Don’t worry Darth, I’ll fill you in.
The FBI’s opening documentation in August 2016 for the investigation into Flynn stated that there was an articulable factual basis that Flynn “may wittingly or unwittingly be involved in activity on behalf of the Russian Federation which may constitute a federal crime or threat to the national security”.
According to the DoJ’s inspector general, the Flynn investigation was properly predicated as a full investigation (which of course permits the subject to be interviewed by the FBI then or later). In his report on the FBI’s conduct in the Russia investigation, the inspector general said: “The quantum of information articulated by the FBI to open these individual investigations (Flynn, Carter Page, Papadopoulos, Manafort) was sufficient to satisfy the low threshold established by Department and FBI predication policy.”
The DoJ’s argument for dropping the case was that FURTHER PREDICATION was required to interview Flynn in January 2017, even though he was already under investigation. Do you understand the reasoning here?