Posted on 02/16/2018 6:37:05 AM PST by billorites
I hope this works out for him. Withholding pertinent evidence is a punishable crime.
Flynn is a hero. He was the only one who tried to stop the Iranian sellout. I’m looking at you McMaster.
Flynn needs to withdraw his plea and sue the snot out of the federal government for false prosecution.
I disagree.
Evidently, his guilty plea was part of a deal to keep Mueller from going after his son, some lobbying issue, and his family finances.
If he withdraws, then those things are open again to Mueller.
Flynn should allow these revelations to force a judge to vacate the plea. That would mean Flynn did not violate the agreement. Should mean that Mueller cannot do so either.
The case should be thrown out. General Flynn can’t get his money or reputation back but it does seem like a bit of gray area about his honesty. But drag him through court, no way. If the court doesn’t fix this, Trump should pardon him.
He will do just that.
1. In December the new judge Sullivan told Mueller to present exonerated evidence if there was any to Flynn and his legal counsel
2. In January then Mueller asked for a stay of sentencing Flynn, pushing it to May
3. In February, Mueller asked that the evidence he turned over to Flynn legal counsel be sealed
4. We still don’t know about why Judge Contreras was removed from the Flynn case, after he accepted Flynn’s guilty plea (many suspect he was on the FISA court when Carter Page application for warrant came through)
All of this put together spells that Mueller will have to drop the case
From what I understood, the only reason Flynn pleaded guilty was because they broke him financially and threatened to go after his son.
And that differs from blackmail how?
I’ve been following Judge Sullivan for quite a while now - Flynn hit the jackpot when Contreras was forced to recuse and Sullivan ended up as his judge.
The Flynn political persecution and miscarriage of justice is not just finished, there will be blowback on Mueller
Manaforte will skate on whatever they have on him, if anything
They never had anything on Carter Page
Nunes just gutted the Trump Russian Collusion pretext for the Mueller investigation and Grassley is firing the opening salvo on the Uranium One scandal that both Mueller and Comey covered up
Soon the hunters will become the hunted
How does a prosector agree to not pursue someone who has broke the law? If Flynn’s son broke the law he should be prosecuted. Plea deals and bargains should be barred. Granted he probably violated some arcane law designed specifically to be invoked as needed by the government.
None, but it’s legal if you’re a government. /sarcasm
There are reports that initially the FBI didn't believe Flynn lied to them, but that changed once Mueller got appointed.
Comey is on record saying in a classified briefing that the FBI did not think he lied and it just came out. If that information, material to his case, was not disclosed to his defense attorney, then thats misconduct.
Yeah the problem is that Flynn has confessed in detail to the crime, that is how a guilty plea works. The current Judge is on record as to his policy of automatically issuing a Brady order as a result of his experience in the Sen. Stevens corruption trial. The bar for vacating a guilty plea on the basis of actual innocence is incredibly high. Prosecutorial misconduct alone is usually insufficient. You must also demonstrate misconduct or gross incompetence of defense lawyers. Furthermore, the speculation as to what exculpatory evidence might exist centers on a supposed judgement by interviewing agents that Flynn’s comments in his FBI interview were truthful. The opinion of the agents of his truthfulness are of course contradicted by the confession of Gen Flynn who has admitted to knowingly and deliberately making false statements. When you have already said you did it, there can be no exculpatory information. At this point, it’s mitigating circumstances related to sentencing. Flynn can be pardoned, until then he is an admitted criminal.
No way it can be!.....With no collusion found, Muellers job NOW is to obfuscate and run out the clock....postpone the inevitable...He's trapped!...if he finishes the investigation without an impeachment or crippling the Trump Administration he himself is at risk!.....IMHO...He's created a “Sisyphean Task” for himself and others...
The Flynn case was built on an illegal FISA warrant. Any information obtained from an illegal warrant cannot be used as evidence.
Refer to the comments on CTH in which JL says (February 15, 2018 at 8:54 pm):
This line in the letter to Rep. Nunes jumped out at me:“As you know, any such transcripts would be classified. It may also be helpful for me to observe hat, in a typical process of considering an application, we make no systematic record of questions we ask or responses the government gives.”
Am I reading this correctly? There is no transcript of the actual face-to-face between the FISC judge and the FBI lawyer? No record anywhere?
Could it be that part of asking for this information is so that the public becomes aware of how this secret court operates? Could this line be a warning from the Judge Collyer saying, “Don’t forget that you folks created this Frankenstein court. Are you sure you want light shining into the darkness for the people to see?”
Oh yeah, Judge Collyer, we do. We indubitably do.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/15/fisa-court-presiding-judge-rosemary-collyer-responds-to-chairman-nunes-and-chairman-goodlatte-request-for-fisc-documents/comment-page-2/#comments
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