Bombshell Revelations Ahead Of Tomorrow's Flynn Hearing
Commenter Tom Bop alluded to these new revelations earlier this evening. DoJ has turned over handwritten notes that make it quite clear that the FBI knew they had no legitimate case against Flynn. The conclusion can only be that the FBI was seeking to undermine the new Trump administration. I say these are "bombshell" revelations not because we didn't already know this with moral certainty, but because it's astonishing to see it all in writing.
Think of it as the FBI making a claim against their "insurance policy."
Add to that what Senator Johnson said Sunday about the games the FBI continues to play with excessive and absurd redactions of documents that Johnson has requested, and OIG's letter today saying basically the same thing. The picture you get is of the FBI as an existential threat to our constitutional order. Exaggeration?
Anyway, Roscoe Davis does a super job summarizing this new material , which is almost totally redacted--by Sullivan . Consult the link to the court filing to see just how much is redacted. Nevertheless, from the little that's revealed it's completely clear that the FBI at its highest management levels--with plenty of support within DoJ--was fully aware that there was no legitimate case against Flynn. None. The continuing Flynn case was all about hobbling the new Trump administration.
The real question for Barr's investigators would seem to boil down to this:
Was this just the FBI operating on its own to cash in its insurance policy? After all, they seem to have been ready to close the case up until the Kislyak call. Or did they receive really high level and possibly broadly based political pressure--even after Trump's inauguration--to continue down this slow rolling coup road? And if so, from whom?
We really are talking about a Big Picture Conspiracy narrative here.
Here's Roscoe:
More heavily redacted under protective order more hand written notes on the Flynn case.
This is a little different being that these redactions are by Sullivan's Protective Order not DOJ/FBI classification.
Working on what's shown
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Right off the bat here:
"SF86 + Security Materials
Wait + see to determine 4 [sic = if ]
[strikethrough = can ?] need to interview
-no longer looking for collusion
-Logan Act
-FARA - 2 things
Keywords - no longer looking for collusion -
Yet they claim publically they were looking for collusion and the whole Mueller investigation was centered on looking for collusion.
[Right. For public consumption. Can you say cynical?]
For those that ask SF86 is a standard form “Questionnaire for National Security Positions”
Szrtok/Page/McCabe's analysis of Flynn saying he can't have access to classified info, conflicts with the fact that the DIA had just renewed his TS/SCI clearance in the spring of 2016
Even though Clapper fought tooth and nail to block Flynn keeping his clearance, after Flynn passed the polygraph test and screening.
Gen Flynn briefed the DIA about his contacts/comms at the Moscow RT dinner afterward, which had been pre-approved beforehand.
These political hacks were trying to make a case to firewall Flynn and there was no credible reason to think he was a Russian agent, they were just trying to cripple the Trump Transition team by destroying Gen Flynn
[So, behind the scenes the FBI was trying to deny Flynn a security clearance, even though it had just been renewed by DIA. Reading between the lines a bit--and this is speculation--the notes may mean that they're considering trying to yank his clearance using the Logan Act/FARA ruse.]
[Jumping ahead two years ...]
Next Note:
1/19/18
Flynn-
As of today re-interviewing
600 issue have Brady Order from J
Sullivan probably refer
-still being interviewed
-Bad memory doesn't remember small
details. How useful he will be in [sic = is ] a big
issue
The players listed:
FBI/McCabe/Baker
Rybicki/Pete/T????
Scott/Tash/McCord
Dana
[This is the entire FBI 7th Floor Coup Brain Trust: Acting Director Andrew McCabe, General Counsel James Baker, Chief of Staff Jim Rybicki, Pete? T... = George Toscas? Add to that these DoJ luminaries: Scott (Schools), Tashina Gauhar, Mary McCord, Dana Boente. That's quite a rogues gallery in on the Flynn case.]
Another note [And note carefully the date: March, 2017. By this time the FBI is fully aware that the Carter Page FISA was complete BS and in this note they admit that Flynn case would have been closed but for the fake and unpredicated combo of the Logan Act and bogus false statement interview setup.]
*Flynn case on path to closure until
Kislyak conversation
*likely false statement + Logan Act both
They all knew there was nothing, but it served their goal to disrupt & cripple the incoming administration, so they ran with it as far as they could go.
They used the call as a predicate to extend the surveillance & the investigation to push Flynn out of Trump's Administration
Barr appears to be loading up for bear with Sullivan, today they filed a Notice of Appearance for the Deputy Assistant Attorney General Hashim Mooppan, so Barr is pulling out all the stops short of making an appearance himself.