Thats a pretty important detail, dontcha think?
Posted on 04/29/2020 4:51:14 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute [Flynn] or get him fired?”
Handwritten notes from the FBI that had been withheld from Michael Flynn and his defense team show that the FBI's goal in investigating and ambushing Flynn was 'to get him fired.'
New documents filed under seal last week by the Department of Justice provide the clearest evidence yet that the investigation and subsequent prosecution of former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was a set-up from the beginning. Handwritten notes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that had been inappropriately withheld from Flynn’s defense team for years show that a key goal of the agents investigating Flynn was “to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired.”
In early 2017, FBI agents planned to question Flynn under false pretenses and without his attorneys present regarding his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. At the time of those conversations, Flynn was the top foreign policy adviser of the president-elect of the United States. By the time of the ambush FBI interview, Flynn had already been appointed as the White House national security adviser.
In the handwritten FBI notes, the note-taker, whose identity was not made clear in the document production, wrote that an alternate goal is to “get [Flynn] to admit breaking the Logan Act,” a reference to a 1799 law restricting communications between private citizens and foreign governments. The law is widely viewed as unconstitutional and has never been used to successfully prosecute a single American citizen. The previously secret notes do not explain that Flynn was not a private citizen, but rather the incoming national security adviser at the time of his conversations with world leaders.
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Just a clerical issue...
” We regularly show subjects evidence with the goal of getting them to admit their wrongdoing.”
That is someone who has already decided that the subject is guilty.
New documents show FBI goal was to put Capone in prison!
“They had decided he was guilty going in,” an outraged Frank Nitti tells reporters.
There should be prosecutions...otherwise, I’ll never trust the FBI ever again.
Well Flynn might finally be exonerated. Then again, I thought Roger Stone should get a new trial. Here’s hoping though.
Damn...Nazi style tactics. Zero impartiality, zero ethics.
Someone here suggested that he be appointed Director of the FBI, with a free hand to clean house. That would be the beginning of justice.
I want him to come out of this with 20X the money he spent fighting it
With most of it coming from those personally responsible
The FBIAS should be disbanded.
They have proven themselves untrustworthy.
Federal
Bureau of
Incrimination
And
Sedition
The FBI needs to go away.
Thats a pretty important detail, dontcha think?
Tucker all over this story.
Word is the notes are from Priestap
No.
They had decided they wanted to get rid of him, because they disagreed with his policies and priorities.
They sure don’t represent the interests of the American People.
So who do they really work for?
Themselves? or someone else?
Think before you spout. Capone was a well known gangster. Flynn was a respected veteran and senior intelligence official who had committed no crimes when the FBI set him up for persecution.
Barr has had an idea of what occurred even before he became the AG.
Remember his (in hindsight) reserved statement at the outset of reviewing these investigations that the media and democrats blasted? He said we need to “make sure these investigations were adequately predicated.”
There was NO predicate for the FBI to target Flynn. None.
FARA violations? Nope. Logan Act violations? Nope. As the incoming National Security Director he has every right to talk to pretty much anyone he wants. He cannot act until the principle assumes the office, but he can talk and negotiate on behalf of his President. Every incoming administration does this.
This investigation was disgusting.
Never forget what the man running this said..... “first we F Flynn and then we F Trump”
AMEN!! SUE!!! SUE!!! SUE!!! SUE THEIR ASSES OFF! PERSONALLY!
what did Wray know, when did he know it. did he try to withhold this info and screw Flynn in the process, or wish it away? this is just as bad as the initial misdeeds.....he had an ethical and moral responsibility to bring it forward. what am I missing here?
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