couldn’t find that story on Original article:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-thr...
but here’s this
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1206984414980431873
I am planning to post Cates’ unrolled thread on Flynn in a bit.
Heck, he finished it, I’ll ping it right now. Great Cates thread on Gen. Flynn. I said earlier that Cates never mentions Q, but I would not be surprised if he reads Q. His analysis of the Gen. Flynn situation corresponds with what Q has said.
If anyone wants on/off this twitterland ping list, freepmail me. I have a long batch to post later in addition to this unrolled thread.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1206984414980431873.html
This will not be an easy thread to do.
Because a lot of people are not going to like what I have say.
They don’t believe Flynn volunteered for this.
But that’s always been my position, and I’ll explain why.
But first, something about the nature of intelligence work.
To successfully pull off a sting operation you have lie to your own family, if necessary.
You can’t even pass screening for intel work if you cannot agree you have the capability to hide what you are really doing from your family and close friends.
I’ve stressed in my writing on the Flynn case that as an intelligence professional with 30 years experience at the top of the intelligence world, there was no way Flynn did not know his phone calls with Kislyak were being intercepted, recorded and transcribed.
Now it’s time to stress something else:
there no way Flynn did not discern Strzok & Pientka’s true purpose in coming to interview him at the White House on Jan. 24th, 2017.
A call from ANDREW MCCABE put him completely at ease, you say?
Absolute bulls***.
Nobody knew better than Gen Flynn the absolute weasels that were running the FBI under Obama.
He knew all about the spying going on and had openly declared under the new Trump administration he was going to clean house.
So spare me the “he was caught off guard” bulls***.
The **cover story** is that after a friendly chat with McCabe on the phone about sending a few agents over for another friendly chat, Flynn decides to sit down without a lawyer present and leaves himself totally open and defenseless.
I’m sure that’s how it looked.
The notes from the interview quickly make it clear this was not a friendly chat.
Despite McCabe having told Flynn the FBI had just ‘cleared’ him of any wrongdoing on the Kislyak phone calls based on a review of the **intercepts of the phone calls**, the agents keep asking...
and pressing Flynn on any discussion he had with Kislyak about lifting the new sanctions Obama had just imposed on Russia.
The cover story is...Flynn is a moron at this moment.
After hearing the questions they want him to answer, he’d know this is not just a friendly interview wrapping up a few loose ends like McCabe told him.
They’re here to find something they can use against him.
Now pay attention here, this part is important:
IF Flynn knew these agents were coming to meet with him with bad intentions, if he knew you never sit down with these kind of people without a lawyer present or at least RECORDING your conversation with them, then his 30 years of intelligence work failed him.
But let’s go with the story that Flynn absolutely believed McCabe, he was put completely at ease, and he ends up getting hit with a process perjury charge based on his interview with Strzok & Pientka, not on his supposed treasonous calls with Kislyak.
The framing of Flynn is only a CHAPTER in a massive plot. It’s only one of the acts in a five act play.
Look at the players involved in the Flynn frame & the players involved in the coup to overthrow the government.
IT’S THE SAME PEOPLE.
Who was involved in framing Flynn?
1) James Comey
2) Andrew McCabe
3) Peter Strzok
4) Joseph Pientka
5) Lisa Page
These are the people who initiated the frame & then did the handoff to the Mueller Special Counsel’s office.
Who was involved in a coup attempt to overthrow the duly elected administration of Donald J. Trump?
Would you be SURPRISED to learn its:
1) James Comey
2) Andrew McCabe
3) Peter Strzok
4) Joseph Pientka
5) Lisa Page ?
I know people ***want*** Barr & Durham to surgically excise all the exculpatory evidence Flynn needs to have his case tossed from all the overall SpyGate evidence to convict these goons of all the OTHER STUFF they did besides framing Flynn...
but it’s NOT going to happen.
But the fact is, this group of people involved in framing Flynn were involved in a whole lot of other criminal activity that went far beyond faking a perjury case. WAY beyond it.
The Flynn frame is PART of the SpyGate scandal but it’s not all of it.
But the fact is, there are ongoing criminal investigations into each one of these people where the Flynn framing plays a part, but there is FAR MORE in play here than that.
Durham is investigating the SpyGate plot, which means he has a lot more on his plate than just proving these FBI people handed off a bogus case based on altered 302 forms to the Mueller Special Counsel.
He’s investigating OCONUS LURES sent to Carter Page & Papadopoulos.
He’s investigating the use of foreign intelligence services being used to circumvent US law to spy on US citizens for political purposes.
The Flynn case is only a part of a wider whole.
Durham is not finished. Barr says he’ll be done sometime in the late spring/early summer.
So here’s what people are not going to want to hear:
They can’t roll out the Flynn exculpatory evidence at this time because the investigations are not over.
It’s the same reason they are keeping Pientka out of sight, out of mind.
They won’t produce him until they are done.
Does that suck?
Yes it does.
Is that what Flynn supporters want to hear right now?
No, its not.
These things take time.
I myself don’t like waiting.
But here we are again...waiting.
Barr is letting Durham do his work, and he’s going to do it right and if it takes him six months, well screaming at them both to hurry up won’t change anything.
And here’s something else Flynn supporters need to realize, as hard as it is for some to take:
The SpyGate plotters were involved in WAY MORE SERIOUS CRIMES than faking a perjury charge against Flynn.
Framing Flynn is only **part** of what they must answer for.
There is a big picture here, and zooming in to where you only focus on the bogus perjury charge against Flynn means you can’t see how these same criminals were involved in so much more than that.
But they were.
So as we wait for Durham to finish his multiple criminal investigations into SpyGate, let’s remember the same people who framed Flynn are also players in a much wider scandal where they committed many, many other crimes.
Barr & Durham want to prove how these plotters victimized not just Gen Flynn but a MULTITUDE of other people as well.
And to do that, they have to hold their evidence back until they finish.
As I said, not a popular view.
Definitely not what many want to hear at this time.
But if the Flynn exculpatory evidence that was being demanded is inextricably tied to broader cases still being investigated & made against Comey, McCabe and all the other plotters, if there is no way to excise the evidence without compromising the ongoing investigations...
...then we’re just going to have to live with it for the time being.
And remember this: Trump is a billionaire. He knows what Flynn did for this country. This story has a happy ending, one way or the other.
/end
Two forgotten loose ends may prove central to the Durham investigation... Joseph Pientka and Michael Gaeta - both FBI agents apparently only incidentally connected to the early Spygate operation - both completely disappeared.
Pientka accompanied Peter Strzok to interview General Michael Flynn early in the Trump Admin - then dropped out of sight; lately we have been told Pientka's 302 got crossed with Strzok's 302. Those 302's went missing for some time also.
Michael Gaeta was stationed in Rome; Christopher Steele met in Rome with Gaeta with the permission of State's Victoria Nuland prior to George Papadopoulas being directed to Joseph Mifsud. Reportedly Gaeta also worked with Stefan Halper who directed Papadopoulas to Mifsud.
Since these FBI agents were of little to no consequence in the Spygate operation why have they disappeared? Why are web records of them impossible to find? Why are verified images of them unavailable?
Inquiring minds want to know.