Posted on 05/23/2018 10:08:05 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Friday is the deadline for the FBI and Justice Department to give the Senate Judiciary Committee key documents in the Michael Flynn case.
It won't happen, because that's not how the current FBI and Justice Department deal with congressional demands involving the Trump-Russia affair. But sooner or later, Judiciary Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is likely to get his way.
In a May 11 letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Grassley noted that more than a year ago, on Feb. 15, 2017, the Judiciary Committee requested a copy of the transcript of a Dec. 2016 phone call between Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. It was that call that led the FBI to go to the White House to question the newly installed national security adviser on Jan. 24, 2017, just four days into the Trump administration. And it was that questioning that led to Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the FBI.
The Judiciary Committee request was bipartisan. But the Justice Department refused to hand over the document. Instead, then-FBI Director James Comey briefed the committee on Flynn and other issues on March 15, 2017.
"Director Comey specifically told us during that briefing that the FBI agents who interviewed Lt. General Michael Flynn 'saw nothing that led them to believe [he was] lying,'" Grassley wrote. Comey "led us to believe … that the Justice Department was unlikely to prosecute [Flynn] for false statements made in that interview."
On Dec. 1, 2017, with special counsel Robert Mueller in charge of the case, Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI.
There is. The FBI has dirt on all of them.
JEdger lives on.
If the FIB didn’t have a sordid history, it’d have to make one up.
Me too...(But it's 4:40-AM).
I miss the rule of law. It will be wonderful when President Trump brings FedGov back into its proper role under the enumerated powers of the Constitution. I pray that he will succeed.
Defund the “intelligence” community.
They are trying to use the boiling frog approach, as the Clintons do: Let it all come out in little increments so people don’t notice the extent of the guilt.
Wray reports to Rosenstein. There is our usual roadblock.
Yes, I agree. Clinton’s have had many years to perfect that.
And they have always been where the money was. The unholy alliance of B J Clinton with some intelligence elements during the Iran Contra era is an example. Very strange for Lefties to be this close to things like that.
Unfortunately, some of what they do is actually essential for national security.
Problem is the leadership. It was turned into built in subversion of US during 8 years of the ObamaNation. (actually it began many years prior, but really took over during Obozo’s rule)
Bump
When events start to move they cascade. When you watch them closely, it is very hard to move away from the keyboard.
If a person is good at solving puzzles, it is similar.
Smile.
I still miss my mom. So does my dad, he is 92 now and I don’t even have to ask him when he gets emotional about that. It’s been 6 years since she died. They were married 66 years.
Citizens assumed we were paying the FBI, DOJ and other bureaucracies to fight against our enemies and criminals and to protect our Constitution, justice and our freedom.
Now we find that they have become the criminals and our enemies.
They now work to undermine the Constitution and against justice and freedom.
Today our own government is thousands of times more tyrannical and corrupt than King George II ever was.
“Today our own government is thousands of times more tyrannical and corrupt than King George II ever was.”
For damn sure.
“Friday is the deadline for the FBI and Justice Department to give the Senate Judiciary Committee key documents in the Michael Flynn case.”
As a military man this tolerance of insubordination escapes me.
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