Some people have absolutely no shame and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page is definitely one of them.
Bombshell FBI internal documents broke yesterday with handwritten notes from agents in the Flynn case indicating there was an effort to set him up.
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Unsealed FBI notes reveal the intent of the FBI’s 1/24/17 interview of Flynn:
“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute [Flynn] or get him fired?”
FBI Notes confirm it was all a pretext. pic.twitter.com/Y4IDyE4YZm
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) April 29, 2020
#FLYNN docs just unsealed, including handwritten notes 1/24/2017 day of Flynn FBI interview. Transcript: “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Read transcript notes, copy original just filed. @CBSNews pic.twitter.com/8oqUok8i7m
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) April 29, 2020
#FLYNN docs just unsealed, including emails between former FBI agent Strzok, former FBI lawyer Page and name REDACTED. Timing: Day before Flynn FBI interview 1/24/2017 Discuss how to warn Flynn lying to federal agents violation 18 USC 1001 — “casually slip that in” @CBSNews pic.twitter.com/83u6gasnfy
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) April 30, 2020
In response, OAN’s Jack Posobiec commented that Page and Benjamin Wittes seemed pretty quiet in the wake of the revelations. Wittes is the the guy who became notorious for always posting cannon booms allegedly that were supposed to do in Trump (but never did). He’s a buddy of former FBI Director James Comey. He’s also Editor in Chief of the Lawfare blog and has been an analyst for NBC and MSNBC.
Lisa Page @NatSecLisa and @benjaminwittes are very quiet tonight!
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 30, 2020
Wittes responded.
I am?
I did a live YouTube show with @Klonick and @IlvesToomas this evening. earlier today I tweeted a very large chameleon made entirely of succulents. https://t.co/dcbSz5zAtP— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) April 30, 2020
Page, after everything, had the temerity to mock people by posting this:
I’ve been busy sending text messages. https://t.co/M57odZEtmM
— Lisa Page (@NatSecLisa) April 30, 2020
This is supposed to be a grown adult male:
Teehee https://t.co/DMcc5jkrJC
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) April 30, 2020
They’re literally laughing about it. And you wonder why people don’t trust the FBI or the media with examples like this.
But Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist dropped them.
See, it's totally funny the damage they did to the country! Why aren't you laughing with media favorites Professor Tick Tock Von Boom Boom and Lisa Page? https://t.co/y2Swl73U4q
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 30, 2020
There was an attempt afoot to try to justify the internal notes as perfectly normal behavior.
The prepared talking point: pic.twitter.com/soV20sFR5K
— Svetlana (@RealSLokhova) April 30, 2020
But as I noted last night in my story about former federal prosecutor, Andrew McCarthy, no, it isn’t “how it works.” It’s a false comparison, comparing criminal suspects to an effort to trap a decorated officer with no known criminal predicate. It really says more about the people trying to sell that bull.
From Fox News:
“What we are seeing is a meticulously planned-out scheme to try to get a 33-year combat veteran of the United States to say something that was inaccurate so that they would have a basis to try to charge him with false statements or otherwise get him fired,” McCarthy told “The Story.” [….]
“They did not have a legitimate investigative reason for doing this and there was no criminal predicate or reason to treat him [Flynn] like a criminal suspect,” McCarthy explained.
“They did the interview outside of the established protocols of how the FBI is supposed to interview someone on the White House staff. They are supposed to go through the Justice Department and the White House counsel’s office. They obviously purposely did not do that and they were clearly trying to make a case on this.” [….]
“For years, a number of us have been arguing that this looked like a perjury trap” [….]
“People should understand,” McCarthy explained, “if General Flynn was a gangbanger or Mafia guy, they would have sat down with them or they would have told him, ‘This is a criminal investigation,’ they would have identified themselves as FBI agents, told him the reason for the interview, told him he had a right not to answer questions and told him if he made false statements, that could be grounds for prosecution. And if he made true statements, that can be used against him in a prosecution.”
Um, Ben and Lisa? Boom. And we think that wouldn’t be the last one.
HT: Twitchy
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