Mueller must have known about the compromised interview of Flynn from the beginning. He knew Flynn had been advised against having legal representation. He knew the FBI deliberately withheld the warning about the legal consequences of lying to the FBI, yet he still pursued this case against Flynn. I don’t understand how any competent, or ethical lawyer/prosecutor could, in good faith, move ahead with charges against an American citizen when any evidence gleaned from that person was based on the failure of the FBI to follow standard protocol. Thus, the so-called evidence itself is compromised because the way the interview was obtained, and the methods used were inappropriate, and not standard procedure of the FBI. The fact that FBI officials argued about how the interview was handled is proof of that.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?...
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...
We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation....
"We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
I suggest we set the FBI to the same standards as other law enforcement agencies.
They already knew the answers to every question they asked.