New Filing in @GenFlynn Prosecution Casts Further Doubt on the Government’s Case bit.ly/34waZ9Y
.@SidneyPowell1 noted that FBI attorney Lisa Page and Bill Priestrap, who was the FBI’s assistant director of investigation and counterintelligence, edited Flynn’s statement after the interview, even though neither was present during the questioning.
Powell also cited the testimony of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who talked to the FBI agents immediately after they interviewed Flynn.
McCabe testified to the House Intel Committee, “[T]he conundrum that we faced on their return from the interview is that although [the agents] didn’t detect deception in the statements that he made in the interview . . .
... the statements were inconsistent with our understanding of the conversation that he had actually had with the ambassador.”
McCabe proceeded to admit to the committee that “the two people who interviewed [Flynn] didn’t think he was lying, [which] was not [a] great beginning of a false statement case.”
Powell alleges that two of the “false” statements that appeared in the final draft of the agents’ account of Flynn’s statement do not appear in their original handwritten notes.
Powell also rebutted the government’s contention that the edits to Flynn’s statement were superficial, writing,
“We do know that the same evening, Strzok went into the office, picked up Page’s edits, and made changes that any reasonable person would deem material to the 302.”
“We do know that the same evening, Strzok went into the office, picked up Page’s edits, and made changes that any reasonable person would deem material to the 302.”
“He added a definitive statement: ‘FLYNN stated he did not.’ This was in response to whether, on the issue of UN vote, Flynn had asked Kislyak to vote in a particular way. This is materially different from the notes which state Flynn did not recall speaking to Kislyak...”
Finally, Powell on Monday challenged the entire basis for the FBI interview of Flynn, noting that the government previously claimed it was investigating links between the Russians and the 2016 Trump campaign for president.
“The agents already knew exactly what Mr. Flynn said in all his communications with the Russian Ambassador, so the FBI agents did not ask questions to discover the existence or substance of those communications,” she writes.
“And, second, the agents did not ask Mr. Flynn a single question about anything even approaching ‘interference with the 2016 election.’”
