Posted on 02/14/2020 12:20:01 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Attorney General William Barr has ordered an outside prosecutor to review the criminal case against Michael Flynn, President Trump's former national security adviser, sources tell The New York Times.
Such reviews are rare and are likely to raise new questions about potential political interference by Department of Justice (DOJ) officials into cases.
The report comes after the DOJ earlier this week reversed a decision to recommend a seven- to nine-year prison sentence for Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Trump. That decision led the entire prosecutorial team to resign in an apparent protest.
According to the Times, Barr has also tapped outside prosecutors to review other politically sensitive cases being handled by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, which is overseeing Flynn’s prosecution.
Among the team members identified were Jeff Jensen, a prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in St. Louis who is handling Flynn's case, and additional prosecutors from Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen’s office.
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Is Barr’s letting McCabe off a great thing too? Tell us. We would like to know.
Good. Unfortunately, I do think that Trump should have kept his mouth shut, and now Barr is probably going to have to outsource a lot of the more controversial stuff. Trump is great at calling attention to problems but then he should move on, because Barr has been one of his best supporters and it’s unfortunate that he’s been made media-bait.
What deep stater has Barr indicted?
Well then yes that is what Barr is saying.
Maybe you should keep your hands off the key board you loser.
Unfortunately ALL the fake news outlets including FAUX news quotes the NYSLIMES as the gospel truth for breaking news!!
would it do any good to ask why?
Barr forgot who is working for, President Trump. Barr has done little indicting the criminals. Something is wrong. Maybe he should take a look at himself and realize he is letting the voters down as well as not prosecuting those that are criminals. Behind the scenes means nothing to us loyal conservatives. Trump has not created the problem with Barr, Barr created his own problem. How many years more does Barr needed.
When Steve Pieczenik warns, as he did today, that Barr is planning a coup against Trump—I pay attention.
Never, ever, ever should he have brought a Bush fixer in to run the DoJ!
Something I’ve long wondered about:
Comey bragged that they wanted to “interview” General Flynn during the chaos of the transition, so he wouldn’t have to go through normal channels.
Did the FBI agents who interrogated General Flynn read him his “Miranda Rights” before-hand? I’m guessing they didn’t tell him that anything he said could be used against him, in order to get him to “open-up.”
That’s something I haven’t heard anything about.
Mark
That’s what I thought. Why so negative, FRiends?
The giveaway was his interview... why yesterday so unexpectedly and then the bomb dropped with McCabe skating to freedom! Yep, something stinks to high merciful heaven! Once a dirty evil sonof*tch swamp creature always a swamp thing!!
According to the Times, Barr has also tapped outside prosecutors to review other politically sensitive cases
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Barr is big on ‘reviews’ because they commit to nothing and lead to nothing.
The man has demonstrated nothing but incompetence and passiveness since becoming the AG.
Meanwhile, confidence in the justice system seems to be probing all time lows. Barr has indeed set a low bar.
Huber?
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What happened to the big talk about how nobody is going to bully him?
You’ve missed a lot of the details of Flynn’s case then. I think Sidney Powell is excellent to follow on twitter or in interviews on tv or radio. Best source of data is her Motions which go through all the facts uncovered in his case. She is an excellent writer. Go to Courtlistener dot com and search on Flynn’s name.
No Miranda read because they did not want him to know he was not only under investigation, but they had gotten a FISA warrant on him probably dating to 2015 or earlier. Obama surveilled him for years.
Under the conditions of the day, an outside entity is the exact right call...keeps the Dems from howling that Barr is Trump’s butt monkey....at least it shows they lie about it......
“Barr created his own problem. How many years more does Barr needed.”
Yesterday Mark Steyn, on Rush’s show, was pretty much saying the same thing. Barr’s “job” is to clean out his entire swamp, but he hasn’t really done that. Steyn asks how much time he needs.
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