Flynn documents are the 'smoking gun’
on Comey's FBI
The Hill,
by
Mark Penn
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
5/2/2020 10:52:35 AM
Had the Department of Justice (DOJ) released the newly disclosed documents related to Gen. Michael Flynn three years ago, instead of fired FBI director James Comey improperly leaking his “memos” on President Trump, there definitely would have been a special counsel — only it would have been investigating the FBI for gross abuse of power, not the Trump administration.
The new documents are in effect the “smoking gun” proving that a cabal at the FBI acted above the law and with extreme political bias, targeting people for prosecution rather than investigating crimes.
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found 17 violations of policy
Reply 1 - Posted by:
shamus 5/2/2020 11:02:53 AM (No. 398478)
Judge Emmet Sullivan appears to be engaged in more judicial misconduct. He's the judge who approved of the railroading of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens by crooked prosecutors. Stevens lost his seat and died soon after his conviction. The crooked prosecutors were never punished.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 5/2/2020 11:16:45 AM (No. 398488)
FTA: "MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said it’s a double standard for Republicans to try and create an 'equal playing field' between Trump and Biden, when Trump has been accused by many more women."
Is that the same Nicole Wallace who did so much to "help" Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign? Who was lauded in this forum as the kind of loyal Republican insider we needed to win? Not so loyal after all.
How the flighty have fallen.
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Once you realize that Strzok was able to get the Agent in charge of the Flynn investigation to not close the file on Jan 4 2017, because "the 7th floor" (that would be the executive level) wanted to get involved directly.
And, then there is a meeting on Jan 5 2017, attended by Obama, Biden, Comey, Rice, Brennan and Clapper where Comey advises he will brief the President-elect about the salacious, but unverified parts of the Russian dossier, simply to ensure it would be reported by the media, you start to see the makings of a conspiracy.
This is a direct attack on the Office of the President of the United States and was launch prior to the incoming President-elect was sworn-in, and continued after Inauguration.
It was escalated when Comey sent two FBI agents in 4 days after Inauguration, to "get" Gen. Flynn, when Comey admits he took advantage of the chaos of an incoming administration - something he would not have done with an Obama or Bush administration.
That is clear INTENT.
And an admission, since Comey, Brennan, Clapper and anyone else in the executive level, already KNEW they didn't have anything on Gen. Flynn based on the original case officers own record.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
john56 5/2/2020 11:36:31 AM (No. 398510)
Isn't Nicole Wallace the hack that moderated the 92nd St. Y interview with James Comey? You know, the one that will be Plantiff's Exhibit #1 in the civil case of Flynn vs Comey, et al? If Flynn and Ms Powell are so inclined, I see a wealth of loaded plantiffs, including Comey, his former lawyers, and others (sadly, including the US Government) that will compensate (as much as a financial settlement can make up for the pain they have caused him and his family) and make Ms Powell the wealthiest lawyer in the USA off the contingency fees alone.
Add folks like Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, George Pappadopoulus and others, you got a class action suit that they'll write law school textbooks about.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/2/2020 11:37:27 AM (No. 398512)
Smoking gun or exploding cigar. Mr. Barr, which one do you think it is ?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/2/2020 11:42:46 AM (No. 398518)
I'm waiting for the chairmen of the house intelligence committee and the house judiciary committee to jump on this promptly, and start issuing subpoenas!
S/O off
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 5/2/2020 11:54:29 AM (No. 398531)
Three dozen FBI, CIA and DoJ personnel need to be in prison for this whole attempted coup. In a harsher time, half of them would be executed, the others life in prison.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/2/2020 12:01:20 PM (No. 398544)
Re #1, with all respect, Sullivan did the right thing:
Ted Stevens’ charges dismissed as judge excoriates prosecutors
A federal judge Tuesday ordered a highly unusual criminal inquiry of prosecutors in the case against former Sen. Ted Stevens, delivering a blistering rebuke of the Justice Department’s actions and asserting that its failures extended beyond the inability to give the Alaska Republican a fair trial.
In dismissing the public corruption case against Stevens, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan railed against a government agency that he said had committed unprecedented missteps in a feverish quest to secure the senator’s conviction.
“In nearly 25 years on the bench, I have never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct I have seen in this case,” Sullivan told a packed Washington courtroom.
More here:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-08-na-stevens8-story.html
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
walcb 5/2/2020 12:01:41 PM (No. 398545)
This further confirms what a tough old bird Donald Trump is. Can you visualize George Bush standing up to these attacks? Me neither.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Pearson365 5/2/2020 12:09:52 PM (No. 398554)
#3, your concise summary of the criminal conspiracy against Gen Flynn could be the very predicate that AG Barr has been seeking for over 15 months. if only AG Barr would send this article and comments to John Durham in Hartford, the Special Counsel would have a clear indication of whom he should summon before his grand jury in order to indict the wrongdoers. This assumes, of course, that there is actually a grand jury in place and ready to hear testimony.
I apologize for being so cynical. However, when there is almost daily evidence of the crimes committed by and for Obama and Hillary, with only Trump supporters singled out for punishment in order to undermine President Trump, patience turns into cynicism. For the love of Lady Justice, indict someone!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/2/2020 12:13:38 PM (No. 398559)
Seems there is so much smoke that the DOJ, judiciary and Congress can't find the fire.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/2/2020 1:14:38 PM (No. 398623)
The evidence disclosed is only a small amount of it. Think if Comey, McCabe, and others emails and other information were released. All that information is going to be available to their future prosecutors.
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We'll see where this takes us. Low expectations on my part.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/2/2020 1:30:33 PM (No. 398640)
I want to see the hyper-arrogant smirking Strzok go down first, quickly followed by Comey.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/2/2020 1:46:53 PM (No. 398655)
Any reorganization of the FBI should prohibit the future FBI super bureaucrats on the 7th Floor at FBI Headquarters in DC who are bound to be highly politicized, from themselves initiating or conducting counterintelligence and criminal investigations. With those future investigations only being initiated, conducted, and closed at the FBI field office level, with street level FBI Agents who are career law enforcement oriented people conducting those investigations.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BillW. 5/2/2020 1:56:51 PM (No. 398664)
I'd like nothing better than getting with some guys and holding a deep-dish blanket party for that nasty little SOB. If anyone has it coming, it's him. --Vets for Trump 2020
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 5/2/2020 1:57:01 PM (No. 398665)
Yet, #8, the judge was unable to make Ted Stephens whole again. By the way, wasn't Bob Mueller involved in that case too. Seems like I remember him being responsible for hiding evidence that would have proven Stepens innocent.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
snapper451 5/2/2020 3:10:52 PM (No. 398703)
It's time for Christopher Wray to go, once the indictments come down. President Trump can justify it by explaining that he put Wray there to clean up the mess and instead he just continued to block the investigation and make excuses.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
jinx 5/2/2020 3:59:47 PM (No. 398725)
I think the cabal should pay all thirty million dollars spent on that investigation back to the US. If they are not going to jail, they should at least pay back the money they wasted under false pretenses. Send the bill to Mueller, Comey, Strzok, Page, Wray, Sullivan, Clinton, Obama, Rice, etc. Either pay up or go to jail.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Peaches 5/2/2020 4:09:25 PM (No. 398729)
Short rope, long drop. He is 6'8", after all.
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So 30% of the country will be fired up about this (Trump supporters) and 40% will never even hear about it because they get all their news from the alphabet networks and they will not cover it while the remaining 30% have Trump Derangement Syndrome and they wouldn't care if Comey and Brennan and Strzok and Susan Rice took turns stabbing Trump to death on national TV. It would be great if it at least led to the Flynn case being dismissed but I doubt if the judge will do that because he is an Obama worshipping nut who has it in his head that because Flynn worked to change Obama's policy on Iran and Russia he is therefore a treasonous scum bag who deserves about a thousand years in prison but will get off with much less but not much less than the judge can legally get away with giving him.
I am afraid it is already too late in the election cycle to bring charges against anyone and that Trump probably will not win reelection owing to the state of the economy so Comey and the rest will likely escape all justice.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 5/2/2020 5:08:25 PM (No. 398766)
Even The sHill gets it. That's pretty amazing.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
XCenturion 5/2/2020 7:47:13 PM (No. 398867)
Please tell me why Christopher Wray is still the Director of the FBI. He has done nothing to clean up his organization.
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