(05-01-2020 08:57 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(04-30-2020 09:29 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-30-2020 08:31 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  A day in the life of the 'Russiagate' issue, General Flynn version.

So, all the 'smoke' about how fing pure the FBI is/was:

New documents related to the General Flynn 'investigation' note, prior to the interview with him, the question was aked 'is the goal to get him to lie'? To get to how utterly disgusting these docs show are, considering what is already known

1. The FBI had no REASON to interview Flynn. It already had transcripts of his conversations with Kislyak.

2. The new docs show the FBI had already cleared Flynn of claims that he was agent of Russian power; it moved to close that investigation on Jan 4 2017.

3. But then DOJ cooked up a 'Logan Act' claim, the notion Flynn had violated an obscure 1799 law. Only two indictments have ever been handed down under the Logan Act. The first occurred in 1803, the other in 1852.

4. If they thought Flynn violated the Logan Act, all they had to do was prosecute. They had the transcript.

5. The problem? Ask yourself if you think that horseshit would eever fly.

6. The released notes show the agents pondering the question: so how how else to nail Flynn? As the notes show, Logan just became the pretext for interview.

7. Per the notes, the real goal was trap him into saying something at odds with transcript, to "get him to lie."
To do that we have Comey bragging that they went around WH legal counsel, so Flynn would have no representation.

8. We have a new email from Lisa Page asking how FBI can get around issuing to Flynn the standard admonition against lying, suggesting Strzok just "casually slip that in."

9. We have the McCabe docs showing he discouraged him from getting lawyer.

10. Undaunted, FBI decided to get rid of standard admonition altogether. They also never bothered to tell Flynn he was being interviewed in an "investigatory" context, suggesting this was a chat between gov officials.

11. As for liberal commentators/legal scholars saying all this is "routine," well, let's sure as hell hope not. The FBI exists to investigate crimes--not create them.

12. On top of this mountain of crap, and coverup of the crap, the documents also reveal that Strzok had previously stopped the FBI from ending Flynn probe despite lack of ‘derogatory’ evidence

But those of us critics of this at the time, and whom warned of FBI interventionism were pooh-poohed; because of the sheer urgency of that of course we were paranoid about this, and that we were making stuff up to 'cover up' the overall bent of the Russia investigation.

These documents show that this exculpatory evidence was *never* made available to Flynn, as it sure as fk should have; nor was it made available to the court during sentencing -- again when they sure as fk should have. Putting a layer of grotesque and sick coverup on top of the horseshit that the newly unmasked items explicitly show were the actions and intentions of the FBI re: Flynn.

Right, nothing at all under this bridge, move along, nothing to see. How gd slimy does the FBI sink to in these matters?

The FBI in this matter is dirty as fk. The FBI people involved in this saga need to go to prison.

agree with the last paragraph.



Two points:

1. The democrats on TV keep saying that Flynn pled guilty as if that proved he was guilty. But people take pleas all the time, as the best/cheapest way out of a situation, especially if they think they have a no jail deal. Also heard they threatened his son.

2. So this is the "smoke" that justified the Russia probe?

Another major reason was the Carter Page crap. There was another news report today detailing a deposition of Steele (in a defamation case) in which Steele noted that some of the contents of *that* report were actually predicated on sources *from* the Clinton Campaign.

Tack this pile of slime on, the additional pile of slime on the abuse of the FISA process, and god knows what else will be revealed the further Durham goes --- yep, no malfeasance, nothing there, be quiet, move along.

The more that comes to light, the dirtier the Democratic actions since 2016 appear. Glad I don't have to defend those actions.