OldFags,
any theories/predictions about how long will Q be silent? 20days? 40days?
Is this "blackout necessary"?
Sounds like a plan…
Joe Pientka aint going down with this ship.
So he was interviewed by The IG.
The IG would confront him about the month long delay in filing his 302s.
Pientka would confirm that his notes were shaped and re-drafted by McCabe.
Bam!
The floodgates open. IG can’t get to McCabe Strok and Comey because they were fired.
But thats okay, dont give them a heads up with an interview.
This gets handed off into the file for Mr Durham and his possible grand juries.
Get the current FBI employees to talk. Don’t question the former FBI employees.
Dont let Congress hold hearings. They have walled off past and current FBI and DOJ employees so they can’t align their stories.
They are all in the dark wondering who is spilling the beans. Now they get blind sided in a secret grand jury setting where they are unprepared.
Flynn situation - analysis
So, looking at quick succession of events:
–Sullivan orders Kislyak transcript (i.e., inexplicably withheld by prosecution, suggesting it is possible exculpatory evidence);
— DOJ defies the order;
–Sullivan (historically tenacious in holding DOJ accountable) backs down, says OK nevermind;
— Flynn fires his swampy counsel, reportedly for a high-profile figure (suggesting a shift to offense);
–DOJ files more documents under seal (timing suggests possibly the transcript and Pientka 302, which both may be exculpatory).
Also of note: this appears to be the first showdown with Judge Sullivan post-Mueller and with AG Barr in charge.
Any of the following seem like fair inferences: Barr intervened upon the clever notion of subordinates that it’s OK to “correct” a judge on the relevance of evidence, and said, yeah, not on my watch. Accepting as true that the docs are exculpatory, Barr also may have looked into just what his prosecutors had done, with a view to correcting it. It’s been suggested that they may have defied the earlier order by Sullivan to hand over all exculpatory evidence to Flynn (if they’re hiding it now, makes sense they’ve been hiding it all along).
But why would Sullivan now cooperate with receiving the evidence under seal?
And why, at precisely this moment, would Flynn replace his counsel?
Here’s another inference — more speculative: Flynn’s counsel was arguably complicit in foregoing the exculpatory evidence. Maybe in the swampish way of “gentlemans’ agreements” among colleagues — i.e., the big money lawyers, obviously cozy with DOJ (not to mention the DNC), brokered some sort of bargain with prosecutors that secured leniency for Flynn (so could retain plausible deniability on zealous advocacy for client), but at the same time was a bit of a wink-and-nod at prosecutorial conduct. In other words, you might say the Covington boys didn’t fight quite as hard for the causes of transparency, justice and Flynn’s good name than, say, DIGENOVA would have.
Barr discovers exculpatory evidence withheld, and belatedly discloses to Flynn’s team, putting his attorneys in quite an uncomfortable position for having essentially winked-and-nodded away Flynn’s lawful right to have access to such information. Obviously, they’re now fired — not to mention ethically if not criminally in trouble. So why does Sullivan now accept the documents filed under seal? Perhaps because it’s clear the docs are now relevant to unresolved matters subject to open investigation(s).
Pure speculation. The questions are interesting. I’m finally eager to see what’s next . . .
Storm is coming,
A white squall for the ship of the deep state. Flynn as DDI and Admiral Rodgers as DNSA were in government when the “slaughter Donald for his bromance with Putin” strategy was being rolled out. Rogers warned Trump that his Trump Tower transition offices were bugged. Flynn was part of the transition.
There have been many times when President Trump, a forceful executive, has appeared weak, tweeting futile complaints about Sessions and other people working in his administration and therefore who he could fire if he didn’t like what they were doing. Remember “You’re fired?” I could never believe that he would show himself as such a weak executive, unless he was playing the wounded dove stratagem, drawing his enemies into a trap. He’s always such a happy warrior, the “curse you, Sessions,” messages always seemed implausible
I remember when Flynn pleaded guilty around 12/1/17, immediately thereafter the Stzrok-Page texts were first made public, Judge Ramirez (Strzok’s buddy) was recused from the case, and Judge Sullivan ordered exculpatory evidence be turned over. That all appeared part of some sort of plan. But then we waited.
So, to summarize, as the President meets the Queen and makes the DDay speech:
Flynn hires new counsel
Barr mocks the counter-intel effort – “dangle a CI in front of a peripheral campaign member,” when they claim legitimate concerns over whether the Russians were coming, says the stories don’t add up.
New investigation into Jeffrey Epstein on new federal charges – Mann Act
Huber’s inquiries into HRC matters reported by Barr to near “fruition”
Durham interviews Steele and is pursuing the FISA matters
Brennan’s security clearance NOT revoked
It remains possible that, throughout the wounded dove routine, a secret strike force has been surveilling the entire HRC/DNC/Insurance Policy crew, and their contacts out to two hops, due to initial evidence that any one of them was in communication with Oleg Derispaska, Christopher Steele, or any of a number of other foreign spies, accumulating admissible evidence of many crimes against the whole lot.
We can hope. The pace is certainly picking up. Horowitz, where art thou?