Michael Flynn Fires Lawyers – DOJ Files Documents Under Seal… (update - not allowed by Judge)

CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 6/6/2019 | SUNDANCE

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UPDATE (3:55pm EDT): The lawyer change (motion for leave) was denied by Judge Sullivan due to a technicality in the filing (no accompanying order, and failure to outline method of notification to Flynn). They are free to refile (probably will).

Previously: This is a very interesting development and may well indicate a change in strategy; or, even more interesting, the execution of a pre-planned strategy, for General Michael Flynn. There is a possibility, with legal distance happening as a result of Weissmann and Mueller’s investigation concluding, that Michael Flynn may be shifting to offense.

Two separate court filings today show: (1) Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has fired his legal team and retained new counsel; and, (2) the DOJ is filing the evidentiary documents (possibly Joe Pientka 302 and Kislyak transcript?) under seal.

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(my cross-reference update: John Solomon reports that Mueller witheld positive info about Kislyak from Mueller Report)

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3755076/posts

Key figure that Mueller report linked to Russia was a State Department intel source
The Hill ^ | 06/06/19 | John Solomon

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[bobk333]

What happened to Flynn was one of the biggest travesties of justice this country has ever had. It’s still happening,

Flynn needs to fight, but he can’t afford it.

Someone needs to start a GoFundMe campaign to pay for Flynn’s legal costs.

[Ann Archy]

And Manafort should have NEVER been sent to Solitary....but it was done to SILENCE him!

[GOPJ]

And Manafort should have NEVER been sent to Solitary....but it was done to SILENCE him!

It was done to silence people in DC thinking about standing up to the thugs in 'intelligence'...

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Keep an eye on the Roger Stone travesty.
These are tied together on a back-channel.
The back-channel call letters are “WEIS[mann]”

[SERKIT]

So any idea on Barr’s position, or is the DoJ position baked in previous cakes?

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Cletus - read this

https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1136816196475658240

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this is wild..

https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1136817048938602497

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Wait, how do we know CIA controls wikileaks now?

[Jack Black]

We didn't get the opening paragraph or two from this article, so I will post them now:

(BTW: I know how hard CT articles are to post because of his extensive use of pictures and live links, so no criticism intended, but I still think it's helpful to put the core stuff here for people who maybe can't click through due to restrictive firewalls, etc.)

This is a very interesting development and may well indicate a change in strategy; or, even more interesting, the execution of a pre-planned strategy, for General Michael Flynn. There is a possibility, with legal distance happening as a result of Weissmann and Mueller’s investigation concluding, that Michael Flynn may be shifting to offense.

Two separate court filings today show: (1) Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has fired his legal team and retained new counsel; and, (2) the DOJ is filing the evidentiary documents (possibly Joe Pientka 302 and Kislyak transcript?) under seal.

The Daily Caller is reporting that an announcement from the new legal counsel will come out within the next few days:

Additionally Techno Fog is noting there are new DOJ filings being presented to the court “under seal” (This could be the FD-302, from Flynn FBI interview, and/or the Kislyak transcript the DOJ previously would not provide the court in public record):

Again, there are lots of links at Conservative Treehouse, so go there if you want the details.

Both parts of this story are interesting. Start with the first part: the lawyer firing by Flynn.

Why change lawyers now?

• You've pleaded guilty a year ago,
• you've cooperated with Mueller as a source for more than a year,
• you've stuck with your plea bargain,
• the IC has put in his sentencing recommendation:

what is there even left for a new lawyer to do, except say "thank you" to the judge for the lenient sentence he's going to give you for all of your work helping the Mueller team?

By any conventional standard it seems far too late to withdraw your plea bargain. In fact there never is a time to withdraw a plea bargain. All plea bargains include the stipulation that if you withdraw the prosecution is free to use everything in it, including your previous confession at any subsequent trial.

Which is why people never withdraw from plea agreements.

I really don't get it. Anyone have a clever theory?

Then there is Part 2: the new sealed filings. That's weird too, for the same reason. We are at the bitter end of this thing.

Last week (May 31) Team Mueller (what do we call them now that Mueller is gone, they are still in place prosecuting people. Who's the head of Team Mueller now, in the Cohen case, this case, and other pending cases?) stiffed the Judge (Sullivan) on his order that they produce a transcript of the Flynn / Russian Ambassador K. call.

That was a bit strange. How often do you see an attorney, even a Federal one tell a judge to "pound sand".

So maybe this is a "secret version" just for the Judge of that memo.

At what point do "we the people" get to see enough of the evidence to decide if this case was a semi-legitimate case of lying to the FBI or if it was just total hokum from day 1. ???

Never?