After a prescient 2017 tip from inside the FBI, a slow drip of revelations exposed the deep problems with the Flynn prosecution.
Just The News: Shortly after my colleague Sara Carter and I began reporting in 2017 on the possibility that the FBI was abusing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to spy on Americans during the Russia investigation, I received a call. It was an intermediary for someone high up in the intelligence community.
The story that source told me that day — initially I feared it may have been too spectacular to be true — was that FBI line agents had actually cleared former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn of any wrongdoing with Russia only to have the bureau’s leadership hijack the process to build a case that he lied during a subsequent interview.
In fact, my notes show, the source used the words “concoct a 1001 false statements case” to describe the objections of career agents who did not believe Flynn had intended to deceive the FBI. A leak of a transcript of Flynn’s call with the Russian ambassador was just part of a campaign, the source alleged.
The tip resulted in a two-and-a-half-year journey by myself and a small group of curious and determined journalists like Carter, Catherine Herridge, Greg Jarrett, Mollie Hemingway, Lee Smith, Byron York, and Kimberly Strassel to slowly peel back the onion. read more
Mueller, being the FBI bookend to Biden, probably isn’t/wasn’t even aware that his investigation was a sham.
Get both of them matching drool cups. Unreal these are the people that half this country eat up like a dog eats his vomit.
“What a Beautiful Black Sky” – Gen Mike Flynn
@MMinAR – it was Rod Rosenstein’s report, my friend. Mueller was ‘tasked’ to head it because he was a…Republican! So they could say “Hey look over there, the shiny object?…’We have bi-partisanship!
Well apparently Schiff and Nadler thought Mueller was so plugged in that his testimony would be all they needed to sink President Trump. Dude was fucking lost at sea at that hearing.
Disband the FBI and start again. They have a long history of grabbing the glory when things go right (no matter who actually did the work) but disavowing as much involvement as possible when things go wrong. It’s not that they were good, they just had good PR people.
So when will all those “honorable “ FBI agents, (retired and current) come forward and blow the whistle on all these upper echelon rat bastards? Yeah, crickets. The whole outfit stinks.
So now let’s hope these lesser fish turn on the greater fish in order to save themselves from 20 years in Federal Pen.
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the FBi has not had a competent, honest leader since J Edgar.
But GWB’s KGB ex Jarhead was competent. Dishonest and a liberal, but competent.
His memory problems, like GWB’s girl Clinton, were dishonest. Had he not lied he would be liable for jail; won can se what he honestly remembered?
Disclosure – 19 years ago when GWB promoted Mueller I was angered but not shocked. Bush Clan have been close to “Uncle Joe” for many decades!