Dan did make a mistake today that was important. If I heard him correctly and I listen while driving to and from work in between phone calls, he said Strozk failed to close the case.
That was not true. It was a Washington Field Office and not the 7th floor that had the open CI case against Flynn. They had determined that there was no crime and they were going to close the case. Strozk found out the case against Flynn was still open and had not yet been closed and he directed the supervisor there to NOT close the case and later texted that the “7th floor was involved.”
I think that is worse than if the 7th floor had an open case and as Dan says, “precision matters”.
I didn’t catch that, but I don’t really see that as all that bad. I believe Bongino speaks extemporaneously, and I know he gets a lot of tiny details wrong, most of the time he seems to catch himself before it gets set in cement!
But I do believe he gets the larger points right. There is a LOT of information he puts out. And he backs it up.
And he did say “This hasn’t been proven”.
But I will say...it sure fits better than anything else I have heard. It has been a bit of a puzzle to me when that unmasking list came out, because that occurred to me right away-that there was no unmasking request between 12/29 (The Call) and 1/4 (The day before the meeting where Strzok called off the dogs who were going to close out the case)