Posted on 12/11/2018 11:11:57 PM PST by bitt
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who arranged the bureau's interview with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 — the interview that ultimately led to Flynn's guilty plea on one count of making false statements — suggested Flynn not have a lawyer present at the session, according to newly-filed court documents. In addition, FBI officials, along with the two agents who interviewed Flynn, decided specifically not to warn him that there would be penalties for making false statements because the agents wanted to ensure that Flynn was "relaxed" during the session.
The new information, drawn from McCabe's account of events plus the FBI agents' writeup of the interview — the so-called 302 report — is contained in a sentencing memo filed Tuesday by Flynn's defense team.
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Byron York has been on top of these events.. ping
A total set up. Think about how removed Flynn was from any of the fake Russia narratives. And the big lie was about him simply doing his job on the transition. This is completely outrageous.
How could Michael Flynn be stupid enough to talk to any LEO without an attorney?
Corruption. FBI is a political formation
innocence, and misplaced trust and respect for the FBI.
And that smells of entrapment..
“A total set up. “
I would not talk to the FBI without a lawyer present unless I had a 10mm submachine gun present. Hat tip to Travis McGee (Matt Bracken), Enemies Foreign and Domestic.
I thought he was supposed to be smart?
wasn’t it this interview after which Comey said the FBI guys initially said Flynn was ok ?
Did this set-up start higher than McCabe ? ...
2 days after the interview, Sally Yates warns the WH about Flynn ?
innocence, and misplaced trust and respect for the FBI.
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The FBI has successfully torched any positive reputation it had.
They trapped Flynn and gave Hillary “The Princess and the Pea” treatment.
“Your Highness, before we discuss the weather for 5 minutes and then call it a day, would you care for a coffee warm-up?”
7 months to write a 302? That's pure horse$hit.
What law enforcement agency allows paperwork, whether it be an interview report, an incident report, an arrest report, or any other type of report that could end up in a court of law, be delayed that long? That's plain incompetence. The lateness of the 302 being submitted, coupled with the fact that the DOJ has refused Congress' requests to view them makes it perfectly clear that something is definitely afoul with the whole thing. And what law enforcement agency representative has the right to recommend to an American citizen, that he shouldn't bring a lawyer with him when he's being interviewed by FBI agents? This was a set-up from the get-go, and I can't believe that General Flynn fell for it. After 30 years in the military, he should have been on high alert. He'd already ticked McCabe off after going to bat for Robyn Gritz, a decorated female counterterrorism agent that had accused McCabe and higher ups of sexual discrimination. But then it's quite possible, that Flynn never realized the feathers he'd ruffled.
It appears a substantial lawsuit is in order.
Hillary got fired from the Watergate Committee when she tried to get the rule changed to deny Richard Nixon legal representation.
For the same reason any cop would talk to any other cop. If you don’t believe you’ve done anything wrong, know that you’ve done nothing wrong, you have no reason to think anything different.
The kicker to me is, neither of the agents that conducted the interview, Strzok being one of them, thought he lied. And if I’m not mistaken, stated so in their report on the interview. Yet, somehow Mueller and his henchmen ignored that and charged him, anyway.
On the local law enforcement level, that wouldn’t happen. If the DAs office was adamant about something they would conduct their own investigation with their own investigators. They’d have to because the local cops would say in their testimony, when the Defense calls them, that they concluded no PC existed for a warrant.
Every single solitary thing about criminal procedure and prosecutions has been thrown out the window with regards to this debacle. I don’t trust Dershowitz for anything, but he does seem to care more about the law and criminal procedure than any of these hacks. The same thing goes for Turley. Both admitted liberals and both on record, repeatedly, saying that this thing is a joke.
Turley brought up, yesterday, that it appears they’re going to try and go after the President for campaign finance. Something Turley said was damn near impossible to get a conviction on. He added that they through everything and the kitchen sink at Edwards, he was using campaign money and resources and he still walked. With regards to then, Candidate Trump, money was exchanged, NDA signed, and all through the testimony of an admitted liar who’s about to go to prison because he couldn’t provide Mueller with the smoking gun. Any lawyer worth a damn, and that ain’t many, should be up in arms overall of this and the abuse’s perpetrated by the DOJ, FBI and Mueller. I’m actually surprised that no defense attorney’s have filed to have any cases involved with McCabe, Strzok, and Priestap reviewed and requesting a retrial. Federal courts take very seriously, any type of lying, once it’s exposed. And that goes all the way to how agents conduct themselves, administratively, as well.
If you ever hear that an agent has been, Giglio’d, that means they cannot testify in federal court, meaning they can’t work any cases, but whatever they did wasn’t sufficient enough to fire them. And, yes, there are plenty of federal agents that are Giglio’d and still collecting a 6 figure check to order office supplies.
It was doing the very first days of the new admin. and Gen. Flynn was taking briefings from various members of the security/intel community. He did not know until the agents were in his office that it was not about another briefing of some kind for Flynn’s role as the new National Security Advisor. Ofc we can wish he had handled it differently at that point, but he knew he had done nothing wrong. He probably did not realize at that moment the extremes to which the Deep State scum would go to set him up. He still thought he was talking to professional colleagues.
That’s not incompetence. Those reports are done, immediately. Especially since the FBI doesn’t allow any type of recording of interviews, like every other law enforcement agency does. That’s why they always interview in pairs. One asks the questions. The other takes the notes and records the answers. And, once the report is written, the notes are destroyed. So, even if the report is completely different than what the notes say, there is no record of what was originally written down. The report stands as the final document.
It’s exactly how they handle elections, nowadays. If it’s close, enter Brenda Snipes - Ballot Harvesting, anything to get the results they want.
If she had won, no one would say a word to Gen Flynn. She didn’t and as they tried to chip away at the President, they had to pull out all the stops.
FBI, initially stated that they didn’t think he lied. They got into the file and made the appropriate changes, after the fact and now we are here.
Federal criminal prosecution is not beanbag. The courts have ruled many times that prosecutors, FBI agents and police may lie, cheat, threaten, intimidate, coerce and deceive to extract cooperation and obtain evidence from witnesses. This is the dark side of the criminal justice system. It requires a strong stomach. It can be used against even the president.
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How very Attny Hillary Clinton of them.
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