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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Larry C. Johnson: How Can Susan Rice Know What Obama and Comey Said if Sally Yates Says She Was Not Present?

Here is the bottomline in a nutshell–Susan Rice has been caught red handed trying to construct a lie about what Barack Obama knew and did not know with respect to General Michael Flynn. She claimed to be present when Barack Obama discussed the Michael Flynn intercept but, according to Sally Yates, who was interviewed by the FBI, only Yates, Jim Comey and Barack Obama were present. This new revelation–made possible by the declassification of the Susan Rice email written in the last moments of the Obama Administration–actually bolsters Michael Flynn’s contention that he was the victim of a political hit job designed to take out Donald Trump.
Let me remind you of the essential facts that you must have in mind in order to understand Rice’s clumsy attempt to fabricate an excuse for Obama’s inexcusable spying on Donald Trump, his family and his team.
  1. December 29, 2016: Michael Flynn, who was vacationing in the Dominican Republic, returned Russian Ambassador Kislyak’s phone call at the behest of the Trump Transition team back in Mar-a-Lago and requested that Russia not escalate the situation and only respond to the U.S. Sanctions in a reciprocal manner (see here).
  2. January 3, 2017: Deputy FBI Director Andy McCabe tells Department of Justice official, Mary McCord, that the FBI had been planning to close the Flynn investigation but “discovered” his phone calls with the Russian Ambassador. McCabe described the content to the calls (Exhibit 3, page 2).
  3. January 4, 2017: The FBI Agent leading the investigation of the General Flynn sends Peter Strzok the memo recommending the case be close because there was no evidence against the General. (Exhibit 1) Peter Strzok tells the Agent that the “7th Floor” is interested.
  4. January 5, 2017: Barack Obama tells Acting Attorney General Sally Yates in the presence of Jim Comey that he had learned about Flynn’s conversation with the Russian Ambassador on sanctions. (Exhibit 4)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Because under the Obama administrations rules (even in schools) when a woman speaks you are supposed to believe her, period.

But if she makes a sexual accusation against one of the past members of Obama's group of phonies than you are not supposed to believe her. (Creepy Pedophile Joe)

Anonymous said...


IIRC,

Rice said Biden also remained behind; he was definitely there for the larger group meeting.

Rice's self-serving note covered the larger group thrust and discussion.

Facts and documents continue to be unearthed; story will get altered as more about the plot comes to light.

Anonymous said...

They should be crediting him with preventing a third world war.

Anonymous said...

Trump accused them that they were "spying" on him when he took office...and now, over three years later, it's being proven what Trump said was true. Comey thought the secrecy granted to his organization would allow him to cover up and deny everything. Not so fast, big boy. The piper needs to be paid. Big boy now has some real 'splaining to do. Funny, he's now gone dark. Maybe he's taking his lawyers advice, and exercising his right to be silent, because anything he says now can, and will, be used in a court of law. He was so smug lying to Congress. Barr has already said that Obama and Biden aren't going to be targets of his investigation. In other words, Comey is. Big boy is crapping in his pants.

Anonymous said...

Comey is going to get a taste of his own medicine. He is being investigated, and he doesn't know who is ratting him out. LOL, so deserving. And now he gets to know what it feels like to spend his life savings to defend himself to avoid jail time. He should lose his house like Gen. Flynn did. What goes around, comes around....