justice delayed is justice denied

https://www.washingtonexaminer...einer-laptop-in-2016

New details have emerged about 2016’s "October Surprise," during which the FBI found emails belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on disgraced New York Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop, with the FBI official who found the emails speaking out for the first time.

FBI agent John Robertson, who worked in its New York office’s child sex crimes unit and was later cited (though not named) in Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2018 report on the handling of the investigation of Clinton's unauthorized private email server, spoke with the Washington Post’s Devlin Barrett for his upcoming book, October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election

Robertson unearthed tens of thousands of Clinton emails in late September 2016 on the laptop belonging to Weiner, the husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, in a sex crimes case involving underage girls, but for weeks after being alerted, top FBI leaders (including fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, fired FBI agent Peter Strzok, and former FBI counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap) took little to no action to investigate .

A letter from fired FBI Director James Comey to Congress in late October about the email discovery, shortly after he was finally briefed on it, disrupted the election — and would be blamed by some for President Trump’s victory.

“The crickets I was hearing was really making me uncomfortable because something was going to come down,” Robertson said he later told Justice Department investigators. “Why isn’t anybody here? Like if I’m the supervisor of any [counterintelligence] squad … and I hear about this, I’m getting on with headquarters and saying, 'Hey, some agent working child porn here may have [Hillary Clinton] emails. Get your ass on the phone, call [the case agent], and get a copy of that drive,’ because that’s how it should be. And that nobody reached out to me within, like, that night, I still to this day don’t understand what the hell went wrong.”

Robertson wrote a “Letter to Self” in late October after an Oct. 19, 2016, meeting, during which he implored Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Kramer of the Southern District of New York to push FBI leadership to look at the thousands of emails he had unearthed.

“I have very deep misgivings about the institutional response of the FBI to the congressional investigation into the Hillary Clinton email matter … Put simply: I don’t believe the handling of the material I have by the FBI is ethically or morally right. But my lawyer’s advice — that I simply put my SSA on notice should cover me — is that I have completed CYA [Cover Your Ass], and I have done so,” Robertson wrote. “Further, I was told by [Kramer] that should I ‘whistleblow,’ I will be prosecuted."

Robertson continued: “I possess — the FBI possesses — 20 times more emails than Comey testified to. ... While Comey did not know at the time about what I have, people in the FBI do now, and as far as I know, we are being silent. … If I say or do nothing more, I am falling short ethically and morally. And later, I may be accused of being a Hillary Clinton hack because of the timing of all this. ... But if I say something (i.e., whistleblow), I will lose my reputation, my career, and risk prosecution. I will also be accused of being a Donald Trump hack."

He wrote that "nothing could be further from the truth" because "I am apolitical."

Horowitz’s 2018 report on the Clinton email investigation noted a federal search warrant was obtained on Sept. 26, 2016, for Weiner’s devices and that the “Weiner case agent” (Robertson) noticed “within hours” that there were “over 300,000 emails on the laptop,” including between Clinton and Abedin. The FBI New York Field Office’s William Sweeney was alerted two days later, and key FBI executives such as McCabe were informed by Sweeney.

Text messages show McCabe, Strzok, and Priestap discussed the Weiner laptop on Sept. 28, 2016, and Strzok said he initially planned to send a team to New York to review the emails, but a call with the FBI’s New York office was scheduled next day instead. Horowitz wrote that “after October 4, we found no evidence that anyone associated with the Midyear investigation, including the entire leadership team at FBI Headquarters, took any action on the Weiner laptop issue until the week of October 24 , and then did so only after the Weiner case agent expressed concerns to SDNY, prompting SDNY to contact the Office of the Deputy Attorney Genera l on October 21 to raise concerns.”

Horowitz said that the FBI’s explanations were “unpersuasive justifications for not acting sooner” and "the fact that Strzok and several other FBI members of the Midyear team had been assigned to the Russia investigation ... was not an excuse for failing to take any action.”

Horowitz wrote, adding that “we did not have confidence that Strzok’s decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop was free from bias.”

Horowitz is awfully slow to state the obvious

Comey sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28, 2016, revealing that “the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation” and that the FBI would "allow investigators to review these emails.” On Nov. 6, 2016, he sent a follow-up letter that “we have not changed our conclusions" about not charging Clinton.

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from Hans Mahncke: Amanda Kramer, the former SDNY Assistant US Attorney who allegedly silenced the Weiner whistleblower, now works at Covington & Burling, the law firm that sold @GenFlynn down the river.

Eric Holder is a partner at Covington & Burling

Another pass for Hillary Clinton and her team, even though she/they clearly failed to follow legal requirements for handling classified emails and probably were doing so for self-serving reasons. Color me "Surprised" (NOT).

From Robertson's book itself, this should make the FBI's complicity in hiding these revelations perfectly clear:

"When he got to Kramer’s office on Oct. 19, she asked him, “What’s up?” Sitting in a chair, Robertson exhaled deeply and began talking, his knee pumping much of the time. He had told his bosses about the Clinton emails weeks ago. Nothing had happened. Or rather, the only thing that had happened was his boss had instructed Robertson to erase his computer work station. Ostensibly, that was to ensure there was no classified material on it. But it also meant there was no record of what Robertson had done, or had not done, with the laptop information. He was starting to feel like he was going to be made a scapegoat, and he was freaking out. He had already talked to a lawyer."

https://www.washingtonpost.com...09962649c_story.html

I am in complete overload right now. Working multiple projects.

but here is something posted at Techno Fog:

https://t.co/xkuNmcyECQ?amp=1

just came out today.

The third Supplement in Support of Agreed Dismissal of Gen Flynn

Looks very informative. Will try to post more later.

Related to this I believe. I haven't read the whole thing yet but wow.

‘Trump Was Right’: Explosive New FBI Texts Detail Internal Furor Over Handling Of ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ Investigation

Newly disclosed internal FBI notes and text messages detail the extent of the FBI's desire to take down Trump and his associates at any cost.

https://thefederalist.com/2020...icane-investigation/

Listening to Graham now. President Trump was right. As usual.

The FBI knew for 10 years that the source was a suspected Russian agent.

If that’s not enough to charge and convict all the traitors in the FBI then we have a serious problem in this country

We have a very serious problem, sir.

Every new fact paints a more damning picture of the FBI

The Graham story is about a letter that AG Barr just sent to Graham.

Summary:
Igor Danchenko was the primary subsource of the Steele dossier

Danchenko worked for Brookings Institution from 2005 to 2010.

In Aug 2010 Danchenko cowrote a paper w Fiona Hill

Now the interesting part : The FBI thought Danchenko was a Russian spy in 2010 and applied for a FISA warrant on him in July/Aug 2010.

Danchenko left the U.S. in Sep 2010, and the FBI dropped the warrant request.

Then in 2016, Danchenko is back in the U.S. and feeding Christopher Steele the dossier "intelligence" (aka complete bullshit)

No one mentioned any of this to the FISA Court










assorted facts

Strobe Talbott - long time friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton

Strobe Talbott - President of Brookings Institution from 2002 to 2017

Strobe Talbott - worked w Steele in 2016 to get the dossier public

Fiona Hill - former National Security Advisor (Trump administration)

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Flynn case bombshell: FBI analysts bought insurance fearing they'd be sued for misconduct

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

Flynn probe was supposed to be shut down in November 2016, and analysts became worried when superiors kept it open without cause.



FBI analysts working on the Michael Flynn Russia investigation originally planned to end the inquiry in fall 2016 and eventually bought liability insurance fearing they could be sued after their bosses continued to keep the investigation open based on "conspiracy theories," explosive new text messages showed Thursday.

"We all went and purchased professional liability insurance," one analyst texted on Jan. 10, 2017, just 10 days before Trump took office.

"Holy crap," a colleague responded. "All the analysts too?"

"Yep," the first analyst said. "All the folks at the Agency as well."

"Can I ask who are the most likely litigators?" a colleague responded. "As far as potentially suing y'all."

"Haha, who knows….I think the 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 original analyst texted back.

The explosive messages were attached to a new filing by Flynn's attorney Sidney Powell, who argued to the court that is considering dismissing her client's guilty plea that the emails show "stunning government misconduct" and "wrongful prosecution."

A hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday.

"There was no case against General Flynn," Powell wrote in the new motion. "There was no crime. The FBI and the prosecutors knew that. This American hero and his entire family have suffered for four years from public abuse, slander, libel, and all means of defamation at the hands of the very government he pledged his life to defend."

The new FBI evidence was turned over late Wednesday and included a stunning revelation that FBI agents originally planned to close Flynn's probe, known as Crossfire Razor, on Nov. 8, 2016, nearly a year before he was charged with lying to the FBI.

"He said shut down Razor" and "so glad they're closing Razor," an FBI official texted that day. "However [redacted] was silent though, so who knows what he will want."

By January, the FBI analysts were alarmed that their agency was engaged in misconduct that could be discovered by President Trump's new attorney general.

"The new AG might have some questions….then yada yada yada…we all get screwed," one official wrote.

A follow-up string of messages suggested the bureau would be exposed for "rabbit holes and conspiracy theories" if the Russia casework was ever exposed because of its lack of evidence.

"I'm tellying [sic] man, if this thing ever gets FOIA'd, there are going to be some tough questions asked," one official wrote.

If there are not numerous indictments from all this, then I will join the leftists in calling for Barr to be removed.....just for a different reason.

from CTH

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Jeff Jensen, has been conducting an ongoing review of the FBI investigation that led to charges in the case against Michael Flynn

As part of that review an interview was recently conducted (September 17, 2020) with the former Flynn supervisory case agent, William Barnett – who also was assigned to the Special Counsel’s Office investigating Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.

Barnett believed the prosecution of Flynn was a means to "get Trump"

Note: This information from agent Barnett is from an interview on 17 Sep 2020. Just 8 days ago




How important was William Barnett ? He was the FBI case agent for the Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort investigations. The Flynn investigation was CROSSFIRE RAZOR.

Barnett transcript:


https://www.scribd.com/documen...#download&from_embed



from the Barnett interview transcript:




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I think SSA 1 is Joe Pientka. Barnett had requested to interview Flynn. The request was denied. Then Strzok and Pientka interview Flynn on 24 Jan 2017 w/o informing Barnett.

Barnett believed he was "cut out" of the interview.





In February 2017 Barnett still did not see any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian govt.

Barnett thought the Flynn investigation was just a "check the box" exercise to "put the matter to rest".

Barnett thought the Flynn collusion investigation was a "dumb theory" that did not make sense.

Barnett briefed the Special Counsel prosecutors about Flynn and told them there was no evidence of a crime.





Side comment: as Judge Sullivan keeps trying to screw Michael Flynn, U.S. Attorney Jensen keeps sending out more and more ammunition for Sidney Powell.

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Report: John Durham Taking Over John Huber’s Fruitless Clinton Foundation Review

U.S. Attorney John Durham has taken over aspects of U.S. Attorney John Huber’s notoriously unproductive investigation into the Clinton Foundation, Fox News reported on Thursday.

https://amgreatness.com/2020/0...n-foundation-review/

breaking the Barnett interview into a second part because it is so long





Barnett told the SCO he may take matters to the IG.





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Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Mueller and his whole team - ALL traitors and trash

If I were the insurance company I wouldn't honor the policies. there must be a clause somewhere for not insuring malfeasance versus malpractice. bleed those mf'rs dry.

https://twitter.com/MariaBarti.../1310221953110888449

Maria Bartiromo:

NO John Durham interim report. No indictments before election - Bartiromo sources.

^^^ Gee, what a shock. NOT!

The corruption goes all the way to the top of the former administration as summarized in the most recent filing from Sidney Powell:



Jump to 6:35 for the evidence but the whole video is worth a watch since it shows how criminals in government behave when they think they are above the law. I pray they are not.

Hans Mahncke is one of the bloggers who worked to identify Danchenko and his subsources. (these were the sources of the dossier. clowns and grifters)

Mahnncke raises a very good point. The FBI briefed obama and Trump early in Jan 2017 on parts of the dossier. The FBI interviewed Danchenko about 25 Jan 2017 as the dossier primary subsource.

But when did the FBI know Danchneko was the primary subsource (PSS) ?

If they knew Danchenko was the PSS, and that the FBI thought Danchenko was a Russian spy in 2010, did they brief the President and the President-elect on fabrications that came straight from someone they thought was a Russian spy? And not tell them that ?

Every time I think it can't get any worse for Comey and his treacherous team, it gets worse.

Mahncke?

I don't have a snappy comeback, so I need to "check"

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There has been a lot of speculation about what Strzok meant when he texted in Aug 2016 "we need an insurance policy"

Both Sidney Powell and a blogger have come to the same conclusion:

The insurance policy was the opening of an investigation into Michael Flynn

Investigations of Carter Page, George Papadopolous, and Paul Manafort were opened on August 10, 2016

On August 15, 2016 Strzok texts to Lisa Page:

"I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy [McCabe]’s office—that there’s no way he gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40…"

The IG report says the investigation into Flynn opened on August 16, 2016

The very recent testimony of FBI agent William Barnett reveals that not much took place in the Flynn investigation for quite a while. The justification to open was "not great" according to Barnett.

It was there in case Donald Trump was elected. Then the investigation was used to take Flynn out in Jan 2017.

much more detail here:

https://www.redstate.com/shipw...-agent-adds-insight/

shipwreckedcrew is a lawyer who previously spent 22 years as a federal prosecutor