Barr Installs Outside Prosecutor to Review Case Against Michael Flynn, Ex-Trump Adviser

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Anonymous wrote:More damning information......

An FBI official who served on Robert Mueller’s team said he believed the special counsel’s prosecution of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn was part of an attitude to “get Trump,” and that he did not wish to pursue a Trump-Russia collusion investigation as it was “not there" and considered it to be a "dead end."

FBI agent William J. Barnett made the comments during an interview on Sept. 17 at the Justice Department, before Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Jeffrey Jensen, who was tapped by Attorney General Bill Barr to review the case against Flynn. Jensen has joined U.S. Attorney John Durham’s team in his review of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. Those comments have surfaced in new government documents.

Fox News reviewed Barnett’s FBI 302, which was filed by the U.S. government early Friday as part of the Flynn case.

Barnett, during his interview, detailed his work at the FBI, and his assignment to the bureau’s original cases against Flynn and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Barnett said the Flynn investigation was assigned the code name “Crossfire Razor,” which was part of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation — the bureau’s code name for the original Trump-Russia probe.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-official-on-mueller-team-says-flynn-prosecution-was-used-to-get-trump-says-collusion-probe-was-not-there

Sounds like this agent was biased.

Or. saw the investigation for what it was - a hoax.

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Seriously, you people need to read IN CONTEXT

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Stop reading Fox News and The Federalist. They are literally Russian propaganda.

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Context: The claim some agents favored Clinton was actually a discussion of potential Russian preference for the known quantity, Clinton.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop reading Fox News and The Federalist. They are literally Russian propaganda.

When stupid people can't refute the claims they always use RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!

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This is pretty damning.....

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents tasked by fired former Director James Comey to take down Donald Trump during and after the 2016 election were so concerned about the agency’s potentially illegal behavior that they purchased liability insurance to protect themselves less than two weeks before Trump was inaugurated president, previously hidden FBI text messages show. The explosive new communications and internal FBI notes were disclosed in federal court filings today from Sidney Powell, the attorney who heads Michael Flynn’s legal defense team.

“[W]e all went and purchased professional liability insurance,” one agent texted on Jan. 10, 2017, the same day CNN leaked details that then-President-elect Trump had been briefed by Comey about the bogus Christopher Steele dossier. That briefing of Trump was used as a pretext to legitimize the debunked dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign and compiled by a foreign intelligence officer who was working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch.

“Holy crap,” an agent responded. “All the analysts too?”

“Yep,” the first agent said. “All the folks at the Agency as well.”

“[C]an I ask who are the most likely litigators?” an agent responded. “[A]s far as potentially suing y’all[?]”

“[H]aha, who knows….I think [t]he concern when we got it was that there was a big leak at DOJ and the NYT among others was going to do a piece,” the first agent said.

While the names of the agents responsible for the texts are redacted, the legal filing from Powell, quoting communications from the Department of Justice (DOJ


https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/24/trump-was-rig...sfire-hurricane-investigation/


The Federalist?

Also, it's very common for IC people to have PLI. It's not out of the ordinary in the least.


This is BS.


DP. Can’t speak to the IC particularly, but it’s not uncommon at all for attorneys employed by the federal government to carry liability insurance. Same for managerial-level. It’s more common in some agencies than others, though, depending on how often legal action is taken against people from those agencies.


My spouse worked for the FBI and has never heard of it, nor was ever offered it.

I've heard of it. The government doesn't offer it, you have to get it on your own.


+1. It’s not an employment benefit, it’s something you get on you’re own protect yourself if there’s legal action against you and the government decides not to defend you, such as because they say you went outside the scope of your employment.


Sounds like these agents knew they were going to be in deep doo doo if their work was ever discovered.


No. Sounds like they knew a corrupt administration was on its way in, and the new administration might suddenly decide protecting our democracy wasn’t within their scope of work.

Exactly. Teacher here. I never joined the union for insurance/legal protection until I got that boss that was known for causing problems. Even though I am a good teacher, you never know about what people in power will do.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop reading Fox News and The Federalist. They are literally Russian propaganda.

When stupid people can't refute the claims they always use RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!

Russia told us the interfere in our domestic affairs. The GOP Senate Intel report said Russia interfered. Why do you think they are lying?

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All the various reports acknowledge Russian interference and that people with close ties to Trump met with Russians prior to the 2016 election. There is no dispute with that.

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Igor Venchencko worked with Vindmann and had been under investigation by the FBI as a Russian spy for 2 years. Yet the still used his info to get the FISAs against Page.

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Anonymous wrote:Igor Venchencko worked with Vindmann and had been under investigation by the FBI as a Russian spy for 2 years. Yet the still used his info to get the FISAs against Page.

Who?

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This sort of undermines Sidnley Powell (and Flynn) - miscontextualizing "evidence" is not something judges support

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Anonymous wrote:This is pretty damning.....

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents tasked by fired former Director James Comey to take down Donald Trump during and after the 2016 election were so concerned about the agency’s potentially illegal behavior that they purchased liability insurance to protect themselves less than two weeks before Trump was inaugurated president, previously hidden FBI text messages show. The explosive new communications and internal FBI notes were disclosed in federal court filings today from Sidney Powell, the attorney who heads Michael Flynn’s legal defense team.

“[W]e all went and purchased professional liability insurance,” one agent texted on Jan. 10, 2017, the same day CNN leaked details that then-President-elect Trump had been briefed by Comey about the bogus Christopher Steele dossier. That briefing of Trump was used as a pretext to legitimize the debunked dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign and compiled by a foreign intelligence officer who was working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch.

“Holy crap,” an agent responded. “All the analysts too?”

“Yep,” the first agent said. “All the folks at the Agency as well.”

“[C]an I ask who are the most likely litigators?” an agent responded. “[A]s far as potentially suing y’all[?]”

“[H]aha, who knows….I think [t]he concern when we got it was that there was a big leak at DOJ and the NYT among others was going to do a piece,” the first agent said.

While the names of the agents responsible for the texts are redacted, the legal filing from Powell, quoting communications from the Department of Justice (DOJ

https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/24/trump-was-right-explosive-new-fbi-texts-detail-internal-furor-over-handling-of-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/

1) The federalist is a russia funded news "source"
2) this is nothing new and has already been debunked.

I could give a crap what you think about the source.
They have the texts. They have the evidence.

And, what exactly has been "debunked?"

That the agents took out insurance because they were afraid of what was going to happen?
Or, that they worried about what a new AG might find?
Or, that they were worried about a FOIA?
Or, that they used NSLs to spy on Flynn's finances?

What exactly has been debunked?

Nothing.

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Has Brennan been indicted yet?

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This seems problematic

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Anonymous wrote:This seems problematic

Huh. Flynn ought to know better. But I guess he doesn’t.