Mueller dismisses top FBI agent in Russia probe for anti-Trump texts

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In reply to ccatag • 1:13p, 4/28/20
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Get it all out there now - the sooner the better.
A day late and a dollar short. Law firms are experts in document management. They have to be especially for a litigation firm. Once Flynn fired them and directed them to send his files to his new counsel, Sydney, they should have complied. The fact that they didn't smells like a deliberate cover-up, which only exacerbates the prior misconduct and conflicts. The moment Flynn was the subject of a criminal case, they should have sent him to another firm. The nature of the first charges, FARA, were based on documents and communications from the firm and essentially their legal advice to him is what (appeared) to have gotten him in hot water.

If the entrapment allegations are true (which I have always believed they are) it wouldn't surprise me if Covington, Burling was aware of the set-up but said nothing to Flynn.
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In reply to will25u • 1:17p, 4/28/20
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It's silly how horrible everything in this case is botched.

https://saraacarter.com/flynns-former-lawyers-covington-and-burling-turn-over-another-trove-of-docs-again/

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Covington and Burling LLP, the former defense team for former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, turned over thousands of more pages of documents to Flynn's new defense team that should have been submitted more than a year ago. Last week, another batch of documents withheld by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team on Flynn was turned over to his defense that allegedly reveals that the retired three-star general did not commit any crimes, as suggested by Department of Justice prosecutors.

This new batch of voluminous documentation turned over by his former defense team which includes emails, texts, voice messages, notebooks, handwritten notes and legal documents amounted to approximately 6,800 additional documents bringing the total amount of documents to roughly 669,800, along with attachments.

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"The Flynn defense is stunned that Covington and Burling has only now found thousands of additional documents amounting to more than 17,000 pages that should have been produced to the defense almost a year ago," she stated. Powell, who has been battling for documents from the Department of Justice as well, said the enormity of documents withheld from Flynn's defense is proof of the misconduct against her client.

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Tuesday's supplemental notice, which was signed by Flynn's former defense counsel Robert Kelner with Covington and Burling LLP, stated that the reason the documents were turned over so late to Powell was due to "an unintentional miscommunication involving the firm" information technology personnel had led them, in some instances, to run search terms on subsets of emails the firm had collected for its response to document requests United States v. [url=https://saraacarter.com/govt-wants-to-jail-flynn-for-refusing-to-lie-for-prosecution-in-rafiekian-case-heres-my-take-on-it/][Bijan] Rafiekian,[/url] the case involving Mr. Flynn's business partner and their FARA-related work through their consulting firm, rather than on the broader sets of emails that should have been searched."

Wonder if they could even file that one with a straight face.

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In reply to OPAG • 1:18p, 4/28/20
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Well, I gave it shot!
You should have tagged Dershowitz, Gregg Jarrett and Hannity in that tweet. JMO
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In reply to FTAG 2000 • 1:19p, 4/28/20
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Wonder if they could even file that one with a straight face.
I know I wouldn't put my signature on that pile of dung.
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In reply to aggiehawg • 1:33p, 4/28/20
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Wonder if they could even file that one with a straight face.
I know I wouldn't put my signature on that pile of dung.
No doubt, but signing off on garbage is SOP for them.
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In reply to OPAG • 1:34p, 4/28/20
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Well, I gave it shot!
Helped you out a little on the reach, but I don't have much better reach.
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In reply to OPAG • 1:38p, 4/28/20
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Well, I gave it shot!


Tried to help you out.
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In reply to will25u • 1:49p, 4/28/20
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will25u said:
"Hurricane" -> Northern Hemisphere storm...rotates counter-clockwise
"Typhoon" -> Southern Hemisphere storm...rotates clockwise

Might that be a distinction in two different sources / beginning?
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In reply to ProgN • 1:51p, 4/28/20
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Thanks I am not really a twitter guy, mainly stalk.
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In reply to OPAG • 1:53p, 4/28/20
That's cool. I followed you btw.
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2:00p, 4/28/20
What is everyones thoughts on this thread by Brian Cates(@drawandstrike)?

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2:03p, 4/28/20
ETA: Is this first link a duplicate of what we posted earlier today? Or is it even MORE that they left out?



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2:19p, 4/28/20
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So Flynn became a target no later than August 2016 according to the Tucker Carlson clip. What else happened with Flynn's company in August 2016? They signed the deal with the Dutch company, Inovo. Then later the connections to the Turkish government were revealed.
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In reply to aggiehawg • 2:55p, 4/28/20
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Well, I'm retired. But he should contact Dershowitz.
Nice punt by the way.

Don't think I didn't notice!
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In reply to aggiehawg • 2:55p, 4/28/20
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Flynn did lead the chant of "Lock Her Up" at the convention in Jul 2016.
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3:28p, 4/28/20
Pardon my ignorance here, but McCarthy said something akin to "there are lots of things illegal that aren't in the penal code".

The way I hear that, if it's not in the penal code, then how can it be illegal?
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5:09p, 4/28/20
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Redactions. Great!
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In reply to fasthorse05 • 5:22p, 4/28/20
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Pardon my ignorance here, but McCarthy said something akin to "there are lots of things illegal that aren't in the penal code".

The way I hear that, if it's not in the penal code, then how can it be illegal?
"Illegality" is a term wherein procedures and protocols were not followed but are not a "crime" as defined in the penal code. Kind of depends on the consequences of the illegality. Were Flynn's constitutional rights likely violated here? Yep but that is a civil damage.

BUT remember Mike Nifong? The prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case? That was prosecutorial misconduct and abuse of power. He also lied to the court repeatedly. He went to prison and was disbarred.

McCarthy is being cautious, as always. All he knows right now is that Flynn may have been entrapped and set up. Until more facts come out, identifying an actual crime (as opposed to a civil cause of action) is speculation. he won't go there yet.

I do hope and pray that Brandon Van Grack gets "Nifonged" though. And Flynn sues the ever living crap out Peter Strzok, Joe Pientka, McCabe, Comey and Baker, for starters.
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5:58p, 4/28/20


Covington & Burling is a huge outfit with annual gross revenues > $1 billion/year.
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In reply to ProgN • 6:35p, 4/28/20
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I sent Professor Dershowitz an email during the impeachment trial, and he responded pretty quickly.

Here is his email address:

dersh@law.harvard.edu

Might try that to get him to see it.
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In reply to Jeff84 • 6:39p, 4/28/20
Thank you sir.
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In reply to drcrinum • 6:43p, 4/28/20
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Covington & Burling is a huge outfit with annual gross revenues > $1 billion/year.
Hope their firm and Perkins, Coie have a revenue hair cut soon. Like a buzzcut. They are corrupt.
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6:46p, 4/28/20
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7:05p, 4/28/20


Full headline is "Bombshell? Do We Have Evidence of Clinton-Russia Collusion?"
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
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In reply to Some Junkie Cosmonaut • 7:25p, 4/28/20
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ruddyduck said:
Mifsud still not a Russian agent
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In reply to captkirk • 7:36p, 4/28/20
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Mifsud still not a Russian agent
Never has been.
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7:37p, 4/28/20
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$h_t...please, hit the fan!!!!!!
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8:00p, 4/28/20
Has anyone noticed Powell's office is on Turtle Creek in Dallas?

It's probably a meh to many here, but since she has so much business in DC and it's government related, I assumed her office was somewhere in northern Virginia!

Please continue...........
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In reply to fasthorse05 • 8:12p, 4/28/20
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i saw that yesterday. right around the corner from where i live.
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In reply to whatthehey78 • 8:15p, 4/28/20
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$h_t...please, hit the fan!!!!!!
Tick tock ... just 6 months until the possibility of a changing of the guard.
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8:46p, 4/28/20


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/christopher-steele-claims-clinton-lawyer-fed-him-debunked-claim-about-russian-collusion-in-2016

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British ex-spy Christopher Steele testified he met with Democratic lawyers during the 2016 presidential election, and one provided him with now-debunked claims about alleged Trump-Russia collusion as he compiled his dossier.

Steele, a former MI6 agent whose salacious and unverified dossier was used by the FBI in its Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act targeting of Trump campaign associate Carter Page, discussed his meetings with two lawyers tied to Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee during a deposition in a British court in mid-March, according to a transcript obtained by the Daily Caller.

Michael Sussman and Marc Elias, two top lawyers for the Perkins Coie law firm, which represented the Clinton campaign and the DNC, played an even more significant role in the Trump-Russia investigation than previously known.

Steele testified Sussman provided him with claims about Alfa Bank's purported ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a late July meeting. These allegations made their way into a mid-September 2016 memo that became part of Steele's dossier, although Steele repeatedly misspells "Alfa" as "Alpha."...

Interesting tidbit. So, was Sussman one of Steele's subsources for the dossier per Horowitz's Report? Did Horowitz know this? Then go one step further: Sussman provided the same info about Alpha Bank to James Baker during their meeting in 2016 (sometime before the Election) -- was the purpose of this exchange to validate a portion of the dossier? You know, the old circular verification trick of same source but 2 different routes or presentation. But Baker claimed in his deposition before Congress that the information Sussman gave him was unrelated to the dossier -- see Page 45 below:

.https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/BakerRedacted.pdf
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9:03p, 4/28/20
Any of y'all think the Brits would be pissed if we sent a specops team to the UK to retrieve Steele so we could subpoena him for the grand jury?

BTW, as conspiracies go, most could never get beyond 3 to 4 people due to stories being conflicting and other members flipping. Even if I believed this was a conspiracy, and Durham may choose to indict on conspiracy (although Hawg said it's very hard to convict), there are so damned many people involved in this, it would be impossible for it to literally by a conspiracy,, which is kind of depressing.

To me, that means so many of these myopic, moronic, participants acted due to progressive ideology. Makes me wonder how many were approached, and chose not to participate.
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6:17a, 4/29/20
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6:23a, 4/29/20
Don't know if there is anything too interesting here, but...

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