Posted on 02/28/2020 9:02:48 AM PST by Rummyfan
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CIRCA 2019 The Michael Flynn smoking gun:
FBI headquarters altered interview summary
Washington Examiner ^ | Nov. 5, 2019 | James Gagliano / FR Posted by libstripper
I once cynically viewed the frenzied focus on FBI actions during the 2016 Russian election-meddling investigation as
partisan and overwrought, believing to never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence.
Having proudly served in the FBI for 25 years, I bristled at insulting accusations of an onerous deep state conspiracy.
Some obvious mistakes made during the investigation of the Trump campaign were quite possibly the result of two ham-handedly overzealous FBI headquarters denizens, lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, clumsily seeking to impress each other with ever-increasing levels of loathing for then-candidate Donald Trump (even including displaying "animus" toward Trump).
I was dead wrong. It now seems there was a concerted effort, though isolated, within the upper-echelons of the OBAMA FBI to influence the outcome of the Flynn investigation.
By “dirtying up” Flynn, Comey’s FBI team of callow sycophants shortcut the investigative process. Arm-twisting Flynn through the “tweaked” version of his interview afforded him criminal exposure.
The cocksure Comey team felt supremely confident that would inspire him “flipping” and give them the desperately sought-after evidence of Trump-Russia collusion that the wholly unverified Steele dossier was never remotely capable of providing. (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Flynn Atty’s Motion to Compel Production
Courtlistener ^ | August 30, 2019 | Sidney Powell
FR Posted on 8/30/2019, 5:06:55 PM by Cboldt
(hat tip House Atreides)——this motion is dynamite.
Powell is signaling that she is considering a defense previous counsel did not explore.......a claim of selective prosecution.
In addition, there are egregious Fourth Amendment violations at issue in this case. Either Mr. Flynn was (i) the subject of a pretextual counter-intelligence investigation apparently resulting from an FBI/CIA operation routed and funded through the Office of Net Assessment in the Department of Defense, using Stefan Halper to smear him as an “agent of Russia;” (ii) part of the documented abuses of the NSA database; (iii) the subject of a criminal leak of classified information regarding his conversations with Ambassador Kislyak; (iv) illegally unmasked; or (v) some combination of the above.
Judge Rosemary Collyer, Chief Judge of the FISA court, has already found serious Fourth Amendment violations by the FBI in areas that likely also involve their actions against Mr. Flynn.
Much of the NSA’s activity is in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. Not only did the Obama administration—especially from late 2015 to 2016—dramatically increase its use and abuse of “about queries” in the NSA database, which Judge Collyer has noted was “a very serious Fourth Amendment issue,” it also expanded the distribution of the illegally obtained information among federal agencies.
Judge Collyer determined that Obama’s FBI Director Comey gave illegal unsupervised access to raw NSA data to multiple private contractors.
House Republicans considering criminal referrals against Mueller prosecutors
FR 2/25/2020, posted by Liz
Powell needs to factor in the duplicitous actions of Susan Rice-——the person Flynn was set to replace.
The execrable Susan Rice’s email sent to herself on Trump’s inauguration day-—just hours before she was scheduled to leave purported to document part of the strange meeting Obama held.
As Obama’s top security aide, Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed
“to share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team........
Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts relating to US national security, she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.
If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.
What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new Trump administration?
We can easily surmise that
<><>the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party;
<><>that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele;
<><>that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele;
<><>that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign.
These were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.
There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.
The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything.
And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.
Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn?
Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from Gen Flynn, her successor, during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts......evidence of bigger more dangerous security breeches.
When we look back, these anti-Trump dirty-doing insiders always seemed overconfident......and sloppy....
...always smirking about one crime or another....never, ever considering-—or even fearing-—retribution.
Clearly, the dirty-doers did not plan on any follow -up nor did they expect Americans to challenge them.
Keep in mind, those were the heady days of “anything goes’...when Saint Obama was untouchable and The Reverend Hillary was a “shoo-in.”
I can just hear them now: “Don’t worry, Hillary will sweep all of this under the Oval Office rug.”
This as they chose their bailiwicks and sinecures and signed up for 3-4 eternal Federal pensions.
Plus he reaffirmed his guilty plea to the judge a few times. The IG report was a blessing in disguise for him. Papadopolous's 302s were recently released showing he got railroaded. If the judge reads the papers, he has to know he is going to look foolish later on.
Good but no where near enough. Letting the Judge off the hook seems to be the sole motivation. Judge ordered 302 to be turned over. Prosecutors refused. Judge refuses to hold them in contempt. Judge is scared to death. If the 302 is presented, many will go to prison. so they white wash this with a “special counsel”. It will be dismissed at some point but they will have saved the Prosecutors from charges.
Note this is the same exact deal going on in the Roger Stpne case. Judges are DS and refuse to obey the law themselves.
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