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Sidney Powell talks about the framing of Flynn — 18 Comments

1. I first ran into Flynn when I was reading about Iraq and, more specifically, the Surge. He had a lot to do with its success.

2. “Insurance policy” Obama cares.

   Wow, the audacity of deceit in a cover-up of a conspiracy. That said, Powell is awesome. Justice for Flynn and every other person selected as collateral damage.

3. Flynn was Special Forces General Stanley McChrystal’s right hand man, in charge of intelligence-gathering and analysis. McChrystal’s forces at night acted as the hardcore enforcers who greatly aided and enabled General Petraeus’s forces to be so effective during the day. In other words, community outreach and making friends with local sheikhs during daylight hours was backed up by targeted, tireless lightning raids at night (which, happily, didn’t get covered much in the press).

   It was also, later on, some of Flynn’s people who were drunk one evening and said some insulting things — particularly about Joe Biden — which Michael Hastings turned into his hit-piece at Rolling Stone that derailed Stanley McChrystal’s career.

4. Yawn, wake me up when any of those cockroaches in that January meeting are indicted and stand trial for treason/sedition. Otherwise it’s all just noise.

5. Sidney Powell deserves a lot of credit. Yes, she comes across as something of an awkward geek, but I’ve come to see that as part of her charm. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen such courage in any non-fictional lawyer; indeed, in many ways she reminds me of Atticus Finch. Her victory in this case is historic.

   Cudos, Ms. Powell.

6. Tragic but I think @physicsguy is right. The Nixon coverup is nothing compared to this, but doubt anyone will suffer any consequences. Least of all Obama; to the contrary, his wife keeps getting hype to be the VP nominee. Prepare for round 3 of Obamamania if that happens.

7. The messiah should be disposed about his use of intelligence agencies to go after his successor. Dream on.

8. Elect an unrepentant red diaper baby, get Bolshevik justice.

9. parker:

   Deposed not disposed? Freudian slip? 🙂

10. I’ll wait for a summary. I tried but both of those voices were just too too grating.

11. om,

    A slip. 😉

12. Suggest everyone slips over to thezman.com to read his latest piece on the Flynn Affair.

    As with Neo’s site, there is much of value to be mined in the comments there. Believe me when I say that everybody will find something to disagree with in a Z Man comments thread 🙂 Flip side is that some will be illuminating.

    Sometimes the best way to make sense of some initially inchoate happening is to throw mud / excrement at it (and each other) from all angles until enough has adhered to the ectoplasm and we can begin to make out its shape. Hegel eat your heart out!

13. The AG recently called this the greatest coup attempt in the history of US since the assassination of President Lincoln. He’s not a man given to exaggeration or one who makes injudicious comments. That says to me that they are really going to go after this bunch and nail their behinds to the wall. Keep your chin up physicsguy.

14. “his wife keeps getting hype to be the VP nominee. Prepare for round 3 of Obamamania if that happens.” – gina

    I would passionately support a Constitutional amendment restricting the eligibility of anyone related to a former president (vice-president, governor, mayor, senator, representative) as a candidate for the same office: parent; legal spouse or whatever we are calling sex-partners these days; sibling, whether full, half, adopted, step, foster, or any other relationship; child in any permutation.
    Cousins, aunts & uncles, and grandchildren can run.

    Families only get one bite of the apple.
    Tough.
    NO MORE POLITICAL DYNASTIES.

15. Maria B. has a terrible, grating voice.

16. J E Dyer does an analysis of the Strzok memo that has a few points missing from other pundits.
    https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/06/24/in-analytical-scrum-on-new-page-of-strzok-case-notes-dont-miss-the-little-thing-comey-did/

    …
    But there’s one more thing Comey said. Other than transcribing it from the handwritten copy, I haven’t seen anyone address it directly.

    It’s in the second line of the unredacted text, which Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway have typed up in handy form.
    …
    It’s the portion that reads: “D-DAG: lean forward on [unclass?]”

    [Transcript/image credit: The Federalist (link in text)]

    Davis and Hemingway seem uncertain that they’ve read the handwritten word correctly, but I believe they have. Strzok wrote down “unclass,” which is a common way to abbreviate “unclassified” in informal note-taking.

    So that line means “Comey (the director) and Yates (the deputy attorney general) discussed ‘leaning forward on unclassified (information),’ in a meeting with the president.”

    The line appears on Strzok’s page of Flynn case notes, which means Comey and Yates referred to this point in conjunction with discussion of the Flynn case.

    It isn’t clear what the comment itself means. It’s cryptic, although we can assume Strzok understood its import. I’m not fully satisfied with the following possibility, but it would fit the circumstances. Recall, as we consider it, that Obama also asked if there were anything he should refrain from telling the incoming Trump team.
    …
    It was the Steele dossier; and it referred to Trump (at that point, Flynn’s boss). And the Steele dossier was unclassified material. It came from a commercial-services source, sold as a product by Orbis to Fusion for Hillary and the DNC.

    The dossier represented a form of unclassified product with which to – in Obama’s phrasing – keep the “right people” on Flynn, and on anyone else on Trump’s team. The dossier underlay the FISA authorization on Carter Page, which was what enabled Obama to keep the entire Trump transition team under electronic surveillance. But, as we learned many (many) months later, the FBI had also been pursuing the dossier’s purported leads during the fall of 2016.

    At the time Comey was summarizing the Oval Office meeting, the dossier was still a live document being probed for verification by the FBI. In a formal sense, they were taking it seriously.
    …
    It’s also important that the dossier invested the ICA on Russia with a sense of life it would never have had otherwise, considering the ICA was just a mishmash of already-knowns about Russian practices, with basically one unsubstantiated claim of super-secret intelligence about a direct order from Putin to drag it across the 2016 finish line. The ICA needed the dossier, to have any aspect of immediacy or urgency.

    The dossier, in sum, represented a whole investigative (more truthfully, an operational) vector to potentially “lean forward” on.

    And please hear this next, very important point with your ears: the FBI already knew, separately, what Flynn’s and the other Trump team members’ telecom correspondence looked like. They had been watching it under the Carter Page authorization for weeks. They didn’t need to “lean forward” on that in any particular way: either to “dig up more” (they already had everything) or take further action based on it at the Bureau.

    If electronic surveillance had revealed anything actionable, they wouldn’t have needed to lean forward on anything else. But it didn’t.

    That’s why Comey needed to establish that he had the green light to “lean forward” on something else.
    …
    Regardless of what else Comey knew when, as regards the “unclass,” he had his green light in the record of that meeting. If the “unclass” was the Steele dossier, he had a green light to “keep vetting it” with an earnest look on his face, in order to keep the Carter Page authorization going. If there were ever to be a formal means of charging and extorting Trump’s associates, the dossier’s narrative and its allusions to names and connections would be at the center of it.
    …

17. The Trump Administration has been on defense from the beginning. It is time to switch to offense.

18. We need the many Obamunists impeached so they can NEVER hold federal jobs again!

    thezman raises a point worth pondering:

    The Flynn case is not all bad news. It costs money to fight the system the way Flynn has done, which means someone is paying his bills. They are not just paying his lawyers, but also supporting him while he is in limbo. Since he has been de-platformed like every other enemy of the state, it means a rich guy is underwriting this long battle with the system.

    So who? The shortlist might include Peter Thiel, Robert Mercer, and others in the Koch group of big Republican doners who dissent from his ant-Trump and pro-globalist stances. But it is a small group, I think.

    In 2023, Medal of Freedom ought to be awarded by Trump to Sydney Powell.
    PS Maria’s and Sydney’s grating voices? No, Not if you use good speaker equipment, I find.

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