Washington Free Beacon senior writer Adam Kredo appeared Monday night on One America News Network's "Tipping Point," where he discussed former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's offer to testify before Congress on the federal probe into alleged contacts between President Trump's campaign and Russia in exchange for immunity.
Host Liz Wheeler asked Kredo for his interpretation of what Flynn's lawyer meant in saying Flynn had "a story to tell." Kredo said he initially pushed off rumors about Flynn testifying. However, after speaking to sources, Kredo said he now believes Flynn may be moving to protect himself, possibly from Obama-era officials still in government, instead of trying to "expose some sort of bombshell about the administration he once worked for."
When pushed by Wheeler on Flynn's "good story to tell," Kredo said it is unclear at this point whether Flynn had any significant information to reveal. He suggested there may be a "bad taste left for Flynn," due to him being "pushed out of the administration, the fact that it happened so early into his term, and now we're seeing a lot of the work that he pursued on the National Security Council being undone."
Kredo noted that Flynn's past lobbying for Turkish interests was likely "more potentially damaging for him" than anything Flynn could have done during his time in the Trump administration.
Wheeler brought up President Trump's point during the campaign regarding Hillary Clinton that people have no need to ask for immunity "if you're not guilty of a crime." Kredo agreed with the premise of the question, saying that "the more we learn about Flynn and his activities, I think the more troubling it is.
"There's certainly an argument that even though he was pushed out of the administration under very bad circumstances, his opponent leaking against him, it seems that he's not completely innocent in this himself, and may have wound up in a position where later down the road he would have been forced out anyway, due to a lot of these lobbying activities and other things of that nature," Kredo said.
Wheeler also asked Kredo about claims made by Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, that the Obama administration may have collected incidental surveillance on Trump and his transition team.
Referring to reports that Nunes' sources may have been White House staff, Wheeler asked if such intelligence sharing is illegal. Kredo said he believes it is not against the law.
"A member of Congress is cleared, certainly security-wise, to look at this type of stuff," said Kredo, who added he does not think Nunes would have been barred from reviewing relevant intelligence.
The choice to show Nunes intelligence documents was above board, according to Kredo, who described it as "an act of whistleblowing."
"That's what Congress is there to do, to provide that oversight work," he added.
Although one can "quibble" with how Nunes revealed the information, Kredo said, that transparency is valuable.
"To me, the sunlight is good."
Wheeler pointed out that Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, did not contradict Nunes' statements after seeing the same documents on Friday. Instead, he commented on the methods by which Nunes revealed his knowledge to the public.
Kredo said he thinks Nunes may be somewhat "discredited," but it's the "intelligence, at the end of the day, [that] is really going to be the bombshell that continues."
Kredo added that he still maintains "we may see some Obama administration officials actually legally held to account for this."