*** “Strzok probably just lied about what was said, to set up Flynn” ***
There is the Rub ... It is LEGAL for Strzok to LIE
“It is LEGAL for Strzok to LIE”
It is legal for an investigator to lie to a subject being investigated, but it is illegal for an investigator to misrepresent what the subject said to the court.
That is what I propose - that Strzok just wrote up damning things, that Flynn never said - things that would fit the narrative that wanted to create, and which would constitute a crime (if Flynn had actually said them). I suggest that LTG Flynn was deliberately framed by a crooked cop, rather than artfully caught in a mis-statement.
The same thing with the Steele dossier. It was not “dirt” that he was paid to dig up (like legitimate opposition research). Instead, Cody Shearer and Sid (Vicious) Blumenthal wrote up a “dossier” of complete lies, which fit the political messaging that they thought would serve the Clinton campaign best (alienate women, suppress Trump base voters, etc.). Steele was just paid as a “cutout”, to make it look like the story was coming from a credible source.
Entirely a setup - completely a framing of an innocent person, to destroy them for political purposes.
It’s legal for Strzok to lie in an interview in order to get information. He can use “trickery” and any other tactic, short of a rubber hose and phonebook, but they can lie all they want in the interview. However, it is illegal to lie in the report turned over to the DoJ.