I find it interesting FBI Director Christopher Wray took
over from crooked cop former Director Comey, yet it is 2020 and ONLY NOW Deep
State corruption is unravelling in the FBI. It might be time for Wray to go.
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FBI-DOJ Conspiracy Against Flynn Unravels
Newly released FBI documents finally lift the veil.
By Joseph Klein
May 1, 2020
The chilling words contained in the newly released handwritten notes
of William Priestap, the assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence
Division at the time of the FBI's January 24, 2017 interview with former
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, confirm the worst suspicions of
Flynn’s defense team. Flynn’s lead defense attorney Sidney Powell believes with
good reason that the retired three-star general was set up for a perjury trap
by senior officials at the FBI. The handwritten notes and other released FBI
documents provide her with more ammunition for the defense team’s motion to
dismiss the case against Flynn. The motion was filed with the presiding U.S.
District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan. The documents demonstrate the cynical
thinking among FBI agents in advance of their meeting with Flynn that occurred
at the White House just days after President Trump’s inauguration.
“What’s our goal? Truth/admission or to get him to lie, so
we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Priestap asked in his handwritten
notes. “We regularly show subjects evidence, with the goal of getting them to
admit their wrongdoing,” he added. “Protect our institution by not
playing games.” The issue was whether to show Flynn certain evidence during the
meeting that might have helped refresh his recollection. The “evidence” –
redacted in the released version of the notes – is believed to have been
transcripts of several phone calls between Flynn and then-U.S. Ambassador to
Russia Sergei Kislyak in December 2019 while Flynn was part of the Trump
transition team as incoming national security adviser. The FBI interrogators chose
to withhold the complete transcripts from Flynn, choosing instead to quote
selectively if and when they deemed appropriate.
In addition to Priestap’s handwritten notes, the initial
batch of released documents included emails from the disgraced former FBI
Special Agent Peter Strzok and his lover, former FBI counsel Lisa Page. In one
of the e-mails, Page discussed “just casually” slipping in towards the
beginning of the interview that it is a crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 to make
false statements to a federal agent, rather than mentioning it immediately
following a statement which the agents believe to be false. That's called
trying to pull a fast one when the interviewee would likely be paying less
attention.
“The FBI pre-planned a deliberate attack on Gen. Flynn and
willfully chose to ignore mention of Section 1001 in the interview despite full
knowledge of that practice,” Sidney Powell said
in a statement following Wednesday’s document release.
Fifteen more documents unsealed on Thursday are even more
explosive. They reveal, among other things, a reversal of the decision by
counterintelligence agents to close the case against Flynn after Strzok, who
initially led the Russian “collusion” investigation, intervened to keep the
Flynn case open. In one of the released texts dated
January 4, 2017, Strzok referred to “the 7th floor” of FBI headquarters where
then-FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had their
offices. Presumably, Comey and McCabe were interested in continuing the Flynn
probe. Recall that Comey later boasted to MSNBC's Nicole Wallace during a
December 2019 forum that it was his decision to send the FBI agents to
interview Flynn at the White House four days after President Trump’s
inauguration. Comey fully realized, he said, that it was "something we, I
probably wouldn't have done or gotten away with in a more organized
investigation -- a more organized administration." He said, however, that
it was “early enough” in the Trump administration to “just send a couple of
guys over.” Comey also admitted that Flynn was not told about the purpose of
the interview.
A January 23, 2017 text from Strzok to Page documented that
Priestap, the author of the handwritten notes, was uncomfortable in pushing
ahead too aggressively with Flynn. The FBI conducted the interview with Flynn
the next day anyway. Strzok was one of the agents who questioned Flynn at the
White House. There’s more. According to a report by the investigative journalist
Sarah Carter, “the text messages reveal that there
was an original 302 interview with Flynn that was never turned over to the
defense. In those text messages between former FBI lovebirds Attorney Lisa Page
and FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, they discuss the interview that was
conducted with Flynn at the White House and allude to the alteration of the
document.”
Flynn’s defense lawyer Sidney Powell minced no words. “To be
clear, we now know by the production of new text messages between Lisa Page and
Peter Strzok that there in fact exists an original 302 document created by SSA
1 from his own notes of the January 24, 2017 ambush interview of Gen Flynn,”
said Powell. “Further, we know in fact that SSA 1’s original 302 document went
to Stzrok who rewrote it substantially, but tried not to ‘completely re-write
it so as to save [redacted] voice’ and then was shared by Stzrok with a ‘pissed
off’ Page who revised it substantively yet again, crafting the narrative to
charge Gen Flynn with a crime he did not commit.” She added that “the travel of
this vital document establishes continuously – and until this day – the
original FBI agents, the prosecutors, and FBI management’s determination to
withhold exculpatory evidence… not only to try to convict an innocent man, but
to hide their own crimes.”
The FBI agents involved in the Flynn persecution were
clearly trying to maneuver Flynn into admitting that he violated a 218-year-old
statute known as the Logan Act or, in the alternative, getting him to lie about
his discussions with the Russian ambassador. The Logan Act prohibits U.S.
citizens from communicating with any foreign government or its officers, in the
absence of authorization by the U.S. government, “with intent to influence the
measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent
thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States,
or to defeat the measures of the United States.”
There have been no convictions under the Logan Act and only
one indictment way back in 1803 that was not followed up. The FBI agents and
their colleagues in the Justice Department dusted off the dead letter law,
using it as a pretext to go after Flynn. In any event, communications between a
president-elect or members of the transition team in advance of a
president-elect’s inauguration with the representatives of foreign governments
are not unusual. President-elect Barack Obama himself, for example, had
communications with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and then-Polish
President Lech Kaczynski following the 2008 presidential election. From the get-go,
the Logan Act was being used by the FBI agents to harass Flynn. As for the
charge of lying to the FBI, even the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn had
initially concluded that Flynn had not lied. Only later did Special Counsel
Mueller’s prosecutors wrest a guilty plea from Flynn, who was facing threats of
prosecution against his son as well as financial ruin if he did not cooperate.
The Trump-haters in the FBI and Justice Department abused
their powers by willfully targeting Michael Flynn in order to pressure him to
turn on President Trump. Judge Sullivan must right this grievous wrong and
dismiss the case against Michael Flynn immediately. Then Attorney General
William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham must vigorously pursue the
investigation and prosecution of any FBI and Justice Department senior
officials involved in conspiring to destroy a great American patriot.
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