So what exactly did you mean by: “Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in morning, sailors take warning.”
In light of this stuff, I would be concerned about talking even about the weather with an FBI agent, that’s how much these characters have sullied its reputation.
Mike Pence Now Thinks Flynn Was Railroaded
We think the haste in which the Trump Admin acted in firing Flynn vividly illustrates its naivete that Comey exploited in “sending a couple agents over to interview the general: dlh
“Asked to describe how two FBI agents ended up at the White House to interview Flynn in January 2017, Comey, speaking to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace during a forum discussion Sunday, said flatly: “I sent them.”
“Comey went on to acknowledge the way the interview was set up – not through the White House counsel’s office, but arranged directly with Flynn – was not standard practice. He called it “something I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more … organized administration.”
PENCE INCLINED MORE THAN EVER TO BELIEVE FLYNN DID NOT INTENTIONALLY MISLEAD
Following disclosures of key documents last week, it’s become patently obvious that President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, retired three-star general Michael Flynn, was set up by Obama-era operatives.
His resultant ‘guilty plea’ for ‘lying’ to the FBI, then, is looking more and more like it was coerced.
Prior to being charged by Robert Mueller’s partisan hack prosecutors, however, you may recall that Flynn was forced out of the White House in 2017, barely a month in to the new administration, ostensibly for “lying” to Vice President Mike Pence about a conversation involving then-Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.
On Thursday, however, following this week’s disclosures of handwritten notes from FBI agents sent by fired Director James Comey to entrap Flynn, the vice president noted he is “inclined more than ever” to believe Flynn never intended to mislead him about his conversations with the Russian diplomat, the Washington Examiner reported.
The site noted further:
He made the comments after the FBI records released on Thursday have been touted by Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, as exculpatory evidence heretofore concealed from the defense team. They show that now-fired FBI agent Peter Strzok and others in the FBI’s leadership stopped the bureau from closing its investigation into Flynn in early January 2017 after investigators had uncovered “no derogatory information” on him. Emails from later that month show Strzok, along with then-FBI lawyer Lisa Page and several others, sought out ways to continue investigating Flynn.
“I think Gen. Michael Flynn is a patriotic American who served with great distinction in the armed forces of the United States. And I’m deeply troubled by the revelations of what appear to have been investigative abuse by officials in the Justice Department — and we are going to continue to look into that very carefully. But my respect for Gen. Flynn personally, for his service to the country, is undiminished,” Pence told reporters.
“And I’m inclined more than ever to believe that what he communicated to me back during the transition leading to our inauguration was unintentional and that he was not attempting to misrepresent facts,” the vice president added.
He noted further that he believes there was “investigative prosecutorial abuse that is coming to light” and “people need to be held to account,” but said a pardon would be a decision for President Trump to make.
Flynn is fighting to have his guilty plea thrown out. He entered his plea in December 2017 after claiming to have lied to investigators about discussing Russian sanctions and a UN resolution on Israel.
The FBI intercepted Flynn’s communications with Kislyak as part of the bureau’s normal electronic surveillance of a Russian diplomat inside the United States.
But the allegation that Flynn did something wrong never made any sense. First, there are no legal issues involved with incoming administration officials having discussions for foreign officials, and that is especially true of an incoming national security adviser.
Secondly, Flynn is a career military intelligence official. As an Army lieutenant general, he was in charge of the Defense Intelligence Agency during the Obama administration, so he would have known that American intelligence monitors the communications of foreign officials on U.S. soil.
More noteworthy is the fact that Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak was leaked in the first place — which is a felony, since it is classified. The Washington Post’s David Ignatius reported on the conversation Jan. 12, 2017, following Flynn’s December conversation with the Russian; where did Ignatius get his information from?
U.S. Attorney John Durham, appointed by Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of “Spygate,” is also looking into the leak.
In any event, the revelations this week seem to constitute exculpatory evidence on Flynn’s behalf, and the vice president appears to think so as well.
So does the president. Trump said Thursday he “would certainly consider” bringing Flynn back into his administration in some role, though he did not elaborate.
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