This is not necessarily good news. According to Judge Napolitano, the government put the thumb screws to witnesses by threatening them with multiple serious charges and long prison sentences. They tell them they will let them off easy if they agree to testify against their real target(s). It should be illegal, but it happens all the time. You see it when state attorneys general go after business executives in order to make a name for themselves. Flynn may spew lies about Trump and others in order to spare himself a long prison sentence.
Flynn may have had access to this information or even discussed it. For example: Trump telling him to engage with the Russians. I believe that would happen because Russians are not some small nothing country but a significant player in the world. We definitely should be “engaged” and be talking with them. Duh!
Yes. It is a very bad situation where prosecutors have this much power, and no one can hold them accountable for fraud, lies, and abuse.
I don’t see how that could be. If this went to court, the defense would call Flynn and ask him if he was charged with the “Collusion Conspiracy” charge. He would have to say “No.”
At that point, the prosecution case begins to completely unravel. Why?
If you arrest a guy for 1 crime, but tell him they will let him of easy if he implicates others in another crime for which he was not charged at all, how is the jury supposed to believe him?
General Flynn is a patriot with a long history of service to his country and there is absolutely no justification for demeaning his integrity by suggesting he will not do otherwise. Just relax and the facts will become known in time.
I disagree. If Flynn lies in order to sex up a story about Trump whom we all know is the real Target of this operation, and that lie becomes apparent, particularly after a prosecution of trump, then Flynn becomes guilty of another crime, a far more serious one because that will be perjury under oath which is arguably more formal then a mere accidental misstatement made in a pre-trial interview. I am not always the biggest fan of Andrew McCarthy but I believe his article here is absolutely dead on the money.
If he spewed lies to the FBI, and got caught, what's to say he won't spew lies to Mueller. And, get caught again, lying?
ABC essentially retracted this entire story: Flynn was asked to contact the Russians AFTER he was elected - he was President-elect.
Its not clear to me if there would have been a crime had he contacted them prior to the election, but . . .
I have trouble with the idea that lying to the FBI is a crime.
There's yer trouble.
listening to that moron is your first mistake...that guys been wrong about everything in regards to Trump....second, a prosecutor cannot “subourn perjured testimony”...but anyway, Flynns credibility is shot now...hes just trying to save his son. Muellers just trying to get dummies that lied. Let this be a lesson to all..NEVER TALK TO THE COPS.