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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKyle Cheney thread - In the last 36 hours, DOJ has:
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Tweet text: In the last 36 hours, DOJ has:
-Declassified a doc GOP lawmakers sought about the Steele Dossier
-Provided internal FBI messages to Flynn legal team
-Released an interview with one of the Flynn case agents
-Released questionable evidence of ballot irregularities in Pa.
-Declassified a doc GOP lawmakers sought about the Steele Dossier
-Provided internal FBI messages to Flynn legal team
-Released an interview with one of the Flynn case agents
-Released questionable evidence of ballot irregularities in Pa.
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In the last 36 hours, DOJ has:
-Declassified a doc GOP lawmakers sought about the Steele Dossier
-Provided internal FBI messages to Flynn legal team
-Released an interview with one of the Flynn case agents
-Released questionable evidence of ballot irregularities in Pa.
The case agent, William Barnett, is a case-study in contradiction. He says he worried that there was groupthink among Mueller team yet they often included him (and his converse opinions) in Flynn-related matters and processes.
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco
Barnett also said he raised internal questions about the Flynn case but viewed the other three prongs of Crossfire Hurricane as legit and did believe that Flynn lied in his FBI interview to protect his job rather than cover up something Russia-related. courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco
Barnett also undercut an earlier filing from the Flynn team that suggests FBI officials bought liability insurance because they feared fallout from the Flynn matter.
Barnett says discussions of insurance were likely unrelated to Flynn bc they predate the case becoming public.
And that earlier Flynn team filing also included an obvious error:
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Overall though, there's a concerted effort to get more material into the public record some of which would have reasonably been expected to be part of the Durham investigation yet now appears to packaged for public release by DOJ without any accompanying indictments.
BARNETT also pushed for an interview with Flynn in late 2016, calling it an "easy lay-up" that Flynn wouldn't view as suspicious because he was part of an incoming administration. Barnett said he viewed this as a formality toward closing the case.
NEW: An FBI agent who formerly worked with Muellers team told DOJ last week he believed Flynn lied to the FBI to save his job, not cover up a Russia operation. But the interview is a series of contradictions.
w/ @joshgerstein
Feds air FBI agents gripes about Flynn probe
The official public release of such candid assessments from inside a federal investigative team is extraordinarily rare.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/25/fbi-agents-michael-flynn-probe-421633
Its part of a slew of new docs dumped by DOJ to Flynns team as they prepare to argue next week for the dismissal of the case against him. And it comes as DOJ has dumped info in a series of other sensitive matters into the public domain.
Feds air FBI agents gripes about Flynn probe
The official public release of such candid assessments from inside a federal investigative team is extraordinarily rare.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/25/fbi-agents-michael-flynn-probe-421633
BARNETT's testimony also cut against what has been billed as a bombshell revelation in docs released by Flynn's team just hours earlier: That FBI agents bought liability insurance because they were worried about fallout from Crossfire Hurricane.
Feds air FBI agents gripes about Flynn probe
The official public release of such candid assessments from inside a federal investigative team is extraordinarily rare.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/25/fbi-agents-michael-flynn-probe-421633
DOJ asked Barnett about internal FBI messages referencing a rush to buy insurance. Barnett said he didn't believe that was related to Flynn because it didn't work with the timeline of events.
He said he always urges colleagues to have liability insurance.
Feds air FBI agents gripes about Flynn probe
The official public release of such candid assessments from inside a federal investigative team is extraordinarily rare.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/25/fbi-agents-michael-flynn-probe-421633
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Kyle Cheney thread - In the last 36 hours, DOJ has: (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
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(25,960 posts)1. K&R for visibility.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)2. trumps got Barr hopping
Running "The Department Of Trump Justice" it looks like. trump will be going after the FBI and Military very soon to replace the top people so he can weaponize them too.