scottimus said:

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etcetera said:

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RoscoePColtrane said:

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FriscoKid said:

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RoscoePColtrane said:

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Wray needs to go. Pure swamp

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You must have seen the hearing today.

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Listening on the radio

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Still waiting for an answer: What is it you think Wray has done that is cause for termination?

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It is painfully obvious that Wray is trying to salvage a sinking, burning ship with a mutiny on one side and foot soldiers of a previous captain on the other.. The sails are torn, the hull is breached, and leaks are everywhere. Either he joins the original crew or sinks the ship, in my opinion.,,,and lets everyone deal with the sharks.

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Bullshlt. The first week you go in and view ALL relevant docs. You fire every dishonest agent and you disclose every unlawful act.

That is what an honest man would do.

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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/963580969604202497.html

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Another thing. There is a LOT more to the @GenFlynn story that's going to emerge. That will not only VINDICATE the great man, but BURY his (and our) enemies.

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A thread about General Flynn. Includes some timelines and comments. I've posted the conclusion. The author of this thread personally communicates with General Flynn.

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The Jan. 24 interview, McCabe had contacted Flynn by phone directly at the White House. White House officials had spent the earlier part of the week with the FBI overseeing training and security measures associated with their new roles so it was no surprise to Flynn that McCabe had called, McCabe told Flynn "some agents were heading over (to the White House) but Flynn thought it was part of the routine work the FBI had been doing and said they would be cleared at the gate", It wasn't until after they were already in his office that he realized he was being formally interviewed. He didn't have an attorney with him and that's a problem. Strzok was a complete ambush, and it was deliberate. And it didn't matter what the hell he said in that interview, Strzok was going to frame it the way he wanted. They knew Flynn was vulnerable because of his work with Turkey through a third party. He had been under surveillance for months and was set up from the beginning.

Lots of people right here on TA have asked the question why would Michael Flynn have lied about talking to Sergey Kislyak in the first place? You know that's a damn good question, problem is did he really lie? Well to steal a term thrown around here by a couple of posters the Occam's Razor answer is the toxic political environment that existed in January 2017, where the administration was being hammered by a damn tsunami of media narratives and political opposition claiming that any scintilla of contact with anything Russian meant that Putin and Trump were "colluding" and Flynn would be damned if he was going to fuel that BS. Or when Pence made the statement that Flynn had no contact with anyone from Russia etc. any contradictory statement from Flynn would make Pence appear compromised; so Flynn had to stick to it without clarification.

Have to keep in mind, was his actual contact with Kislyak illegal or even improper? Hell no it wasn't, every transition team in history has done the very same thing. However the next day the DOJ received a detailed report from the FBI agents who had interviewed Flynn (Strzok and ??). Yates said in her statement she felt "it was important to get this information to the White House as quickly as possible." And the next day she went to the WH along with Bill Priestap (Strzok's boss), who was overseeing the matter. This was Yates' first meeting with McGahn in his office, which also acts as a (SCIF) in the Eisenhower building.


According to Sally Yates Testimony:

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Yates said she began their meeting by laying out the media accounts and media statements made by Vice President Mike Pence and other high-ranking White House officials about General Flynn's activity "that we knew not to be the truth."

According to Sally Yates testimony, she and Bill Priestap reportedly presented all the information to McGahn so the White House could take action that they deemed appropriate. When asked by McGahn if Flynn should be fired, Yates answered, "that really wasn't our call."

Yates also said her decision to notify the White House counsel had been discussed "at great length." According to her testimony: "Certainly leading up to our notification on the 26th, it was a topic of a whole lot of discussion in DOJ and with other members of the intel community."

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But then the next day Don McGahn called Yates in the morning and asked if she could come back to his office.

Once again according to her testimony:

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Specifically, according to Yates, one of the questions McGahn asked Yates was, "Why does it matter to DOJ if one White House official lies to another?" She explained that it "was a whole lot more than that," and reviewed the same issues outlined the prior day.

McGahn expressed his concern that taking action might interfere with the FBI investigation of Flynn, and Yates said it wouldn't. "It wouldn't really be fair of us to tell you this and then expect you to sit on your hands," Yates had told McGahn.

McGahn asked if he could look at the underlying evidence of Flynn's conduct, and she said they would work with the FBI over the weekend and "get back with him on Monday morning."

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And only a few hours later only a few hours later, POTUS is having dinner with FBI Director James Comey where he asked Comey if he was under investigation. To which Comey told him no, by his own admission. No also remember during this time there has been a friggin firehose of Russian Conspiracy Narrative that was leading the headlines for the two months prior to this dinner; and knowing moments earlier your Chief White House counsel informs you that two political operatives (Yates and Priestap) within the DOJ were providing classified intelligence reports about General Flynn; and knowing the prior months (Nov/Dec/Jan) before you were even sworn in, the intelligence community was full of damn leaks from intelligence reports identical to those that are being discussed with him. Just perhaps wouldn't you think that any action you take could be utilized to add fuel to this Russian narrative? You damn right you would if you are being truthful and thanks to Admiral Rogers Trump knows he can't trust any of these swamp creatures.

Mueller has charged Flynn with failing to tell FBI agents that he asked the ambassador "to refrain from escalating the situation" in response to the sanctions. Lying by omission or misleading the FBI. According to the plea, while being questioned by FBI agents on January 24, 2017, Flynn also lied when he claimed he could not recall a subsequent conversation with Kislyak, in which the ambassador told Flynn that the Putin regime had "chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of Flynn's request."

https://www.scribd.com/document/366062176/Michael-Flynn-FBI-Charge-Lying-to-Investigators

Also a week before the sanctions were imposed, Flynn had also spoken to Kislyak, asking him to delay or defeat a vote on a pending United Nations resolution. The indictment charges that Flynn lied to the FBI by denying both that he'd made this request and that he'd spoken afterward with Kislyak about Russia's response to it. This is where it gets very suspect and that the 302's were possibly changed. According to Comey's testimony he didn't think Flynn had intentionally lied, he was just confused about which conversations were being asked about and the fact that there was so much going on at the time he thought Flynn was just confused. And reports are that the other agent felt the same way. But after Comey was fired and Mueller was in place, the 302 prepared by Strzok read something very different. Just keep in mind there was not a damn thing wrong with the incoming national-security adviser's having meetings with foreign counterparts or discussing such matters as the sanctions in those meetings. NOTHING! SO they get him in a process crime and now we are here.

All this damn kabuki theater is all about optics, narratives and political leverage. However, everything about this dynamic is factually encompassing the existential threat that outsider Trump represents to the established way of life in the DC Swamp. And these SOBs have pulled out all the stops and he is still dealing with these damn headwinds and moving forward. It's pretty damn amazing when you sit down and think about it from 10,000 ft.

One of the only useful questions asked at the hearing today.

This is going to come into Play, Barry's last month in office move to disseminate classified info all over the hill.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3283349-Raw-12333-surveillance-sharing-guidelines.html

And these two characters are going to be caught up in it. Because I think it is going to be proven that they were spreading classified info all over the place before this was ever signed and are going to have to answer for it. This was done after the fact to cover their asses.

I am not connected in any way, nor do I have any inside information about any of this. But I'm kinda hoping something major goes down today, because "The Valentine's Day Massacre" has a nice ring to it. Just sayin'.

100% of the time, it happens every time - when the morally bankrupt left accuses the right of doing something nefarious, the left has already perfected said nefarious activity.