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Flynn’s Lawyer Claims FBI Tampered with Interview Notes, Demands Charges Be Dropped
National Review ^ | 10 25 2019 | Mairead McArdle

Posted on 10/25/2019 3:14:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Former national-security adviser Michael Flynn’s lawyer claims in a new bombshell court filing that the FBI tampered with notes from his 2017 interview, during which Flynn pleaded guilty to lying.

In a 37-page motion, attorney Sidney Powell called on the court to “dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct” over allegations that FBI agents manipulated a form summarizing Flynn’s statements to investigators.

The interview dealt with Flynn’s contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. In December 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to charges that he lied to the FBI about his Russia contacts during his brief stint as national-security adviser. He is expected to be sentenced in December.

“Those changes added an unequivocal statement that ‘Flynn stated he did not’ — in response to whether Mr. Flynn had asked Kislyak to vote in a certain manner or slow down the UN vote [on sanctions],” Powell wrote. “This is a deceptive manipulation because, as the notes of the agents show, Mr. Flynn was not even sure he had spoken to Russia/Kislyak on the issue. He had talked to dozens of countries.”

“That question and answer does not appear in the notes, yet it was made into a criminal offense,” Powell wrote in the motion. “The draft also shows that the agents moved a sentence to make it seem to be an answer to a question it was not.”

One of the FBI agents involved in the interview was Peter Strzok, who was fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team when text messages disparaging President Trump were discovered between him and FBI colleague Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; flynn

1 posted on 10/25/2019 3:14:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

mueller and his posse left loose ends that should come back and bite them. If there is any justice left in this country, Flynn will be exonerated.


2 posted on 10/25/2019 3:17:33 PM PDT by JoSixChip (I'm an American Nationalist)
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To: yesthatjallen

If the Judge has 1/100 of morals and ethics, s/he would just grant that motion and end this charade right now


3 posted on 10/25/2019 3:18:08 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: yesthatjallen
I can't wait for Flin to get back into office and wreck havoc on the demonicrats.
4 posted on 10/25/2019 3:18:10 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe finally we will see some justice being done and some will be wearing orange jumpsuits before long! Aside from Trump not very many people would have had the fortitude or smarts to pull this off and put them where they belong, behind bars and not working for the government and screwing the public.

https://heartlanddiaryusa.com/2019/10/25/joe-barack-and-the-unraveling-of-the-deep-state-coup/
Joe, Barack and the unraveling of the Deep State Coup
October 25, 2019
“You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t.”
Those are supposedly the words of advice that President Obama gave to Joe Biden when he confided earlier this year that he was going to run for president.

We now know very well why Obama was worried about his former vice president running in 2020. There were too many bodies buried too shallowly to expect that none of them would surface if attention turned back to the Obama years.

President Trump has been sounding the alarm for years about the corruption in the Obama White House, but Democrats had succeeded in neutralizing Trump by painting him as a Russian agent (I know, it sounds absurd!) and now by threatening to impeach him.

Nonetheless, information has been accrued over the last three years that incriminates numerous Obama-era officials in a plot to deny Trump the presidency or, failing that, to undermine his effectiveness by planting false evidence against him.

Now, in a remarkable confluence of events, we are in the verge of what should be a tsunami of compelling evidence that the Obama administration and the Deep State conspired to overthrow the results of the 2016 election.

It was announced Thursday night that the Justice Department’s fact-finding investigation into the origins of the Russia Collusion Hoax has turned into a criminal investigation. That means US Attorney John Durham now has the power to subpoena testimony and documents to establish exactly who plotted against President Trump and who lied about what.

Former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan and National Security Adviser James Clapper are all under investigation, along with FBI agents Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe, lawyer Lisa Page, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and many more. The dam will not hold long now that people face jail time. Someone will turn on the others and then information will start to flow.

That news was broken by The New York Times, which tried to discredit the investigation in the same story where it was announced:

“The opening of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies.”

This continues the tactic of trying to dispel any incriminating evidence against Obama’s team as somehow invalid because it was accrued by Trump, who has a vendetta against the people who tried to destroy him.

Huh? I guess Trump was just supposed to sit still in his Oval Office chair while Comey, Brennan and the rest were hurling knives at him from the shadows. Nah. Trump had the right and responsibility to get to the bottom of the corruption that preceded him.
Before we see the results of Durham’s probe, we are going to get the release of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on FISA warrant abuses that led to wiretaps and surveillance on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. From what we know, Comey and Rosenstein signed off in the warrants even though they knew the Steele Dossier used to justify them was unverified and had been compiled on behalf of Hillary Clinton, Trump’s political opponent. That report has been long delayed, but is now due by mid-November.
In the meantime, attorney Sidney Powell has been doing amazing work redeeming Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who was the first victim of the Deep State coup. Flynn was forced to resign as a result of FBI charges that he lied about conversations he had with a Russian diplomat prior to taking office.

Flynn pleaded guilty while under pressure by the Mueller Special Counsel Tactical Assault Team, but he has never been sentenced. His new attorney, Powell, has found stunning evidence of corruption by the FBI and others in the government to entrap Flynn as a means to discredit Trump. FBI Attorney Lisa Page apparently edited the initial FBI report on the interview with Flynn to make him look guilty. Powell has also found evidence leading to Clapper and others in the plot.

I suppose this may have all been put before the public whether or not Biden had decided to run for president, but what is interesting is how the Biden-Ukraine affair mirrors the prior fake Russian collusion narrative. The same media coverup. The same evidence of hypocrisy as the Democrats were doing exactly what they accuse Trump of. And we have learned that much of the Fake Russian narrative originated in the Ukraine.

Because President Trump asked President Zelensky of Ukraine to get to the bottom of corruption in the 2016 election, and separately to find out whether Vice President Biden had violated his oath of office by engaging in corrupt practices, there is now no place for the Democrats to hide. They can’t impeach Trump without exposing the entire corrupt Deep State infrastructure that Trump was fighting against.
The question we may be asking next month is how high did the corruption go? We know that counterintelligence work is done for the president, so it is fair to ask whether Brennan and Clapper were reporting to Obama. It is also fair to ask whether Obama knew about how Biden’s son Hunter was enriching himself by setting up sweetheart deals in countries where his father controlled US foreign policy.
If the answer to either of those questions is yes, we will know definitively why Obama told Joe, “You don’t have to do this… you really don’t.”

In any case, I’m betting that the American people will eventually turn on the Democrats and the Resistance Media when they see that they have been fooled from the start about what really happened.

Before we see the results of Durham’s probe, we are going to get the release of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on FISA warrant abuses that led to wiretaps and surveillance on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. From what we know, Comey and Rosenstein signed off in the warrants even though they knew the Steele Dossier used to justify them was unverified and had been compiled on behalf of Hillary Clinton, Trump’s political opponent. That report has been long delayed, but is now due by mid-November.
In the meantime, attorney Sidney Powell has been doing amazing work redeeming Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who was the first victim of the Deep State coup. Flynn was forced to resign as a result of FBI charges that he lied about conversations he had with a Russian diplomat prior to taking office.

Flynn pleaded guilty while under pressure by the Mueller Special Counsel Tactical Assault Team, but he has never been sentenced. His new attorney, Powell, has found stunning evidence of corruption by the FBI and others in the government to entrap Flynn as a means to discredit Trump. FBI Attorney Lisa Page apparently edited the initial FBI report on the interview with Flynn to make him look guilty. Powell has also found evidence leading to Clapper and others in the plot.

I suppose this may have all been put before the public whether or not Biden had decided to run for president, but what is interesting is how the Biden-Ukraine affair mirrors the prior fake Russian collusion narrative. The same media coverup. The same evidence of hypocrisy as the Democrats were doing exactly what they accuse Trump of. And we have learned that much of the Fake Russian narrative originated in the Ukraine.

Because President Trump asked President Zelensky of Ukraine to get to the bottom of corruption in the 2016 election, and separately to find out whether Vice President Biden had violated his oath of office by engaging in corrupt practices, there is now no place for the Democrats to hide. They can’t impeach Trump without exposing the entire corrupt Deep State infrastructure that Trump was fighting against.
The question we may be asking next month is how high did the corruption go? We know that counterintelligence work is done for the president, so it is fair to ask whether Brennan and Clapper were reporting to Obama. It is also fair to ask whether Obama knew about how Biden’s son Hunter was enriching himself by setting up sweetheart deals in countries where his father controlled US foreign policy.
If the answer to either of those questions is yes, we will know definitively why Obama told Joe, “You don’t have to do this… you really don’t.”

In any case, I’m betting that the American people will eventually turn on the Democrats and the Resistance Media when they see that they have been fooled from the start about what really happened.


5 posted on 10/25/2019 3:22:01 PM PDT by saintgermaine (saintgermaine the time traveller)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

The judge should make the government pay Flynn’s legal fees


6 posted on 10/25/2019 3:24:21 PM PDT by Rodm
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To: yesthatjallen

I hold Sidney in great regard. If the corruption is exposed in this case, She deserves a statue


7 posted on 10/25/2019 3:26:27 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: yesthatjallen

Sidney Powell is an outstanding lawyer. I read the entire brief. She is simply outstanding and blew these corrupt DOJ and FBI officials out of the water.

May God grant Judge Sullivan the wisdom to end this now.

Highly recommended reading:
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592.129.2.pdf


8 posted on 10/25/2019 3:32:08 PM PDT by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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To: romanesq

She will be on the Mark Levin radio show tonight in the last hour.


9 posted on 10/25/2019 3:36:15 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: romanesq

She will be on the Mark Levin radio show tonight in the last hour.


10 posted on 10/25/2019 3:36:15 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: Rodm
That's actually the final step in a process that I'm sure Flynn's lawyers are pursuing right now.

An important prior step is to have a formal judicial ruling of prosecutorial misconduct. That's an even better outcome than to simply have the charges dropped, because it gives the defendant the leverage to pursue a civil lawsuit against the DOJ.

11 posted on 10/25/2019 3:49:00 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: yesthatjallen

Government lawyers are government lawyers for a reason. You can figure that one out.

This kind of reminds me of when the Austin Democrat pukes went after Rick Perry. They didn’t count on Perry coming back at them with one of the most genius lawyers in the US, Tony Buzbee. They got their clock cleaned.

Buzbee is running for the mayor of Houston. If he wins the Dems will poop their pants.


12 posted on 10/25/2019 3:52:28 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Say what you will about The Donald, but he has all the right enemies.)
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To: romanesq

Makes you wonder if Flynn’s former attorneys were simply inept or corrupt to the max.


13 posted on 10/25/2019 3:52:53 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: griswold3

She has Brass Ovaries


14 posted on 10/25/2019 4:04:12 PM PDT by Jayster
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To: yesthatjallen

I would be demanding charges be brought to those responsible for tampering with witness testimony/evidence!


15 posted on 10/25/2019 4:08:19 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: isthisnickcool

The demons have an actual jurisdictional history of taking drugs, driving drunk, and pooping all over the place -


16 posted on 10/25/2019 4:12:14 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: yesthatjallen

If the FBI was not a government agency it would need to hire a large number of PR personnel and change it’s name to try and recover from this mess. Guess the just want stay with the FBI letters and be known in the future as Fricking Blithering Idiots.


17 posted on 10/25/2019 4:31:55 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Lockbox

C’mon, the fbi is as honest as the day is long.

—On Dec 21 in Nome Alaska.


18 posted on 10/25/2019 5:05:50 PM PDT by Ken H (Crooked Hillary => Queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, personification of rot)
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To: saintgermaine

Interesting that this is just dropping now, with the Barr-Durham artillery barrage orchestra just tuning up their instruments.


19 posted on 10/25/2019 7:29:22 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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