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A day after the team of jurists of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn stated that the FBI had urged him not to call a lawyer during his fatal interview with White House agents, the federal judge had overseen the Flynn case. A criminal case on Wednesday night ordered special lawyer Robert Mueller to hand over all his highly secret documents and "memoranda" relating to the interrogation.
District Judge Emmet Sullivan – who overturned the 2008 conviction of former US Senator Ted Stevens after the revelation of government misconduct – wonders how to sentence Flynn, who pleaded guilty to have lied to the federal authorities during the survey conducted in Russia interview in the West Wing. Flynn was faced with legal bills that forced him to sell his house just before his guilty plea, and Mueller recommended that he not be sentenced to prison.
Sullivan's extraordinary request puts Mueller under the microscope and sets the Friday afternoon deadline to the special attorney's office to hand over sensitive FBI documents under seal. The judge, who also ordered the Flynn team to hand over the documents corroborating his claims, could explain why the FBI apparently took a much more aggressive tactic in dealing with Flynn than at the time of the accident. 39, other similar procedures, especially at meetings of the agency. with Hillary Clinton and Trump's former advisor, George Papadopoulos.
Flynn's conviction is scheduled for next Tuesday – but Sullivan's decision could delay that date or bring about other dramatic and unexpected changes in Flynn's legal fate. Sullivan even has the power to dismiss Flynn's guilty plea, and the prosecution against him concludes that the FBI violated Flynn's constitutional right to a lawyer, although he did Did not manifest his intention to do so.
Sullivan, appointed for the first time a judge of President Ronald Reagan in 1984, then Bill Clinton in 1994 in federal court in DC, could also explain why the two FBI agents who questioned Flynn – including the 39; Trump anti-Trump agent – Peter Strzok – reportedly provided in August The FBI 302 August date quoted by the Flynn team in its filing of Tuesday, December 22, 2017 is almost seven months after the date of their "302" report. Flynn's interview took place and about a week after the announcement of the rumor that Strzok had been summarily withdrawn from Mueller's investigation into Russia because of the persistence of his anti communications -Trump persistent.
reports are apparently contemporaneous accounts by agents of what is said during their interviews with witnesses and subjects, as well as other critical details such as the behavior of the respondent and the witnesses. descriptions of the place of maintenance. These are often essential evidence in cases of misrepresentation in which, as in the Flynn case, the FBI usually does not record audio or video track hearing.
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In June, the Representative of Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows, RN.C, had accused the FBI of having "corrected and modified" key witness statements in the Hillary Inquiries on Clinton and Russia. Meadows also raised the possibility that the FBI had misled the Justice Department's watchdog to conceal the identity of FBI employees who had been caught sending anti-Trump messages with Strzok.
Flynn "clearly saw the FBI agents as allies". according to the 302 prepared by Strzok and another agent.
In a lengthy court proceeding on Tuesday, Flynn's lawyers alleged that FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe had pushed Flynn not to have a lawyer present during the interrogation that ultimately led to his plea of guilt. accused of having lied to federal authorities
The document describes, with striking new details, the rapid sequence of events that led to the sudden fall of Flynn under the Trump administration.
While Flynn is one of many Trump associates to have been accused of making false statements as part of the investigation into Russia , none of the people interviewed during the FBI's email survey in Clinton were charged with false statements – although investigators thought that some witnesses, including Clinton herself, were untruthful.
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According to Flynn's lawyers, FBI agents in his case deliberately did not indicate to Flynn that any false statement that he allegedly made could constitute a crime, and decided not to "confront" him directly about anything that contradicts his knowledge of his communications with wiretapping with the company. Former Ambassador of Russia, Sergey Kislyak.
If "Flynn said that he did not remember something they knew they said, they would use the exact words used by Flynn, … to try to refresh his memories," have FBI agents wrote in the 302 report quoted by the filing, that Sullivan ordered both the Flynn team and the FBI to produce by Friday. "If Flynn still could not confirm what he had said, … they would not confront him and tell him."
According to the 302 described in the record, Flynn was "relaxed and pleasant" as he had given it to him. McCabe reportedly later stated that the agents, after speaking with Flynn, "did not think he was lying" at the time.
McCabe – who had been fired earlier this year. for making unauthorized leaks in the media and violating FBI policy – wrote in a memorandum that shortly after noon on January 24, 2017, he had called Flynn on his secure line to the White House and that the two men had briefly discussed a non-FBI related training session at the White House. Quickly, the conversation turned to a potential interview, according to a story provided by McCabe who was also quoted in Tuesday's statement.
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In his order, Sullivan asked Mueller to hand over not only the Flynn 302, but also a memo written by McCabe and similar documents in the possession of the FBI. Similarly, Sullivan asked Flynn's lawyers to produce the McCabe 302 memorandum they used to make their assertions.
(Separately, Sullivan decided last month that Clinton had to answer more sworn questions regarding his use of a private mail server to store classified documents.) The Trump administration was not easy In August, he threatened to sue the Attorney General of the time, Jeff Sessions, in defiance of the court, when he learned that the authorities were expelling a woman and his child The Court heard his appeal, calling the actions of the immigration officials "rather scandalous".)
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McCabe said in the memo that he had told Flynn that he "felt that we needed to have two of our agents sit down" to discuss his contacts with the Russian authorities.
"I explained that I thought the quickest way to proceed was to have a conversation between [Flynn] and the agents only," McCabe wrote. "In addition, I stated that if the LTG Flynn wanted to include someone else at the meeting, such as the White House lawyer, for example, I should do appeal to the Department of Justice. [General Flynn] stated that this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with agents without any additional participants. "
Explaining why Flynn had not been warned of the consequences possible from a false statement, one of the agents wrote in the 302 letter that "the FBI authorities had" decided that the agents would not warn Flynn that it was a crime to lie in an interview with the FBI because they wanted Flynn to be relaxed and that they feared that the warnings would hurt their relationship. "
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This tactic visibly contrasted with the FBI's approach of questioning the former Trump 's counselor, George Papadopoulos, who also pleaded guilty to false statements, praised from prison.Last year, during a trial, the team of Special Adviser Mueller took the trouble to note that the FBI agents who interrogated Papadopoulos on January 27, 2017 – just days after the interview with Flynn – had informed Papadopoulos that their "lying" was a federal offense. & # 39; "and He might have "trouble" if he was not telling the truth.
The revelations in the court record, if true, would also be very different from how the FBI would have handled its interview with presidential candidate Clinton in 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign. Clinton brought nine lawyers to his interview – a number that fired FBI director James Comey said "it was unusual … but not unprecedented" in his testimony to the House of Representatives in September.
A scathing report released earlier this year by the Department of Inspector General of Justice (IG) found that the FBI had taken steps "inconsistent with a conventional investigation strategy" by allowing former Clinton Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills, and former campaign employee, Heather Samuelson, to participate in Clinton's interview, although after leaving the Department of State, they had both practiced as lawyers after leaving the state department. "
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In fact, the IG wrote, FBI officials for fear of harming the agency Clinton against the agency if, as expected, she became president,
"[S] he could be our next president," wrote FBI attorney Lisa Page, insisting that the number of people present at the time of interview is limited to four. "We must go there loaded for bears. Do you think that she will remember or worry about the fact that it was more of the FBI than the FBI?
The IG's report further stated: "Witnesses told us, and contemporaneous emails show that the FBI and department officials who had attended the Clinton interview had concluded that her complaint that she did not understand the importance of the brand "(C)", tense credulity. (FBI) Agent 1 said, "I've put this in the trash bin hard to believe."
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Strzok, who was one of the two agents who questioned Flynn and who was also fired for violating FBI policies had compromised the allegiance of the FBI's impartiality by sending a series of anti-Trump texts on its phone issued by the government, the IG said.
"We were particularly concerned about the text messages exchanged by FBI Deputy Director Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, Special Advisor to the Deputy Director, which potentially indicated or created the impression that investigative decisions were influenced by biased or inappropriate considerations, "said the report of the IG.
In one of these texts, Strzok wrote to Page in 2016 that Trump would not become president, because" we are going to "
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" Even when circumstances reveal Existence of an in-depth public debate on General Flynn's investigation was revealed, with some revealing that some FBI officials participated in General Flynn's interview on January 24th. were themselves being investigated for misconduct, General Flynn has not hesitated to take responsibility for his actions, "Flynn's lawyers wrote in the case Tuesday.
Flynn was fired as a National Security Advisor in February 2017 for misleading Vice President Mike Pence and other White House officials in the United States. about his contacts with Russian officials. In stating that Flynn should not receive more than a year of probation and 200 hours of community service for making false statements to federal investigators, his lawyers pointed out Tuesday that he had served in the United States. American army and that he had no criminal record.
Earlier this month, Mueller had recommended a lenient sentence – with the possibility of not having a prison sentence – for Flynn, stating that he had offered "substantial" help to investigators on "several investigations in progress ".
Meanwhile, Comey revealed in camera – House witnesses with Republicans in the House said Friday that he had deliberately concealed an explosive memorandum recounting his meeting with a president in the Oval Office, in February 2017, with senior officials from the Ministry of Justice.
The former head of the FBI also acknowledged this fact. opened its counterintelligence investigation on a possible collusion between the Trump campaigners and the Russian government in July 2016, the investigations "Now, if we had something" and that "in fact, when I've was fired as director [in May 2017] I still did not know if there was anything. "
His remarks are consistent with the testimony of the former FBI attorney this summer. The anti-Trump texts became the center of the GOP House's oversight efforts.In a closed-door statement, Mr. Page told Congress that "even until May 2017" – more than nine months after the start of the counterintelligence investigation – "we still could not answer the question" on whether the Trump staff had been in collusion Russia.
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