December 14, 2018

Mueller defies a federal judge's order, pulls a switch on providing docs demanded by judge

Ordinary citizens can't defy a federal judge and get away with it.

But in the U.S. today, federal law-enforcement agencies and Trump-hating former FBI directors can defy a federal judge and laugh--because they're above the law, citizen.

Of course you think I'm just making this up.  "Couldn't possibly be true!  After all, we're 'a nation of laws,' right?" 

Well, follow me through on this and decide for yourself.  What I'm about to describe is entirely in the official, public record, and you're encouraged to verify everything for yourself:

The FBI has a form called an "FD-302," titled Form for Reporting Information That May Become Testimony.  When the bureau interviews someone about something remotely significant, this form is supposed to be filed immediately after the interview.

As part of the Great Russian Collusion investigation, anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok and one other agent interviewed Trump's intended security advisor, retired Lt.General Mike Flynn, seeking information about possible illegal contacts between the Trump team and Russians.  The agents who conducted the interview said they had no indication that Flynn was being deceptive.

This wasn't what special counsel Robert Mueller wanted to hear.  And sure enough, Flynn has now been charged with lying to the FBI.  But Flynn's attorneys noted to the judge the deposition testimony of the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn and concluded he wasn't being deceptive.  The attorneys wanted to know how Mueller managed to reverse the conclusion formed by the interviewers themselves.

The federal judge in the case--U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan--agreed that this was...curious, and found this so vexing that he gave Mueller 24 hours to produce all documents pertaining to the Flynn interview.

Today Mueller’s office released "documents" purporting to fulfill judge Sullivan's order.  One of those documents was an FD-302, supposedly documenting what Flynn told anti-Trump agent Peter Strzok and one other agent during their conversation at the White House.  One small problem: The 302 submitted by Mueller was created eight months after the Flynn interview--a serious breach of FBI policy.  And the source of the long-delayed 302 wasn't the Flynn interview itself, but an interview with Peter Strzok eight months after he interviewed Flynn in which he discussed that interview.
 This deception is absurd.  Here the FBI is supposedly hot on the trail of high-level, illegal contacts with the Russians--the heart of the endlesslly-claimed "collusion"--and Mueller wants the court to believe his bullshit claim that the agents who interviewed the guy they thought was the key player in the alleged "collusion" simply didn't bother to file the most basic, routine FBI form summarizing the interview.

Do you really think the FBI agents were that careless with such a critical, crucial interview?  Seems astronomically unlikely.  Instead the other agent almost certainly filed a 302 days after the interview.  The question is, what did that contemporaneous memo say, and why didn't Mueller turn it over to the court, as the federal judge ordered?

Now the question is, will Judge Sullivan let Mueller get away with this obvious effort to falsify the record?  Could you get away with such an obvious "F-you" to a federal judge?

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home