When you are charged with lying to the FBI, because there are no recordings or transcripts of your FBI interview, it is your word against the agent’s word. Or your word versus the word of another witness. And the FBI decides who is correct and who is lying.
Nice going Manafort.......
And make very sure Mueller pays for that outrageous Gestapo tactic.....
......breaking down your door, guns drawn, scaring your wife out of her wits.
How long can that situation prevail, before some lawyer somewhere, in some case, makes the obvious point that in 2018 recording interviews and keeping the records is no big deal? And that if the cops do not record an interview, the presumption has to be that they were afraid of the truth. And juries should make that assumption in their deliberations.
And that’s exactly why they don’t record their interviews. they only take notes and destroy the notes after the final draft is written. Your word against an agents. Although, I think we might see that change if this thing shakes out the way, it could potentially shake out. The agency has always been more controversial than most people care to know and has had numerous scandals, that should have rocked it to the core.
But, people aren’t flag waving, zombies anymore. They tend to question things more than ever before and thanks to things like these forums, on FR, and alternative media, they can get answers. If this plays out, in the way that 4Chan, Qanon, the IG, Sara Carter, John Solomon, etc, seem to be thinking it might be going, it could get real ugly for the Famous But Incompetent.
Of course,when it gets critical, they’ll entrap some muslim, Uber driver, from Miami and say that he was going to blow up the Keystone Pipeline, trying to deflect.
Then common sense says that you record it if you have a lawyer present or not.