Posted on 12/18/2018 2:27:21 PM PST by Bratch
Then he should say so. What am I missing here?
That may be other things, but it’s not entrapment.
90 more day for mueller to put the squeeze on Flynn to lie about the Russia and trump collusion....the fix was always there with this Clinton appointed Judge. He threw out the word treason to scare Flynn into cooperating with the evil SS Nazi commander mueller, btw is mueller a German last name?
Sundance makes it sound like Flynn has immunity in the FARA matters.
Sullivan’s questions about the current status of Flynn’s cooperation indicate he was seeking to discover if Flynn held immunity in that case; Flynn does not.
But then Sundance says that Flynn doesn't have FARA immunity.
Which is it?
Well, that's true. Everything Flynn did or didn't do related to these charges was only relevant because he was the appointed (and then confirmed) National Security Adviser for President-Elect Trump. Do you think he would have been having cell phone conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. if he had been a retired postal worker?
I guess what I do not understand is why Gen Flynn engaged in lobbying for Turkey without registering as a lobbyist for a foreign country.
Is Gen Flynn like far too many Washington DC elite who think they are above the law?
It seems to me the last two years has exposed the corruption that is commonplace in DC.
Cohen and Flynn are starting to look a lot alike.
Am I correct?
“The judge is a tool. He had everything he needed to dismiss the case today based upon FBI misconduct.”
Yup. I was racking my brain trying to figure out what Sullivan’s angle was...It looks like he’s just a showboating ahole. Worse case, he’s trying to help mueller.
I think Sullivan sees the end of Robert Mueller in which case the whole enchilada becomes MOOT. Judges love “MOOT” as it’s a tool to clear their docket.
whatever Mueller has on Flynn’s family must be good..
really good..
Flynn is failing on his sword to save them.
or he is a complete eff’n idiot..
I personally go with the first.
The Clinton-appointed judge, Emmett Sullivan, claimed that Flynn’s suggestion that the FBI misled him (which it, you know, did) cast doubt on Flynn’s acceptance of culpability. The not-so-veiled threat from the judge is that if Flynn wouldn’t repudiate his previous complaints about the FBI, he’d toss out the plea deal and sentence Flynn more harshly than the plea called for.
He also badgered both Flynn and the prosecutor about whether Flynn had committed “treason.”
Though then, after he returned from a break, this Clinton appointee said he wanted to “clarify” that his own previous claim that Flynn was working in the White House when his contacts with foreigners occurred. I guess he bothered to read the actual facts and corrected himself — well, “clarified” — that Flynn wasn’t in the White House and that he was now not “suggesting” treason.
Which is actually exactly what he did before.
Basically the judge seems to be threatening Flynn with jail time unless he offers more to the Mueller investigation. Flynn has gotten that message, and now says he wants to delay sentencing because he might cooperate more with Mueller.
The court has delayed sentencing to permit this. So, no sentencing today. After threatening Flynn for an hour, Flynn got the message and said he would cooperate more.
Via AceofSpades
Just think of what you're saying here. You expect the judge to walk into his court room for a sentencing hearing and go down this road? ...
"Mr. Flynn, you have pleaded guilty to this charge of lying to the FBI. I have asked you a half-dozen time if you really want to plead guilty, and you've answered in the affirmative every time. I've also asked you a half-dozen times if you are making this decision under duress -- and you have said you are not. But despite all this I think you're being extorted by the prosecutor, so I'm dismissing all the charges and making a formal recommendation for the prosecutor to be thrown in jail and charged with extortion."
It's so preposterous that I can't believe anyone would even consider it. Our entire criminal justice system would collapse by 10:00 AM tomorrow morning if judges conducted business this way.
Can Sullivan just pull a fresh crime out of his hat to catch Flynn off guard, being pressed to answer formally for the first time to a charge for which he wasn't indicted? Is it proper that any such construct would affect his sentence?
Isn't there a regular procedure that should have preceded this? Due process and all, not "Quiet, boy, I just might send you to jail for treason!" when that obviously the case the feds had prepared.
Could it be that the judge had intended to give a bone to each of the parties and got interrupted? Since what the FBI did to Flynn amounts to gross misbehavior, perhaps Sullivan was going to let him off, but he didn't want Flynn to get off without seeing a ceremonial shot across his bow to let him know Sullivan was not pleased with Flynn's representation of Turkey while being head of the NSA.
However, the Turkish agent aspect hasn't been properly adjudicated, so it seems Sullivan shouldn't and can't substantively go there, at least with respect to the sentencing.
OK, IANAL.
should have been...
when that obviously wasn't the case the feds had prepared.
Someone had a talk with this judge. He did not know the details of the case and made outrageous comments.
Why didn’t Flynn’s lawyer pull him aside during this? What am I missing.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3713787/posts
(Vanity) A Different Report on Michael Flynn Sentencing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3713787/posts
A Different Report on Michael Flynn Sentencing
Stupid.
What political leverage does anyone have over Flynn at this point?
Flynn is going to plead guilty to a crime and face jail time to avoid a political embarrassment to Trump?
He may do so in hopes of a pardon but political leverage doesn't enter into it and Sundance is flailing.
Anyone who has taken Con Law knows that. It is not the best relationship, but like it or not, Turkey is a U.S. ally. Lobbying for it may not be wise, being unregistered stupid, but it is impossible to call it treason.
The ahole judge libeled Flynn,
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