(You can find PT. 1 to this series here.)
So many people are misinformed or just can't keep up with all of the disinformation that the media has reported from anonymous sources. You literally have to read court filings to know what is actually going on.
One of the most common talking points I hear from people who are trying to convince me that there is actual evidence of "Russian Collusion," is the LTG. Michael Flynn case.
But recently that whole narrative fell apart. However not many are reporting on it, except a few news outlets. The Hill had it buried on the day it was published. I had to search for articles by John Solomon to find it.
Why isn't anyone talking about the fact that LTG. Michael Flynn met with the, Defense Intelligence Agency, (DIA,) prior to his meeting in Russia? Could it be because the whole narrative loses it's validity?
As Reported by The Hill:
Before LTG. Flynn made his infamous December 2015 trip to Moscow — as a retired general and then-adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — he alerted his former employer, the DIA.
He then attended a “defensive” or “protective” briefing before he ever sat alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Russia Today (RT) dinner, or before he talked with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
LTG. Michael Flynn, was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the winter of 2014, after three decades in the military. Then he was rehired by President Trump to be the National Security Advisor, but was fired after allegedly lying to the VP about discussing sanctions with Russian Ambassador.
The FBI agents that originally interviewed Gen. Flynn have said that they do not believe he lied to them. Really? So what is the reason for him pleading guilty to lying? Why would he do that if he never lied?
As Reported by NBC News:
President Donald Trump’s newly sworn–in national security adviser, Michael Flynn, met privately in his West Wing office with FBI investigators interested in his communications with Russia's ambassador, without a lawyer or the knowledge of the president and other top White House officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
As Reported by Big League Politics:
Strzok Sets Up Flynn
On January 24, 2017, Peter Strzok interviewed General Michael Flynn inside the White House alongside another agent. Flynn’s lawyer was not present. Flynn apparently did not tell the White House about his meeting. Guess who did? Sally Yates, the anti-Trump deputy attorney general whose underling told the FBI to shut down the Clinton Foundation case. Yates informed the White House on January 26 that Flynn met with the FBI.
That was the beginning of the end for the original Trump White House.
Strzok was close personal friends with the foreign intelligence judge Rudolph Contreras who accepted General Flynn’s guilty plea. Contreras recused himself after he already accepted Flynn’s guilty plea.
Strzok and Page detailed their plan to meet with Contreras in a July 25, 2016 series of texts:
PAGE: “Rudy is on the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]! Did you know that? Just appointed two months ago.”
STRZOK: “I did. I need to get together with him.”
:View Page/Strzok Text on Scribe Here:
The 302 document from the FBI's original interview with LTG. Flynn, has been suppressed from the public. Even the judge has asked for this and to my knowledge has not been able to view it.
It's been reported that LTG. Flynn was told not to bring a lawyer to that meeting and he was asked questions that the agents already knew the answers too. So in essence it was a perjury trap. (Strzok set him up.)
The only 302 that has been made available to anyone is the one that wasn't filed until 7 months after the meeting. The 302 from Aug. 22, 2017, is of an interview the bureau had with anti-Trump agent Strzok based on notes he had put into the FBI system on July 19. Those notes apparently were regarding his impressions of his interview with Flynn in January. (Notes in July of something that happened in January.)
Anti-Trump Agent Peter Strzok was not the only agent that interviewed LTG. Michael Flynn. There was a second agent in that meeting. Former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok had his partner at the time FBI Special Agent Joe Pietka III with him. Why have we not heard from him?
As Reported by SaraACarter.com:
"...it is disingenuous and extremely disturbing that the Department would imply that a request to interview a fact witness, such as Special Agent Pientka, has anything whatsoever to do with “allegations against” that witness. As you well know, seeking information from a fact witness is not the same thing as an allegation of wrongdoing. Quite the contrary, it seems he is likely to be an objective, reliable, and trustworthy witness, which is precisely why the Committee would benefit from his testimony.” Grassley wrote in a letter to Rosenstein
FBI spokeswoman Carol Cratty said the bureau would not comment on the situation.
DOJ could not be immediately reached for comment.
According to multiple sources who spoke to SaraACarter.com FBI procedures require that the notes of an interview with witnesses or victims be submitted within 5 days into the bureau’s Sentinel computer system. (Not 7 months.)
“The bureau policy – the absolute FBI policy – is that the notes must be placed in the system in a 1-A file within five days of the interview,” said Danik, who added that handwritten notes get placed into the FBI Sentinel System, which is the FBI’s main record keeping system. “Anything beyond five business days is a problem, eight months is a disaster.” - FBI Supervisory Agent Jeff Danik
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office Wednesday, (December 12, 2018,) to turn over all the government’s documents by mid-day Friday.
Sullivan is also requesting any documentation regarding the first interviews conducted by former anti-Trump agent Peter Strzok and FBI Agent Joe Pientka -known by the FBI as 302s- which were found to be dated more than seven months after the interviews were conducted on Jan. 24, 2017, a violation of FBI policy, say current and former FBI officials familiar with the process. According to information contained in Flynn’s memorandum, the interviews were dated Aug. 22, 2017.
According to the 302, before the interview, McCabe and other FBI officials “decided the agents would not warn Flynn that it was a crime to lie during an FBI interview because they wanted Flynn to be relaxed, and they were concerned that giving the warnings might adversely affect the rapport.”'
McCabe, who has since been fired for lying to the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General about leaking information to the media, also asked Flynn not to have his lawyer present during the initial meeting with the FBI agents.
LTG. Flynn's sentencing has been postponed several times and the last time in Dec. 2018, it was pushed forward into March 2019. Mueller has recommended no jail time for LTG. Flynn, noting his “substantial cooperation and other considerations.”
As Reported by Politico:
Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, provided “substantial assistance” to the ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and should be sentenced to little if any prison time for making two “series of false statements” to the FBI, special counsel Robert Mueller's team recommended in a court filing on Tuesday.
Flynn participated in 19 interviews with the special counsel and other Justice Department prosecutors and aided multiple investigations, Mueller’s prosecutors said in a heavily redacted filing that offered limited insight into the information Flynn provided.
“The defendant deserves credit for accepting responsibility in a timely fashion and substantially assisting the government,” Mueller’s team wrote in a seven-page memo.
“Some of that benefit may not be fully realized at this time because the investigations in which he has provided assistance are ongoing,” Mueller’s team writes.
The General Michael Flynn sentencing memo includes three different contradictory versions of a January 24, 2017 phone conversation between Flynn and former FBI official Andrew McCabe.
What appears to be McCabe’s version of events (Flynn called McCabe) is actually completely different than the other two versions (Flynn called McCabe).
Obviously, McCabe calling Flynn would indicate that Flynn was improperly targeted and “set up” by the FBI.
“Buried in the Flynn sentencing memo from Special Counsel Mueller we find a contradiction on who called who to set up the fateful Flynn interview,” D3M0 told BLP.
“There are 3 documents stating who called whom. Where we have Flynn saying he was called by McCabe & then McCabe saying Flynn called him. But the documents clearly show that it was in fact McCabe who called Flynn, The obvious question being why would McCabe lie and say that Flynn called him?,” D3M0 from Big League Politics said.
Here are the 3 different documents with the 3 different versions of events:
Here is version number one: McCabe called Flynn:
As Reported by SaraACarter.com:
...Sullivan, who had asked at least 11 times if Flynn wanted to withdraw his guilty plea or seek new counsel said “no.”
Sullivan’s reasoning for asking Flynn to withdraw the plea was based on information Kelner had disclosed in Flynn’s sentencing memorandum...red flags for the court about how the FBI possibly mishandled their investigation into Flynn.
After giving Flynn and his attorney’s ample opportunity to change his guilty plea, Sullivan then went on a tirade against Flynn. He accused the three-star general of “treason” and excoriated him for crimes he’s never been formally accused of by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office.
Sullivan then announced a 25 minute break to let Flynn discuss the matter with his attorneys. Flynn accepted the postponement of his sentencing.
When the break ended Kelner told Sullivan that they would accept the postponement. Sullivan then walked back all the inaccurate statements that Flynn was a traitor, along with the faulty statement that Flynn served as an unregistered foreign agent for Turkey, while he was at the White House.
Mueller’s team had unsealed an indictment against Flynn’s former business partner Bijan Kian, and Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin, indicting them on conspiracy for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Alptekin was also charged with lying to investigators.
Flynn, however, is a cooperating witness against Kian and Alptekin for Mueller’s office, as stated by prosecutors.
Flynn’s case wasn’t about collusion with Russia or his work for Turkey.
But it did start with a felony. Not a felony committed by Flynn but one committed by a senior U.S. Obama official who disclosed to the public a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on then Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak and his private phone calls with Flynn in December, 2016.
The second felony committed by this former senior government official was unmasking Flynn’s name in the media reports.
At the time, Flynn was already appointed by then President-elect Trump. He no longer had ties to his Flynn Intel Group, and he was not operating as a private citizen against the Obama administration. He has been smeared by false allegations by unnamed former senior Obama officials who would like the American public to believe their lies.
It began with a column by the Washington Post’s David Ignatius. Ignatius, probably from an FBI-orchestrated leak, revealed the highly classified information in his column on Jan.12, 2017. It was attributed to a senior Obama administration official who had direct access to the highly-classified transcripts of the conversation between the two men.
And there are still millions of people out there that believe that President Trump was elected by Russians and is a "Putin Puppet." This narrative is why we are constantly divided from our families and friends.
This information on LTG. Michael Flynn blows the whole Collusion Delusion out of the water.
For literally years, people have pointed to Flynn's dealings with Russia as proof of collusion. Well there wasn't any funny business going on.
So what "evidence" do you have now?
“Seeing Michael go through this unfortunate phase in his life is both shocking and sobering,” wrote Flynn’s younger brother, Joseph J. Flynn, a frequent critic on social media of the Mueller investigation. “With all due respect to your office, as you pass your judgment, I implore you to look at every aspect of his life, his loyalty to his family, his loyalty to his soldiers, his superiors, and the dedication of his life to the service of the Nation.”
Nov. 2017 LTG. Michael Flynn Statement of Offense
http://www.scribd.com/doc/366062176
Donald Trump Transition Team Letter to Congress Outlining Muller Team Malfeasance: https://www.scribd.com/document/367392335/Donald-Trump-Transition-Team-Letter-to-Congress-Outlining-Muller-Team-Malfeasance
Jan. 2018 Special Counsel Robert Mueller now asks for postponement of sentencing:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4364040/1-31-18-Flynn-Status-Report.pdf
DEFENDANT’S MEMORANDUM IN AID OF SENTENCING - 12/11/2018
https://static.politico.com/c4/63/6c389639458c8ed6123a30a1bd38/flynnsentmain121118.pdf
GOVERNMENT’S MEMORANDUM IN AID OF SENTENCING - 12/18/2018
https://static.politico.com/21/fe/be62126a4df3ab3dfbaed1908380/mueller-sentencing-memo-on-michael-flynn.pdf
Page/Strzok Texts - Dec 2016 May 2017
https://www.scribd.com/document/377540616/PS-LP-Text-Messages-Dec-2016-May-2017#from_embed