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2019-11-06 Home Front: Politix
DOJ Makes Jaw-Dropping Admission in Flynn Case – Prosecution “Mistakenly” Attributed Wrong Notes to Wrong FBI Agents….
[The Last Refuge]
Prosecutor Brandon Van Grack sends a letter to Flynn’s defense team today containing a stunning, almost impossible to comprehend, admission of a mistake central to the claims of the prosecution. In March 2018 the FBI presented notes taken by agents Pientka and Strzok, now they say they made a ‘mistake’.

For almost two years the DOJ misidentified, misattributed, and never corrected that the authors of the Flynn interview notes were actually reversed. All of the notes attributed to FBI Agent Peter Strzok actually were taken by FBI Agent Joseph Pientka, and vice-versa:

Link to letters

What kind of f**kery is this? The DOJ never confirmed the authorship of the FBI notes that are central to the FD-302, upon which the entire prosecution claim of Flynn lying to investigators is based? …Seriously?

The entire FBI case against Flynn; meaning the central element that he lied to FBI investigators (he didn’t); is predicated on the FD-302 interview reports generated by the two FBI agents; later discovered to have been edited, shaped and approved by Andrew McCabe…. And for almost two years the entire outline of their documented evidence has been misattributed?

C’mon man. This is sketchy as heck.

Obviously what triggered this re-review of the notes was a smart sur-surreply from the defense that highlighted how Peter Strzoks notes were far too neat, organized and well constructed to have been written during an actual interview. [SEE HERE]

For the prosecution to now reverse course and say the agent attribution was transposed, is either the biggest screw-up in a high profile case…. OR, the prosecution now needs to reverse the note-takers due to the exact, and common sense, reasons highlighted by the defense.

This is so far beyond sketchy the light from where sketchy emanates won’t reach this sketchy location for a year.

This ain’t no ordinary ‘whoops, my bad‘…. move along, move along folks.

So the prosecution didn’t change authorship of the individual FD-302 reports, but now changes authorship of the agent notes that underwrite the FD-302 reports?

Sorry, I ain’t buying what they’re selling.

Hopefully, at the very least, Judge Sullivan requests Agent Strzok and Agent Pientka to appear in his court and asks them to swear to the authorship. This is nuts.

Posted by 3dc 2019-11-06 05:50|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top

#1 First it was their crime labs...
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-06 07:11||   2019-11-06 07:11|| Front Page Top

#2 "Jaw dropping" to some possibly.

Key take away here is, ALL intelligence activities and directives fall under the Director of Central Intelligence (DCID).

Link to additional info.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-06 07:39||   2019-11-06 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, it was a mistake alright. The entire operation was a mistake.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-06 11:56||   2019-11-06 11:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't confuse mistake with malfeasance.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-11-06 12:58||   2019-11-06 12:58|| Front Page Top

#5 It was a mistake for them to commit the malfeasance.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-06 13:28||   2019-11-06 13:28|| Front Page Top

#6 The dog ate my original 302s..I swear!
Posted by Warthog 2019-11-06 14:49||   2019-11-06 14:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Complete & Utter Shitshow
Posted by Lex 2019-11-06 15:37||   2019-11-06 15:37|| Front Page Top

#8  Where the case stands now.

"President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn will ask a judge to dismiss the criminal case against Flynn because of “egregious government misconduct and in the interest of justice,” a court filing says."

Let's hope Judge Sullivan tosses the case and ends this miscarriage of justice based on egregious government. misconduct (malfeasance).
Posted by JohnQC 2019-11-06 16:03||   2019-11-06 16:03|| Front Page Top

#9 How does Gen. Flynn get his reputation back?
Ditto for Justice Kavanaugh.
Ditto for young Nick Sandmann.
Ditto for 92 year-old Allyn Gibson and his son Dave.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-06 16:13||   2019-11-06 16:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Also IIUC this Shitshow of a trial bankrupted Flynn.
Bastards.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-06 16:15||   2019-11-06 16:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Surprise = 0. Cops are people, and people can be dishonest, lazy, ideologues and hacks.
Posted by Iblis 2019-11-06 20:12||   2019-11-06 20:12|| Front Page Top

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