| | | The real impact of the notes may be on the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation of the Russia investigators, where U.S. Attorneys John Durham and Jeff Jensen are determining whether the FBI or others committed crimes in deceiving the courts or Congress about the evidence in the now-discredited Russia collusion allegations.
A former senior FBI official told Just the News that Strzok’s notes about the White House meeting are a red flag that the Comey-led bureau may have been involving itself illegitimately in a political dispute between the outgoing Obama administration and incoming Trump administration.
“It was a political meeting about a policy dispute, and the bureau had no business being involved,” Former Assistant Director for Intelligence Kevin Brock said. “No other FBI director would ever have attended such a meeting.
“Comey is quoted in the notes as saying the Kislyak call appeared legit. At that point he should have gotten up and left the room," Brock added.
"The FBI had no business being represented in that meeting. It did not have a counterintelligence interest any longer.”
A second impact of the notes could be on the campaign trail. A few months ago, Biden claimed he was unaware of the Flynn probe as he was leaving the VP’s office.
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“I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn,” he said.
He then clarified his denial.
“I was aware that … they asked for an investigation,” Biden said. “But that’s all I know about it, and I don’t think anything else.”
If Powell’s interpretation of the notes is correct, Biden was knowledgeable enough to suggest a possible pretext for continued investigation, the Logan Act. And he eventually unmasked one of Flynn's intercepted phone calls a week later.
Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes told Just the News on Wednesday the newly discovered notes affirm his long-held suspicion that the Obama White House was trying to influence the FBI’s Russia probe in untoward ways.
“Now we know both Obama and Biden were directly involved in planning the attack on Flynn,” Nunes said.
“The Obama administration exploited our intelligence community to spy on their political opponents and engineer bogus investigations and prosecutions of them.
“This is the single biggest abuse of power I’ve seen in my lifetime,” he added.
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