Posted on 12/01/2017 6:33:50 AM PST by pgkdan
Former White House National Security advisor Michael Flynn will plead guilty to charges of making false statements to FBI agents after months of investigation by Special Counsel Bob Mueller.
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Well the constitution offers you the ability to say nothing. That is why the old saying goes, “the guilty man says ‘I didn’t do it,’ the innocent man says ‘I didn’t do it,’ but the acquitted man says nothing.”
Really, there is no law about colluding except in price fixing, which has nothing to do with this subject. However, there are laws about lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice. Why did he feel the need to lie? He lied to VP Pence and was fired for it. Was it mere vanity or something more serious? No one really knows yet.
Process crime?
Wow.
Anyway, if the FBI ask a question, only one answer need be given. I don’t recall.
Michael Flynn found guilty of reason Pres. Trump fired him.
What are the chances that Mueller will revisit and put her under oath? I will not hold my breath.
Was Flynn under oath?
“...and yet, Hillary Clinton walks free to this day...
We ARE a banana republic.”
Banana republics have better justice systems. They eventually execute their corrupt leaders.
“Generally speaking, the FBI does not.”
I imagine the FBI conducts honest investigations most of the time, but from these conversations I’ve concluded that getting a lawyer before talking to them is a good idea.
Do you think that if you started discussing a subject with the FBI, they could require that you continue answering questions on the subject just because the discussion was started? Maybe not because there’s the fifth amendment.
“Scooter Libby all over again”
And Martha Stewart. Feds are real heroes aren’t they?
You always have the right to have your lawyer present and you always have the right to stop answering questions. Be aware that LEO will try to paint this as not being cooperative. That is why it is important to have your lawyer present to control the conversation.
If you agree to an interview, but only if it is video recorded, and then the FBI decides to NOT participate, they are the ones seen as being not cooperative.
As much as I like law and order to be maintained in society, stay away from law enforcement, and if engaged, do as you suggest, more or less.
Decades ago, a colleague of mine was seeking a job that required an FBI background check. He asked me to speak to the FBI for him. I asked the FBI if any of the statements I made could be used against me, either by him or them. They said yes, if what I said was not truthful. I asked if I was going to be given a copy of their notes “for my files” for my “corrections”? They said “no”. I should have stopped there, and left, but I let them ask the questions. The interview didn’t last long because my answers were basically, I don’t think I can help you with that one, ... or that one... or that one. I wasn’t useful to them. Older wiser now. The game is that they are to catch the bad guys and collect evidence - they don’t care who, let the prosecutor and the judge figure it all out.
Criminals who encounter law enforcement lie all the time. Law enforcement lies to criminals to set them up to admit something in their search for evidence. Most criminals are not charged with lying - but with some other charge. If things go to trial, the criminal’s lying is used to impeach his credibility. The law enforcement lying is permitted per judicial precedence because of the “greater societal good” i.e. to “protect society” from bad guys and to “enforce the law”. And the irony of the whole thing is that the accused’s lying is rarely prosecuted ...unless there is another reason (political persecution like squeezing Flynn hoping to get to a bigger fish, taking down Martha Stewart). And yes, a faulty recollection can be turned into a lie to be prosecuted (I think this happened to Scooter Libby, in the hopes to get at Dick Cheney).
Yes, Scooter Libby redux ... in so far as they are using Flynn to get to a bigger fish in the pond . . . who I think is Trump. In Libby’s case the bigger fish was Cheney.
Exactly was the sky gray or blue. It was blue no the weather reports said it was gray.
What time did you arrive well our clock show a 10 minute difference.
Got you.
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Show me the man and I will find you the crime.
Lavernty Beria
They did it to Scooter Libbey.
Well I have no issues sending someone to jail for insider trading... honestly more folks need to...
Still blows my mind that the CEO of Countrywide didn’t spend a day in jail for his flagrant pump and dump and fraud...
Hey you made MILLIONS, while others lost their shirt.. but just pay some of it back and you can walk..
Insane.
Rob one man of $100 with a gun 5-7, rob a thousand people of Millions with lies and don’t go to jail...
But all they ever got was Scooter.
“I feel bad for Flynn, but his mistake was not watching Hilary when it comes to testifying under oath: “I don’t remember” . . . “I can’t recall” . . . “I’m not sure if I remember that” . . . etc, etc, etc.”
Wouldn’t it be great if somewhere in one of her books she spouted off on something that, previously, she had told the FBI “I don’t remember” about? Yeah, I know, she’d never be prosecuted for it, anyway...but it’d still be great to have that come out in public.
Has Paul Ryan asked the Judiciary Committee to start an impeachment investigation yet?
Agreed, but it is the law. And you are correct. It IS selectively prosecuted.
“Well I have no issues sending someone to jail for insider trading... honestly more folks need to...”
That isn’t what they got her on. It was the same they got Flynn on....and could get ANYONE on.
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