3 Toed Pete said:
I wondered aloud somewhere recently, I believe on this thread, if the original Flynn 302 would have been filed in Sentinel or whether it had never been filed and was being passed around via email between strzock, page, and mccabe for editing. Either way, there had to be a way to recover it.
Last night on Lou Dobbs Sidney Powell said that the original 302 has likely been destroyed by someone but that it would have been filed in Sentinel and there would be an electronic trail but that the FBI still has not done anything to recover the original 302.
Chris Wray may as well have been in on the original crimes as he has been just as guilty in the cover-ups. To be clear, that's my view and was not said by Sidney.
It has long been a mystery how that original 302 was emailed around yet seemingly untraceable at the same time.
My gut tells me that Pientka wrote up his notes that day but gave them to Strzok instead of filing them in Sentinel, likely because Strzok had to brief Sally Yates that evening and didn't want to go empty handed. That scenario makes the most sense to me as to how it wasn't logged into the system until February 14, 2017.
Here's why I think that. White House counsel, mindful of obstruction of justice issues, would not come poking around looking for the 302 since they didn't know if there was a criminal investigation happening. But, as the rumor mill and leaks to the press swirled around Flynn, there was the distinct possibility that Flynn would have his own attorneys knocking on the door asking for the 302 aggressively. Since it wasn't in the system the FBI wouldn't have to produce it. The whole reason for deceptively omitting the standard 1001 warning during his interview was to avoid alerting Flynn that he was under a criminal investigation and immediately lawyer up.
Also note that Flynn was represented by Covington & Burling who were grappling with the DOJ FARA unit over the Inovo deal during this time.