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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Barr is in charge of a more important investigation. There's no doubt Barr has seen 10 times worse material than this. That's what Durham needs to use to prosecute conspiracy that most of the perps will plead down to simple negligence.
There's no way the deep state will let their own go to jail, or at least not the serious players. Barr has to play whatever cards he has including these notes to get what he can.
I would suggest that Sydney Powell is a better lawyer than Stone’s.
Shocking, but is this really surprising after 7 consecutive 4 year terms of horrible administrations?
The question I believe most people are missing is:
Why did they want to go after Flynn so bad?
I believe this is the next BIG SHOE to drop!
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.”
It would appear that his original defense team was working for the other side and didn’t lift a finger to help the guy. What does one expect when the perp, Eric Holder is a partner in the firm?
The Resistance -- whether in the media, the Democratic Party, or NeverTrump -- really circling the wagons tonight on the explosive Flynn news. Reminds me of how they acted at height of their power peddling the absurd Russia collusion conspiracy theory.— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 30, 2020
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.
If that was their plan, then they should be getting around to investigating and locking up John Kerry any day now. Right?
Interesting.....
Why did they want to go after Flynn so bad?
I think the bigger question is why so many people are OK with the National Security Advisor lying to the FBI.
Does anyone here deny that he lied about his conversation with Kislyak?
>>They wanted to punish him for his exposing Obama corruption.<<
As I understand it, Flynn was intending to clean out the intel agencies and this was their way to prevent him from doing so. And they almost got away with it. For that matter, maybe they still will.
Why oh why did he use a firm with Eric Holder as a partner? How could it not be corrupt. I never understood that.
No, I see her point. Priestap, or whomever it was who wrote it, could have been simply summing up where they were at the time, not plotting where they were going to go.
For instance, he might have believed Flynn had crossed a legal line and was merely setting out alternatives on ways to handle it, i.e., just get him fired, or catch him in a lie and prosecute him. Priestap might have even been convinced by others that Flynn was definitely guilty of violating a law and was just presenting alternative ways to proceed, depending upon what their goal was.
I think Perino was looking at it that way, not willing to jump to the conclusion that Priestap was plotting to set up an innocent man. There’s no doubt anymore, however, that someone was plotting to set Flynn up. It just might not have been Priestap, or whoever wrote thpse notes.
"In a May 30, 2013 Washingtonian.com article, Garrett M. Graff revealed that Wray was one of the senior Justice Dept officials that nearly resigned in 2004, alongside then FBI Director Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General James Comey, due to illegal surveillance techniques the Bush administration had put in place under the Terrorist Surveillance Program."
This was all when Ashcroft was hospitalized and Comey was acting as Attorney General.
From May 30, 2013
Forged Under Fire—Bob Mueller and Jim Comey’s Unusual Friendship
Excerpt:
"There was not supposed to be any wiggle room. And yet, in the haze of the weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration had launched a new program that threw FISA’s strict rules out the window. “I knew the Terrorist Surveillance Program would prove controversial one day. Yet I believed it was necessary,” President Bush later wrote."
The words of Mueller speaking at the 2013 Commencement of Comey's alma mater:
"But Mueller cautioned the graduating students that one attribute mattered more than any other in a life of service: “Regardless of your chosen career, you are only as good as your word. You can be smart, aggressive, articulate, and indeed persuasive. But if you are not honest, your reputation will suffer. And once lost, a good reputation can never, ever be regained.”"
This article deserves a revisit. And speaks to a number of current and troubling situations.
I am really interested in how the Department of Justice can possibly not put this investigation right in Comey’s lap. Not to mention his perjury to the US Congress when asked about this. Time to bring him down with McCabe, Brennan, Lynch, Clapper, Rice and maybe even Mueller.
“The People are coming for you James Comey”
Yet he will not face repercussions. He’s an elite, and in this country, elites glide above the laws that govern the commoners.
Let us know when those elites are prosecuted, because the batting average against them is .000.
This is really getting serious Judge Andrew.Napolitano can’t find a way to defend these actions. This must be killing Mr. Never Trumper.
>>you have one ounce of trust left in them it quite amazing!!!<<
It is only because I do not believe that every person working for the FBI is corrupt.
You can take any group of people, whether pastors/priests, cops, teachers...whatever, about 10% are unethical, corrupt or dirty in some way.
So, that said, I’m hoping that there are agents we are not aware of publicly, cooperating secretly with the Durham investigation.
The giveaway that it was a setup was the note of trying to get him to admit to violating Logan Act. No one has ever been prosecuted for that 200+ law since it’s inception and many people think it’s an unconstitutional law. But anyway to use THAT even if the notes were rumbling thoughts is suspicious to say the least.
The FBI needs a neww motto.
F-ng Bunch of Idiots.
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