Caught in a lie about what he knew about 61-year-old Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s investigation, 77-year-old former Vice President and Democrat Presumptive nominee Joe Biden denied to ABC’s Geroge Stephanopoulos he knew anything about Flynn’s investigation. Newly declassified documents show that Joe (a) attended a meeting Jan. 5, 2017 at the White House led by former President Barack Obama with key players in the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation AKA Crossfire Hurricane, including former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Deputy Atty. Gen. Sally Yates, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice and former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch and (b) that Joe was one among many White House officials asking to “unmask” Flynn’s conversations with 70-year-old former Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak.
On Jan. 24, 2017. Comey sent former FBI agents Peter Strzok and Joe Pientko to the White House to interview Flynn. Declassified handwritten notes of the meeting with Flynn told the whole story. Regarding the interview with Flynn, “to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired,” Pientko wrote, showing that Comey entrapped Flynn, too naïve to refuse to talk with Strzok and Pientko. Flynn’s Dec. 1, 2017 indictment by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller resulted in Flynn pleading guilty to lying to FBI agents. Flynn was told if he didn’t plea, the FBI would pursue charges against his son Michael G. Flynn. Flynn’s case was in limbo with U.S. District Court Emmett Sullivan since pleading guilty Dec. 1, 2017. In the service of justice, Atty. Gen. Bill Barr asked St Louis U.S. Atty. Jeff Jensen of to review the case to determine an appropriate disposition.
On Jensen’s recommendation, Barr dismissed Flynn’s case May 8, prompting the current uproar from Democrats doing everything possible to cover up the improper investigation of Flynn, but, more importantly, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into 73-year-old President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Barr concluded that Flynn’s case, indeed that FBI’s counterintelligence investigation and the Special Counsel investigation, were not properly “predicated.” Reviewing Flynn’s case and the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation against Trump and his campaign, Barr found neither case was properly predicated. FBI and Mueller’s Special Counsel prosecutors relied on bogus probable cause from former Hillary Rodham Clinton’s opposition research against Trump AKA the “Steele Dossier.” FBI officials and Mueller knew the Steeele Dossier was filled with lies and Russian disinformation.
Democrats contend that it’s routine for law enforcement to wiretap foreign officials like Kislyak. What’s not routine is “unmasking” U.S. citizens without probable cause. Obama was concerned at the time with his Dec. 31, 2016 decision to kick out 35 Russian officials due to meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Obama administration officials didn’t want anyone from the incoming administration to discuss foreign policy until sworn in Jan. 20, 2017. Biden was among a handful of White House and law enforcement officials that wanted to know what Flynn talked about with Kislyak. Turns out Flynn and Kislyak talked about improving diplomatic relations, possibly a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin sometime in the future. Obama officials were convinced Flynn violated the 1799 Logan Act, prohibiting private citizens from negotiating U.S. foreign policy.
Biden told Stephanopoulos May 12 he knew the FBI “asked for an investigation, but that’s all I know about it.” Biden said he knew “nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn,” but later backtracked, when Stephanopoulos told Biden he attended the Jan. 5, 2017 meeting with Obama discussing the Flynn investigation. New documents released today actually show that Biden was among many White House officials asking to “unmask” Flynn’s wiretapped conversations with Kislyak. Former Deputy Atty. Gen. Sally Yates who was present in the Jan. 5, 2017 meeting said she was “so surprised” when Obama asked by Flynn’s call with Kislyak that “she was having a hard time processing it and listening to the conversation at the time.” Yates’ admission gives the best evidence yet that Obama, only two week before Trump’s inauguration, was invested in Flynn’s investigation.
Obama administration officials, especially those present at the Jan. 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting, want to dismiss the event as part of right wing conspiracy theory, designed to divert attention away from the global coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 global pandemic. But the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation looking into the 2016 Trump campaign’s alleged Russian ties and Hurricane Razor, looking in to Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn were as real as a train wreck. What bothers Democrats about Barr dismissing Flynn’s case and his investigation of the FBI and Obama White House improper investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign, is that it exposes corruption at the high levels of the U.S. government to help Hillary win the 2016 election. Barr wants to show that the White House, Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and National Security Agency illegally investigated Trump’s 2016 campaign.
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