Posted on 05/13/2020 4:20:00 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Several things coming together yesterday and this morning related to Spygate and the Mike Flynn case, which are parts of the same overarching Obamagate scandal:
First, you have the federal judge in the Flynn case – Emmet Sullivan – still refusing to dismiss the case even though the Department of Justice last week made the decision to withdraw all charges and notify him that it would not prosecute the case going forward. Sullivan took the extraordinary step on Tuesday to not only request more briefings from both the defense and the prosecution, but also made it clear that he plans to accept Amicus briefs (aka, friend of the court briefs) from third parties.
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Sullivan cites Washington, DC’s “Civil Rule 7(o) as if it somehow requires him to take this step, since he has obviously already received at least one such brief, and even cites the utterly corrupt judge Amy Berman Jackson as justification for doing so.
Yet, in a different citation earlier in his Minute Order, Sullivan also includes this: “An amicus brief should normally be allowed when a party is not represented competently or is not represented at all, when the amicus has an interest in some other case that may be affected by the decision in the present case… or when the amicus has unique information or perspective that can help the court beyond the help that the lawyers for the parties are able to provide. Otherwise, leave to file an amicus curiae should be denied.”
In other words, there is nothing compelling Sullivan to take this extraordinary step that will extend the government’s heinous abuse of General Flynn – it’s entirely up to his own discretion. He’s doing this because he wants to do it, for reasons that are not yet clear, but that are easy to guess. Flynn attorney Sidney Powell pointed out yesterday that Sullivan has in the past repeatedly denied third parties the ability to file such briefs favorable to General Flynn.
Sullivan’s a snake, plain and simple.
Second, DOJ Spokesperson Kerri Kupec appeared on Fox News with Martha MacAllum last night, and had several important and revealing things to say during her segment:
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The first key point is her reiteration of DOJ’s position that “this case should have never been brought.”
“What distinguishes the FBI as a premier law enforcement agency from, say, vs. the secret police, is that they can’t just go around asking American citizens questions just for the sake of asking those questions. There needs to be a specific basis, an articulable basis for asking that question.”
On the unmasking documents that we talked about yesterday, she specifically ties that information to John Durham’s investigation, as we assumed would be the case: “Last week, ODNI provided information related to unmasking, and it’s that list that you’re referencing right now. And as it’s relevant to investigations, John Durham’s investigation specifically, I am sure he will take a look at that. And just to be clear about that, John Durham, in his review of what happened in 2016 and 2017, he’s already looking at this issue of unmasking under his broader review. I can tell you that his team is working diligently to get to the bottom of what happened, because Martha, what happened to candidate Trump and then President Trump was one of the greatest political injustices in American history and should never happen again.”
Here is what we said in yesterday’s piece about those documents:
Of course, as a DOJ spokesperson later clarified, DOJ has no intention of releasing these documents because they are ODNI documents, and the decision about whether or not to make them public rests with Ric Grenell, the Acting Director of National Intelligence.
It was Grenell, if you remember, who famously hand-delivered copies of these documents and perhaps others last Thursday to Attorney General William Barr. Corrupt media outlets like ABC have been assuming Grenell did that because he wanted Barr’s permission to make them public. As a matter of actual reality, though, Grenell delivered them to Barr because those documents are likely to be very useful evidence in the investigation being mounted by U.S. Attorney John Durham.
Kupec then repeatedly clarifies (because MacAllum is either incredibly dense or was pretending to be so) the fact we pointed out yesterday: That these documents are ODNI documents – meaning they source from the U.S. Intelligence Community, not the FBI or the DOJ.
Think about the implications of that key fact, and what they mean to Obama-era DNI James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan.
Finally, Fox News is breathlessly reporting this morning that Acting DNI Ric Grenell is preparing to release at least some of those documents and name the names of the high Obama officials who were engaged in the thousands of illegal unmaskings of U.S. citizens today or tomorrow.
So, what to make of Kupec’s comments?
First, it’s key to remember that she is a spokesperson, and everything she says in public has been painstakingly vetted up through the entire chain of command at the U.S. Department of Justice, all the way to Barr himself. When Kupec speaks in public, she speaks for the Attorney General and the entire DOJ. She’s not just talking off the top of her head.
Given that, it is extraordinarily significant that she compares what the FBI did to General Flynn to the actions of the “secret police,” a term that most Americans would tie to the Nazi Gestapo or the Soviet KGB. Remember that that analogy is now informed by the findings of Durham’s investigation, which has likely been ongoing since late 2018.
The same is true of Kupec’s out-and-out, unqualified declarative statement that “what happened to candidate Trump and then President Trump was one of the greatest political injustices in American history.”
Then there is the news that Durham has already been looking at the unmasking issue, which one would have naturally assumed since that operation was both a by-product of and an informative element to the Obama Coup Cabal’s illegal domestic spying operation. This is new information that Barr has not been specific about in his numerous interviews on the Durham investigation.
That new information, and the other key points laid out by Kupec in this 6 minute clip indicate that, when you see the names of the unmaskers revealed by Grenell and the DNI documents, it is almost a certainty that those are the names of key targets of the Durham investigation.
It is highly likely that Grenell personally took those documents over to Barr last Thursday evening in order to review them together and to get Barr’s agreement that Durham’s investigation is now at a point that making them public would serve to set the stage for further public action by Durham.
The final key point to remember in all of this is that John Durham is a prosecutor, not a report-writer. The public actions taken by federal prosecutors are: Perp-walks, bookings, indictments and trials.
Of course, it remains possible that Durham is really not doing anything – if you see news that he is working on a report, you will know that is the case – and it’s all just for show.
But boy, over the last 7 days, it’s been one hell of a show.
That is all.
They are being paid by Flynn's gofundme, or similar.
You are missing the main point. Until this case is adjudicated, Flynn is under a GAG order. He has not been allowed to exercise his First Amendment rights for almost three years now, and this judge kicked that can down the road.
Am I the only person who wants to hear what Flynn has to say? It’s apparent to me the Dems don’t want him talking.
Yes, where did Trump get the idea Flynn lied to him?
It appears it was from the FBI and the DOJ.
It is very important.
I have not seen any such statement. Have you?
I see it differently.
I am not a lawyer, but I think I am not too bad at reading people.
Powell is no fool. I suspect that she saw him dearly on as a prejudiced judge and figured that since he would get Flynn regardless of her best efforts, Flynn would end up appealing.
Therefore baiting Sullivan and causing him to expose his intent to convict Flynn in order to make an appeal likely to succeed.
Hmmm... the answer to that could easily be what you wrote in the next sentence:
One of the things Powell is scared of is the issue of whether the government promised not to prosecute Flynn’s son.
The idea that the government agents were acting as thugs against Flynn, for political purposes, is the central issue, isn't it?
Could be the Judge wants to air out the matter in court rather than just let the Justice Dept kill the case. With the latest revelations of FBI misconduct he may want to put his two cents in.
This is a corrupt Judge over this case. Flynn was not charged with nor did he plead guilty to perjury. He was trapped in a process crime of lying to the FBI. He plead guilty because his family and son were being threatened with prosecution.
Indeed. And I think they’ve pretty much established that the FBI agents he spoke to felt that he had told the truth. And they filled out the 302 form saying he told the truth. But that wasn’t very useful to the FBI, so Strozk altered the 302 (which is a no-no) and suddenly the 302 says that Flynn lied to the FBI. Which starts the whole ball rolling.
But now, the DOJ is saying, “He didn’t lie. We had exculpatory evidence that we hid from the court. We’re sorry, we’d like to walk away now.”
And the judge is saying, “Not so fast! This guy lied to the FBI!”
Disgusting.
Sullivan needs to get out more.
It think the issues are significantly different.
Judge Sullivan's asking for Amici briefs is highly unusual, however.
Exactly, if it wasn’t for Powell Flynn would be cooling his heals in Fed stir. It only matters to Flynn short term what Sullivan does, in the long term he’ll win on appeal if things don’t work out with Sullivan.
That's what the spanking of the Ninth Circus three-judge panel in United States v. Sineneng-Smith was all about.
If this is not about Flynn talking, the Judge could remove the GAG order immediately! This is what Flynn’s lawyer, and everybody else should be demanding. Call out this Judge.
Gag orders are unconstitutional!
That seems an integral part of the coup.
Powell made Sullivan the HERO in the book she wrote, the one she is constantly hawking on the power of the Flynn case.
The circumstances are different and do not apply.
we’re growing tired of 72D chess. We’ve known about this scam for four years, it’s time to wipe their pieces off the board.
We need to play like Chewbacca and rip their arms off until we win.
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