Posted on 05/26/2020 11:16:19 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Yes.
You lost me at “unless”.
Or to frame the innocent
> Anyone have a conversation with the FBI is nuts. <
Agreed. But if for some reason you feel compelled to talk to them, go the Hillary Clinton route. Give vague and noncommittal answers.
FBI agent: Have you ever posted on Free Republic?
Me: To the best of my knowledge, I’m not sure. I can’t recall.
FBI agent: Surely you can remember something as simple as that!
Me: Don’t call me Shirley.
Same reason cops don’t like wearing body cams.
There are no good reasons to not record all interviews.
Digital storage and retrieval are quite cheap, on the order of $0.10 per GB.
And it’s not subject to the interpretation of somebody who wants to put you in jail for the rest of your life.
I’m a lawyer and I wouldn’t talk to them under any circumstances.
They can lie to you all day, but if they trap you into giving them the slightest untruth, you’re Michael Flynn.
I don’t understand how any evidence, or claims of evidence that are gleaned via an unrecorded FBI interview can officially be introduced into the records of a court of law. Most police agencies record or video tape interviews. It’s for the protection of the interviewees, and the person being interviewed. No one can remember everything that was said, word for word in an interview, no matter how good a note taker you are. When I was in Corrections, the Lieutenant holding disciplinary hearings on inmates was required to record every hearing, because it could at some point, end up in court. There is no justifiable reason for the FBI not to record every single interview they conduct. As we’ve seen, it is way too easy to play fast and hard with the rules during an interview, as well as altering the required written report afterwards, when the individuals involved are not required to be under the lens of a camera, and recording device. The bottom line is, that whatever interview document the FBI produces, should be able to be backed up by a video recording as verification that what is in the document coincides with what is on tape. I can’t believe that the current procedure in place has not been challenged in the courts previously.
That might help, but they can always fabricate a 302 for a previous/later interview that "you didn't record". I know the way I'm voting if ever on a jury that has FBI involvement with evidence.
You don’t know what you ae talking about! If storage was that cheap then they could records just about everything all the time!
OH...
WAIT....
Not ONE cop today can EVER be assumed to be on the side of the peasantry.Sadly true.
Because it would make lying, cheating, and framing people a lot harder.
What a crock of Sheet article.
“While it’s technically possible to record and store all such conversations, it would be a challenge”
What a bogus red herring. It’s not like they have to carry around a 1960 reel-to-reel tape recorder and have a secretary transcribe it.
Without a lawyer and a recording apparatus, you can remain absolutely mute and the cops can STILL write down whatever they please and claim you spoke and said whatever they wish to claim you said.
“...if a recording of Flynn’s January 2017 interview were available, and not just a heavily redacted form FD-302,...”
Make that a heavily redacted FAKE FD-302, FORGED by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The FBI/DoJ claims it can’t find the original 302 written by Joe Pientka, yet there are multiple texts about the conspirators re-writing it. Competent, honest, investigators could trace the trail of possession from Pientka to Strzok to ?.
James M. Casey is a stooge.
The Reid Technique is a variation on Good Cop Bad Cop without the bad cop.
Basically the 'Good Cop' appears to be empathetic to the plight of the suspect to gain his trust.
Once trust is established the suspect lets his guard down and beings to speak freely as if to a friend.
The suspect can be led to confess.
The problem is the cop can then trick an innocent suspect to confess by telling them if they just sign a confession, everything will be cleared up later. This is how the police get innocent and naive people to confess to crimes they didn't commit.
If you want to see how innocent people can be led to confess to a crime they didn't commit, track down PBS FRONTLINE: "The Confessions".
The Reid technique is a method of interrogation. The psychological system was developed in the United States by John E. Reid in the 1950s, who was a psychologist, polygraph expert and former Chicago police officer. Proponents of the Reid technique say it is useful in extracting information from otherwise unwilling suspects. But critics say the technique results in an unacceptably high rate of false confessions, especially from juveniles.
Digital recording devices are small, unobtrusive and damned cheap. Even miniature cassette recorders are smaller than a pack of cigarettes.
Blah, blah. Just confirms there’s not a single good reason for them not to. All interviews that there is a risk of an agent writing up as a 302.
If no info or relevance, such can be documented and the recording sent to deep archive or whatever.
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