‘Frightening’: Devin Nunes says FBI informant ‘made up a bunch of lies’ about Michael Flynn and me!
"It’s frightening. Imagine being spied upon by your own government, and then that spy makes up a bunch of lies about everybody,” Nunes said.
"Nunes was referring to an FBI memo released this week of an interview that investigators conducted on Aug. 11, 2016, with Stefan Halper, a former Cambridge professor and longtime confidential human source (CHS) for the FBI."
"According to the declassified FBI memo, Halper told agents that he witnessed an encounter at the University of Cambridge in 2014 between Flynn and a Russian-British graduate student named Svetlana Lokhova."
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“The objective of the Obama administration and its FBI hierarchy was to continue the Trump–Russia investigation, even after President Trump took office, and even though President Trump was the quarry.” @AndrewCMcCarthy nationalreview.com/2020/05/fbi-se…
“The investigation would hamstring Trump’s capacity to govern and reverse Obama policies. Continuing it would allow the FBI to keep digging until it finally came up with a crime or impeachable offense that they were then confident they would find.” @AndrewCMcCarthy
“Even then, the FBI was telling the FISA court that Trump’s campaign was suspected of collaborating in Russia’s election interference. FBI brass had also pushed for the intelligence community to include the Steele dossier in its report assessing Russia’s meddling in the campaign”
Importance of this week's @GenFlynn disclosures
Recall: Nunes tells @GovMikeHuckabee in Jan 17 he starts to investigate collusion but given no evidence by IC.
Mar 17, leaks of highly sensitive classified information that Flynn was somehow now a Russian asset. Absurd. /1
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Nunes in Apr 19 said: "@GenFlynn Flynn was supposedly entrapped, was meeting with a Russian woman. I want to know what really happened there. It's a big deal if somebody within our intelligence agencies were accusing a three star general of having some type of Russian fling /2
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FINALLY, in 2020, just this week, we get the "intelligence" which was used to frame @GenFlynn! (it's heavily redacted, of course).
This is the "intelligence" that was leaked to the Press: /3
"A confidential informant provided information to the FBI regarding Michael Flynn’s visit to the University of Cambridge when he served as an intelligence official in the Obama administration, according to newly public documents." dailycaller.com/2020/04/30/mic…
-A confidential informant provided information to the FBI regarding Michael Flynn’s visit to the University of Cambridge when he served as an intelligence official in the Obama administration, according to newly public documents.
-An FBI memo says the source told investigators they were “somewhat suspicious” of Flynn’s interactions at the Cambridge event with a Russian-British researcher.
Stunning documents produced today in the @GenFlynn's case. Here is what the key document say once you remove code names etc. THREAD
1/ "The Crossfire Hurricane investigative team also addressed this investigation through Confidential Human Source reporting General Flynn for any derogatory or lead information. As such Crossfire Hurricane contacted an established FBI Confidential Human Source Halper to query
2/ about Flynn. During the debriefing, Halper revealed an incident Halper witnessed when Flynn spoke at the[security seminar?] in the United Kingdom.
Halper was unsure of the date, but noted that Flynn was still in his position within the US Intelligence Community. [Writer's
“It is also disturbing that this evidence was only recently disclosed by the Justice Department. When Flynn was pressured to plead guilty to a single count of lying to investigators, he was unaware such evidence existed and that the federal investigators.. thehill.com/opinion/crimin…
..who had interviewed him told their superiors they did not think that Flynn intentionally lied when he denied discussing sanctions against Russia with Kislyak. Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team changed all that and decided to bring the dubious charge...
...They drained Flynn financially then threatened to charge his son.
Flynn never denied the conversation and knew the FBI had a transcript of it. Indeed, President Trump publicly discussed a desire to reframe Russian relations and renegotiate such areas of tensions...
".@GenFlynn was accused for years of being a Russian agent, of seeking to in some fashion influence if not pass messages to candidate Trump, President-elect Trump and the President Trump. That was the allegation investigated by the Mueller team for years. It came to nothing" /1
"But Michael Flynn was always depicted as the window between the Kremlin, the KGB and Donald Trump. That did not stand up.
None of the drama we are about to witness over these next days would have come to anything without the recruiting moment." /2
"When the KGB, SVR it has many acronyms, sent an agent, Svetlana Lokhova to convince, seduce and compromise Michael Flynn at a dinner at Pembroke College, February 28, 2014. An important detail. None of the accusations against Michael Flynn are true" /3