On January 24, 2017, FBI agents interviewed Michael Flynn at the White House. That date is not in dispute in the later Flynn docket and in the inspector general’s Crossfire Hurricane review. Horowitz’s report says “SSA 1” was one of the two agents. It names Peter Strzok. It does not print Pientka.
Fox News, in December 2019, wrote that a review of Horowitz “leaves little doubt that the unnamed SSA is Joe Pientka,” that Strzok had identified Pientka as the notetaker, and that Flynn’s counsel had named him in proceedings. That is reporting, not a personnel file. The Epoch Times (Flynn-counsel story on the IG report) likewise treats Pientka as SSA 1 and recounts the agents’ contemporaneous impression, from FBI records later filed, that Flynn was not lying or did not think he was lying. Quote the filing if you open it. This page does not invent a Strzok line.
John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy, Just the News, May 16, 2026, recap that Comey sent Strzok and Joseph Pientka to Flynn that day. That is a later column. The 2017 interview is the episode. Conservative Treehouse (May 15, 2020) argued about a missing original FD-302 and attributed the first draft to Pientka. Treat that write-up as commentary unless the 302 itself is on the table. This site does not invent Comey transcript lines from a blog.
Flynn later pleaded guilty to a false-statement count and the Justice Department later moved to dismiss. Those are docket facts about Flynn. They are not a conviction of Pientka. He is a witness/agent in these records.