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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 || 11/06/2019 05:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  First it was their crime labs...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 7:11 Comments || 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 || 11/06/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||

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

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

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

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

#7  Complete & Utter Shitshow
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 15:37 Comments || 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 || 11/06/2019 16:03 Comments || 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 || 11/06/2019 16:13 Comments || Top||

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

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


The Michael Flynn smoking gun: FBI headquarters altered interview summary
h/t Instapundit
by James A. Gagliano (@JamesAGagliano) worked in the FBI for 25 years. He is a law enforcement analyst for CNN and an adjunct assistant professor in homeland security and criminal justice at St. John's University.

[Washington Examiner] As a self-proclaimed adherent to Hanlon’s Razor, I once cynically viewed the frenzied focus on FBI actions during the 2016 Russian election-meddling investigation as partisan and overwrought. Hanlon’s Razor suggests that we never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence. Having proudly served in the FBI for 25 years, I bristled at insulting accusations of an onerous deep state conspiracy. Some obvious mistakes made during the investigation of the Trump campaign were quite possibly the result of two ham-handedly overzealous FBI headquarters denizens, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, clumsily seeking to impress each other with ever-increasing levels of loathing for then-candidate Donald Trump.

...But as we anxiously await the expected reports, there recently appeared some fairly explosive allegations into potential investigator misconduct that have not received the attention they deserve. With her filing of a blistering Motion to Compel against federal prosecutors in the Michael Flynn case just made public, Sidney Powell has upended my adherence to Hanlon’s Razor.

...One of the most damning charges contained within Powell’s 37-page court brief is that Page, the DOJ lawyer assigned to the office of then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, may have materially altered Flynn’s interview FD-302, which was drafted by Strzok. FBI agents transfer handwritten interview notes onto a formal testimonial document, FD-302, within five days of conducting an interview, while recollections are still fresh.

It is unheard of for someone not actually on the interview itself to materially alter an FD-302. As an FBI agent, no one in my chain of command ever directed me to alter consequential wording. And as a longtime FBI supervisor, I never ever directed an agent to recollect something different from what they discerned during an interview. Returning a 302 for errors in grammar, punctuation, or syntax is appropriate. This occurs before the document is ultimately uploaded to a particular file, conjoined with the original interview notes which are safely secured inside a 1-A envelope, and secured as part of evidence at trial.

...So, did an accomplished 3-star general actually misrepresent the truth? Or, was his recollection of events later spun to be a mendacious accounting by overzealous investigators who followed their boss’s lead, while circumventing established protocol in an ambush-style interview? What apparently followed was a "tweaking" of the accounting to ensure Flynn be charged with Title 18 USC § 1001 ‐ something I have long argued was never charged by any U.S. Attorney’s Office during my time serving in the FBI unless we wanted to threaten it and employ as leverage.
Let me see if I got this one straight.
Cops, as movies teach us, have to record every interview: both video or sound. But FBI, sit down and write a report according to their recollections?

...Here’s me, acknowledging my mistake. I was dead wrong. It now seems there was a concerted effort, though isolated, within the upper-echelons of the FBI to influence the outcome of the Flynn investigation. By "dirtying up" Flynn, Comey’s FBI headquarters team of callow sycophants shortcut the investigative process. Arm-twisting Flynn through the "tweaked" version of his interview afforded him criminal exposure. The cocksure Comey team felt supremely confident that would inspire him "flipping" and give them the desperately sought-after evidence of Trump-Russia collusion that the wholly unverified Steele dossier was never remotely capable of providing.

I am physically nauseous as I type these words. I have long maintained that innocent mistakes were made and that the investigators at the center of this maelstrom were entitled to the benefit of the doubt.

No more.

They have tarnished the badge and forever stained an agency that deserved so much better from them. I am ashamed. The irreparable damage Comey’s team has done to the FBI will take a generation to reverse.

I ashamedly join Hanlon’s Razor in getting this one wrong.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 01:41 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hidden in plain sight. F---ing obvious from Day One.

The cabal tried to entrap Flynn, Manafort, Papadopolus. and anything they could find in hopes of turning them against Trump.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 2:26 Comments || Top||

#2  DOJ Makes Jaw-Dropping Admission in Flynn Case – Prosecution “Mistakenly” Attributed Wrong Notes to Wrong FBI Agents
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:
Posted by: Titus Pelosi2569 || 11/06/2019 2:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Here’s me, acknowledging my mistake. I was dead wrong. It now seems there was a concerted effort, though isolated, within the upper-echelons of the FBI to influence the outcome of the Flynn investigation. By “dirtying up” Flynn,

It was all just a big mistake. Actually had nothing to do with the Klingon/Deep State regime change effort. [sarc off]

Thank you Sidney.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 3:34 Comments || Top||

#4  FBI agents transfer handwritten interview notes onto a formal testimonial document, FD-302, within five days of conducting an interview, while recollections are still fresh.


And these a**holes try and persuade us that the DOJ / FBI don't know about recording devices.

The more of this $#it I see the more I become convinced that gun fire is imminent.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/06/2019 7:22 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ yes. Never thought I'd see this but I do believe we're headed toward political violence in this country. The degree of wickedness we're now seeing is a prelude to desperate measures.

This is not how law-abiding, peaceful citizens behave. Look at the Twitter-Id, or the Page-Strzok texts, and the constant threats of violence (and actual violence across the country).

This is indeed a coup, and those are almost never bloodless.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 9:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes, I've never felt as close to civil war as it does now. I constantly question how much the left even sees reality, so many of their positions are based on some other reality that doesn't exist, men are women, no free speech, the constant attempts at disarming us, foreign invaders given more rights and being made exempt from the laws of this country.

You cannot reason with them and I fear very soon they will leave us no choice in what to do. If they do win in 2020, I fear it'll start within 3 months of them taking office. They will imagine they have some vast mandate and overreach immediately and fatally.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/06/2019 12:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Hanlon’s Razor suggests that we never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence.

A dangerously naive philosophy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2019 13:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Lots of malicious morons in the world.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 13:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Recordings can be altered too. Grand Jury testimony also. Only right answer is lawyer up and say "See you in court."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 13:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Of course, all the big tech companies could offer "truth rooms" where testimony would take place under audited, blockchain type circumstances, but they have no incentive to do that...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 13:59 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Never Intended To Comply With Iran Nuclear Deal
True. Nor did the Obama coterie need them to, so long as they had a region-changing “historic agreement” to point to.
[Victory Girls] Iran never intended to comply with the Iran Deal. Forty years to the day that Iranians stormed the U.S. Embassy and took Americans hostage, Iran announced it will start injecting uranium gas into one thousand or more centrifuges.

"President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised address that 1,044 machines at the Fordow nuclear facility, which is built inside a mountain near the city of Qom, will be activated with the gas beginning on Wednesday.

Under the Obama-era accord, Iran can spin the centrifuges without gas.

But Rouhani, noting that this action like all others it has taken so far is reversible, said the Islamic Republic will follow the pact’s guidelines when the remaining signatories ‐ France, Britain, Germany, the European Union, Russia and China ‐ honor their commitments.

"We know their sensitivity with regard to Fordow. With regard to these centrifuges, we know. But at the same time when they uphold their commitments we will cut off the gas again ... So it is possible to reverse this step," Rouhani said. "We can’t unilaterally accept that we completely fulfill our commitments and they don’t follow up on their commitments.""

In other words, once everyone falls into line, then we’ll stop rebuilding our nuclear program. Do you believe that? You shouldn’t. I don’t.

Rouhani was very strategic with his announcement. He specifically chose November 4. Why? As noted above, forty years ago, our embassy was seized and fifty two Americans were held hostage for 444 days. His announcement, along with the protests yesterday, was a strategic slam against Trump for backing out of the deal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 05:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now, where did I leave that Master of the Obvious pic?
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/06/2019 9:46 Comments || Top||

#2  I know, I know: let's drop pallets of billions of $$$ on Tehran. That'll do it.
Oh wait...
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  The smart folks played for time hoping they'd eventually just come around, just as they did with China, and North Korea.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/06/2019 10:04 Comments || Top||

#4  I am shocked that Iran could even consider doing this. But then again.........
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 11/06/2019 14:51 Comments || Top||


The revolt against Iran (in Iraq and Lebanon)
[TabletMagazine] Across the Middle East, from Baghdad to Beirut, the citizens of countries thought to be part of Iran's axis of influence have begun to revolt against Tehran. In the face of brutal crackdowns, millions of Iraqi and Lebanese protesters, in movements led by Shiite Muslims that defy reductive sectarian narratives, have erupted in revolt against the corruption and failure of their governments and Iran's domination over their national politics.

In early October, predominantly Shiite youth took to the streets in Iraq calling for their government's resignation, and chanting slogans like: "Out, out Iran, Baghdad remains free!"
[this has a lot of opinion and some supposition woven into the facts]
That’s why it belongs in Opinion. ;-)
Posted by: lord garth || 11/06/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  This paragraph is interesting, as we haven’t been looking at the Iran proxy paramilitary funding in Iraq at all:

Last summer,  PMF forces refused to heed the Iraqi prime minister’s orders for them to integrate into the national army. Instead, they continue to levy illegal taxes at checkpoints, reaping, according to one report, an estimated $300,000 a day from illegal taxation. They’ve also been smuggling fuel from Basra and making millions selling scrap metal, meddling in ports, and seizing state assets. Encouraged by Tehran, Iran-backed Shiite proxies have taken a page from Hezbollah’s playbook, dominating government  service departments such as health and education ministries to build  allegiance  through  patronage, neglecting those not  dedicated  to Iran’s political-theological  aims.  Sunnis have died in  Baghdad  for example,  because  Shiites controlling  hospitals  and clinics refused to treat members of the opposite sect.

On the Lebanon/Hizb’allah side

Shiite protesters torched Hezbollah offices in the group’s heartland of Nabatieh, in a sign that the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran, has weakened Iranian clients like Hezbollah. As funding from the Islamic Republic—which accounts for around 70% of Hezbollah’s income—has fallen, the group has been forced to reduce wages for its fighters and social services for its constituents.

Two million demonstrators flooded the streets in Lebanon, a country of only 4.5 million.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2019 16:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I have problems understanding what's going on over there. My best assessment is that Iraq being majority Shiite is about to become an Iranian slave state with all the Islamic trimmings. Things can always get worse you know.
Posted by: jpal || 11/06/2019 17:17 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Disproportionalities: Whose Fault?
Walter E. Williams is always worth reading in full.
[Townhall] Jews have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes in economics, 30% of those in medicine, 25% in physics, 20% in chemistry, 15% in literature and 10% of the Nobel Peace Prizes. Since the beginning of the 20th century, there have been just over 900 Nobel Prizes awarded. Since Jews are only 2% of the world's population, instead having 22% of Nobel Prizes, 206, they should have won only two, according to the proportionality vision of justice.

...Proportionality injustice doesn't end with the Nobel Prize. Blacks are about 13% of the U.S. population but close to 70% of the players in the National Football League.

...Proportionality and diversity injustice is worse in the National Basketball Association, with blacks being over 80% of the players. Plus, it's not uncommon to watch college basketball games and see that 90 to 100% of the starting five players are black.

...Many see economics as neither a welcoming nor a supportive profession for women or blacks. Former Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen, in addressing a Brookings Institution audience said: "Within the economics profession, women and minorities are significantly underrepresented. And data compiled by the American Economic Association's Committees on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and the Status of Minority Groups in the profession show that there has been little or no progress in recent decades. Women today make up only about 30 percent of Ph.D. students. Within academia, their representation drops the higher up one goes in the career ladder. The share of Ph.D.s awarded to African Americans is low; and it has declined slightly in recent decades." Yellen says that diversity in economics is a matter of "basic justice."

Had I been in the audience, I would have asked Yellen whether there's basic justice in the nursing field, where less than 10% of nurses are men. What about the gross lack of proportionality in incarceration? According to 2015 figures released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the overall U.S. prison and jail population is 90.6% male and 9.4% female. The only way that I see to remedy such a gross disproportionality injustice is to either incarcerate more female prisoners or release male prisoners.

...Moreover, if one carries the notion that disparities prove discrimination far enough, they'd look like true fools. According to a study conducted by Bond University in Australia, sharks are nine times likelier to attack and kill men than they are women. Despite the fact that men are 50% of the population, and so are women, men are struck by lightning six times as often as women. Of those killed by lightning, 82% are men. One can only wonder what social justice warriors would do about these and many other disproportionalities.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 02:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...the disproportionality of female to male elementary school teachers shows beyond a doubt institutional bias! (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2019 8:15 Comments || Top||

#2  We are ruled by morons.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 9:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Lex, I will not let that insult to my wife stand.

She is not a moron, or a Democrat, sorry for the redundant repetition.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/06/2019 11:58 Comments || Top||



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