Why is the administration unwilling to release the Flynn-Kislyak transcripts? The fact of the conversations is well known, their contents have been widely reported, and the admin has been happy to declassify other docs.

There’s clearly something they wish to keep hidden here. https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1262896264435445764

Could it be that the transcripts show that Flynn was acting at Trump’s direction when he asked Moscow not to retaliate? That’s the cleanest explanation for why Flynn felt the need to lie to the FBI — to protect his boss. And it’d also explain Trump’s undying loyalty to him.

Or does it have something to do with the fact that the former Acting AG, @SallyQYates, testified that Flynn’s “underlying conduct” on those calls was “problematic in and of itself?” We still don’t know what exactly she meant, but the transcripts would surely shed light.

Or might they show that Flynn was acting on behalf of his own financial interests by seeking deescalation? After all, even as late as Inauguration Day, he was trying to broker a private nuclear deal that would’ve required an end to US sanctions on Moscow. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/michael-flynn-texted-nuclear-plans-whistleblower-282070

Regardless, if Trump and his cronies seek to expunge a guilty plea — which Flynn himself twice affirmed — in an attempt to exonerate Flynn and impugn the Obama administration, the American people should be free to review Flynn’s own words and judge for themselves.