Posted on 04/29/2020 4:51:14 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute [Flynn] or get him fired?”
Handwritten notes from the FBI that had been withheld from Michael Flynn and his defense team show that the FBI's goal in investigating and ambushing Flynn was 'to get him fired.'
New documents filed under seal last week by the Department of Justice provide the clearest evidence yet that the investigation and subsequent prosecution of former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was a set-up from the beginning. Handwritten notes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that had been inappropriately withheld from Flynn’s defense team for years show that a key goal of the agents investigating Flynn was “to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired.”
In early 2017, FBI agents planned to question Flynn under false pretenses and without his attorneys present regarding his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. At the time of those conversations, Flynn was the top foreign policy adviser of the president-elect of the United States. By the time of the ambush FBI interview, Flynn had already been appointed as the White House national security adviser.
In the handwritten FBI notes, the note-taker, whose identity was not made clear in the document production, wrote that an alternate goal is to “get [Flynn] to admit breaking the Logan Act,” a reference to a 1799 law restricting communications between private citizens and foreign governments. The law is widely viewed as unconstitutional and has never been used to successfully prosecute a single American citizen. The previously secret notes do not explain that Flynn was not a private citizen, but rather the incoming national security adviser at the time of his conversations with world leaders.
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Great question. Wonder if it was “suggested” that he go with them since they have/had all the “right connections”.
Regardless of anything else, this is the key. He has to go to make room for someone who can.
She’s a sweet lady but stunningly naive.
That’s a confirmation battle I would love to have, and fuel for a 40+ state landslide.
Let’s not forget 8 years of Clinton. W didn’t clear the swamp, then Obie doubled down.
No, you got it. My bad.
Yes, definitely. I was just watching an interview on Tucker Carlson I think that he was talking to Rudy Giuliani about this. In any case he talked about the issue and everyone agrees that action needs to be taken for this poor man.
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