As some of you may know, LtG Flynn is back in court this week trying to get his conviction overturned. Many of you may not know that the FBI doesn’t record criminal interviews. They have two agents do the interview and while one asks questions, the other one writes notes that may be entered into evidence at trial. The interviewing agent also writes notes, they’re just not as copious because they’re asking the questions and observing the subject’s responses to evaluate their truthfulness.
They’re recorded as “FD-302’s”. The FD-302’s are the basis for the DoJ’s prosecution of LtG Flynn for a 1001(g) violation and his subsequent plea agreement. Remember that the reason Flynn flipped so quick is because they were threatening his family, specifically his son with prosecution (a common DoJ tactic).
DoJ was still required to provide defense counsel with Brady evidence (exculpatory). They didn’t. What they also didn’t disclose is that they were threatening to charge Flynn’s defense counsel at the time for “manufacturing evidence”. Flynn plead out in part on the advice of said counsel.
Back to the 302’s. The agents who filed the Flynn 302’s were Joseph Pientka and Peter Strozk. Sound familiar? Well Flynn has a new and MUCH better legal team, who filed a Motion To Compel Brady evidence from DoJ. The DoJ tried to submit “official” 302’s with redactions, but Flynn’s defense wisely requested the original drafts for examination (hand written during the interview vs. cleaned up, typed notes afterwards). Of course the prosecution tried to claim they didn’t have access to the original drafts, which is patently false.
Back and forth, back and forth, ultimately it was discovered that the “official notes” were edited and approved by Andrew McCabe (again, sound familiar?). The draft notes submitted raised flags because the defense realized that Strozk’s notes were far too neat and organized to have been written during the interview. Obviously we now know Strozk has serious credibility issues, but at the time they were strong arming Flynn, this wasn’t known outside DoJ.
Of course this is all going to the heart of defense counsel’s plan to undermine the very basis for Flynn’s prosecution and near immediate plea agreement. So what does the prosecution do today? Oh, just admit that for two years plus, they’ve been mis-attributing Strozk’s 302 as Pientka’s and vice versa!
I couldn’t make this up if I tried folks. The malfeasance is staggering and undermines everything DoJ has done since the beginning of the 2016 election cycle. If the judge doesn’t dismiss this case with prejudice, I don’t see how we can move forward as a country.
Here’s the whole sordid mess if you’re up to reading it.
https://theconservativetreehouse.co...standing-sur-surreply-to-counter-prosecution/
And today’s utterly unbelievable admission by DoJ
https://theconservativetreehouse.co...y-attributed-wrong-notes-to-wrong-fbi-agents/
They’re recorded as “FD-302’s”. The FD-302’s are the basis for the DoJ’s prosecution of LtG Flynn for a 1001(g) violation and his subsequent plea agreement. Remember that the reason Flynn flipped so quick is because they were threatening his family, specifically his son with prosecution (a common DoJ tactic).
DoJ was still required to provide defense counsel with Brady evidence (exculpatory). They didn’t. What they also didn’t disclose is that they were threatening to charge Flynn’s defense counsel at the time for “manufacturing evidence”. Flynn plead out in part on the advice of said counsel.
Back to the 302’s. The agents who filed the Flynn 302’s were Joseph Pientka and Peter Strozk. Sound familiar? Well Flynn has a new and MUCH better legal team, who filed a Motion To Compel Brady evidence from DoJ. The DoJ tried to submit “official” 302’s with redactions, but Flynn’s defense wisely requested the original drafts for examination (hand written during the interview vs. cleaned up, typed notes afterwards). Of course the prosecution tried to claim they didn’t have access to the original drafts, which is patently false.
Back and forth, back and forth, ultimately it was discovered that the “official notes” were edited and approved by Andrew McCabe (again, sound familiar?). The draft notes submitted raised flags because the defense realized that Strozk’s notes were far too neat and organized to have been written during the interview. Obviously we now know Strozk has serious credibility issues, but at the time they were strong arming Flynn, this wasn’t known outside DoJ.
Of course this is all going to the heart of defense counsel’s plan to undermine the very basis for Flynn’s prosecution and near immediate plea agreement. So what does the prosecution do today? Oh, just admit that for two years plus, they’ve been mis-attributing Strozk’s 302 as Pientka’s and vice versa!
I couldn’t make this up if I tried folks. The malfeasance is staggering and undermines everything DoJ has done since the beginning of the 2016 election cycle. If the judge doesn’t dismiss this case with prejudice, I don’t see how we can move forward as a country.
Here’s the whole sordid mess if you’re up to reading it.
https://theconservativetreehouse.co...standing-sur-surreply-to-counter-prosecution/
And today’s utterly unbelievable admission by DoJ
https://theconservativetreehouse.co...y-attributed-wrong-notes-to-wrong-fbi-agents/
