{"id":33335,"date":"2018-05-07T19:13:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33335"},"modified":"2018-05-07T19:13:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:13:06","slug":"slowly-but-surely-the-truth-quietly-comes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33335","title":{"rendered":"Slowly But Surely The Truth Quietly Comes Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Friday-night news dump is a tradition of politicians and Washington types who are forced to release information they don’t want to release and are hoping no one will actually notice it. The latest Friday-night news dump has to do with redactions made on the FBI Russia<\/a> report that have more to do with protecting the mistakes of the FBI than protecting national security (as claimed by those doing the redacting).<\/p>\n

Andrew McCarthy<\/a> posted an article at The National Review<\/a> today citing some of the redactions and why the reasons for them are invalid.<\/p>\n

The article cites a number of examples:<\/p>\n

When the House first issued its report on the Russia investigation<\/a>, a heavily redacted portion (pp. 53\u201354) related that Trump\u2019s original national-security adviser, Michael Flynn, had pled guilty<\/a> to a false-statements charge based on misleading statements to FBI agents<\/a> about his December 2016 conversations with Russian ambassador<\/a> Sergey Kislyak.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…But there was one intriguing disclosure in the redacted report: Flynn pled guilty \u201ceven though the [FBI] agents did not detect any deception during Flynn\u2019s interview.\u201d There was no elaboration on this point \u2014 no discussion of why Flynn was interrogated by FBI agents in the first place; no insight on deliberations within the FBI and Justice Department<\/a> about whether Flynn had deceptive intent; no explanation of how he came to be charged months later by Mueller<\/a>\u2019s prosecutors even though the trained investigators who observed Flynn\u2019s demeanor during the interview did not believe he\u2019d lied.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is what the unredacted Russian report reveals:<\/p>\n