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Tslking points starting to trickle:

This is standard operating procedure to any criminal investigation. Get them to lie or admit.

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Before being appointed head of the Fraud Section at the Department of Justice during the Obama years, Mr. Weissmann had been part of a task force that targeted organized crime figures in New York. He was also head prosecutor in the Enron investigation, as well as the man who destroyed Arthur Andersen LLP, putting the firm's 85,000 employees out of work. It turns out that many of those indicted, convicted or forced to plead guilty as a result of Mr. Weissmann's no-holds-barred approach to his job had their sentences reversed or their cases tossed out by appeals courts that didn't share his disdain for due process.

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In the Enron case earlier, he and his fellow prosecutors withheld or, as the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put it, "suppressed" exculpatory evidence from defense lawyers. What's more, they put on witnesses to testify to a version of their narrative that the withheld evidence didn't support, and verbally threatened to indict many witnesses who might have disagreed with them on the stand.

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ruddyduck said:

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anyone familiar with this guy?

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Rapier108 said:

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And Gateway Pundit is not known for being the most reliable news outlet.

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redsquirrelAG said:

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Rapier108 said:

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And Gateway Pundit is not known for being the most reliable news outlet.

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Who the **** is these days?

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drcrinum said:

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Yup!

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TexAgs91 said:

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drcrinum said:

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Yup!

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That is an excellent point. Why is Wrey still running the FBI?

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Second, the Flynn case is so patently disturbing that, weeks back, Attorney General Bill Barr assigned a very well-regarded prosecutor, St. Louis's U.S. attorney Jeff Jensen, to review it. The new disclosures are a result of Jensen's investigation. The Justice Department's disclosure to Ms. Powell indicates that more revelations are forthcoming.

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A few notes of caution. Don't fall into the outrage trap; the DOJ will certainly justify the FBI notes as a valid discussion on investigative strategy, nothing more.

Second, Bill Barr did not appoint Missouri Attorney Jensen in an effort to support General Flynn. AG Barr was ordered by the FISA court to review every case and all evidence that touched upon the fraudulent Carter Page FISA application. Be careful about projecting a motive onto Bill Barr around these revelations. Without that FISC ordered sequestration review order; the DOJ/FBI may not have moved on this.

Lastly, despite the known corruption within the existing FBI leadership {outlined here}, and we can now add the FBI hiding these documents for 3 years, AG Bill Barr continues to pour effusive praise upon the FBI. That reality doesn't reconcile with a good intent.

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Stlkofta said:

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To me, a failure is when something unintentional happens. Like when weapons from the US end up in the hands of drug cartels, for example.

Oh, wait...

But I get your point and I agree.

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They have left an evidence trail wider than Texas and deeper than the Grand Canyon.

I have complete confidence in Durham. After the events of the last few days, I'm pretty sure my frustration with Barr was misplaced. He was thinking tactically on a Nimitz-level while I was wanting to go Bull Halsey on these idiots.

Have a feeling we're at that part of a Chuck Norris movie where bad things get done to bad people.

I can't wait.

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Sean Davis's Federalist column gets to the heart of the matter. The tenor of the documents supports Powell's assertion that Flynn was "set up." The documents reek of bad faith. They strongly suggest that Flynn was not the object of a bona fide criminal investigation or dealt with honestly or legally. Herridge adds: "The FBI declined comment on the notes."
The FBI has a lot of commenting to do. Whenever it gets around to it, the comments should probably include a forthright confession of misconduct and an apology to Flynn.
Davis explains:

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The FBI notes also show that the author of the document had misgivings about the FBI's conduct in interviewing Flynn.
"I agreed yesterday that we shouldn't show Flynn [REDACTED] if he didn't admit," the FBI author wrote. "I thought [about] it last night, [and] I believe we should rethink this."
"We regularly show subjects evidence, with the goal of getting them to admit wrongdoing," the notes said. "I don't see how getting someone to admit their wrongdoing is going easy on him."
The redaction portion of the notes is believed to reference transcripts of phone calls between Flynn and other foreign officials. Those transcripts have never been publicly released, making it impossible to independently assess whether Flynn lied about those conversations.
The handwritten FBI notes end with a prophetic line, given the voluminous evidence of misconduct by FBI and DOJ officials in their investigation of Trump and their attempt to oust him from office.
"If we're seen as playing games, [the White House] will be furious," the author wrote. "Protect our institution by not playing games."

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American Thinker's Andrea Widburg covers the story here Widburg among others identifies Priestap as the author of the notes.

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Finally, in 'Ball of Collusion', I included a section about the serial outrages in the baseless investigation of General Flynn, a decorated combat commander. We are going to run it at National Review. I concluded by opining that what happened to Flynn was deeply wrong but not illegal. The new disclosures may call for revisiting the latter conclusion.

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Stlkofta said:

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will25u said:

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President Trump on a tweet storm this morning.

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I think I know who Trump wants to see busting rocks in Federal Pound Me In the Ass Prison.

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MouthBQ98 said:

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It is clear that the Mueller investigation was the "insurance policy". The coverup operation that was supposed to justify concealing all this corruption and unethical behavior at DOJ, but they couldn't keep it up forever.

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benchmark said:

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Andrew McCarthy Explosive Revelations in the Flynn Case

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Finally, in 'Ball of Collusion', I included a section about the serial outrages in the baseless investigation of General Flynn, a decorated combat commander. We are going to run it at National Review. I concluded by opining that what happened to Flynn was deeply wrong but not illegal. The new disclosures may call for revisiting the latter conclusion.

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Anxious to see if McCarthy follows up on this .... what was the crime?

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dreyOO said:

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Not arguing with you, but counter to Sundance above and McCarthy here...if they did nothing wrong, why did they conceal this evidence for years? And i highly doubt this is the only evidence they buried.

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Techno with a thread about the info given to Flynn.

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How can their "goal" be anything other than "to find out the facts"? I know, that's naive, but this is a pretty disgusting abuse of power.

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will25u said:

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President Trump on a tweet storm this morning.

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I think I know who Trump wants to see busting rocks in Federal Pound Me In the Ass Prison.

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I think twitter is hiding his tweets. When you go to Trump's page his tweets do not show up.

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It's interesting how folks have so many different opinions on Barr.

For a comparison of intelligent commentary over the past 24 hours, here is Andrew McCarthy (who is usually very good at analyzing DoJ) saying the St Louis outside counsel indicates Barr is troubled by the Flynn disclosures;

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Second, the Flynn case is so patently disturbing that, weeks back, Attorney General Bill Barr assigned a very well-regarded prosecutor, St. Louis's U.S. attorney Jeff Jensen, to review it. The new disclosures are a result of Jensen's investigation. The Justice Department's disclosure to Ms. Powell indicates that more revelations are forthcoming.

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And here is sundance explaining he had to appoint someone to this thanks to the FISC order;

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A few notes of caution. Don't fall into the outrage trap; the DOJ will certainly justify the FBI notes as a valid discussion on investigative strategy, nothing more.

Second, Bill Barr did not appoint Missouri Attorney Jensen in an effort to support General Flynn. AG Barr was ordered by the FISA court to review every case and all evidence that touched upon the fraudulent Carter Page FISA application. Be careful about projecting a motive onto Bill Barr around these revelations. Without that FISC ordered sequestration review order; the DOJ/FBI may not have moved on this.

Lastly, despite the known corruption within the existing FBI leadership {outlined here}, and we can now add the FBI hiding these documents for 3 years, AG Bill Barr continues to pour effusive praise upon the FBI. That reality doesn't reconcile with a good intent.

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I remain convinced that Barr is working first to protect the DoJ, and a distant second to do 'the right' things. In a sane world the DoJ would have moved to dismiss charges and apologized to the court already for the horrible conduct by Van Grack, the Mueller team, and all of the FBI liars in this case, and Wray would be in a prison cell next to Rosenstein by now.

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I don't think that's the case (I understand your view, just disagree).

Think about the Congressional Schiff show that happened and the ringer they drug Barr through over Barr nixing the Mueller investigation and the subsequent declass.

Barr doesn't want a repeat (well, I think he knows he's going to be dealing with it again when Durham comes out with indictments, but Barr knows he's gotta keep his powder dry for that).

So with the Flynn situation, yeah, Barr could come out and say "this whole thing was BS", apologize, ask judge to dismiss, the more prudent and political move is to hand over enough evidence for the judge to make that call on his own. Hell, look at what happened last week. DOJ declasses one doc and provides to Sydney and the court, and all of a sudden Flynn's former counsel says "oh, gee, yeah, we just happened to find these 6800 other documents we failed to previously produce."

Everyone with a pulse involved in that case can see that for what it is. And I'm guessing there's enough in those 6800 documents for Powell to get a swift dismissal and exoneration without Barr ever having to put a finger on the scales of justice.

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Do we know what the actual verbiage of Flynn's supposed lie? Is there a transcript of his interview with the FBI? My understanding was that the agents that interviewed him thought - at the time - that while Flynn might have answered inaccurately, they thought he was trying to be truthful.

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WatchOle said:

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Do we know the actual verbiage of Flynn's supposed lie? Is there a transcript of his interview with the FBI? My understanding was that the agents that interviewed him thought - at the time - that while Flynn might have answered inaccurately, they thought he was trying to be truthful.

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WatchOle said:

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Do we know the actual verbiage of Flynn's supposed lie? Is there a transcript of his interview with the FBI? My understanding was that the agents that interviewed him thought - at the time - that while Flynn might have answered inaccurately, they thought he was trying to be truthful.

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