Posted on 12/17/2018 4:38:57 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Why is Robert Mueller so desperate to keep the original Flynn 302 hidden?: Andy McCarthy, who teams with Victor Davis Hanson as the only two writers worth reading anymore at The National Review, has a piece out this morning in which he asks the single most key point in the effort to frame General Mike Flynn: Where is the FBI’s 302 form from his January 24, 2017 “interview” with Peter Strzok and another agent?
In their most recent court filing submitted on Friday, Mueller and his team did present a “302” form to the judge in the case – the increasingly impatient Emmet G. Sullivan – but, as McCarthy points out, that form was compiled not from the interview with Flynn, but from an interview Mueller’s team conducted with Strzok in August of 2017, 8 full months after the entrapment meeting with General Flynn. FBI procedure requires agents conducting suspect or witness interviews to memorialize them in 302 forms immediately after they have been completed, not 2/3rds of a year later.
Mueller and his band of Clinton/Obama shills offer no explanation regarding why they did not produce the original 302 or where it is currently located. They appear to be trying to claim that the original document has mysteriously gone missing. Is that really true?
Let’s think this through: The utterly corrupt FBI agent Peter Strzok and another, more junior, agent – whose name is Joe Pientka, although the fake news media continues to pretend to not know his identity – conduct an entrapment interview of General Flynn on orders from then-FBI Director Jim Comey and then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates. They tell Flynn that this is just a friendly visit, that he has no need for legal counsel to be present, and then proceed to do their best to entrap him in a process crime.
At the end of the interview, Strzok and Pientka look at one another, shrug their shoulders, and agree that Flynn was not lying, or that if he did misstate anything, it was not intentional. We know this to be the case because James Comey himself has confirmed it multiple times under oath before multiple congressional committees.
So, standing there with their big bag of nothing, the senior agent Strzok looks at junior agent Pientka and says something like “have fun spending the next two hours memorializing this bag of nothing in your 302 form,” and walks down the hall to fill in his boss – the utterly corrupt Andrew McCabe – on the day’s failed entrapment effort. Pientka files an honest 302 report on the meeting, and that’s where it all ended. Well, until May, 2017, when the utterly corrupt Rod Rosenstein appointed the utterly corrupt Robert Mueller to become the Special Counsel who would take on the task of building an impeachment case against President Donald Trump.
Mueller spends a couple of months casting about for some bit, any bit of evidence that someone, anyone in the Trump Campaign had indeed “colluded” with the Russians during the 2016 campaign. By August, he too is holding the same big bag of nothing that agents Strzok and Pientka were holding at the conclusion of their January entrapment meeting with General Flynn.
After a discussion with Strzok – who had been on Mueller’s staff in June and July – the two decide that Flynn, who was intimately involved in the Trump Campaign, holds the keys to their kingdom. Flynn had, after all, had a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart in December 2015 at the behest of then-President-elect Trump. The call was nothing out of the ordinary – a get to know you kind of thing on behalf of an incoming President by that president’s future national security advisor – but it was something. Strzok and Mueller just had to find some hook they could use to start bullying Flynn into saying damaging things about Trump and his campaign.
So they go back to that January 24 meeting and Strzok says something like “hey, maybe that dang Flynn did lie to us after all,” and they call Pietka into the office. When Pietka arrives, Strzok and Mueller try to convince him to alter his original 302 from January.
But here’s the problem: Pietka is the rare non-corrupt FBI agent in the DC office, and he refuses to commit a federal felony by dishonestly altering his original 302 from the meeting. What to do?
Hey, no problem – it’s Peter Strzok to the rescue. Hell, this guy will lie about anything – dummying up a fake 302 form for the purpose of getting rid of President Donald Trump is an act of valor in his demented mind, as we have clearly seen from his thousands of text messages with his mistress, Lisa Page. So, Mueller’s people conduct an interview with Strzok, and voila! – the magic new 302 form from an interview conducted 8 months prior is created.
Much of this is conjecture, sure, but it is a scenario that fits perfectly with the facts as we know them publicly, and it explains so many things about this obvious frame of General Flynn.
For example, multiple congressional committees have been trying for more than a year now to have Agent Pietka come over to Capitol Hill and offer sworn testimony about his and Strzok’s meeting with Flynn. But Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray have consistently blocked all such efforts. Rosenstein, Wray and Mueller simply cannot afford for that to happen.
One thing is certain: There was a contemporaneous 302 form created by either Strzok or Pietka immediately following their interview with Flynn. Comey and McCabe both have confirmed that fact in sworn testimony. Mueller appears willing to go to any lengths necessary to prevent Judge Sullivan and the American people from seeing what is in that original 302.
This is just one more reason why President Trump not only has an incentive, but an absolute public duty to declassify not just the original 302 in the Flynn case, but all the documents related to the Mueller Witch Hunt, and do it soon.
That is all.
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Can the judge arrest Mueller for contempt?
Since he doesn’t have arrest powers, he can simply order the U.S. Marshals to arrest him. If he does, they will definitely carry out that order.
No issues - I just couldn’t figure why the star of Christmas was coercing judges from the Supreme Court!
Merry Christmas, FRiend!
Send two honest FBI agents to Mueller’s hose at 3am, drive him to his office and force him to produce the record.
The LEOs for the Federal Judiciary are US Marshals and they have basically the same arrest and detention powers.
Many people are counting on Judge Sullivan to do the right thing.
I don’t see it happening—The stakes are too high for the Deep State.
Incorrect year, it was 2016 for this phone call. In 2015 Trump had absolutely NO CHANCE to even win the GOP nomination!
There may be (one) but he/she may believe that other G-men are better marksmen than NYPD.
Probably they screwed up and let an agent who is not in on the coup participate in the interview and he's the guy who wrote the original Form 302. So if they fake it, and he doesn't conveniently turn up dead, then they risk that he will say "hey, that's not the form I wrote". So they can't do that.
Note that the FBI has refused to make that agent available for congressional questioning for months now.
Maybe I don’t know what I should about legal issues, but it sure looks like defense teams for Cohen, Manafort, Flynn and Trump are terribly lazy. With all the corruption of the Muller team and the fbi right under their noses, they look to be not noticing.
I remember reading during McCabe fiasco that McCabe rewrote the 302 and destroyed the original- the reason Mueller can’t produce it now. Remember McCabe stated “first we ___ Flynn, then we ____ Trump”.
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And, as FBI agents, realize that the metadata that the dullest Cyber Forensics 101 student could quickly uncover would reveal that.
Slighly late to this thread. Strzok was required to fill out a 302. It looks like he did not comply. He had 5 days from the interview. The other guy was transferred and hidden. This is a crime by Meuller and McCabe. RR is fully involved.
Meuller knew this was his Waterloo. He tried to play out the string of lies. All involved were guilty of Obstruction. That includes the original Judge(Contreas). Flynn has let this play out because he has no choice. Judge will dismiss charges with misconduct. Contreas is the person they are trying to save. Meuller has lost his leverage. Time for the show to start!
It was Pientka not Strzok that took the notes and that’s why he hasn’t been seen or heard of since. I agree that this is the Warterloo of Mueller and that’s why he’s been trying to delay Flynn’s sentencing hearing for well over a year. The 302s were destroyed most likely and changed by McCabe and Mueller knows of this
Also, Roberts is in charge of the FISA court...it would seem that they need to protect Roberts....because a corrupted Roberts is more useful to them.
Yet the FBI did not tape the Hillary CYA Interview. Can’t believe they can keep a straight face in these matters before a Judge.
No. It should be CJ of the US.
Roberts actual title is the Chief Justice of the United States.
The office title is actually mentioned in the Constitution...
Not the often misstated Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
I get that the other Supreme Court members are titled by statute as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, but not so for Roberts.
He remains the Chief Justice of the United States, and if the Congress eliminated all of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, he alone would constitute the entire Supreme Court.
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I agree that Pientka was taking Notes. Strzok was still required to fill out a 302 within 5 days. Team Meuller does not want these 302’s to reappear. This was known a year ago when Meuller started asking for extensions. DS is greedy and wants it all. They could have backed off this stuff a long time ago. Let the games begin.
Yes, it was a typo that I didn’t catch on my initial edit. Sorry.
Roberts has been compromised since the Obamacare vote. Something about his adopted children.
yup.
spot on.
it does not exist.
makes it impossible to pin down who did what... and when...
as a result, the FISA court has a “procedural error” that is not actionable... as the primary conspirators had their meeting at some social function in DC... and not in a documented format...where witnesses as to substance can be charged...
this is just wrong and illegal on sooo many levels...
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