We now know that, before Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017, the FBI had the ouster of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the President’s National Security Adviser, in its sights. By February 13th, Flynn was out the door.
Think about it. Why was Flynn’s removal of the
utmost importance to the FBI, more vital than removal of any other
cabinet officer like the Pentagon or State Department. So crucial was
it that they created a specific strategy willing to embrace
prosecutorial misconduct and agency malfeasance to take Flynn
down. Prosecutorial misdeeds are nothing new to the FBI as they have a
well founded
history of corruption over the years with its warts now publicly displayed.
It does not take a poli sci major to figure out that Flynn’s
immediate removal from the Administration was essential to undermining
Trump’s entire foreign policy initiatives including no new
interventionist wars, peace with Russia and US withdrawal from
Syria and Afghanistan. In retrospect, the entire fraudulent Russiagate
conspiracy makes sense when viewed from the perspective of an effort to
rein in Trump’s foreign policy goals of which Flynn would have been a
necessary, integral part.
The question is where did the first glimmer of
setting up Flynn originate? Who had the most to gain by disrupting
Trump’s foreign policy agenda? A number of suspects come to mind
including the evil Brennan/Clapper twins, a bureaucratically well placed neocon,
an interested foreign entity like Israel or somewhere deep within the
dark bowels of the FBI, all of which are in sync with the Democratic
leadership and its corporate media minions.
At the time, the Washington Post, a favorite CIA organ, was reporting that Flynn had ‘hinted’ to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak
that Trump might be willing to ‘relax’ sanctions against Russia. It
was then claimed that Flynn had ‘misled’ VP Pence by denying that he had
had a conversation regarding sanctions with Kislyak. None of it was
true.
With Flynn removed, Trump never regained his footing
on foreign policy – which no doubt was exactly as intended; thereby
opening the door for the likes of Jared Kushner to assume the role of
‘trusted adviser.”
Let’s examine how the FBI eliminated Flynn:
In August, 2016, an FBI ‘strategic intelligence
briefing’ was conducted for candidate Trump with Flynn as his national
security adviser in attendance. The briefing, which was not a
traditional ‘
defensive’ briefing
in which a presidential candidate is alerted of a foreign government’s
effort to intercede in their campaign, was led by an anonymous “
experienced FBI counter intelligence agent.” According to the
IG Report on FISA abuses, at that time Flynn was already a “
subject in the ongoing Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
The IG Report confirms that, after the election, top FBI officials discussed ‘interview strategies’ regarding how to set Flynn up in an ostensibly innocent conversation. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
arranged the meeting with the goal to walk Flynn into a well laid trap
without informing him that there was a criminal investigation underway
or that he was a target. Such a procedure is called ‘entrapment’ and
considered illegal See Clint Eastwood’s new film Richard Jewell for details on the FBI’s entrapment techniques.
Image on the right: Ambassador Sergey Kislyak (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
On January 24, 2017, four days after the Inaugural, Peter Strzok,
former FBI Chief of counterespionage and the same unnamed SSA1
(Supervisory Special Agent) who led the August briefing met with Flynn
for a friendly chat, more popularly referred to as the Ambush
Interview. At that time, either one or both agents took handwritten
notes while neither provided the usual heads-up about penalties for
making a false statement – since that would have tipped their
hand. Since Flynn believed this was an informal visit, he did not feel
the need to have an attorney present or inquire why, if this was a
friendly get-to-know chat, the need to take notes. That conversation
led to Flynn being charged with ‘lying to the FBI’ regarding his
conversation with Kislyak.
After the interview, preparation of a 302 form is
normal procedure. A 302 is a summary of and a formalizing of those
notes taken during the conversation. It is
those original 302 notes which are in dispute and which the FBI refuses to provide to either the Senate Judiciary Committee or to Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell. What does that tell you? Powell believes, based on sworn witness testimony, that
the final 302 is not an accurate reflection of the 302 notes or Flynn’s statements of January 24th.
It is curious that an SSA1 whose identity remained
cloaked in secrecy throughout the entire IG FISA Report continues to be
mentioned as a significant participant in the Bureau’s
Crossfire Hurricane while his name remains redacted on official documents. Disguising
his identity may simply be attributed to activities worth concealing.
In an unexpected turn, it was
Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee who outed the SSA 1 as agent
Joe Pientka in his
May 11, 2018 letter to the Bureau. Pientka remains a
central figure in the FBI scam against Flynn as well as other clandestine activities identified within the
Crossfire operation – and there’s more.
According to Strzok, Pientka was “primarily responsible” as the ‘note taker’ and prepared the 302 report of the interview on which Flynn’s prosecution is based.
Powell has challenged authorship since the final 302 version contains
falsified statements never made in the original interview that are now
being criminalized.
In a message to his paramour
Lisa Page, Strzok thanked Page for her ‘
edits’ on the 302 regarding the Flynn – Kislyak conversation on
sanctions that never occurred while
Strzok suggested that, at some future time, they discuss a ‘media leak strategy.’
Soon after Flynn’s resignation, a skeptical Grassley requested
unredacted transcripts of the Flynn – Kislyak conversation with the FBI repeatedly refusing to comply. Grassley’s May 11
th letter
confirms that Comey was aware that Flynn had not lied regarding the Kislyak conversation and further points out the
stunning revelation that that Pientka was ‘on detail’ as staff on the Judiciary Committee, presumably with the Democrats.
For all his persistence, the FBI continues to rebuff Grassley’s
assertions for a transcript of the Kislyak conversation as well as
demanding Pientka’s presence “
for a transcribed interview with Committee staff.”
In response to an ‘
insufficient’ FBI reply, Grassley then let loose with a June 6
th zinger detailing a compilation of FBI lies, failures and hypocrisies too numerous to be articulated (but worth reading)
here.
While a review of the FBI’s entire prosecution of
Flynn raises considerable legal and ethical questions, the Bureau’s
consistent refusal to turnover evidentiary material is indicative of a
deceitful agency protecting its own criminal behavior.
- Why is the FBI embedding an SSA1 with the Senate
Committee that has legislative jurisdiction over its mission? Does this
strike anyone else like the tactic of a totalitarian state?
- How does Flynn’s case move forward without the FBI
providing the necessary exculpatory documents legally required for every
defendant?
- How does a Congressional Committee provide
effective oversight and accountability if they are continually
stonewalled by the very agency within their legal authority?
- How can the FBI ever be rehabilitated if Congress, fearful of a constitutional crisis, has no political will to assert its proper authority and issue a Contempt of Congress subpoena?
- With the FBI out of control, Is this any way to run a country?
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Renee Parsons
has been a member of the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors and
President of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected
public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of
the Earth and staff member in the US House of Representatives in
Washington, DC. Renee is also a student of the Quantum Field and may be
reached at @reneedove31. She is a frequent contributor to Global
Research.
The original source of this article is Global Research
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