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Posted on 05/13/2020 4:20:00 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Several things coming together yesterday and this morning related to Spygate and the Mike Flynn case, which are parts of the same overarching Obamagate scandal:
First, you have the federal judge in the Flynn case – Emmet Sullivan – still refusing to dismiss the case even though the Department of Justice last week made the decision to withdraw all charges and notify him that it would not prosecute the case going forward. Sullivan took the extraordinary step on Tuesday to not only request more briefings from both the defense and the prosecution, but also made it clear that he plans to accept Amicus briefs (aka, friend of the court briefs) from third parties.
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Sullivan cites Washington, DC’s “Civil Rule 7(o) as if it somehow requires him to take this step, since he has obviously already received at least one such brief, and even cites the utterly corrupt judge Amy Berman Jackson as justification for doing so.
Yet, in a different citation earlier in his Minute Order, Sullivan also includes this: “An amicus brief should normally be allowed when a party is not represented competently or is not represented at all, when the amicus has an interest in some other case that may be affected by the decision in the present case… or when the amicus has unique information or perspective that can help the court beyond the help that the lawyers for the parties are able to provide. Otherwise, leave to file an amicus curiae should be denied.”
In other words, there is nothing compelling Sullivan to take this extraordinary step that will extend the government’s heinous abuse of General Flynn – it’s entirely up to his own discretion. He’s doing this because he wants to do it, for reasons that are not yet clear, but that are easy to guess. Flynn attorney Sidney Powell pointed out yesterday that Sullivan has in the past repeatedly denied third parties the ability to file such briefs favorable to General Flynn.
Sullivan’s a snake, plain and simple.
Second, DOJ Spokesperson Kerri Kupec appeared on Fox News with Martha MacAllum last night, and had several important and revealing things to say during her segment:
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The first key point is her reiteration of DOJ’s position that “this case should have never been brought.”
“What distinguishes the FBI as a premier law enforcement agency from, say, vs. the secret police, is that they can’t just go around asking American citizens questions just for the sake of asking those questions. There needs to be a specific basis, an articulable basis for asking that question.”
On the unmasking documents that we talked about yesterday, she specifically ties that information to John Durham’s investigation, as we assumed would be the case: “Last week, ODNI provided information related to unmasking, and it’s that list that you’re referencing right now. And as it’s relevant to investigations, John Durham’s investigation specifically, I am sure he will take a look at that. And just to be clear about that, John Durham, in his review of what happened in 2016 and 2017, he’s already looking at this issue of unmasking under his broader review. I can tell you that his team is working diligently to get to the bottom of what happened, because Martha, what happened to candidate Trump and then President Trump was one of the greatest political injustices in American history and should never happen again.”
Here is what we said in yesterday’s piece about those documents:
Of course, as a DOJ spokesperson later clarified, DOJ has no intention of releasing these documents because they are ODNI documents, and the decision about whether or not to make them public rests with Ric Grenell, the Acting Director of National Intelligence.
It was Grenell, if you remember, who famously hand-delivered copies of these documents and perhaps others last Thursday to Attorney General William Barr. Corrupt media outlets like ABC have been assuming Grenell did that because he wanted Barr’s permission to make them public. As a matter of actual reality, though, Grenell delivered them to Barr because those documents are likely to be very useful evidence in the investigation being mounted by U.S. Attorney John Durham.
Kupec then repeatedly clarifies (because MacAllum is either incredibly dense or was pretending to be so) the fact we pointed out yesterday: That these documents are ODNI documents – meaning they source from the U.S. Intelligence Community, not the FBI or the DOJ.
Think about the implications of that key fact, and what they mean to Obama-era DNI James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan.
Finally, Fox News is breathlessly reporting this morning that Acting DNI Ric Grenell is preparing to release at least some of those documents and name the names of the high Obama officials who were engaged in the thousands of illegal unmaskings of U.S. citizens today or tomorrow.
So, what to make of Kupec’s comments?
First, it’s key to remember that she is a spokesperson, and everything she says in public has been painstakingly vetted up through the entire chain of command at the U.S. Department of Justice, all the way to Barr himself. When Kupec speaks in public, she speaks for the Attorney General and the entire DOJ. She’s not just talking off the top of her head.
Given that, it is extraordinarily significant that she compares what the FBI did to General Flynn to the actions of the “secret police,” a term that most Americans would tie to the Nazi Gestapo or the Soviet KGB. Remember that that analogy is now informed by the findings of Durham’s investigation, which has likely been ongoing since late 2018.
The same is true of Kupec’s out-and-out, unqualified declarative statement that “what happened to candidate Trump and then President Trump was one of the greatest political injustices in American history.”
Then there is the news that Durham has already been looking at the unmasking issue, which one would have naturally assumed since that operation was both a by-product of and an informative element to the Obama Coup Cabal’s illegal domestic spying operation. This is new information that Barr has not been specific about in his numerous interviews on the Durham investigation.
That new information, and the other key points laid out by Kupec in this 6 minute clip indicate that, when you see the names of the unmaskers revealed by Grenell and the DNI documents, it is almost a certainty that those are the names of key targets of the Durham investigation.
It is highly likely that Grenell personally took those documents over to Barr last Thursday evening in order to review them together and to get Barr’s agreement that Durham’s investigation is now at a point that making them public would serve to set the stage for further public action by Durham.
The final key point to remember in all of this is that John Durham is a prosecutor, not a report-writer. The public actions taken by federal prosecutors are: Perp-walks, bookings, indictments and trials.
Of course, it remains possible that Durham is really not doing anything – if you see news that he is working on a report, you will know that is the case – and it’s all just for show.
But boy, over the last 7 days, it’s been one hell of a show.
That is all.
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Finally... after 4 years.. barry is being shown for what he did and who he is.... little by little.... the media is going to have to accept that their prize pupil is a dirty player and lies to boot.. and they have been so wrong for so long....
I really thought Judge Sullivan was sold to us as a no nonsense judge who would quickly see the fraudulent case against Flynn and make sure that the man got real justice.
HA
The Judge is a snake who is trying to screw an innocent man.
And I don’t care about the “he pled guilty” thing. At Stalin’s Moscow Show Trials everyone pled guilty too. Same thing.
Clearly, the extent the communists are going to reinforces the belief they know Flynn knows where the bodies are buried...and he must be destroyed...”by any means necessary”.
Dangerous times as the communist coup d’état continues...
“Judge”-Seditionist=in-Chief Sullivan
hates the American People and serves
the DeepState.
HE MUST BE IMPEACHED.
HE MUST BE REMOVED.
So when is Obummer going to jail? I’m not holding my breath.
people need to wake up.
There will be no accountablility or consequences nor will roosters come home to roost as long as the evil control the press.
All threats, evil deeds, and dangers we face are secondary to this larger problem.
A bad Sullivan decision can be Trumped.
At Stalin’s Moscow Show Trials everyone pled guilty too.
= = =
Sometimes they even pled guilty after they had already been executed.
the movement to impeach him…
the latest fake news falsely distorting his comments on Meet the Press…
the ruling by Judge Sullivan to accept amicus curiae briefs after he had declined numerous such applications in the past…
Certainly will have convinced a very savvy Attorney General Barr that if he does not prosecute and convict the felons who conspired a coup against the duly elected president, Atty. Gen William Barr will know that he himself in his turn will surely be prosecuted. History tells Bill Barr that the left never stays its mailed fist.
No question, what Barr did with Flynn is the best sign yet that Durham will actually bring justice to the traitors who tried to overturn an election.
But Sullivan’s order is potential bad news for Powell, whose representation of Flynn has been abominable. The last thing Powell wanted, but blundered into, were hearings where Flynn and the Covington lawyers testified.
Barr seemed to take Powell off the hook, and that may yet be what happens, although she doesn’t deserve it. Powell made Barr’s job far more difficult and problematic with her legal incompetence.
Sullivan in fact does seem to indicate he wants amicus briefs. One party who might ask to submit such a brief is Covington, whose reputation and professional competence were trashed by Powell without an opportunity to respond. My guess is that Powell is frightened to have Covington get a hearing on an amicus brief.
Returning to the original point, Barr needed to get Powell out of the way before Durham could proceed. Barr could not afford to have Powell mishandle the case any further.
If you don’t strike while the iron is hot, it is not going to bend very much and certainly not very easily. Turn up the heat and get on with it instead of constantly dribbling newsy little tidbits. Until we see some indictments, this is just more wishful thinking BS.
Talk.... talk.... talk....
With the tectonic plateload of evidence, we’re still waiting for an indictment, arrest, and perp walk for any traitorous DeepStater or Traitorobama kakistocrat.
“...The public actions taken by federal prosecutors are: Perp-walks, bookings, indictments and trials. ...”
Let’s hope so. Brennan, Clapper, and Comey at the very least.
This cake was baked in 2017 when the GOP base did not hold the GOPe accountable for publicly threatening POTUS and enabing Mueller and his police state thugs. The bipartisan nature of the ongoing coup breaths life into The Resistance (TM). The coupists have absolute no fear of oversight and it shows in their every seditious move.
Holder speaking out just shows he and obama are guilty and do not want this latest dirty play... to be in the news.
plus the fast and furious is in the news again..
stuck pigs yell.... they don’t like it this close.. but it’s going to get closer and squeeze them for the first time in a very long time.
and it’s about time!
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