According to articles I've read Pientka was supposed to submit the completed 302 within 5 days. It wasn't submitted until 3 weeks later. And then it was rewritten by Strzok and Page, which is totally against policy. The only one who should have made any changes on the form was the original agent who wrote it, and signed it. It's an illegally altered document, and never should have been used in the case. Page wasn't even at the interview, yet she made changes to it.
When I worked in New York State's prison system, any document you had to write, especially if it involved a disciplinary report, or a report on an incident, use of force, etc., it had to be completed and submitted before you went home for the day. There were no excuses. There were strict timelines, especially if a serious incident that resulted in an inmate or officer injury, you had to have the preliminary information presented to the Watch Commander within minutes, because he/she in turn, had to report the incident to Albany as soon as possible. I worked 3-11 p.m., and if something went down in the half-hour before I went home, I had to stay as long as was needed to get inmates/staff to the infimary, have photographs taken, interview the inmates and officer's involved unless they were sent to the outside hospital, have the officers write their report of the event, and the role they played, etc., and have everything completed and written up as soon as possible. And if something needed to be rewritten, the only person who was allowed to do that was the person who originally wrote and signed the initial report, and that was because at any time, those documents could end up in a court of law.
That sounds like the way it ought to be. Even if an agent/officer does rewrite a report it seems to me the original should be preserved and follow the revision. An explanation of the revision being part of it. Unless it’s revised before it’s turned in.
They had to alter the 302 because the original did not contain evidence of any crime. There was an irresistible force pushing for the prosecution of Flynn, and the FBI was a very movable object.
Were you a guard?
Were you a guard?