Molly McCann Debunks Another bit of New York Times Fake News

Molly McCann is of counsel at Sidney Powell, P.C., the defense firm for General Mike Flynn. On Twitter today, she took apart yet another piece of false reporting by the corrupt Democrat activists at the New York Times. It’s a brilliant take down that everyone should read.

Here is McCann’s destruction of the Times’s despicably false piece, in full:

The New York Times has no credibility as it continues to maliciously twist the truth with “reporting” that obfuscates the truth and panders downright lies. In an op-ed today, the NYT takes facts and tries to create a completely false narrative. THREAD. @SidneyPowell1Image

Sidney Powell *did* send a letter to AG Barr last year shortly after she was retained by Gen. Flynn. She sent it confidentially to urge DOJ to correct manifest injustice. She sent it confidentially as a curtesy to the Department—giving DOJ an opportunity… Image …to preserve confidence in the rule of law.ImageImageImageImage AG Barr forwarded Sidney’s letter to lead prosecutor Brandon Van Grack, who replied that there was no further Brady material outstanding (quoted at ECF No. 111, attached). Van Grack publicly filed the majority of Sidney’s letter on Oct. 1, 2019. ECF No. 122-2.Image There was no underhanded secret here. Sidney was vocal about her view of this case long before she took on Flynn’s defense. She wrote an op-ed in February of 2018 urging Gen. Flynn to withdraw his plea.

General Flynn Should WITHDRAW His Guilty Plea. His New Judge Is A Government Misconduct ExpertJudge Emmet G. Sullivan knows a cover-up when he sees onehttps://dailycaller.com/2018/02/16/general-flynn-should-withdraw-his-guilty-plea-his-new-judge-is-a-government-misconduct-expert/

Ironically, Sidney believed Judge Sullivan—appointed to the DDC by Clinton—was the judge best equipped and experienced to know that the prosecutors had made up the case and were hiding evidence of Flynn’s innocence, as she also detailed in a Dec. op-ed:

POWELL: New Facts Indicate Mueller Destroyed Evidence, Obstructed JusticeMueller’s team lost a crucial cell phone — and it turned up with its contents erasedhttps://dailycaller.com/2018/12/16/mueller-destroyed-evidence/

The NYT says that at its core the Flynn case “is a drama about who gets to mete out justice in the Trump era.” In this, at least, it is correct. The Flynn case has exposed the frightening reality that certain people will let nothing and no one stand in the way of power. These people cast aside any semblance of honor or integrity, targeted Flynn, and sicced corrupt prosecutors on him. They were willing to tear down the rule of law and destroy the bedrock principles of justice and due process on which our system depends, all for their own… …political purposes. Those purposes were to destroy General Flynn and the reforms he would make to the intelligence community and to topple a democratically elected President—Donald J. Trump. The Flynn story is the story of the most breathtaking abuse of power in our nation’s history. And the (not failing, but failed) New York Times is attempting to cover-up that scandal by fabricating tales to hide the truth. But the facts speak for themselves. Barr asked Jensen—a career DOJ attorney—to review the Flynn file and Jensen uncovered exculpatory evidence so breathtaking it has rocked the foundations of our Republic. This evidence is black and white—they ignore it, because it is so ugly and unambiguous they can’t… …even spin it, so they pretend it never was produced. In any other time and with an even partially honest media, this story of corruption would be on every front page. General Michael Flynn was set up by people intent on maintaining power no matter what institutions, principles, or people had to be hacked to pieces in the process. This type of false reporting from the New York Times is not just biased, it is subversive.

Nothing new, and won’t be the last time.

This problem is exacerbated by a DOJ and IC that has been turned inward (i.e. collecting on citizens) post 9-11 but where the leadership of all these government entities are still just political appointees and those loyal to those appointees.

Watergate wasn’t anything new (it was just the first one where the media played it up), and the FBI acting as it did wasn’t new either: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/04/archives/new-jersey-pages-fbi-is-accused-of-political-acts-for-6-presidents.html

Now, there is one critical/key difference between today and pre Internet and Patriot Act, today the ease and ability to collect, the extent of collection is simply put AWESOME!!! The average citizen carries a tracking system on their hip (cell hone), all of the calls, emails, text messages are considered in the public domain as far as the IC is concerned, toll roads, cameras everywhere, data bases that collect everything about every behavior (private business, health care, Internet activity, financial, education, transportation...), smart appliances, your car (mic and GPS tracking). In the days of Nixon it often required physical entry into a building, whereas today it’s with the push of a button and the ease of obscuring ones identity, avoiding detection is far easier as well.

Why do we act surprised every time this happens?

As soon as government had the power, the misuse began, already under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. When you have these sort of powers, it’s sort of like Lord of the Rings (pardon the corny analogy), it’s very tempting and all the ramblings about professionalism and policies are simply bullshit because it merely takes a few folks at higher levels to approve or push for this and the rest all falls into place because you will always find some low level government nug willing to do “ANYTHING” to get the attention and favor of his superiors. Then you just stamp “Secret” all over it and pretend it’s for “national security.” In America you can suspend the US Constitution when it’s for spies, terrorists, foreign nation threats (FISA courts/NSLs...), Global Warming, Social Justice and egalitarianism.

Everyone always has this fake outrage when it happens, but no one wants to fix the problem even though it’s been happening for 70 years! It’s only a bit more pronounced today and in fact IMHO American society has just sort come to accepted this behavior.

When you give government these powers, they will use them.

*** The Flynn story is the story of the most breathtaking abuse of power in our nation’s history ***

I think Julian Assange’s persecution is more breathtaking. Our government’s latest superseding indictment relies on the testimony of a pedophile FBI informant, Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson, who was convicted of fraud, embezzlement (of $240,000 from WikiLeaks), theft, and impersonating Assange. Thoradson was also found guilty of numerous sexual offenses.

The other FBI informant is a convicted petty thief and conman whose Lulzsec hackers group was an FBI entrapment front headed by Hector “Sabu” Monsegur.

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