraphrase in later Just the News pieces (May 7, 2020 Dirty Dozen; November 26, 2020 disclosures list).

Those sentences are a journalist’s account of a special-counsel summary. They are not a verbatim McCord quote from a published 302 on this page. They are not a court finding. The Federalist, July 16, 2020, used the same stretch line in commentary. This site does not upgrade the paraphrase into her sworn words.

Two months later she published a New York Times opinion essay arguing Attorney General Barr twisted her interview in the Flynn dismissal motion. That essay is a different document and a different post. A news paraphrase and an op-ed can both exist. Neither is an indictment of McCord. Flynn’s case history is not restated here as a new crime by her.