Posted on 12/13/2017 3:51:30 PM PST by advance_copy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. District Court judge ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday to turn over any potential evidence that could be material for when he sentences President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
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Flynn has agreed to cooperate with Mueller’s investigation. Moscow has denied interfering in the election and Trump has denied any collusion.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan told the government in a filing to turn over any exculpatory evidence, known as “Brady” material, that could potentially help Flynn’s defense or information that is “material either to the defendant’s guilt or punishment.”
The order by the judge is considered routine, and the government by law is required to turn over such information to the defense if it exists.
The FBI can lie to you but it’s a crime if you lie to them. Agree - just don’t talk to them.
Since the entire Trump Caper began in the summer of 2015 we have seen too many federal officials fail to perform their official duties or uphold their professional responsibilities.
To have a federal judge reject a plea deal on the grounds that the Special Counsel is, essentially, corrupt and biased, would be breathtaking.
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The Obama’s administration was the *real* influence operation, not RUSSIA. Mueller and Rosenstein should be in trouble. Flynn was charged out of Mueller’s office and Flynn was threatened, I’m sure. Even Comey passed on charging Flynn for not remembering details of one phone call out of a thousand.
Rosenstein gave Mueller too much range to roam, on purpose. Mueller was never confined to “collusion” as he should have been. Rosenstein seems to have set this in motion to go too far.
Where is Trump? He can compel these answers to simple questions about this dossier. (According to McCarthy.)
So now Mueller has a problem. He knows his agents were dirty and he knows the IG knows his agents are dirty. He also knows someone wearing a white hat is feeding the evidence to the Judicial Committee run by Devin Nunes.
So if he hides or omits anything and Sullivan is made aware of it his goose is cooked.
So the FISCA warrant applications needs to be turned over AND records of the FBI paying for the DNC/Clinton/Fusion produced
Fairytale called a Dossier along with all records of the FBI meeting with Fusion and the Xlinton/Fusion people?
This judge is no doubt waiting for the IG report to wash his hands of sentencing.
This guy Sullivan has recently been assigned to look over Mueller’s shoulder. He’s got an interesting history who may give Mueller some trouble.
“He also knows someone wearing a white hat is feeding the evidence to the Judicial Committee run by Devin Nunes.”
I continue to be unimpressed with Nunes. He needs to put on his “big boy” pants and get the information to which his committee is entitled, without any more “scheduling conflicts” and “stonewalling” on documents that have been requested for months!
Goodlatte and Jordan already have Strzok’s app. There were about a thousand under zero, probably 200 stalking our CINC.
Brady evidence (exculpatory evidence for the defendant) is provided to the defense.
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Its extremely material if there is no plea agreement in place.
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RitaOK, from the past I have come to think we don’t always know the full “ins and outs” going on in these things.
Some of you may be as right as can be, but having seen so many seemingly great posts before about what was going on and never seeing anything come of them, I’m pretty much content to wait and see how it plays out.
During the 90s we had some great folks saying it was only a matter of time on Clinton. It never happened.
What can I say.
I hope you’re right. I’d love to see actions taken against these jerks, believe me.
From the beginning, the Obama Administration and the FBI COLLUDED with the HRC campaign to defeat, and failing that, to bring down by any means necessary, President Trump.
Only a candy ass judge worried about his or her political future would wait for an IG report. No federal judge worth his or her salt has any respect or faith in any of the departmental IGs, which generally just whitewash agency misconduct.
I am holding out for the optimism of your prior comment.
"Sullivan presided over the 2008 trial of Senator Ted Stevens, who was convicted of ethics violations in October of that year. The judge initially refused requests by the defense for a mistrial to be declared, after information was revealed that the prosecution had withheld material.[4][5] But in April 2009, Sullivan set aside the conviction following a Justice Department probe that found additional evidence of gross prosecutorial misconduct.[6]"
Bueller Bueller Mueller. ...
And...
"Government concealment of evidence
In February 2009, FBI agent Chad Joy filed a whistleblower affidavit, alleging that prosecutors and FBI agents conspired to withhold and conceal evidence that could have resulted in a verdict of "not guilty."[107] In his affidavit, Joy alleged that prosecutors intentionally sent a key witness back to Alaska after the witness performed poorly during a mock cross examination.
The witness, Rocky Williams, later notified the defense attorneys that his testimony would undercut the prosecution's claim that his company had spent its own money renovating Sen. Stevens's house. Joy further alleged that the prosecutors intentionally withheld Brady material including redacted prior statements of a witness, and a memo from Bill Allen stating that Sen. Stevens probably would have paid for the goods and services if asked.
Joy further alleged that a female FBI agent had an inappropriate relationship with Allen, who also gave gifts to FBI agents and helped one agent's relative get a job. ..."
Much more at link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Stevens#Government_concealment_of_evidence
I do not believe the conviction is deemed legally final until the sentencing phase is complete. In any event, the prosecutors are in a big hurt locker now since the FISA facts will have to be produced since they were likely used to set up and sack Flynn. This is a big deal since the case and conviction may be tainted if the court determines that the surveilled conversations relied on were obtained through a fraudulently obtained FISA warrant, i.e., the FISA application presented to the FISA court included phony dossier facts that the affiant knew or had reason to know was fabricated and thereby perpetrated a fraud on the FISA court.
material, that could potentially help Flynn’s defense...
Flynn has already plead guilty... Could the new judge throw out the guilty plea based on the conduct of Mueller’s Trump hating investigators?
Frankly, Flynn is guilty of lying under oath and he’s has admitted this fact by offering his plea of guilt. The question is, if Flynn had instead not pled guilty, would the Mueller team be able to convict him in a court of law given the tainted and biased tone of the investigation that has only now been revealed after the plea of guilt has been offered. In effect, if Flynn and more importantly, Flynn’s lawyer had access to the facts as known today regarding the investigators, their ties to the Trump dossier and their obvious bias toward Trump. Would his lawyer advise him to accept a plea deal?
The likely answer given the facts, would be that a lawyer would not make that recommendation. There is now a growing amount of evidence that if presented to a jury in court, would result in Flynn avoiding a conviction.
In the Spring of 1993, I arrived at my office to find two FBI agents with guns waiting to talk to me.
I talked to them.
That began an amazing journey which I will never forget.
I will say that the advice to never talk to them is well-founded, and I wish I had known it before I went to work that day.
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