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Release the Kraken – I mean the transcript of the Flynn/Kislyak phone call — 19 Comments

  1. “who?” is one question. The impact on the discussion is, I hope, substantial.

  2. My guess would be that Flynn says “Just don’t overreact and we can discuss in a few weeks”, which can be spun as “See? Collaborating!” to the average low-info voter.

  3. I’ve always liked Ratcliffe, but I’m very impressed with Grennell and would hope he remains an influential member of Trump’s team.

  4. Let’s all be sure to review that old Obama hot-mike video clip of ‘tell-Putin-I’ll-be-able- to-be-much-more-flexible-after-the-election’ before we get too deep into newly-released Flynn tapes. You know, just to baseline things properly.

  5. We need not only the transcript of the conversation, but also the transcript of the interview, which doesn’t exist. All that we have is a rewritten version of a version of the transcript that was written from memory two days after the event.

    If one wants to improve FBI procedures, start by recording interviews. And pardoning everyone convicted on the basis of such a “transcript”.

  6. YES, release the transcript.

    The original FISA application for spying should be released, as well. And most Mueller docs that Congress asks for, slowly.

    Especially those where Comey or Clapper or other Dem maggots swear, under oath, that they have seen no evidence — to compare with the defamatory lies they tell on TV.

    And Trump should continue to play the victim, unjustly victimized by criminal Dem deep state supported by Fake News.

  7. LTEC:

    Agreed. I’ve been against this policy since I learned of it in July of 2016, before the Flynn thing happened. I was shocked to hear back then that the FBI doesn’t routinely record all interviews.

    More recently I’ve decided that in addition, lying to the FBI should not be a crime unless a person is told he/she is a suspect, given the equivalent of Miranda warnings, and placed under oath.

  8. The CNN post Neo linked shows how subtly the media can spin a story.

    In a case where the Justice Department has pushed out more documents about internal FBI discussions than even a federal judge said Flynn should have, the foundational document showing what Flynn said to the Russian government in December 2016 has stayed secret.

    Shocking, I know.

    “It was nothing inconsistent with the Obama administration’s policies. And it was in US interests,” Barr said in a recent interview about Flynn’s behavior, the opposite of what his own Justice Department previously described about Flynn’s asks of Russia on the call.

    Wasn’t Barr’s DOJ at the time.

    “It cannot escape mention that the press has long had transcripts of the Kislyak calls that the government has denied to the defense,” Flynn’s lawyers wrote in November 2019 as they sought access to more documents in his case.

    But even the Washington Post, which broke the early 2017 stories revealing that Flynn and Kislyak had spoken and discussed sanctions, never described exact quotations of what was said.

    Which proves they didn’t have the illegally leaked transcript.
    Yeah, no.

  9. You can see Grenell’s letter to Warner here, and I love the last paragraph, which isn’t getting cited in the news posts I’ve seen.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/05/26/scorch-departing-ric-grenell-pointed-out-to-sen-warner-that-obamas-own-executive-order-justifies-release-of-unmaskers-names/

    “Lastly, I should add, I gladly would have discussed this and other intelligence matters with you directly had you not chosen to cancel our planned call and then ignored subsequent requests by my office to reschedule.” — Grenell

    Seems like I’ve seen that play by the Democrats before.

    Can we start a Ric Grenell Fan Club?

  10. Some Kraken news –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grenell-declassifies-slew-of-russia-files-as-ratcliffe-takes-helm-as-dni

    “Fox News has learned that Grenell also completed the declassification review of other documents related to the origins of the Russia probe — including one that a senior intelligence official told Fox News was “very significant in understanding how intelligence was manipulated to support launching the Russia investigation.” “

  11. Kayleigh McEnany isn’t quite the Kraken, but SHE, at least, seems to have been released.
    She’s talking about the journalistic mal-practice

    https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/22/kayleigh-mcenany-demands-answers-from-press-flynn/
    She’s asking 5 questions about Obamagate that the journalists are not asking.

    Why:
    1. did Obama use DNC info to spy on Trump?
    2. was Flynn unmasked so often by so many Obama-crats? (Obama-rats?)
    3. was Flynn’s identity illegally leaked?
    4. did DOJ learn about FBI actions from a conversation with Obama?
    5. did Clapper, Brennan, Power, & Rice (O-rats!) admit secretly under oath “no evidence”, yet in public dishonestly lie that there was?

    Journalists are supposed to be looking for facts to answer the question of Why.

    And she’s defending asking the journalists:
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/26/journalists-questioned-kayleigh-mcenany-fires-back-chris-wallace/

    I think Trump has found an even better winning anti-Fake News strategy.
    Not quite as good as indictments against more of the criminal rats, but good.

  12. Bear in mind that van Brack represented to Judge Sullivan that the record of the Kislyak call was not material in any way to considerations of Flynn’s guilt on the false-statements charge. WaPo 5-31-2019: “In a court filing Friday, the Justice Department wrote that it did not rely on such recordings to establish Flynn’s guilt or determine a recommendation for his sentencing.” On the basis of that representation, Sullivan ruled that the recording did not have to be disclosed. It’s hard to square this with the assertion (in the Statement of Offense) that Flynn lied to the FBI agents when he said he did not ask Kislyak to refrain from escalating the situation.

  13. Remember, it’s a “process” crime (which Andrew McCarthy, in many past columns, has taken great pains trying to explain).

    “On the night of June 31, were you chewing Wrigley Spearment or Bazooka??!!!

    “Aha! Gotcha! You dirty, stinking TRAITOR!!! You deserve to be put away for a long, long time, that is, if you don’t get the DEATH penalty, you TRAITOR!!!”

  14. “… Adam Schiff, who must feel they bolster his case or can be successfully spun to bolster his case…”

    Doesn’t Schiff spin EVERYTHING to bolster his case ?

  15. Re False Statements as a federal crime. My understanding is that it wasn’t a crime until 2001. Patriot Act reform, maybe. Or that is was broadened?
    Am I wrong?

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