Posted on 12/14/2018 12:30:45 PM PST by Rusty0604
Former FBI Director James Comey, speaking to an appreciative audience in New York on Sunday, told NBC's Nicole Wallace that he sent two FBI agents to visit then-National Security Adviser Mike Flynn at the White House on January 24, 2017, because he figured he could get away with it.
Wallace asked Comey: "You look at this White House now, and it's hard to imagine two FBI agents ending up in the State room. How did that happen?"
"I sent them," Comey replied. The audience laughed, and Comey continued:
Something we've -- I probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized investigation -- a more organized administration. In the George W. Bush administration, for example, or the Obama administration
The protocol, two men that all of us perhaps have increased appreciation for over the last two years. (The audience applauded.)
And in both those administrations there was process.
And so we placed a call to Flynn, said, hey, we're sending a couple of guys over. Hope you'll talk to them. He said, sure. Nobody else was there. They interviewed him in a conference room in the Situation Room, and he lied to them. And that's what he's now pled guilty to.
“What did he think they were coming over there for?” Wallace asked Comey.
“I don't think he knew,” Comey replied. “I know we didn't tell him.”
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Were they wearing a wire?
Was he really lying or playing them.
Sounds like part of the plan that Stroke and his lady mentioned.
Doesn’t sound like Mr. Comey’s agents Mirandized General Flynn. Don’t think Judge Sullivan will see the humor in that little detail.
Comey is a traitor.
The POS belongs in a cell...not out running his idiotic mouth off.
So, he publicly admits that he was using taxpayer dollars to engage in an unauthorized antagonistic investigation of his boss? Ummm. . .is that legal?
I think it goes deeper than this.
If I understand it as Comey relates the story, there was an open investigation of Russian collusion in the 2016 election. McCabe called Flynn to ask if he could sent over a “couple of agents” to talk with Flynn about Russia. Flynn agrees and tells the same story to the agents who then write their 302’s 7-months after the fact. Flynn is charged with “lying to the FBI”.
What’s wrong with this picture, other than everything. If the investigation was ongoing and the FBI had reasonable cause to believe Flynn lied previously, then Flynn is now a target of the investigation. He is no longer a witness. He is a “suspect”. Even rookie officers know once a person moves from a witness to a suspect, he has certain rights ala Miranda.
Sounds like McCabe tried to end-run the General’s rights by downplaying the reason for the interview. But that doesn’t absolve the agents from their obligation to Mirandize him.
I bet that’s why Sullivan wants to see the 302’s. He wants to see if Flynn was deprived of his 4th Amendment protections.
This is probably why they’ve been pushing off the sentencing. They (Mueller) know this charge wouldn’t stand judicial review if it were ever appealed. If Flynn accepts the plea agreement, he loses his appeal rights. That could be why they are recommending no jail time. Figure he’d accept and they’d be done.
If they did interview Flynn without Miranda and Flynn gave them any other information that they used in subsequent investigations, it could fall under the “fruits of the poisonous tree” doctrine. Mueller could be on some very thin ice here and is hoping to sneak one by. I think Sullivan is the wrong guy to pull this on.
We’ll see.
Thanks Rusty0604.
Two guys come over to have a chat... they don;t tell you its an official investigation, or that you are under oath, or that you are putting yourself in legal jeopardy, so you talk to them.
And go to jail for it.
Why couldn’t he say anything he wanted to them until he was under oath?
What an evil piece of shit. And the audience chuckling at it too.
“What did he think they were coming over there for?” Wallace asked Comey.
“I don’t think he knew,” Comey replied. “I know we didn’t tell him.”
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MFr
Obama wanted the US to be more like China and he almost succeeded
And everybody laughing about setting up a true patriot.
Thanks for the concise analysis!
He’s laughing right in our faces.
We are living in very strange and dangerous times
This really was a Flight 93 election
The FBI is the most unprofessional law enforcement organization I’ve ever seen. They just do anything they please, with no regard to the law. And they have always done it that way.
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