Disregard what?
What insertion was removed?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Unrolled thread from Mike @ Doranimated.
I don’t know who Herminator is.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1258726656350568449.html
New @Heminator piece on the framing of Mike Flynn puts the spotlight on Joe Pientka, the most important guy you’ve never heard of. Here are some highlights:
New Red Flags Emerging From FBI’s Handling of Michael Flynn’s Case | RealClearInvestigations
Above, Peter Strzok of the FBI, one of two agents who interviewed Flynn. By Mark Hemingway, RealClearInvestigationsMay 8, 2020 The Justice Department’s closing of its criminal case against...
1) The FBI took 3 weeks, not the required 5 days, to write Flynn’s 302, the form on which FBI agents record the responses of interviewees. This is crucial. Interviews are not taped. With Flynn accused of the crime of lying to the FBI, this form & its author must be reliable.
2) Peter Strzok, the top agent who interviewed Flynn, heavily edited the 302, which by procedure was supposed to be written by the second agent present, whose job was to concentrate on note taking while Strzok talked to Flynn.
3) In one text to his lover, Lisa Page, Strzok tells her he is heavily editing the 302 form to the point, he says, of “trying not to completely re-write” it. Page, who did not attend the interview & who is a lawyer, reviewed the 302 form and made editing suggestions.
4) FBI personnel not present at interviews aren’t supposed to edit 302s, whose legal value depends entirely on being an accurate verbatim account.
5) During the process, Page texted her lover Strzok and asked, “Is Andy good with the 302?” – presumably referring to FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. This text suggests that Strzok doctored the 302 under the direction of “Andy” in support of his, presumably political, goals.
6) Former FBI special agent Thomas Baker said it was “not normal and suspicious” that it took 3 weeks for the 302 form to be filed.
7) For people who know the system from the inside, this behaviour is unthinkable. Baker: ”We never changed an agent’s 302. ... So for us to read ... that Peter Strzok said he virtually rewrote the whole thing – it damned them with their own words.”
8) James Galiano, retired 25-year veteran of the FBI: “For [Strzok] to send that 302 to Lisa Page, a non-badge wearing, non-credential-having FBI agent is unconscionable.”
9) Hovering over all the questions about Flynn’s 302 is the silence of the second agent, the guy who according to normal FBI procedures was supposed to write the 302. His name is Joe Pientka. Pay attention. We will be hearing it more and more in the coming months.