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‘Get Trump’: FBI Whistleblower On Mueller Team Details Real Reason Flynn Was Targeted
The Federalist ^ | 9/25/2020 | sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway

Posted on 09/26/2020 3:12:45 PM PDT by bitt

The case agent managing the FBI's investigation of Flynn told Department of Justice attorneys that a desire to "get Trump" was a major factor underlying the case against Flynn.

In a stunning and detailed interview conducted September 17 by U.S. attorney Jeff Jensen, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case agent for the original investigation of former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and who later worked on Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel blew the whistle on myriad problems that plagued those investigations from the very beginning.

FBI Special Agent William Barnett told Department of Justice (DOJ) investigators that the handling of the probes troubled him so much that he threatened to quit working on it in one case, and threatened to go to the Inspector General in another. According to the summary of Barnett’s interview, he said there was never any basis for the bizarre “collusion” theory the agency and the special counsel relentlessly pursued, to the point that agents made jokes about how they could take any piece of information and claim it was evidence of collusion. He said the Special Counsel Office (SCO) pursued Flynn simply as a means to “get Trump” and viewed FBI investigators as a “speed bump” slowing down the work of the attorneys leading the inquisition.

The broader Trump investigation was “opaque,” the case theory was “supposition on supposition,” the Flynn probe in particular was “unclear and disorganized,” and its predicate was “not great,” Barnett told investigators. According to the interview notes, he felt there was “little detail concerning specific evidence of criminal events.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; emmetsullivan; fbiwhistleblower; flynn; jessebinnall; michaelflynn; mueller; sidneypowell; softcoup; thanksforposting
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1 posted on 09/26/2020 3:12:45 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 09/26/2020 3:12:57 PM PDT by bitt (Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it)
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To: bitt
Everyone knew the real reason Flynn was targeted.

All honest people acknowledged it.

3 posted on 09/26/2020 3:15:17 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Sleazy Democrat operatives are whispering into Biden's ear. Trump hears the voices of the Angels.)
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To: bitt

He said the Special Counsel Office (SCO) pursued Flynn simply as a means to “get Trump”

Did the IG Horowitz ever interview this guy? Seems that is evidence of political bias.


4 posted on 09/26/2020 3:20:46 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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Gen Michael Flynn filed a third brief that made waves because it included texts between Obama's FBI analysts
admitting they knew the investigations of Flynn were bogus, and was driven by partisan animus. One Obama FBI texter confessed
they bought "professional liability insurance" b/c their illegal conduct might be exposed. This could entail insurance fraud
if the Obama people falsified insurance forms by failing to admit they had already committed wrongful acts.

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NOTE WELL: Gen Flynn was tapped by Trump to replace Obama's NSA Susan Rice.......
Flynn would soon be privy too all of the Obama coterie's illegal activities against Trump.

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EXCLUSIVE: Obama's Treasury Department Spied on Gen Flynn, and the Trump Family
beginning in December 2015 and well into 2017, Says Whistleblower
The Ohio Star | 18 May 2020 | Neil W. McCabe / FR Posted by Erik Latranyi

Obama’s Treasury Department regularly surveilled retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn’s financial records and transactions beginning in December 2015 and well into 2017, before, during and after when he served at the White House as President Donald Trump’s National Security Director, a former senior Treasury Department official, and veteran of the intelligence community, told the Star Newspapers. “I started seeing things that were not correct, so I did my own little investigation, because I wanted to make sure what I was seeing was correct” she said. “You never want to draw attention to something if there is not anything there.” The whistleblower said she only saw metadata, that is names and dates when the general’s financial records were accessed. “I never saw what they saw.”

By March 2016, the whistleblower said she and a colleague, who was detailed to Treasury from the intelligence community, became convinced that the surveillance of Flynn was not tied to legitimate criminal or national security concerns, but was straight-up political surveillance among other illegal activity occurring at Treasury. “When I showed it to her, what she said, ‘Oh, sh%t!’ and I knew right then and there that I was right – this was some shady stuff,” the whistleblower said. “It wasn’t just him,” the whistleblower said. “They were targeting other U.S. citizens, as well.”

Only two names are listed in the whistleblower’s official paperwork, so the others must remain sealed, she said. The second name is Paul J. Manafort Jr., the one-time chairman of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The other names Obama spied in include: Members of Congress, the most senior staffers on the 2016 Trump campaign and members of Trump’s family, she said. (Excerpt) Read more at theohiostar.com ...

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The “Members of Congress” being spied upon by Obama could be a goldmine of info. Betcha good money, Obama was spying on DEMOCRATS. Was Obama checking to see if Democrats were holding out on his share of the graft?

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Obama’s Treasury Dept (where Obama placed his COS Rham Emanuel in charge) regularly surveilled
retired Gen Flynn’s financial records and transactions beginning in Dec 2015 and well into 2017

<><>Why was Flynn targeted in 2015?
<><> What had he done to incur scrutiny?
<><> Did this begin with one person with a grudge against Flynn
<><> or was there more to it?
<><> Who started targeting Flynn in 2015 ?
<><> What did the Obama admin have on Flynn back then?

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5 posted on 09/26/2020 3:24:35 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Savage Beast

sigh...how many is that?


6 posted on 09/26/2020 3:24:45 PM PDT by yoe (Vote for President Trump!..Keep America Great and protected by the US. Constitution.)
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To: bitt
" Special Counsel’s team, including attorney Jeannie Rhee, that there was “no evidence of a crime” committed by Flynn. Rhee, a former outside counsel representing the Clinton Foundation as well as former Obama national security official Ben Rhodes, had been picked by Robert Mueller to be part of the investigation into Donald Trump. When Barnett attempted to brief Rhee on a separate investigative matter, she stopped him and demanded that he “drill down” on the fees Flynn was paid for giving a public speech in Russia. When he explained those fees, she dismissed his assessment. “Barnett thought Rhee was obsessed with Flynn and Russia and she had an agenda,” Is it just me or doesn't it seem a disproportional percent of Asian American women in powerful positions are fervent Leftist? Not run of the mill, RADICAL. Like I said maybe it's just little ol' racist me.
7 posted on 09/26/2020 3:25:50 PM PDT by DAC21 (S)
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To: bitt

Trump should have a real regulation gallows constructed on the White House lawn for Halloween.


8 posted on 09/26/2020 3:25:51 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Dick Bachert

Paging Dick Bachert’s gallows.


9 posted on 09/26/2020 3:42:16 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!)
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To: Taxman
Your wish is my command! Bwahahahaha...


10 posted on 09/26/2020 3:52:18 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES YOU!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
He said the Special Counsel Office (SCO) pursued Flynn simply as a means to “get Trump” I am shocked to hear that this was going on. The FBI was entitled to the presumption that they were acting in good faith. Now they have blown that notion out of the water and that idiot Wray is trying to smooth the rotten structure over with joint compound. Looks nice, until the rot leaks through. There is only one solution. Rip it all out and rebuild from the ground up.
11 posted on 09/26/2020 3:54:10 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Liz
Did this begin with one person with a grudge against Flynn

No. Obummer and Clinton had grudges against Flynn as did the deep state intelligence community headed by Brennan and Clapper. So it was a multi-party grudge being executed.You need to understand. It's not the heads of departments that run the agencies. It's the cockroaches like ol' pudgy Vindman whose first job is to make sure no one attempts to bypass their bureaucratic prerogatives to ensure that the problem they are employed to solve never gets solved.

12 posted on 09/26/2020 3:58:29 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: bitt

But why was Flynn hated and why is Judge Sullivan so determind to keep him silent?


13 posted on 09/26/2020 4:01:20 PM PDT by HChampagne (I am ready to crawl over broken glass to get to the polling place for Nov. 2020.)
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To: Savage Beast

At one time, General Michael Flynn was under the Obama regime’s direction, and he raised certain points of contention, which caused that regime to declare Flynn to be “unreliable”. But Flynn had seen many troubling things, and by going over to Team Trump, the Obama regime, in its waning days, was sure that Team Trump would learn of these misdeeds on the part of the Obama regime, and preemptively began to tarnish anything and everything about Flynn. The rumors the Obama regime spread about Flynn ended up with Team Trump dismissing him before he was fully in position, and the Obama regime had used the pretext to gain their surveillance of the Trump White House.

For the Obama regime and the Deep State, it was a twofer. Shut Flynn up for good, and get some future opposition research on Team Trump.

It worked, for a while.


14 posted on 09/26/2020 4:04:04 PM PDT by alloysteel ("The Best Is Yet to Come "- theme of 2020 RNC)
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"During the interview, Barnett also revealed how the FBI used high-level criminal leaks to advance the agency’s investigation into Trump-related targets. Texts released yesterday showed FBI employees sarcastically pretending to care about the criminal leak of phone calls between Flynn and Kislyak to David Ignatius of the Washington Post and a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. The employees surmised that the leaks came from high-level officials at the White House.

0bamaomau

15 posted on 09/26/2020 4:08:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (In all things ... trigger discipline.)
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To: HChampagne

Because if Flynn is exonerated, it shows the whole deep state plot against President Trump was just that, a silent coup in an attempt to undo a presidential election.


16 posted on 09/26/2020 4:10:40 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: alloysteel

The corrupt always try to destroy the truthful.


17 posted on 09/26/2020 4:13:16 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Sleazy Democrat operatives are whispering into Biden's ear. Trump hears the voices of the Angels.)
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To: bitt

Whistleblower? LOL... yeah, sure pal. You saw a coup and participated. Then you stayed silent for 4 years as our President and the Nation were put through hell.

Then when Clinesmith cops a plea, suddenly you remember things and are turning against the others.

He’s trash and should face arrest.


18 posted on 09/26/2020 4:25:59 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Dick Bachert; Taxman; SpaceBar; bitt; Liz

19 posted on 09/26/2020 4:28:11 PM PDT by 4Liberty (As a conservative college professor I'll pro'ly be fired soon & then killed. Been nice knowing you!)
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To: bitt

He could have told America this on the day after Trump was inaugurated or over before. All he had to do was walk out on the steps of the FBI building and have a couple of reporters there. Hand out supporting documents. He could have secretly recorded them and released the recordings.

Maybe he would lose his job, maybe he would face arrest from corrupt prosecutors. So he did nothing and now wants to be a “whistleblower”?
Soldiers do their job and put their nation first every day even though they risk their very life to do so.

We can take what this guy says and use it as a weapon, but let’s not pretend he is a good guy or a white hat. He let the criminals continue their work and hid them from daylight.


20 posted on 09/26/2020 4:34:03 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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