This is only peripherally the issue. Flynn was interviewed on Jan 24, 2017 by Strzok and another agent, I forget his last name which starts with a “P”. If you are going to submit as evidence notes on something you took part in and offer those notes as credible, they are supposed to be “contemporaneous”, meaning they should be dated as close as possible to the event you’re taking those notes on. Those notes are taken on FBI form 302.
The idea that you’d submit notes dated 7 months later is absurd on its face.
The idea that you destroyed your original, contemporaneous notes and are now submitting these newer ones is or should be considered direct evidence of “sanitization” or some other mode of deliberate tampering.
That date, in August 2017, is *AFTER* Strzok was fired. It came out I believe in May 2017 that he had issued those egregious anti-Trump tweets to Lisa Page.
An astute judge who has any sort of independence, eg; one who does not simply accept anything the FBI says as gospel truth, would throw out the obviously sanitized Flynn 302 forms as “doctored” and pretty much throw out the case at the same time. There is essentially no way the 302 evidence..which is all the evidence there is since there is no recording of the Flynn interview... is not tampered with.
And the judge should order Strzok to pick out and purchase a modest suburban $850K No. Va. house for General Flynn, since he had to sell his to pay for his defense.
The trouble with that is Mueller would then go directly at Flynn’s son full force. The threat of that plus bankruptcy is reputedly what impelled Flynn to succumb.
Great points about the interview notes. Mueller knew the date discrepancy with the 302, and he knew that Flynn was advised by McCabe that he didn’t need legal counsel with him when he was interrogated. It’s all in his sentencing report. I believe Mueller has known this all along. Even Comey said recently that the Flynn interview was not normal agency protocol. If Comey knew it...Mueller knew it. Knowing that, why did Mueller move ahead with charging Flynn? Well of course I know why, but if that’s the case, and Mueller didn’t provide that info to the court when Flynn was first charged, who’s obstructing justice now? Mueller withheld that evidence from the court. Any sane Judge wouldn’t have allowed a charge against someone to move ahead if the interrogation that brought the charge had been compromised.
Wow! Excellent, and scary, observations.