Posted on 05/22/2020 12:44:01 PM PDT by jazusamo
After new documents showed that ex-Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was the victim of an FBI entrapment plot, the Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss the case. It details a sordid history of overreach and prosecutorial misconduct at the direction of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and other top officials at the FBI. Flynn was forced to plead guilty to bogus “lying to the FBI” charges as a result.
Flynn was targeted over his phone call with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, though the entire FBI counterintelligence probe into collusion was based on a debunked and unverified Democrat-funded opposition research project called the Trump dossier. The DOJ motion makes it quite clear that Flynn should have never been targeted by the FBI, or for any federal investigation since there was no evidence of wrongdoing. There was no evidence of Russian collusion. Yet, the calls he had with Kislyak were leaked to the press. These were classified discussions, but the anti-Trump deep state was getting to work.
Now, we’re learning that the FBI had wiretapped Flynn’s call with Kislyak, never masked his name, and circulated this information throughout the Obama administration. The source of the leaks now points to the J. Edgar Hoover Building. With so much malfeasance, current FBI Director Christopher Wray announced an internal review of this investigation (via Fox News ):
The FBI announced Friday that Director Chris Wray has ordered an internal review of the handling of the bureau’s investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“FBI Director Christopher Wray today ordered the Bureau’s Inspection Division to conduct an after-action review of the Michael Flynn investigation,” the bureau said in a statement.
The review will be handled by the bureau’s Inspection Division, the FBI said. That division is similar to an internal affairs office in a police department.
Fox News ):
The FBI announced Friday that Director Chris Wray has ordered an internal review of the handling of the bureau’s investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“FBI Director Christopher Wray today ordered the Bureau’s Inspection Division to conduct an after-action review of the Michael Flynn investigation,” the bureau said in a statement.
The review will be handled by the bureau’s Inspection Division, the FBI said. That division is similar to an internal affairs office in a police department.
CYA until after the election and hope Biden wins
“INTERNAL AFFAIRS”
This is a joke, right?
Wink, wink, we ignore those letters in your file as you took one for the team.
This is worse than weak.
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He sat down at his desk August 17, 2017.
The OAN reporter pitched that question to press secretary so she could hit a out of the park homer challenging the press to do their job.
Took them this long with this much pressure.
The sternly written letter that will follow in a few years will doubtless strike fear in the hearts of all evildoers at the FBI.
sure, it’s not like Wray’s FBI hasn’t already known all of this (and no doubt much, much more) for years ... they sat on their Deep State asses until they were forced to do something because these docs became public ...
Ok, write the “Mistakes were made...no reasonable prosecutor would...no controlling authority” report today and put it on the shelf for two years. Hire the 20 person blue ribbon committee. Then, when they’ve had enough posh living, dust off the pre-written report and deliver it.
He's done it before.
I sense a giant ex post facto ass covering in progress.
White wash coming in 3 2 1 ....
#FLYNN FBI launches after action review by inspection division (internal affairs) that will “complement the already substantial assistance the FBI has been providing to U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen (including)..special agents to assist..in the fact-finding process.”@CBSNews pic.twitter.com/oqH8rPNnAN— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) May 22, 2020
So the FBI is investigating themselves? I feel so much better. Surely they will tell us the truth.
PFFT...
The public comments are damning, along the lines of, why rush, NOW? and #FireWrayNow
So this is not meeting with broad pubic approval.
A decentralized national investigative structure, overseen by the states but controlled by the commander-in-chief on a case-by-case basis, may be the best way to restore confidence that such an agency is not corrupted by national party bloc interests.
As I was reading this article (As D.C. Corruption Mounts, Here’s How The American People Can Get Justice), I was beginning to think of a solution that was close to where the author ended up.What if the FBI were disbanded as a federal agency, and replaced by a different organization that was populated by the states themselves?
- Each state would delegate a number of investigators to serve at the pleasure of their home state, and this body would become a decentralized federal investigative bureau, managed by the states.
- As is with the militia, the Constitution provides for calling up the militias for national service, but the officers are selected by the states.
- It isn't a stretch to declare that state militias have investigators as a component of a military police, perhaps made up of local police department detectives who are also in the state national guard reserves.
- Use the militia clause in the Constitution to call up the state militias' investigative arms for federal service, with state appointed officers.
- Each state can create a branch of their militia as MPs, or detectives. These people would report to militia officers appointed within each state, and then these militia branches (officers and detectives) would be called up at the request the Commander-In-Chief and approval by Congress (Article I Section 8: "to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions,") to serve a national priority such as investigating a particular federal crime, under the authority of state officers, not federal bureaucrats.
- The state officers will report directly to the Commander-In-Chief (Article II Section II: "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States").
- Once the investigation is complete, the investigating team is released back to the states.
- If a crime occurred in one state, then the militia police from another state can be called up to investigate.
- Several investigations across several states can operate in parallel, if needed.
Root cause analyses looks for systemic causes of failures, not behavioral causes.
- Part of that review is identifying the protective systems that were in place to prevent what happened from happening, and to brainstorm additional protective systems to catch whatever still slipped through.
- Management enforcement of process compliance with consequences for failure to comply is a protective system.
- Lax management enforcement of process compliance might be a systemic cause if the fix were to reinforce the importance of process compliance and put consequences on management for lack of process discipline.
- However, in the recent examples of FBI failure, management was not lax in oversight, they were also complicit actors in avoiding the process. This is still behavioral, so the systemic root cause is not yet found.
- I'm going to suggest that the systemic root cause of the recent FBI disfunction is the "independent" nature of the FBI itself.
- This was magnified by the behavioral causes that top management felt they were unaccountable to anyone;
- that a single ideological mindset became established through years of political appointments that controlled the hiring practices of lower-level staff;
- that using management reinforcement to correct the root cause was ineffective given that management was a part of the problem, if not leading the effort.
- Therefore, we must look to other protective systems for corrections.
- One protective system is the Inspector General. While this seems to be working now, in hindsight it doesn't seem to have been effective at the time the actions were taking place.
- When the bad actors are the top management itself in a department, an IG is too easily bypassed. Therefore, a new protective system must be put in place.
- My proposed corrective system is to replace a federal-centric FBI with a state-centric investigative agency.
- This agency would have distributed leadership, since by following the militia model in the Constitution, the "officers" would be selected by the states and would be subject to recall at the whim of the home state.
- A single monolithic mindset cannot become entrenched, since concerned states can replace their officers at any time.
- I suggested attaching this investigative militia to the Commander-In-Chief directly on a case-by-case basis, with some provision for a senior officer hierarchy to manage separate state contingents.
- Since Congress has the authority to call up the militia, but the President is the Commander-In-Chief of the militia, there is a check-and-balance already in place.
- If a state investigative team finds evidence of a crime, the President can refer charges to the Department of Justice for further prosecutorial action.
- There would be no need for a Special Prosecutor, as the investigative arm of the called up militia units can do this.
- The Department of Justice can aid the investigations with grand juries, and criminal referrals would be passed along to the Department of Justice for action.
- The President can then release the militia units back to the states, preventing a runaway special prosecutor from expanding the scope of the investigation.
- "Process crimes," such as lying to the FBI, would go away as an especially nefarious tool of an over-zealous prosecutor.
-PJ
The public comments are damning, along the lines of, why rush, NOW? and #FireWrayNow
So this is not meeting with broad pubic approval.
Wray trying to keep his job. Sorry Chris, you could have done this ages ago. Having to be shamed into doing something isn’t going to save your sorry a$$.
Some things come to light they hoped would not... and they can act civil??? in the face of prosecution... they can stand up???
Yeah find the “missing” original 302 which Strozk had Lisa Page help him “re-write”. If Strozk hid the original he’s gone for a long long time, as is his real boss, Brennan.
Mistakes were made.
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