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GOP Push to Investigate FBI Frame Job
New evidence indicates that former national security adviser Michael Flynn was the subject of a politically-motivated FBI frame job. Now, Republican lawmakers want answers.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) are calling on FBI Director Christopher Wray to release more information relating to the bureau’s investigation into Flynn. Specifically, the GOP legislators want to question FBI Agent Joe Pientka. Pientka was present at a January 2017 White House interview where agents discussed their motivations for pursuing the Flynn investigation. Internal FBI documents released last week put the interview at the center of a growing controversy surrounding the FBI’s handling of the case.
The said documents that surfaced that seemed to indicate that the bureau’s investigation into the former national security adviser may have been conducted improperly. In January 2017, a group of FBI agents met at the White House to discuss the Flynn case. These agents openly questioned the investigation’s motives and objectives. Handwritten notes from the FBI’s former head of counterintelligence, Bill Priestap, seem to indicate that the bureau was more interested in attacking Flynn than finding the truth.
“What is our goal?” one section of the notes read. “Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” it added. Meanwhile, another note read, “If we’re seen as playing games, WH [White House] will be furious.”
An FBI Frame Up?
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Peter Strzok kept the investigation of incoming National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.) open because the “7th floor” — senior leadership — wanted it so. https://t.co/nVWqEnnIdJ
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 1, 2020
The memos outline what seems like a brainstorming session between the agents who met to discuss the case that day. They explore several options for pursuing the Flynn investigation and weigh out the pros and cons of each. The notes seem to indicate that the investigators had ulterior motives for pursuing a case against Flynn. It also implied that they weren’t concerned whether or not he was guilty.
Other documents unsealed last Thursday revealed that disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok pressured agents to keep the Flynn investigation open. This happened despite a glaring lack of evidence. Strzok garnered national attention for sending a series of Trump-bashing text messages from his FBI-issued cell phone. He sent the said texts all while working as an investigator for the Mueller probe. He was fired in August 2018 for unrelated personal conduct violations.
The Justice Department released the controversial documents last week after a federal judge unsealed them. Many Republicans already believed the former national security advisor was treated unfairly. However, the documents have sparked renewed interest in the case. Flynn pled guilty to making false statements to FBI agents in 2017, but his legal team wants to withdraw his guilty plea as the result of the FBI’s “egregious” misconduct.
Push for Investigation
Reps. Jordan and Johnson want to conduct interviews with both Prientka and Priestap in order to investigate the incident. In a letter to FBI Director Wray, the two lawmakers pressured the director to release all information relating to the Flynn case. The Republicans also said they want the FBI to “explain why the Committee and the American public are learnings of the FBI’s misconduct with respect to LTG Flynn from court filings rather than from you… [and] explain whether you or any other member of the FBI’s senior leadership prevented or delayed the disclosure of additional exculpatory information to LTG Flynn and his legal team.”
Constitutional abuse at the highest levels of the nation’s premier law enforcement agency seems like it would be news-worthy. However, the case has received relatively little attention from the mainstream media. Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley wrote about the media’s unapologetic bias on Twitter. He said: “There was a time when networks like MSNBC and CNN argued for civil liberties and against such abuses. Now, because such principles would benefit Trump, there is just a shrug with a common mantra ‘everyone does it.'”
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He already pled guilty, let’s move on. I do not trust Jim Jordan as far as I can throw a football and thats not that far. I pray he gets beat in November. I also pray that McConnel looses also in November. We need leaders that are not going to be so Political and work for ALL the American people not just One party or the other.
Yeah james, he’s already pled guilty. Ignore the procedural and legal violations of General Flynn’s rights, the suborning of his previous lawyers, the machinations that bankrupted him, the refusal to release exculpatory evidence, and the threat to indict his son on similar charges where they could invent evidence and ruin his career and reputation in order to bring pressure on General Flynn. The “deep state” socialists feared that the General would be in a position to expose their activities colluding with foreign governments and spying on the Trump campaign and administration, so they plotted to “take him out”. They almost succeeded, but their failure will bring a backlash that will exceed their wildest nightmares.
“We need leaders that are not going to be so Political and work for ALL the American people not just One party or the other.” Are you kidding me? All the democrats have done since 2016 is to try to get rid of Trump. Trump has worked harder than any president before him to work for ALL Americans. No, he doesn’t work for illegals because they are not citizens of this country. Do you really think it is ok for your tax money to pay for everything including health insurance for illegals when so many of our citizens can’t afford health insurance and other things?
Every last individual involved in this miscarriage of justice, treason, coverup , you name it, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. What a travesty & national disgrace at the attempted coup of a duly elected president this has been.
God bless & protect those brave & courageous individuals who have worked tirelessly through unimaginable red tape, personal persecutions/hardships, danger… etc, to expose the corruptions & lawlessness of those who seek to destroy our blessed country & freedoms we so highly value.
I’ve always said about the FBeeeI DeFund, DisBand, ReBuild.
Let’s return to Honesty & Integrity