Posted on 04/20/2019 2:14:34 PM PDT by janetjanet998
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed new details about the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
The FBI investigated Flynn’s possible ties to Russia earlier than previously known, according to the report.
Mueller was also authorized to investigate Flynn over four separate matters.
But special counsel Robert Mueller’s report reveals for the first time that Flynn was a target of the FBI’s Russia probe before the Kislyak calls.
“Previously, the FBI had opened an investigation of Flynn based on his relationship with the Russian government,” reads the report, which cited FBI interviews given by former Justice Department official Mary McCord and former FBI Director James Comey
“Previously, the FBI had opened an investigation of Flynn based on his relationship with the Russian government,”
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Mueller worked closely with the Russian government when he helped sell them 20% of our uranium.
But yeah, bust Flynn because he talked to some guys. Makes sense.
To put it another way, all of Trump’s allies came under investigation at precisely the moment it mattered most politically... what a coincidence.
A friend of mine knows Mike Flynn very well. He has told me that Clapper and Brennen couldn’t stand him and were doing everything that they could do to destroy him. He didn’t know what they did, or if they were just bad mouthing him.
Flynn was known to be an enemy of the DS intelligence community before Trump was elected. Who knows how long they were surveilling him.
I still do not understand this.
Trump ran on better relations with Russia. I voted for him, in part, because of it.
It was entirely logical and appropriate for his National Security advisor-designate to open discussions with the Russian ambassador on the morning of November 9, 2016.
so why didn’t the FBI tell trump about this?
Did Mueller happen to mention that his investigation had cost Flynn over $5 million in legal fees, and that Flynn had lost his house. Or that Mueller had threatened Flynn’s son with persecution ( er, prosecution) if Flynn fought the charges. Every time Flynn goes in to be sentenced, it costs him $25-$50 K for lawyers, and after four tries, Flynn still hasn’t been sentenced.
I want to hear from Flynn. It is not a coincidence that Flynn has been silenced. Trump needs to pardon Flynn, and give him immunity. I have a feeling Flynn has information that the Intelligence community doesn’t want the general public to know.Either way, I really want to hear what Flynn has to say about this investigation.
Thy have been investigating Flynn since before this hit the public, I guarantee it. At least since he had to submit his book for review prior to publishing.
When you’re trying to conduct business between two nations, it’s very likely you’ll have to make government connections to facilitate the endeavor.
This is not illegal. Not only is it not illegal, thousands of businesses are doing this all the freakin time.
What we find more than anything, is that Flynn was being investigated because of his ties to Trump and nothing more.
This should be very troubling to just about anyone.
It shows that certain elements of the government can focus on individuals based on political leanings. Couple it with the IRS targeting Conservative concerns, and you see a very clear government-wide propensity to break the law for political expediency.
The DOJ should jump on this sort of thing with both feet, to make sure it puts and end to it.
There are many people who need to be in prison. It’s not just justice on the line here. It’s the public’s ability to trust our government that is on the line.
It’s not abut Russia, it is about Iran and the Palestinians.
I guarantee the investigation of Flynn started prior to this:
JULY 12, 2016 TUE : (LT GEN MICHAEL FLYNN BOOK “FIELD OF FIGHT” IS RELEASED -— See IRAN, WMD, BCW, 201105 BIN LADEN RAID) Al Qaeda operatives based in Iran worked on chemical and biological weapons, according to a letter written to Osama bin Laden that is described in a new book by a top former U.S. intelligence official. The letter was captured by a U.S. military sensitive site exploitation team during the raid on bin Laden’s Abbottabad headquarters in May 2011. It is described in Field of Fight, out Tuesday from Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Michael Ledeen of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
“One letter to bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran,” Flynn writes.
Flynn’s claim, if true, significantly advances what we know about al Qaeda’s activity in Iran. The book was cleared by the intelligence community’s classification review process. And U.S. intelligence sources familiar with the bin Laden documents tell us the disclosure on al Qaeda’s WMD work is accurate.
Flynn notes that only a small subset of bin Laden’s files have been released to the public. The “Defense Intelligence Agency’s numerous summaries and analyses of the files remain classified,” too, Flynn writes. “But even the public peek gives us considerable insight into the capabilities of this very dangerous global organization.”
It’s not just al Qaeda.
“There’s a lot of information on Iran in the files and computer discs captured at the Pakistan hideout of Osama bin Laden,” Flynn writes in the introduction. The authors note that the relationship between Iran and al Qaeda “has always been strained” and “[s]ometimes bin Laden himself would erupt angrily at the Iranians.” Previously released documents and other evidence show that al Qaeda kidnapped an Iranian diplomat in order to force a hostage exchange and bin Laden was very concerned about the Iranians’ ability to track his family members.
And yet the book makes clear that Flynn believes there is much more to the al Qaeda-Iran relationship than the public has been told. And that’s not an accident. Obama administration “censors have been busy,” Flynn writes, blocking the release of the bin Laden documents to the public and, ***in some cases, to analysts inside the U.S. intelligence community.*** “Some of it—a tiny fraction—has been declassified and released, but the bulk of it is still under official seal. Those of us who have read bin Laden’s material know how important it is…”—— Top Intel Official: Al Qaeda Worked on WMD in Iran; New evidence of the bin Laden-Iran connection, The Weekly Standard
Bttt.
5.56mm
Your thoughts?
Mueller is a seditious dirty cop type scumball.
Every so often there is an article about how the Obama administration really hated this guy. He was once on Obama’s team at one point. Some say he was the root cause of the beginning of the surveillance. But then again Obama was spying on Angela Merkel.
Good point.
Well, I don’t know about that - but I do know that the incoming administration was on public record as wanting better relations with Russia (wisely, in my view), and that the outgoing administration should not have been interfering with their efforts to establish their administration and their policies.
Flynn will get a pardon before he get down the courthouse steps after sentencing. I support that 100%.
I saw a story that said that Brennen and Connely hate Flynn and attempted to ruin him because Flynn was so handicapped poor intelligence that he cut the CIA off and established his own intelligence group.
The story was that the CIA agents on the battlefield would send their information to DC where it would be discussed at length. Then, after a lot of talk and delay, the info deemed to be properly sent to Flynn would be sent to him from DC.
The delay in getting the information has a big problem for him. I would guess that there were omissions that made his job difficult.
Obviously I don’t know how accurate this story is, but it certainly fits.
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