“This morning, we asked the FBI to re-examine the electronic records from the January 24 interview, and they confirmed that the government mistakenly identified these notes in its March 13, 2018 discovery letter.” Letter signed Brandon L. Van Grack, SAUSA, and Jocelyn Ballantine, AUSA, Nov. 5, 2019 (ECF 136-1)
Documented On November 5, 2019, Van Grack and Ballantine signed a letter to Sidney Powell. They said they had been told the night before that a surreply may have misidentified the authors of the January 24, 2017, handwritten notes. The FBI, they wrote, confirmed the March 13, 2018, discovery letter had it backward: notes numbered DOJSCO-700021192–195 were Strzok’s; 196–198 were the other agent’s. “We understand that this has caused some confusion, and we regret our error.” The same day Van Grack filed a notice of that letter (ECF 136).
That is a documented misattribution that sat on the docket from March 2018 until November 2019. It is not, by itself, a court finding of fraud or a criminal conviction.
The Epoch Times reported the mix-up and Powell’s “What else have they gotten wrong?” Conservative Treehouse (Nov. 5, 2019) called the letter “jaw-dropping” and asked whether the 302 narrative still held. Gateway Pundit ran Powell’s post that Van Grack “got the authors of the raw notes backwards.” Those outlets are reporting and commentary on the letter. The letter is the fact.