I find it incredible that the FBI doesn't transcribe or tape witness statements and yet FBI summaries of witness statements (called 302s) can be used to accuse witnesses of lying. In the Flynn case, Strzok "edited" the 302 of another agent so thoroughly that he stated that he was trying to avoid a complete re-write. Creating and preserving accurate statements is fundamental to a fair system of justice, yet the Dem FBI was so thoroughly corrupt and immoral that it changed a 302 in order to set up Flynn. Here is a summary from a former FBI agent:
"For more than half a century, FBI agents conducting interviews have been required to memorialize any information that might become testimony, on a form called the FD-302. It was always considered the interviewing agent’s FD-302. Supervisors never modified it; its purpose was to reflect what the agent observed and heard from the witness or suspect. As an FBI supervisor, I reviewed hundreds of FD-302s. Other than an occasional grammatical correction, I never changed a word.
So it was shocking for me to read the newly released text messages between Peter Strzok, then deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, and Lisa Page. They show that after Mr. Strzok and Agent Joe Pientka interviewed Mr. Flynn, Mr. Strzok heavily edited Mr. Pientka’s FD-302—to the point that he told Ms. Page he was “trying not to completely re-write” it. Even more shocking, Ms. Page, an FBI attorney who wasn’t an agent and wasn’t at the interview, provided edits.
Worse still, the FD-302 that was eventually provided to the court wasn’t that of the agents’ interview of Mr. Flynn. It was instead a FD-302 of an interview of Mr. Strzok, conducted months later, about his recollections of the original interview. Truly bizarre." https://www.wsj.com/articles/rewrite-in-flynns-case-shows-fbi-needs-reform-11588541993
Sickening and disgusting behavior at the top of the FBI. And, Page has the audacity to sue the government saying that she did nothing wrong and shouldn't be fired.
"For more than half a century, FBI agents conducting interviews have been required to memorialize any information that might become testimony, on a form called the FD-302. It was always considered the interviewing agent’s FD-302. Supervisors never modified it; its purpose was to reflect what the agent observed and heard from the witness or suspect. As an FBI supervisor, I reviewed hundreds of FD-302s. Other than an occasional grammatical correction, I never changed a word.
So it was shocking for me to read the newly released text messages between Peter Strzok, then deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, and Lisa Page. They show that after Mr. Strzok and Agent Joe Pientka interviewed Mr. Flynn, Mr. Strzok heavily edited Mr. Pientka’s FD-302—to the point that he told Ms. Page he was “trying not to completely re-write” it. Even more shocking, Ms. Page, an FBI attorney who wasn’t an agent and wasn’t at the interview, provided edits.
Worse still, the FD-302 that was eventually provided to the court wasn’t that of the agents’ interview of Mr. Flynn. It was instead a FD-302 of an interview of Mr. Strzok, conducted months later, about his recollections of the original interview. Truly bizarre." https://www.wsj.com/articles/rewrite-in-flynns-case-shows-fbi-needs-reform-11588541993
Sickening and disgusting behavior at the top of the FBI. And, Page has the audacity to sue the government saying that she did nothing wrong and shouldn't be fired.
