New details have emerged about the FBI’s handling of the Michael Flynn case. Particularly concerning is an admission by James Comey that he allowed the violation of protocol.

According to Fox News:

Former FBI Director James Comey admitted in a recent interview that he personally made the decision to send a pair of agents to interview President Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn in 2017, and acknowledged the arrangement was not typical for dealing with a White House official.

The new details about that fateful interview — which led to criminal charges against Flynn — come as a federal judge ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team late Wednesday to turn over all the government’s documents related to Flynn’s questioning, ahead of sentencing.

Asked to describe how two FBI agents ended up at the White House to interview Flynn in January 2017, Comey, speaking to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace during a forum discussion Sunday, said flatly: “I sent them.”

Comey went on to acknowledge the way the interview was set up – not through the White House counsel’s office, but arranged directly with Flynn – was not standard practice. He called it “something I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more … organized administration.”

Despite protocol being contacting the White House Counsels Office Comey decided to just send the agents over. He said this decision was made because it was so early in the presidency.