Thread by @TheLastRefuge2

♦January 23, 2017, the day before the Flynn interview, Lisa Page says: “I can feel my heart beating harder, I’m so stressed about all the ways THIS has the potential to go fully off the rails.”

♦Strzok replies: “I know. I just talked with John, we’re getting together as soon as I get in to finish that write up for Andy (MCCABE) this morning.”

Strzok agrees with Page about being stressed that “THIS” could go off the rails… (Strzok’s meeting w Flynn the next day)

In May 2019 Judge Sullivan asked the DOJ to provide the transcript of the 12/29/16 call between Mike Flynn and Ambassador Kislyak.

The Mueller team (Brandon Van Grack) responded to the order for a transcript of the Flynn/Kislyak call by refusing to provide it.

Look how carefully the Mueller team (Brandon Van Grack) worded this response about FBI recordings of Michael Flynn. Notice how they avoid production, by parsing, there are no recordings “that are part of the sentencing record”.

On June 6, 2019, the DOJ released the FBI agent report (FD-302) written after their interview of Flynn on Jan 24th, 2017. (Full pdf below) From prior testimony we know that FBI Agent Peter Strzok did the questioning and FBI Agent Joe Pientka took notes.

scribd.com/document/41259…

It’s worth noting according to Mark Meadows the Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz interviewed Joe Pientka extensively. However, attempts by congress to gain testimony from Pientka were blocked by the FBI and Rod Rosenstein.

ricochet.com/podcast/byron-…

FBI Agent Joseph Pientka was never interviewed by the joint House judiciary and oversight committees.

The reason, as explained by Meadows, was simple; Pientka was on Weissmann and Mueller’s special counsel team. Congress was not allowed to interfere in the Mueller probe.

In hindsight this looks like Mueller, Weissmann, Brandon Van Grack & Rosenstein strategically used the special counsel investigation as a shield from sunlight.... so they could continue their targeting.

The Flynn interview took place on January 24, 2017. The 302 report was written Jan 24th, 2017. The wording was then deliberated by the small group, approved by FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and entered into the record on February 15th, 2017.

scribd.com/doc/412593612

Prosecutor Brandon Van Grack filed a cover letter in Dec. 2018 attempting to explain the reason for the Flynn interview on January 24th, 2017, and a delay in the official filing of the interview notes (FD-302) until February 15th, 2017, and then another edit on May 31st, 2017.

To explain the FBI delay, Van Grack claimed the FD-302 report “inadvertently” had a header saying “DRAFT DOCUMENT/DELIBERATIVE MATERIAL” (screen grab)

It was all a lie.

What Van Grack did was obfuscate a process of deliberation within the investigative unit, headed by FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, surrounding the specific wording of the 302 report on the Flynn interview. Likely how best to word the FBI notes for maximum damage.

Attorney Brandon Van Grack was attempting to hide the length of the small group deliberations within the FBI.

It seems he did not want the court to know Andrew McCabe was involved in shaping how the Flynn-302 was written.

We know there was a deliberative process in place, seemingly all about how to best position the narrative, because we can see the deliberations in text messages between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok: See below (note the dates):

The text message conversation above is February 14th, 2017. The next day....

The Michael Flynn FD-302 was officially entered into the record on February 15th, 2017, per the FBI filing:

The interview took place on January 24th, 2017. The FD-302 was drafted on January 24th, and then later edited, shaped, and ultimately approved by McCabe on February 14th, then entered into the official record on February 15th.

It was a deliberative document from the outset.

May 17th, 2017, Robert Mueller was assigned as special Counsel.

The FD-302 report was re-entered on May 31st, 2017, removing the header; paving the way for Mueller’s team to use the content.

This is where Rosenstein comes in.

The 3rd scope memo was issued by Rosenstein to Mueller on October 20th, 2017.

The transparent intent of the 3rd scope memo was to provide Weissmann/Mueller with ammunition & authority to investigate specific targets, for specific purposes.

One of those targets was General Michael Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr.

This 3rd scope memo allowed Mueller to target tangentially related persons and entities bringing in Michael Flynn Jr.

This memo also established the authority to pursue “jointly undertaken activity“.

This October 20th, 2017, expanded scope request from Weissmann and Mueller aligns with the time-frame when special counsel team lawyers Brandon L. Van Grack and Zainab N. Ahmad were prosecuting Michael Flynn and cornering him into a guilty plea.

Getting Rosenstein to authorize adding Mike Flynn Jr. to the target list (scope memo #3) meant the special counsel could threaten General Flynn with the indictment of his son as a co-conspirator. “jointly undertaken activity“

The October 20th, 2017, expanded scope memo authorized Mueller to start demanding records, phones, electronic devices and other evidence from Mike Flynn Jr, and provided the leverage Weissmann wanted. After all, Mike Flynn Jr. had a four month old baby.

The case against Flynn was built upon a set-up (Jan '17)... maintained by a fraudulent FBI construct (302) of the interview (Feb '17)... culminating in a special counsel threat against his son (Oct '17) to coerce a guilty plea (Nov '17)..

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