Posted on 05/13/2020 4:20:00 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Me neither. Hillary should be in the third year of her jail term about now. How did that work out?
Especially as the Covington lawyers apparently did not find, or even ask, for all the Brady material which is now coming out.
I will be interested in your views as this proceeds.
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.
Correct. The Democrat prosecutors Durham hired certainly want Powell off the case because it was her discovery claims that pushed Barr to act.
Durham has been in business a year and has issued exactly one indictment: for threatening Adam Schiff. Cheerlead that if you wish. I won’t be.
Nothing positive in this case happened until Powell appeared on this scene. There are a few conservative folks that really hate Flynn and wish him jailed. Why I have no idea. Sad, really.
Yea....its really sickening, there are 2 forms of justice in this world unfortunately, one for the elites and another for everyone else.
Act WHEN? Are we to believe that the plan is to act BEFORE November?
Saw something like this employed in a Perry Mason script. That’s where the similarity stops. It was during an evidentiary hearing and involved an intersection between two different criminal cases.
Judge Sullivan seems to have difficulty understanding the combined arguments of prosecution and defense that a gross miscarriage of justice can only be resolved through dismissal.
Oh he did plenty. He disembowled the U S. Constitution. This POS needs some poetic justice inflicted on his sorry @$$.
The investigation will lead to nothing meaningful. That much has been obvious for a very long time.
Nothing will happen unless Trump wins in November...
The Judge is playing politician. All of his DC buddies and lawyers are telling him that the DOJ dropping the case is because of political pressure. Even though the EVIDENCE is OVERWHELMING that Flynn was: spied upon illegally, denied Brady material for years, had politically conflicted legal advice, was set up by the FBI leadership, had materials altered illegally by the FBI, and NEVER COMMITTED A CRIME.
Amicus Briefs are not going to address the fact that this mans Civil Rights were completely and utterly violated, and he never actually committed any crime. Allowing Flynn at this point to be punished for nothing is a FINANCIAL LIABILITY to the Federal Government (my money).
This Judge should be held FINANCIALLY responsible INDIVIDUALLY, if he goes ahead with a trail or prosecution of a man whose rights were clearly violated and committed no mentionable crime. This should BE TOTALLY ON HIM, to pay the fines of the civil suits which are going to clearly follow.
He can get all the ‘Amicus’ briefs as long as he accepts the responsibility financially for prosecution of person whose rights have been violated by the government and the courts.
Unsupported in this particular post, covered numerous times previously.
Here are a few:
1) Powell cited the Steven’s case as the principal support for her initial arguments. Steven’s was 100% irrelevant to her argument (except for stating the grand principle).
2) Powell’s arguments were political, not legal. She did not engage in the sort of Brady analysis you find in Sullivan’s decision.
3) Powell in effect ignored the significance of the guilty pleas, which are the central legal fact of the case, regardless of whose side you are on.
4) Powell completely omitted the question of ineffective assistance of counsel when she first started out, even though that question was a central element, a prerequisite, of the legal argument she had to make.
5) Powell did NOT want to move to vacate the guilty pleas. She stated so many times. And there was good reason for not doing so. But she publicly trashed the government many times, a needlessly antagonistic and completely stupid thing for a lawyer to do, regardless of whether the trashing was deserved. When she did that, I predicted that she would pay a price, and sure enough, the government decided to abandon their position regarding sentencing, which had been favorable to Flynn.
6) As a result of the government’s change of position on sentencing, Powell was legally REQUIRED to make a motion to withdraw the plea, something she did NOT want to do. So, she blundered her way into it.
7) As a result of making the legally required motion to withdraw the plea Powell did NOT want to make, Flynn submitted a declaration where he arguably (almost certainly) confessed to committing perjury. IOW Powell was responsible for Flynn probably committing serious crimes.
8) In addition to which, Flynn’s statement, when analyzed on a detail by detail basis, makes him look like a confused, frightened little lamb. Powell did that.
9) Similarly, Powell blundered her way into makinh hearing necessary, where Flynn would be put in further peril because for various reasons, and where Covington would likely crush Powell’s argument regarding ineffective assistance. Barr got Powell out of that jam, maybe, although Sullivan could still hold hearings.
10) BTW, Powell persistently invited the trashing of Sullivan. Look at this site. Again, this is just a stupid thing for a lawyer to do. Personally, I think Sullivan has been very fair and patient. But maybe he deserves the trashing. Regardless, it is pure stupidity to invite people to disrespect a judge, especially when you are in front of him.
11) A lawyer is supposed to represent the best interests of her client, not the best interests of her books and public appearances. In this respect, there is zero chance she could have told Flynn he would have been better off if he adopted her legal strategy, and in fact her strategy has been ineffective. Flynn would have been better off where he was when she stepped in. Powell is very lucky Barr let her off the hook.
There is more, but these are a few off the top of my head.
Once again, they’re blowing sunshine up our collective asses. Nothing will happen.
I am cheer-leading for Durham to bring RICO indictments against the Deep State traitors, yes. What Barr did with Flynn encourages me that will happen.
Barr needed to get Powell out of the way and back to her job as talking head who sells books.
Durham was appointed exactly one year ago today. And what do we have from him? Nothing. He’s Huber 2.0 and that is all. We’ll get more document dumps and maybe a minor figure like the FIB FISA forger indicted. That is it.
Barr needed to get Powell out of the way and back to her job as talking head who sells books.
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What happened before Powell appeared on the scene? Nothing.
It’s been a year since Durham was appointed. Don’t be duped by Huber 2.0. The Barr DOJ has no intention of criminally pursuing anybody. If they did they would have moved long ago against low hanging fruit like the FIB FISA forger. But that would validate POTUS and that is the last thing the Trump hating DOJ wants.
Anybody paying attention has known Obama was filth. Chicago is a cesspool and Obama was the turd that rose to the top. I pray he is exposed at every turn.
I will believe this when I see it !
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