If you were working in a company in a role of oversight of employee behavior (lets say you head up the Employee Security division) and you had the same goal of preventing internal crime and embezzlement as defined in the policies and procedures (Legislation and Laws in the government) that your company has explicitly spelled out.
If you have to work with the Human Resources Team, nobody in your position would suspect that you would be deliberately set up by the Human Resources Team because someone there doesn't like you, or worse...thinks you know too much about the way the Human Resources team conducts their business (as the Deep State/Obama Administration did with the Iran Nuclear Deal in particular, and Intelligence operations in general) and so they view you as a threat to be removed, and do so by setting you up...you should have no expectation that you are going to be illegally, unethically, and immorally set up to be fired or eliminated.
After the fact, you may well see that, given the poisonous and corrupt nature of the corporate infighting, that you should never have trusted them, but at the time, you should not ever have to trust them in your own department. That is not on YOU if they are corrupt, that is on them.
Remember, the FBI and DOJ are under the Executive branch. The FBI is the investigative branch of the Department of Justice, and the Department of Justice works under the direct chain of command with the Attorney General at the top, who reports directly to the President in a cabinet role.
ALL intelligence agencies, every single one of them, are DIRECTLY accountable to the Director of National Intelligence, another cabinet-level position. They operate at the direction and instructions of the Director of National Intelligence, who operates DIRECTLY at the instruction of the President of the United States.
So, this isn't a case of "trusting" someone in the Judicial Branch or the Legislative Branch, which in a company would be like trusting someone in some other company. This is a case of "trusting" someone in your OWN company who works DIRECTLY for you, and having them set you up.
And besides the fact-What took place here with General Flynn, and the fact that legal counsel was not there, is not a RULE codified in LAW, it is the preference of an individual administration.
So, in the internal administrative PROTOCOLS (not LAWS...PROTOCOLS) that were followed by an administration at any given time, after the internal meeting held ON THE SAME DAY Flynn saw the two agents without White House Counsel Don McGahn present, here is what the FBI had in mind, as recorded in those handwritten notes they took:
“What is our goal? Truth/admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” And then Comey said this, in front of a giggling and laughing audience during an interview:
“In both of those administrations there was process, so if the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the White House counsel, and there would be discussions and approvals of who would be there and I thought it’s early enough, let’s just send a couple guys over,” Comey said. “And so we placed a call to Flynn and said ‘Hey, we’re sending a couple guys over, hope you’ll talk to them.’ He said ‘sure.’ Nobody else was there, they interviewed him in a conference room at the White House situation room and he lied to them.”
Those POLICIES are in place for INTERNAL safety and organization, to prevent cross-communication. They are NOT LAWS put there to prevent illegal, immoral, seditious behavior by a rogue department, which is EXACTLY what that was.
If anyone on this forum or anywhere else wants to align themselves with despicable, seditious people whose sole goal was the removal of a legally elected government against the will of the people of the United States, and who are willing to break any and all laws to do so, then it is my opinion that decision to support those people reflects poorly on the character of anyone who agrees with them.
And those people, by providing support for them, are exactly the same kind of people. And I regard them as enemies of this Country and what it stands for.
That is fine. We can agree to disagree on this. Wish we had more of that.
LINK: PDF Timeline of the Persecution of General Michael Flynn
If you are interested, this PDF linked above is a timeline in chronological order (tabular format) with links, descriptions, and people involved in this. I did it to help myself understand this perfidy in greater detail. I use it for reference. I did this, because I felt the need to understand the how and why. Once I was done, I didn't have any illusions on what was done, especially when you look at all the unmasking specifically of General Flynn that took place by a multitude of Deep Staters beginning only weeks or a month after Trump was elected.
We can disagree, and the document can serve as a reference, even on things we may disagree on. The layout resembles this:
