May 1, 2020
New documents recently released, provides stunning evidence further confirming what many have already concluded, the FBI had an agenda to bring down President Trump’s former National Security Advisor, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
In 2017 Flynn pleaded guilty to a single count of lying to federal agents during a White House interview. The supposed purpose of the interview was for the FBI to get clarification about a December 2016 call between Flynn, the then-incoming NSA, and the Russias’ ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. It has been speculated that Flynn only declared guilt because he could no longer afford to fight, and to spare his son from threatened prosecution. In January of this year, Flynn vacated his guilty plea and is hoping to have his case dismissed.
Newly Released Documents
A just-released handwritten note, dated the same day as Flynn’s White House FBI interview, reveals that the FBI’s objective in interviewing Flynn wasn’t to obtain clarification regarding his December 2017 conversation with Kislyak. Chillingly, it seemingly reveals a preordained mission to charge Flynn with a crime.
The note authored by Bill Priestap, the former head of FBI counterintelligence, was written after meeting with then FBI director James Comey and his deputy director Andrew McCabe. Priestap was Peter Strzok’s supervisor, the agent who led the FBI efforts to find Trump-Russia collusion. Strzok, along with another agent interviewed Flynn at the White House.
Priestap appeared to be contemplating the FBI’s strategy ahead of the upcoming Flynn interview. He wrote, “What is our goal? Truth and admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Based on what we know now, it was the latter.
In the note, Priestap expresses doubt over their decision to not give Flynn the transcript of his call with Kislyak during the upcoming interview. Priestap wrote, “We regularly show subjects evidence with the goal of getting them to admit their wrongdoing”. Strzok never gave Flynn the transcript of the call.
Did Strzok not give Flynn the transcript for reference to increase the likelihood that Flynn would misremember, or say something inaccurate to allow the FBI an opening to take action against him?
This new document also indicates that the FBI was contemplating to ensnare Flynn using the Logan Act. Under the Logan Act, it is a crime for a civilian to interfere in U.S. foreign affairs. However, this law, dating back to 1799, has never been successfully used to prosecute anyone.
The fact that the FBI was attempting to charge Flynn with an arcane law that is never enforced (When no longer in office, John Kerry, Jimmy Carter, to name a few, have meddled with foreign governments on behalf of the U.S. with no repercussions) illustrates the determination of the FBI to pin any crime they could think of on Flynn. Moreover, Flynn was not an ordinary civilian, he was the incoming National Security Adviser. It was his job to speak with foreign leaders.
Further proof that the FBI was not dealing in good faith with Flynn, before the interview McCabe convinced him that he did not need an attorney. Flynn was also never informed that he was under a criminal investigation. This was clearly by design to catch Flynn off guard to set him up for criminal charges.
In an email exchange between FBI attorney Lisa Page and Strzok the night before Flynn’s interview, Page pondered at which point during the interview should the required warning about lying to the FBI be given to Flynn. Page subsequently seemingly suggested that Flynn could be ensnared if Strzok doesn’t emphasize the warning, but “just casually slip that in.” However, this warning, which is given to all murderers, rapists, drug dealers…wasn’t given to Flynn.
According to CBS News, court documents filed by Flynn’s legal team in December 2018 stated that “The agents did not provide General Flynn with a warning of the penalties for making a false statement under 18 U.S.C. 1001 before, during, or after the interview.” Further, the FBI 302 summary of the interview states that neither Strzok or the other agent who interviewed Flynn believed that he was intentionally lying.
The newly released documents :
An FBI Set Up
The evidence is overwhelming that this was a set-up from the beginning. During a December 2019 exchange with MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace, Comey smugly admitted that he was responsible for sending the FBI agents to interview Flynn. Comey stated that he “wouldn’t have gotten away with it” in a “more organized administration”. He added, “I thought, it’s early enough. Let’s just send a couple of guys over.”
It is now clear that the interview between Flynn and the FBI was designed to be a perjury trap. There was no legitimate reason to question Flynn about his call with Kislyak. The FBI knew the contents of the conversation. They had a recording of the entire conversation. Further, there was nothing illegal about the call. As the incoming NSA, Flynn was required to build relations, and speak with foreign leaders. Let’s not forget that the only reason that this conversation even became known was because someone in the Obama administration illegally uncovered Flynn’s identity and leaked the classified contents of the call to the the press. Federal law which allows for the wire tapping of foreigners requires that the identity of U.S. citizens to whom they speak with to remain hidden. To date, no one has been held accountable for this crime.
Incredibly, newly just-released documents show that field agents, with the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team found no evidence against Flynn, in their Russian-collusion probe, and recommended that his case be closed.
Documents dated 20 days before Flynn’s interview, indicated that agents wanted to end the investigation into Flynn because “no derogatory information was identified”. However, according to newly unsealed text messages, Strzok intervened telling the case manager that FBI leadership was involved and that the Flynn case should be kept open. Seemingly, Strzok was not investigating a potential crime, he wanted to continue the investigation into Flynn to find or manufacture a crime.
None of this new information would ever have been uncovered if not for Attorney General Barr. In January Barr appointed U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen to review the Flynn case. It was Jensen’s investigation that uncovered these documents never before seen by Flynn or his counsel.
Fox News Contributor Andrew McCarthy interestingly speculated about the FBI’s motivation on Fox News’ Tucker Carlon’s show. McCarthy believes that Flynn was the only person in the Trump administration who understood the intelligence system. He added that the FBI knew that Flynn would realize they were running a counterintelligence operation involving the president and his administration, and would most likely alert the president damaging their investigation. They needed him removed. So, Flynn was just collateral damage in their ultimate objective to destroy President Trump
To anyone who doubts that there is a “deep state” conspiracy to harm the Trump administration – two words- Mike Flynn.
