DOJ Altered an Exhibit in the Mike Flynn Case to Support a False Smear of Joe Biden
As noted, Peter Strzok’s lawyer has confirmed something I laid out earlier: DOJ submitted at least two sets of Strzok’s notes in its effort to blow up the Mike Flynn prosecution that had been altered to add a date that Strzok did not write himself.
This post will lay out why it matters.
I discovered that DOJ had altered Strzok’s notes because DOJ shared — and Sidney Powell submitted in purported support of her claim of prosecutorial abuse — two sets of those notes.
This set, shared on June 23 (the red rectangle is my annotation).
And this set, shared on September 23. Again, my red rectangle shows where DOJ added a date, January 4-5, 2017.
As Strzok’s lawyer, Aitan Goelman, explained that date is wrong.
On at least one occasion, the date added is wrong and could be read to suggest that a meeting at the White House happened before it actually did.
The correct date is January 5, 2017. The notes could not have been written on January 4 because they memorialize a meeting that happened on January 5.
As I demonstrated here, there was never a doubt about the date of the notes. They were written on January 5, 2017, after the meeting in question. The notes clearly match the known details — as laid out in this contemporaneous memo to the file by Susan Rice and elsewhere — of a meeting in the White House, attended by the President, Sally Yates, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, and Jim Comey, regarding what to do about the discovery that Mike Flynn had secretly called up the Russian Ambassador and undermined the sanctions President Obama imposed, in part, to punish the Russians for tampering in our election.
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https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/36/191591/04518078707.pdf
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/09/29/doj-altered-an-exhibit-in-the-mike-flynn-case-to-support-a-false-smear-of-joe-biden/
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