https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/422801-three-oddities-in-fbi-handling-of-flynn-interview
Oddity No. 1: Then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe personally contacted Flynn on the second full working day of the Trump administration and asked him to meet with FBI agents, a meeting that McCabe reportedly characterized as no big deal. That should have been Flynns first red flag. The FBI doesnt do no big deal interviews.
McCabes request apparently came at the direction of his boss, former FBI Director James Comey, whose now-transparent camera lust led to the nugget last week that he wanted to exploit his perceived and likely biased view that the Trump administration would not be sophisticated enough to spot an end run around normal protocols and White House legal counsel.
Was there anything legally wrong with Comeys and McCabes duplicitous efforts to lull Flynn into a false sense of security, gain direct, solo access to him and not warn him about lying to agents? Nope. And thats why his attorneys probe of that angle went nowhere with the court
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Oddity No. 2: The fact that a 302 was immediately generated is an oddity. A 302 normally is used only as a reporting mechanism in criminal cases when it is anticipated that the information obtained may be used in subsequent litigation and testimony. It usually is not used in counterintelligence investigations.
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In addition, the original 302 is appended with an odd, unredacted header: Draft Document/Deliberative Material. Please understand that such a statement is not normally found on a 302. A 302 is not meant to be deliberative, i.e. subject to further discussion or interpretation. It is meant to be testimonial.
When an agent writes and physically initials a 302 and enters it into the FBIs case management system, he or she indicates readiness to swear to its accuracy. Words such as draft and deliberation imply that facts may change. If thats the case, a new, separate 302 should be generated. The original remains unchanged.
In Flynns case we have two 302s submitted to the court with the same information but different dates of entry into the FBIs case management system. Odd, indeed. It simply gives rise to suspicions of manipulation.
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Oddity No. 3: The interview results reflected on the 302 seem untethered from the Russia collusion counterintelligence investigation. The only way FBI agents can legitimately interview Flynn is through an authorized FBI investigation in this case, the Russia collusion counterintelligence case examining links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign to interfere with the 2016 presidential campaign.
But Flynn is never asked about those things. Instead, the FBI interviewers appear fixated on understanding what the Trump administration might do to counter Obama administration policies, specifically sanctions imposed on Russia by former President Obama after his party lost the election and an anti-Israel United Nations resolution that the Trump administration opposed. These are policy differences between duly elected presidential administrations, not of criminal or even counterintelligence interest.
Thank you for that. Drip drip drip, I assume.