1/ From DOJ motion to dismiss charges against Flynn case: “FBI Director Comey took the position that the FBI would not notify the incoming Trump administration of the Flynn-Kislyak communications. ... https://thehill.com/regulation/496649-read-doj-motion-to-dismiss-flynn-case

2/ Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and other senior DOJ officials took the contrary view and believed that the incoming administration should be notified....

3/Deputy Attorney General Yates and another senior DOJ official became “frustrated” when Director Comey’s justifications for withholding the information from the Trump administration repeatedly “morphed,”...

4/... vacillating from the potential compromise of a “counterintelligence” investigation to the protection of a purported “criminal” investigation....

5/The Deputy Attorney General, Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency all agreed that the FBI should notify the incoming Trump administration of what had actually been said on the calls....

6/ FBI Director Comey continued to refuse to brief the White House in a subsequent conversation with CIA Director John Brennan. On January 23, 2017, then Acting AG Yates met with senior DOJ officials, and they again discussed the need to press the FBI to notify the White House.

7/Matters came to a head on January 24, 2017. That morning, Yates contacted Director Comey to demand that the FBI notify the White House of the communications. Director Comey did not initially return her call. ...

8/ When Director Comey called her back later that day, he advised her that the FBI agents were already on their way to the White House to interview Mr. Flynn. ...

9/ Acting Attorney General Yates was “flabbergasted” and “dumbfounded,” and other senior DOJ officials “hit the roof” upon hearing of this development, given that “an interview of Flynn should have been coordinated with DOJ.”