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Not that we needed more proof of Covington's failure to provide competent representation to @GenFlynn but here it is anyway. Final 5 pages in link below is edited (Feb 15 2017) version of the Strzok's 302. SCO gave it to Covington 9 days before Flynn plea.
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
2/ That means Covington had time to figure out that even the edited 302 did *not* mention sanctions. They also had time to figure out that escalation pertained to expulsions, not sanctions. Why did Covington allow their client to plead guilty to something that wasn't in the 302?
3/ Three options. Covington didn't know the difference, they didn't spot the discrepancy, or they didn't want to spot the discrepancy. Doesn't matter which of these it is, they're all glaring failures. Gen Flynn was deprived of effective legal assistance.
I wonder if Covington bothered to show Gen Flynn the 302 they got from SCO. Or did they just let him plead guilty without seeing it? I'd hazard a guess it was the latter.
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Simona's exchange with Schiff blows the entire Mifsud narrative out of the water.

Let's start with this little gem.

In response to Schiff asking when she found out about Mifsud, Simona says it was shortly before the plea and that George himself *didn't know what was going on*.
Why didn't Papa know what was going on? Because Papa himself to Simona that what Mifsud told Papa was just random, casual, not serious, not news.

In other words, Mueller "persuaded" Papa that the random gossip Papa had heard from Mifsud was actually a nefarious offer.

Wow.
Schiff seems taken aback by the revelation and asks how it could be just gossip. Simona finishes Schiff's sentence to say that the info was already in the public domain. Schiff then says it was not in the public domain. Incredulous Simona: "It was not?"
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Here the DOJ's motion to dismiss the Flynn case:
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
DOJ's reason for dismissing the case is that the Jan 24, 2017 Flynn interview did not have legitimate investigative basis.

Earlier today I had a tweet speculating that Papadopoulos' case had, like Flynn, been closed until Strzok intervened. Thus same argument may apply to Papa.
Confirmation that Strzok used Logan Act as excuse to keep Flynn case open.
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1/ The recently released, exculpatory Papadopoulos CHS transcripts, which don't suggest that Papa is a heavy drinker, made me revisit the origins of the idea that it was a "night of heavy drinking" that caused Papa to spill the Russia collusion beans to Alexander Downer.

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2/ The phrase "a night of heavy drinking" was first used by NYT in its now infamous Dec 30, 2017 story on the supposed origins of the Russia probe.
3/ The snag is that Alexander Downer himself denies that there was any heavy drinking. On this, Papa and Downer agree. Both have consistently maintained that their meeting took place in the early evening of May 10, 2016, it lasted about an hour, and they both had just one drink.
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