Posted on 02/25/2020 8:30:09 PM PST by bitt
Did the Department of Justice leak or arrange the leak of Michael Flynns call with Sergey Kislyak to get around the FBIs efforts to keep secret the investigation of Flynn?
One of the great mysteries of the Trump-Russia saga that remains unsolved three years later, or at least uncharged, is who leaked Gen. Michael Flynns calls with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
As incoming national security advisor, Flynn spoke with numerous foreign officials in the lead-up to inauguration. This included a conversation with Kislyak on Dec. 29, 2016 in which they discussed, among other things, measures taken by the Obama administration (also on Dec. 29) to expel Russian agents and levy financial penalties in response to Russias malicious cyber-enabled activities relating to the 2016 election.
Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly responded to these sanctions the next day. He declined to escalate the situation, promised there would be no retaliatory expulsions, and said he would take further steps towards restoring Russia-U.S. relations. According to the Statement of Offense filed in Flynns criminal case, on Dec. 31, Kislyak called Flynn and informed him that Russia had chosen not to retaliate in response to Flynns request.
Meanwhile, President Obamas Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) staff wondered why Putin didnt retaliate. Andrew McCabe, who was serving as the FBIs deputy director at the time, maintains that the PDB staff requested information on Putins response. The intelligence community answered. It turns out they had information on Flynns calls with Kislyak.
McCabe wrote that he shared this information with FBI Director James Comey, who passed it on to director of national intelligence James Clapper. It was Clapper who informed President Obama. The Department of Justice had this information as well. In his book, The Threat, McCabe noted that at Justice, one question arose: Was this a violation
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Yes and the Rats on the committee got an ethics investigation started on him in early 2017 that forced him to step down as chair for almost a year. I presume they did it because he was getting close to the truth about their Spygate shenanigans.
CFP BLOGGER October 25, 2019 at 7:09 am
The unseen hand of Barr and Durham is all over the recent filings by Sidney Powell, Flynns atty.
These are the altered 302s that we have all been hearing about for the past year that nobody has managed to produce.
How did Powell suddenly seem to come by them?
The other day, Powell produced in a court filing not only the fact that that Mifsuds Blackberrys contained Brady material, but she had both the device and the sim card serial numbers of both Blackberrys. Who could have possibly given her that information, given that Durham only recently came by them?
If one starts from the assumption that Mueller was mentally incapable of running his investigation and that Andrew Weissmann was in fact the guy in charge, and that the prosecution of General Flynn is being handled by Weissmanns minions, everything begins to fall into place. Andrew Weissmanns criminal tactics are all over the Flynn prosecution.
By exposing the corrupt prosecution of Flynn, Barr and Durham have not only an opportunity to bring justice to General Flynn, they help build the public narrative of a vast criminal conspiracy that included Andrew Weissmann and his enabler, Rod Rosenstein, James Comey (remember he bragged about setting up Flynn), and Andrew McCabe (First we f*ck Flynn, then we F*ck Trump).
And by channeling this evidence through Sidney Powell into the Flynn case, Barr and Durham get it introduced into the public domain through court filings. Plus, by having the evidence introduced in the Flynn case, the argument that Barrs investigation is simply revenge by President Trump is shot to pieces. And who better than Sidney Powel to handle the gutting of Andrew Weissmann? She has literally written the book on his corrupt tactics: Licensed to Lie.
I now see Powells efforts in the Flynn case as only tangentially about exonerating and bringing justice to General Flynn. In a much more profound sense what she is doing as an integral part of the effort to expose the criminal conspiracy to subvert the office of the Presidency of the United States. General Michael Flynn is fighting the last and indisputably most important battle of his distinguished military
This seditious conspiracy is in fact an attempted coup detat. Barr and Durham and now with the help of Sidney Powell are without question handling the prosecution of the most important criminal case in the history of the United States.
In this construction, General Michael Flynn is fighting the last and indisputably most important battle of his distinguished military career: The battle to save our Republic.
THE MONEY QUOTE: by channeling this crucial evidence (altered 302s) through atty Sidney Powell into the Flynn court case, Barr and Durham get it:
(A) introduced into the public domain through incontrovertible, indelible court filings;
(B) having it introduced in the Flynn case, demolishes the argument that Barrs investigation is simply revenge by President Trump.
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