DOJ admits to "accidentally" altering the notes of Strzok & McCabe in the Flynn filings

[Nevilledog]

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BREAKING: The DoJ admits the Eatern District of Missouri (led by Jensen who was appointed by Barr) “accidentally” altering the notes of @petestrzok and Andy McCabe in the Flynn filings. Link to the full admission in the next tweet. 1/2
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Time to investigate, indict, and arrest the agents responsible, and to find out who directed them to do this. 2/2 https://emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/201007-Flynn-Tampering.pdf…
9:56 AM · Oct 7, 2020

[iemitsu]

1. The damage Trump has brought to our country and it's institutions

is beyond measure.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Is that like accidentally robbing a bank?

Or more subtle, like if Trump says he accidentally cheated on his taxes

[Thekaspervote]

3. Accidentally altering?? Where is that legal??!! Bastards

[calimary]

23. "Accidentally altering" MY ASS.

Nothing “accidental” about it, imo.

[Roland99]

4. oops

[Willto]

5. Sure

It's like that time I tripped getting out of my car and accidentally robbed a gas station. Happens all the time.

[Wounded Bear]

6. How about we "accidentally" throw your ass in jail...

[calimary]

24. THIS!!!

And how ‘bout we accidentally forget where we threw away the key?

[Wounded Bear]

25. I was just standing there cleaning my fingernails with my knife and he backed into it...

fourteen times.

[Iliyah]

7. My gawd . . .

the DOJ is corrupt. treason barr strikes again. Investigate the DOJ, and I'll bet there will be more to find.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. Barr did this, plain and simple. Told them to alter the notes, and as leader of the DOJ, he is ...

aiding and abetting criminal activities.

[fleur-de-lisa]

9. Accidentally on purpose.

[bluestarone]

10. AND?

ACCIDENTALLY forgot to mention it before NOW? YEA OK.

[Mr. Ected]

11. There's no affirmative defense for "accidental" alteration of physical evidence

Because there is no such thing.

HAD the DOJ actually accidentally altered the evidence, it was incumbent upon them to reveal this immediately so as not to distort or corrupt the integrity of the proceedings.

They did not do so. They only admit the alteration AFTER they were caught.

Bill Barr deserves a life term for his flagrant acts against the sovereign.

[mr_lebowski]

12. So now they're gonna try the old 'lying to the judge to cover up their lies to the judge' gambit?

Wonder how that's going to work out for them.

Who is the Judge in this case, BTW?

[Grins]

20. EMMETT SULLIVAN!!!!!!!!!

[mr_lebowski]

27. Good. I doubt he's going to take kindly to this little scheme of theirs ... nt

[Grins]

28. They have already appeared before him.

I think the 28th, a Monday. His opening comment was he was “shocked” when he found out late night the Friday before.

He snapped at Flynn’s attorney’s when he found out they had briefed Trump and his campaign’s legal adviser - in a case where they were arguing was NOT political!

And his amicus’ arguments were a royal ass-kicking!!!

[mr_lebowski]

29. I'm guessing it will at some point come to his attention that there's NO WAY

it was 'accidental' and therefore they've effectively lied to him ... about their original lies.

He's REALLY gonna be pissed then.

[gratuitous]

13. Self-altering notes; happens all the time

It's like when a subsection materializes in must-pass legislation that just happens to benefit one well-heeled constituent in one particular Republican congressional district. Nobody knows how that section got in, yeah it really puts a lot of money into the already overstuffed pockets of Mr. Gotbucks (who just happened to bundle a few million in campaign contributions), but there's no way to amend the legislation now. We have to go through with it.

[Chakaconcarne]

14. Had they used disappearing ink, they would have gotten away with it.

[ashredux]

15. Bill Barr says, "Ooops"

[neohippie]

16. The SAME DOJ

Barr's Justice department went after the former FBI attorney who altered an email with "Not a source" with a vengeance in the Russia investigation, yet they expect us to just forgive them for altering notes in this case

[FakeNoose]

17. Barr investigated

[GulfCoast66]

18. I'm thinking Federal Judges don't take this shit lightly.

[jaxexpat]

19. Oh, the housekeeping costs will be extreme.

The crowd of drifters a grifters who wandered into the scene, where some yet squat, will require a major clean up before the nation is again livable.
It will all end up in courts, of course. Some will demand that only the USSC will be adequate for the cause. Surprise, there's a court pre-loaded with CORRUPT judges, so how will this end at long last? Depends on which case gets there first. Critical stuff as precedent will be the determination of our future, apt actually. The question is, will the system allow it's own repair? Will Trump's misbegotten appointees block the ambulance? the wrecker? the EMT's?

[erronis]

21. So many kudos to Marcy Wheeler and her team/commentors at emptywheel.net for keeping on top

of the slime that has infested DC since trump took office.

Of course the culture medium, the agar, that allowed this infestation has been grown since the days of gingrich and before.

I hope we can build much better defenses against these vermin/criminals affecting our democracy. This will require some very hard changes to the constitution and laws.

[Botany]

22. Yes your honor I robbed that bank but it was by accident.

[Progressive dog]

26. Barr is a perfect servant to Trump

They both think alike and neither cares for truth if a lie works better for their agenda. Vote them out with the rest of the anti-American criminal gang that has enabled them.