In the first major slap a the 22-month, $40 million Special Counsel investigation, Atty. Gen. William Barr’s Justice Department dropped the case against 61-year-old Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Flynn plead guilty Dec.1, 2017 after lying to 50-year-old now disgraced former FBI Agent Peter Stzrok, whose emails and text messages to h his lover former FBI Atty. Lisa Page exposed “deep state” bias inside the FBI against then presidential candidate 73-year-old President Donald Trump. Stzrok went to the White House Jan. 24, 2016 with Agent Joe Pientka to interview Flynn who was blindsided when they sat him down and asked Flynn questions about any conversations he had during the transition period with Russian officials. Flynn of course said he had none, not knowing that FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign was well underway.
Flynn didn’t know that he’d been “unmasked” by 55-year-old former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice who used former FBI Director James Comey’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials. While wiretapping foreign national’s conversations is no big deal for the FBI and National Security Agency [NSA], it’s a big deal when a U.S. citizens is “unmasked” in the conversation. Rice admitted Sept. 18, 2017 to the House Intelligence Committee that she “unmasked” conversations of Trump campaign officials, including Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. When Stzrok went to the White House Jan. 24, 2016 to interview Flynn, it was codenamed Crossfire Razor, to set Flynn up to get him to lie, to force him out of his NSA job. FBI officials needed to get rid of Flynn because he would have exposed the illegal conspiracy inside the FBI to sabotage Trump’s campaign.
Setting Flynn up was the only way former FBI Director James Comey could get Flynn out of the picture from exposing the FBI’s covert treachery to undermine Trump’s presidential campaign. Why Flynn talked with Stzrok and Pientka is anyone’s guess. He probably thought that he had done nothing wrong because how could anyone consider 69-year-old former Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak a Russian official. Flynn met casually with Kislyak to advise him that President-elect Donald Trump wanted to turn the corner on new diplomatic relations with Russia. Before Trump was sworn it, former President Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats Dec. 29, 2016 for alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election, plunging U.S.-Russian relations to the lowest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Flynn couldn’t imagine, in his wildest dreams, he did anything wrong speaking to Kislyak.
Yet Stzrok and Pientka executed their mission to entrap Flynn to perfection, getting the one-time Army Lt. General off the playing field. Flynn could have exposed Crossfire Hurricane, the illegal counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign based on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA “the Steele dossier.” Hillary used the fake dossier to besmirch Trump during the campaign in a desperate effort to win the 2016 election. We all know how that worked out. But Hillary’s “dossier,” accusing Trump of being a Russian agent, was used exclusively by Comey to dupe the FISA court to obtain warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials. Former FISA Court Chief Judge Rosemary Collyer said Dec. 17, 2019 she was “mislead” by the FBI with information from the “Steele dossier” to issue warrants to wiretap Trump officials.
Announcing today that they would drop Flynn’s case, Barr sent a shot across the FBI’s bow that there would be more consequences to the Crossfire Hurricane and Crossfire Razor investigations against the Trump campaign. “Through the course of my review of General Flynn’s case, I concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case. I briefed Atty. Gen. Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed,” said Jeff Jensen, commissioned by the DOJ to review Flynn’s case. Democrats expressed outrage over the DOJ’s decision, prompting House Judiciary Chairman Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.) to call Flynn’s dismissal an abortion of justice. Yet Jensen, a respected U.S. Attorney from St. Louis, looked carefully at case, concluding the case lacked appropriate “predicate” or provable cause from the beginning. Democrats don’t like when their anti-Trump narrative is disrupted.
Jensen found the FBI had no basis for continuing its case against Flynn, since there was no link between Flynn and the Russian government. Jensen concluded there was nothing “to indicate an inappropriate relationship between Mr. Flynn and a foreign power,” something Democrats insisted that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Special Counsel Robert Mueller completed his Final Report March 23, 2019 finding no evidence Trump or anyone his campaign conspired with Russia. Flynn couldn’t imagine when he spoke with Stzrok and Pientka that he talked with anyone from the Russian government. Kislyak was such a familiar fixture in Washington’s well-known in the cocktail party circuit. How the FBI thought talking with Kislyak compromised U.S. national security shows how utterly fraudulent Comey’s operation Crossfire Hurricane.
