Why Is The FBI Muzzling The Only Person With Credibility Left in The Flynn Investigation: FBI SSA Joe Pientka III
The highly redacted 302 documents revealed a startling fact, the 302 from the first interview with Flynn on Jan. 24, 2017 appears to be missing.
The highly redacted documents revealed a startling fact, the 302 from the first interview with Flynn on Jan. 24, 2017 appears to be missing. The only document referencing the interview conducted by both Former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his partner at the time FBI Special Agent Joe Pietka III, is an August 2017 document. The 302 from Aug. 22, 2017, is of an interview the bureau had with anti-Trump agent Strzok based on notes he had put into the FBI system on July 19. Those notes apparently were regarding his impressions of his interview with Flynn in January.
Improper doesn’t begin to describe what’s going on with the documents, said multiple former U.S. and senior FBI officials. The main question, they have, like so many others, is what happened to the original notes regarding the FBI’s interview with Flynn?
It isn’t difficult to decipher but there were only two people who would know directly what happened with the Jan. 24 interview: Strzok and Pientka.
So why hasn’t Pientka ever been questioned by Congress or by anyone that we know of, for that matter?
On June 6, 2018 Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Charles Grassley sent a three-page letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, questioning the DOJ’s and FBI’s failure to provide information regarding Flynn’s interview with the FBI and any exculpatory information with regard to Flynn’s case that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office may be withholding from Congressional inquiries.
Grassley “noted that as both the Committee’s request and the Department’s reply note, any exculpatory evidence must be turned over to the defense. However, the Department’s assurance that, ‘Mr. Flynn is represented by skilled and experienced attorneys who … will have access to favorable evidence in the government’s possession,’ is not relevant to the Committee’s inquiry. Regardless of whether all exculpatory evidence has already been or will be produced to the defense, Congress has a wholly separate, independent, constitutional oversight interest in the information.”
Grassley’s office also requested and was denied numerous times the opportunity to interview Pientka by Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, according to the June 6, letter and interviews with multiple sources.
Grassley wrote in his letter to Rosenstein, “Finally, it is disingenuous and extremely disturbing that the Department would imply that a request to interview a fact witness, such as Special Agent Pientka, has anything whatsoever to do with “allegations against” that witness.
As you well know, seeking information from a fact witness is not the same thing as an allegation of wrongdoing. Quite the contrary, it seems he is likely to be an objective, reliable, and trustworthy witness, which is precisely why the Committee would benefit from his testimony.”
FBI spokeswoman Carol Cratty said the bureau would not comment on the situation.
DOJ could not be immediately reached for comment.
According to multiple sources who spoke to SaraACarter.com FBI procedures require that the notes of an interview with witnesses or victims be submitted within 5 days into the bureau’s Sentinel computer system.
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The highly redacted 302 documents revealed a startling fact, the 302 from the first interview with Flynn on Jan. 24, 2017 appears to be missing.
The highly redacted documents revealed a startling fact, the 302 from the first interview with Flynn on Jan. 24, 2017 appears to be missing. The only document referencing the interview conducted by both Former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his partner at the time FBI Special Agent Joe Pietka III, is an August 2017 document. The 302 from Aug. 22, 2017, is of an interview the bureau had with anti-Trump agent Strzok based on notes he had put into the FBI system on July 19. Those notes apparently were regarding his impressions of his interview with Flynn in January.
Improper doesn’t begin to describe what’s going on with the documents, said multiple former U.S. and senior FBI officials. The main question, they have, like so many others, is what happened to the original notes regarding the FBI’s interview with Flynn?
It isn’t difficult to decipher but there were only two people who would know directly what happened with the Jan. 24 interview: Strzok and Pientka.
So why hasn’t Pientka ever been questioned by Congress or by anyone that we know of, for that matter?
On June 6, 2018 Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Charles Grassley sent a three-page letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, questioning the DOJ’s and FBI’s failure to provide information regarding Flynn’s interview with the FBI and any exculpatory information with regard to Flynn’s case that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office may be withholding from Congressional inquiries.
Grassley “noted that as both the Committee’s request and the Department’s reply note, any exculpatory evidence must be turned over to the defense. However, the Department’s assurance that, ‘Mr. Flynn is represented by skilled and experienced attorneys who … will have access to favorable evidence in the government’s possession,’ is not relevant to the Committee’s inquiry. Regardless of whether all exculpatory evidence has already been or will be produced to the defense, Congress has a wholly separate, independent, constitutional oversight interest in the information.”
Grassley’s office also requested and was denied numerous times the opportunity to interview Pientka by Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, according to the June 6, letter and interviews with multiple sources.
Grassley wrote in his letter to Rosenstein, “Finally, it is disingenuous and extremely disturbing that the Department would imply that a request to interview a fact witness, such as Special Agent Pientka, has anything whatsoever to do with “allegations against” that witness.
As you well know, seeking information from a fact witness is not the same thing as an allegation of wrongdoing. Quite the contrary, it seems he is likely to be an objective, reliable, and trustworthy witness, which is precisely why the Committee would benefit from his testimony.”
FBI spokeswoman Carol Cratty said the bureau would not comment on the situation.
DOJ could not be immediately reached for comment.
According to multiple sources who spoke to SaraACarter.com FBI procedures require that the notes of an interview with witnesses or victims be submitted within 5 days into the bureau’s Sentinel computer system.
https://saraacarter.com/why-is-the-fbi-muzzli...entka-iii/
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