Hello, what's this? Mr. Barr has been quietly dumping DOJ docs on the website. This caught my eye. Talk about a blast from the past.
Quote:
The Justice Department also released a memo that Robert Mueller submitted to Attorney General William Barr on April 19, a day after a partially redacted version of the special counsel's report had been made public. Mueller said in the memo that investigators had closed an investigation into whether an unidentified individual acted as an unregistered agent of a foreign country.
The name of the person is redacted, making it unclear who is being referenced in the previously unreleased document.
"The Special Counsel's investigation closed its investigation of [redacted] for acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government because there was not admissible evidence sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction," Mueller wrote.
The memo stated Rosenstein authorized the investigation of the individual in an Aug. 2, 2017, document laying out the scope of the special counsel's probe.
The special counsel's report stated that four Trump associates were identified in the memo: Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
Isn't that interesting? Admissible evidence, eh? How about the illegally obtained evidence being inadmissible? Is that the other way to say that?
Was this in reference to Flynn? Was Team Mueller still holding a FARA charge in their back pocket in case his guilty plea was tossed? Consider the timing.
Flynn is still on the hook for cooperating in the July trial of his former business partner Rafekian over the Turkish deal as part of Flynn's plea deal. Flynn hasn't changed attorneys yet and Team Mueller thinks they are in the clear, so they pass on the Flynn FARA charge.
After that Flynn fires Burling, Covington and hires Sidney Powell. She tells the court and the prosecution team that Flynn is still fully prepared to cooperate with the prosecution in the Rafekian trial.
But then what happens? On the eve of trial, the prosecution goes completely wonky, pulls out of have Flynn called as their witness and then threatens to call his son. Further, the prosecution tries to recast Flynn as Rafekian's co-conspirator. Sidney screams bloody murder and neither Flynn nor his son are ultimately called.
Why do I point this out? The question of the type of surveillance they had on Flynn.
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