In his new book, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe offers extensive new details of investigators’ fateful January 2017 interview with former national security adviser Michael Flynn at the White House — a breezy conversation which began, according to McCabe, with all the urgency of a “playdate.”
McCabe wrote in “The Threat,” released Tuesday, that “one thing [Flynn] said stands out in my memory” — namely that “when I told him that people were curious” about his conversations with the then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, Flynn replied, “You know what I said, because you guys were probably listening.”
Without confirming Flynn’s suspicions, McCabe wrote: “I had to wonder, as events played out: If you thought we were listening, why would you lie?” (A Washington Post article published one day before Flynn’s White House interview with the agents, citing FBI sources, publicly revealed that the FBI had wiretapped Flynn’s calls and cleared him of any criminal conduct.)
According to McCabe, the interview was “very odd” because “it seemed like [Flynn] was telling the truth” to the two agents who interviewed him, including since-fired FBI agent Peter Strzok. Flynn, the interviewing agents told McCabe, “had a very good recollection of events, which he related chronologically and lucidly,” did not appear to be “nervous or sweating,” and did not look “side to side” — all of which would have been “behavioral signs of deception.”
McCabe wrote that Flynn seemed “completely normal” — even when, on three occasions, Flynn looked at the window and told agents, “What a beautiful black sky.”
McCabe maintained that Flynn made that memorable comment three times — first, at “noon,” then an hour later, and then one more time shortly after that. However, McCabe’s timeline in the book appeared to contradict the sentencing memorandum filed late last year by Flynn’s attorneys, citing government documents.
The memorandum, which relied on sealed documents whose authenticity
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccabe-reveals-the-one-thing-that-stands-out-from-his-fateful-call-with-flynn
J.T. Wilde - Beautiful Black Sky
Sometimes a Storm is needed
To clean out all of the snakes
When the warning is not heeded
And there is nothing left to take…
What a beautiful black sky
Un-Covering all of their lies
sweet revenge takes time
Where do you draw the line
Nothing can stop it
It’s on the way
We gave you warnings
As clear as day
Such a beautiful black sky
They’ve been hunting us down
In the villages & towns
Sneaking through the alleys
Not making a sound
the snakes are not that cunning
And not as deadly as they think
Because the people are not running
Yeah they’re hunting down the freaks
What a beautiful black sky
Surrounding all of the lies
all the time
Nothing can stop it
It’s on the way
We gave you warnings
As clear as the day
It’s Such a beautiful black sky
When the eagle finds the snake
the earth will shake…
To put @JosephJFlynn1 tweet into context, read the attached excerpt from McCabe’s book (left photo) following by the poem by JT Wilde “What a beautiful black sky” (right photo).
https://twitter.com/AllRiseAmerica/status/1257818270339645440
I wonder what the weather was like that day. Whether the sky was blue or actually very cloudy.