I am listening to the briefs to Court of Appeals DC Circuit.

From the questions being asked by the judges, it doesn't sound like that they will stop Sullivan from having a July hearing.

How disappointing. what a fucking joke

Wilkins is the worst (obama judge)

just my opinion

update: Appeals Court is asking Beth Wilkinson some tough questions. Maybe hope

Judge Wilkins is a disgrace. He keeps hypothesizing a case where a white person is not prosecuted for beating a black victim. At least 4 times he brought this up as an example.

WTH does that have to do w Flynn's case ?

Sydney Powell mentions that only General Flynn is paying out of his own pocket, all others are paid by government.


adding:

a good write up of today's event

https://thefederalist.com/2020...s-down-to-one-judge/

Over the course of nearly two hours, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals quizzed attorneys for Michael Flynn, the Department of Justice, and Judge Emmet Sullivan. The questions posed during oral argument suggest the court is hesitant to order Sullivan to dismiss the criminal case against Flynn — at least at this time. How the court will rule, however, likely rests in the hands of Judge Karen Henderson.

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The end justifies the means.

Yet we haven't had charges pressed against the Coup Conspirators, the fbi officials who "lacked Candor", the fbi officials who released classified information...…..

https://dailycaller.com/2020/0...bi-fisa-carter-page/

Twitter Hires Ex-FBI Lawyer Who Played Key Role In Probe Of Trump Campaign


Twitter announced Monday that it has hired the former FBI lawyer who approved key steps taken during the investigation into the Trump campaign, including the decisions to surveil former campaign aide Carter Page and to use an FBI agent to secretly monitor Michael Flynn during a national security briefing for the campaign.

James Baker will serve as deputy general counsel of Twitter, said Sean Edgett, the general counsel of the social media company.

Baker “is committed to our core principles of an open internet and freedom of expression,” Edgett said in a statement. Baker “brings experience navigating complex, global issues with a principled approach.”

"principled approach" as in trying to overturn a U.S. Presidential election ?

Baker joins Twitter amid a battle with President Donald Trump over censorship of conservative users of the platform.

Trump signed an executive order on May 28 that calls to remove social media companies’ shield against liability if they engage in censorship. He took the step after Twitter fact-checked two of Trump’s tweets regarding mail-in voting ballots.

As the FBI’s top attorney, Baker reviewed and approved decisions that the bureau took during Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign.

A Justice Department inspector general’s report on the investigation said that Baker approved the decision to seek Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page, who served on the Trump campaign’s foreign policy team.

“Baker told us that he also remembered being satisfied at the time that there was probable cause articulated in the draft application to believe that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power,” the IG report says

because of his "principled approach"

The IG ultimately found that the FBI committed at least 17 “significant” errors and omissions in its applications to surveil Page. Many of the omissions involved the Steele dossier.

The FBI relied heavily on information from Christopher Steele, a former British spy hired by the Clinton campaign and by the Democratic National Committee to investigate the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia.

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Over the course of nearly two hours, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals quizzed attorneys for Michael Flynn, the Department of Justice, and Judge Emmet Sullivan. The questions posed during oral argument suggest the court is hesitant to order Sullivan to dismiss the criminal case against Flynn — at least at this time. How the court will rule, however, likely rests in the hands of Judge Karen Henderson.

It's painfully obvious that dismissing this case is the correct path, but if they don't order that...then we know the "fix" is in.

so we thought the Mueller team was done trying to bring down President Trump. Not yet.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/0...blower-william-barr/

One of the top prosecutors on the special counsel’s team is set to testify as a whistleblower against Attorney General William Barr, the House Judiciary Committee announced on Tuesday.

Aaron Zelinsky will testify on June 24 regarding the Justice Department’s handling of the prosecution of Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidante convicted on charges that he made false statements to Congress during its investigation of possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Another Justice Department attorney, John Elias, the acting chief of staff for the assistant attorney general for the antitrust division, will also testify as a whistleblower about what Democrats say is “improperly motivated activity” by the antitrust division.

“Mr. Zelinsky can speak to the Department’s handling of the sentencing of Roger Stone and Mr. Elias can speak to improperly motivated activity by the Antitrust Division,” the Judiciary Committee announced.

Democrats on the committee subpoenaed Zelinsky and Elias to compel their testimony. Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York said that both of the prosecutors are designated as whistleblowers, meaning that they will have protections against retribution for testifying to Congress.

Zelinsky resigned from his position as a prosecutor on the case against Stone on Feb. 11 after the Justice Department’s main office intervened to recommend a lighter sentence against the Trump associate.

Prosecutors initially recommended the maximum of nine years in prison for Stone.

obscene

After Barr intervened, Timothy Shea, who then served as U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., revised the recommendation in a subsequent court filing, saying that Stone deserved a “substantial” prison sentence, but one that was “far less” than the maximum nine year sentence.

Prosecutors argued in the revised filing that the initial recommendation did not take into full account that a key government witness at Stone’s trial asked that Stone receive no jail time.

Zelinsky and three other attorneys stepped down from their positions on the Stone matter after the revised filing.

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Durham has to start moving to set these assholes back on their heels.

Comment by Chuck Ross:

It says a lot about FBI/DOJ that Aaron Zelinsky is blowing the whistle over Roger Stone "only" getting 40 months in prison, whereas not one known whistleblower has come forward regarding FISA abuse.

an interview w AG Barr

https://youtu.be/FztiTg5tYZI



Bartiromo says someone once said "The Russian collusion investigation was the closest that the United States ever came to a coup to take down a president since the assassination of Lincoln"

She asked is that statement appropriate ?

Barr: "In this sense I think it is the closest we have come to an organized effort to push a president out of office. But I'm not reaching a judgment about what the motivations were"

Some talk about China stealing our secrets.

Barr: In Jan 2017 and Mar 2017 the primary dossier subsource was interviewed. This person was the sole source for the dossier.

The dossier collapsed at that point (early 2017)

Bartiromo asked if Joseph Mifsud worked for western intel. Barr said he could not answer that.

Barr said "in our view" Bolton's book has highly classified material in it. If that gets proven, the remedy is that Bolton forfeits all proceeds ($) from the book to the govt.

seen at CTH

more on John Bolton

https://www.reuters.com/articl...torted-idUSKBN23T0F2

Bolton gives details in the book of conversations before and after three meetings between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, including how their second summit in Vietnam fell apart.

The book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir”, is scheduled for publication on Tuesday but media outlets have released excerpts.

Reports have cited Bolton as writing that Moon, who is keen to improve relations with North Korea, had raised unrealistic expectations with both Kim and Trump for his own “unification” agenda.

“It does not reflect accurate facts and substantially distorts facts,” South Korea’s national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, said in a statement referring to Bolton’s description of top-level consultations.

Chung did not elaborate on specific areas South Korea saw as inaccurate but said the publication set a “dangerous precedent”.

“Unilaterally publishing consultations made based on mutual trust violates the basic principles of diplomacy and could severely damage future negotiations,” he said.

Trump rejected an offer by Kim to give up North Korea’s main nuclear facility in return for lifting some sanctions.

Bolton reportedly cites Chung as relaying Moon’s response to the breakdown as, on the one hand, Trump was right to reject Kim’s proposal but on the other, Kim’s willingness to dismantle the Yongbyon facility was a “very meaningful first step” toward “irreversible” denuclearisation.

Bolton refers to Moon’s position as “schizophrenic”.

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perhaps this relates to AG Barr's comments about classified info in the book.

What a first class prick Bolton has turned out to be.

good article describing the roles of FBI and DoJ personnel

Chuck Ross has done some good work on the obama FBI/DoJ coup attempt

https://dailycaller.com/2020/0...-laufman-clinesmith/


Steve Somma , FBI counterintelligence investigator in the New York Field Office.

Somma is reported to be an FBI counterintelligence agent referred to as “Case Agent 1” in the IG report.

The report said that “Case Agent 1” was “primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions” in the FBI’s applications for surveillance orders on Page.

Somma played a role in several key developments in the investigation. He opened the case file on Page, he first proposed surveillance on the Trump aide, and was the FBI handler for Stefan Halper , a longtime confidential human source who was tasked with meeting Page and George Papadopoulos.

Somma also took part in a January 2017 interview with the primary source for Christopher Steele, the former British spy whose dossier was a key aspect of the FISA applications

Case Agent 1 opened the case file, known as an Electronic Communication, on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in August 2016. He was also the main driver at the FBI for surveillance warrants on Page, and he was put in charge of verifying each strand of evidence included in the documents. He interviewed Page, a former Naval officer, five times in March 2017

The IG reported identified six areas where Somma withheld information from the investigation.

He failed to disclose exculpatory statements that Page and Papadopoulos made to Halper during secretly recorded conversations before the 2016 election. He also received information from the CIA in August 2016 that Page had a longstanding relationship with the spy agency. The IG report says that Somma did not divulge that information to others at the FBI.

Somma also withheld information that Steele’s source divulged in the January 2017 interview that undercut key allegations in the dossier. The FBI relied heavily on the document to obtain spy warrants against Page.

The Steele source said that Steele embellished or misinterpreted information that was in the dossier. He said that he provided Steele with information that was based on “rumor and speculation,” but that Steele passed it along as fact in the dossier.

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David Laufman former Justice Department chief of counterintelligence and export control.

Laufman was the DOJ official who arranged a January 2017 interview with Steele’s primary source.

Somehow, Laufman and other meeting participants failed to disclose in the FISA applications that Steele’s source disavowed aspects of the dossier.

Laufman, who retired in 2018 and has become an outspoken critic of Trump and Barr, also played a key role in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. He interviewed Clinton alongside Peter Strzok, who served as deputy chief of FBI counterintelligence.

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Stuart Evans deputy assistant attorney general for the National Security Division’s Office of Intelligence.

Evans is one of the few government officials discussed in the IG report who raised concerns about the effort to surveil Page and the decision to rely on Steele to obtain FISAs.

Emails cited in the report show that Evans asked FBI agents to provide additional evidence to back up claims in the report.

The IG report says that Evans’s “persistent inquiries” forced the Crossfire Hurricane team to disclose potential bias in Steele’s information.

Evans “placed a temporary hold” on the initial FISA application while his office evaluated information regarding Steele.

Evans’s reluctance was offset by eagerness by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to obtain the FISA authorization.

“According to Evans, he raised on multiple occasions with the FBI, including with Strzok, Lisa Page, and later McCabe, whether seeking FISA authority targeting Carter Page was a good idea, even if the legal standard was met,” the IG report says.

Evans said that he did not believe there was a compelling benefit to obtaining the warrant because Page was unlikely to put any incriminating information on email or in a telephone call.

Evans was not informed of several other red flags related to the dossier.

According to the IG report, Steele told FBI agents on Oct. 3, 2016 that he believed that a key sub-source for his dossier was a “boaster” and “egotist.”

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Joseph Pientka FBI supervisory special agent.

The IG report does not identify Pientka by name, but it says that a Supervisory Special Agent — “SSA 1” — took part in a Jan. 24, 2017 interview with Michael Flynn.

Pientka conducted the interview alongside his colleague, Peter Strzok.

Pientka is also the FBI agent who the bureau sent into an Aug. 17, 2016 briefing for the Trump campaign related to Russia’s election meddling. The IG report said that Pientka was sent into the briefing in order to gauge Flynn’s demeanor. Days earlier, the FBI added Flynn to the list of Trump associates who were targets of Crossfire Hurricane.

The IG report also said that SSA 1 supervised the Carter Page investigation and signed an authorization to submit the initial FISA warrant against the Trump aide.

Pientka was also responsible for confirming the completion of a document known as a Woods File, “and for double checking the factual accuracy review to confirm that the file contained appropriate documentation for each of the factual assertions in the FISA application.”

The IG said that the Woods File was “inaccurate, incomplete or unsupported by appropriate documentation,” raising questions about how thoroughly Pientka reviewed the evidence.

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Jonathan Moffa FBI Intel Section Chief.

Moffa managed the Crossfire Hurricane probe alongside Peter Strzok, the deputy chief of counterintelligence. The pair also worked closely on the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

According to the IG report, the analysts on the Crossfire Hurricane team reported up to Moffa.

The report also says that Moffa described Steele as “reliable” in a December 2016 email even though the FBI had closed him out as a confidential source and the FBI had information that called his credibility into question.

That same month, Moffa said the CIA viewed Steele’s reporting as “Internet rumor”

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Kevin Clinesmith former attorney in the FBI’s office of general counsel.

The IG report says that an FBI lawyer identified as Clinesmith altered an email in June 2017 to say that Carter Page was “not a source” for the CIA. Page had been an “operational contact” for the spy agency until at least 2013.

Clinesmith also played a key role in several aspects of Crossfire Hurricane. He was also an attorney on the special counsel’s investigation.

He took part in a February 2017 interview with George Papadopoulos.

A previous IG report about the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton cited anti-Trump text messages that Clinesmith sent after the 2016 election. Clinesmith wrote “Vive [sic] le Resistance!” in one message.

The New York Times has reported that Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department inspector general, referred Clinesmith to prosecutors for potential criminal charges.

Breaking: DOJ reveals discovery of new Strzok notes in Flynn case

https://justthenews.com/accoun..._campaign=newsletter

In the latest twist, the Justice Department disclosed to a federal court Tuesday it has located a new page of notes from Peter Strzok, the former lead FBI agent in the Russia collusion investigation, that are exculpatory to former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin informed U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of the discovery in a midday court filing, revealing the single page of notes were believed to have been taken by Strzok during the critical juncture of early January 2017 when FBI agents recommended shutting down their investigation of Flynn only to be overruled by FBI superiors.

"This page of notes was taken by former Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok. While the page itself is undated; we believe that the notes were taken in early January 2017, possibly between January 3 and January 5," Sherwin wrote in the motion. The prosecutor said it was possible more documents may be produced to the court.

The page of notes were not made public with the filing because they are currently subject to a protective order.

A source directly familiar with the discovery of the document told Just the News they include one paragraph of notes believed to be taken around Jan. 4, 2017, the date Strzok relayed a request from FBI leadership to the lead agent in the Flynn case asking him not to shut down the investigation as had been planned. The notes are "highly exculpatory," the source said, declining to describe them more fully because they are under seal.

Records belatedly made public earlier this year show the FBI agent running the Flynn case had concluded there was "no derogatory" information found during a five-month inquiry against Flynn suggesting that the Trump adviser had engaged in a criminal act or counterintelligence threat. The agent recommended shutting down the probe.

But Strzok relayed a message from the "7th floor" leadership of the FBI to hold off closing the case, leading to a controversial decision to seek an interview with Flynn that eventually led to criminal charges and a plea deal. Flynn has asked that his conviction be reversed and DOJ has sided with him. Sullivan is considering the request.

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an interview w AG Barr

Barr said "in our view" Bolton's book has highly classified material in it. If that gets proven, the remedy is that Bolton forfeits all proceeds ($) from the book to the govt.

seen at CTH

If that is proven, Bolton should be imprisoned for revealing classified information (10 years, I think).

flashguy

Looks like Gen. Flynn will be a free man! Haven't seen an article yet but this just popped up. Unfortunately some people are predicting Sullivan will seek a review with the full court, because that's they type of scumbag he is...

Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied.

People need to go to jail or this will never be seen as the crime it was.

Sullivan knew he had a loosing position and he just wanted to try to inflict more extrajudicial harm on Lieutenant General Flynn.

Might not be good idea to appeal...





https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog.../1275803339738021890

Techno Fog is a great source.

This is terrific news.

Congrats to Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell.

Flynn is very very lucky he fired his prior lawyers (from Eric Holder's firm) and hired Sidney Powell. She is a fearless warrior.

Those hand written notes are from Peter Strzok

The date of those notes will be important.

Previously the only mtg w obama on this was the 5 Jan 2017 mtg. That was where Rice wrote her CYA memo,

Some reports think Strzok's notes were from 4 Jan. (not 5 Jan)

Talk about a lawyer who has earned her legal fees! Holy shit !

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Talk about a lawyer who has earned her legal fees! Holy shit !

You ain't kidding. Sidney Powell is a hero.

Rush was mentioning something about Sullivan still dragging this case out possibly passed the election. Goddamn buffoon.

President Trump:

Is James Comey and his band of Dirty Cops going to apologize to General Michael Flynn (and many others) for what they have done to ruin his life? What about Robert Mueller and his Angry Democrat Cronies - Are they going to say, SO SORRY? And what about Obama & Biden?