Documents Point to Stefan Halper Lying to FBI: Judge

Evidence that has come to light indicated that British professor Stefan Halper is the confidential source who claimed to the FBI that Gen. Michael Flynn left a meeting in England with a Russian-born academic, a federal judge said recently while rejecting Halper’s attempt to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against him.

Halper has long been identified as one of the spies who passed on information about Donald Trump campaign associates as part of the U.S. government’s investigation into alleged ties between Trump and Russia, which is itself subject to a criminal probe after being found to have been riddled with mistakes. And he has been rumored to be the source of a tip to the FBI about Flynn and Svetlana Lokhova, the Russian-born historian who has lived in Britain for years.

Lokhova sued Halper for defamation in 2019, but the case was thrown out because the statute of limitations had expired and she had not proven her case. But an amended complaint against Halper can move forward, a U.S. judge said during a July 15 hearing, because evidence points to Halper not only being the FBI’s source, but to lying to the bureau.

“There are now a fair number of documentations that do, in fact, link your client to being this source,” U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, a Clinton appointee, told Halper’s attorney Terrance Reed, according to a transcript of the proceedings obtained by The Epoch Times.

There’s also “more specific information” that Halper “was, in fact, not present” during an event attended by Flynn and Lokhova in Cambridge in 2014, Brinkema added. That means Halper “may have made clear misstatements to the FBI.”

The information “at the pleading stage would seem to be enough to suggest that there may, in fact, be some falsehoods going on here on your client’s behalf,” the

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