Aug 30, 2019
MINUTE ORDER as to MICHAEL T. FLYNN. In view of the parties' 107 Joint Status Report, the Court, sua sponte, schedules a status conference for September 10, 2019 at 11:00 AM in Courtroom 24A. Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 8/30/2019.
Joint Status Report filed August 30 (small pdf file)
“the government is not aware of any classified information that requires disclosures to the defendant or his counsel.”
Sen. Charles Grassley revealed the existence of the memo
Gee, it appears as if the Prosecution is LYING and Committing a FRAUD upon the Court. I wonder why the Judge hasn’t JAILED the Prosecutor for Contempt?
nevermind, Gubmint Employee’s are EXPECTED TO LIE TO THE COURT, Only private citizens are accountable for their actions.
A judge has a hand in security clearance? Even if it is Sullivan, we’re ruled by black-robed tyrants.
Our client held the highest security clearance the government provides. We know--but not in any detail because of our lack of clearance--that he briefed and debriefed the DIA about his foreign contacts and travel. All that material is relevant to the charges against him, and it is most likely Brady material to boot. Although Mr. Flynn was a civilian at the time, that information remains classified-- or at a minimum withheld from the defense.There is other information relevant to the defense that is either classified or being suppressed by the government, not the least of which are the transcripts and recordings of the phone calls that supposedly underpin the charges against Mr. Flynn. The government has steadfastly refused to produce those - even to this Court. The Inspector General of the Department of Justice has completed one or more relevant reports that include classified sections, and he is completing additional reports that reportedly will include a large classified section - a significant portion of which will almost certainly relate to Mr. Flynn. We must have access to that information to represent our client consistently with his constitutional rights and our ethical obligations.
Second, the government has also failed to produce, among other things, the original or first draft of the FBI 302 of the interview of Mr. Flynn on January 24, 2017, and the 1A file which we have repeatedly requested, and any records or documents that show everyone who made changes to that 302.
There is an allegation that the FBI record of the meeting with Flynn was doctored by members of the coup team.
In the same filing, the government says defense counsel is lying.
The government has exceeded its discovery and disclosure obligations in this matter, including those imposed pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and the Court's Standing Brady Order dated February 16, 2018. That includes the provision to the defendant of over 22,000 pages of documents. Among those documents are all versions in the government's possession of the FBI report of the January 24, 2017 interview of the defendant and the interviewing agents' notes. The defendant and his prior counsel were in possession of those notes and draft reports of the January 24 interview before his scheduled sentencing on December 18, 2018.
Perhaps President Trump can intervene.
I have almost completely lost interest in this story. Flynn pleaded guilty in late 2017, and his lawyers are asking for copies of documents in August 2019? I’m going to assume something is going on behind the scenes here, because very little about this case ever made any sense to me.
Go Sydney
This exemplifies the problem with Trump. My thought is that Trump and family has been blackmailed or ouright physically threatened by deep state operatives so he let Barr come in and protect elites. But, they won’t let him pardon the little people: Flynn, Manafort, Stone. Either that or Trump is just too self centered and let’s his associates go under the bus.
Flynn shouldn’t have to go through this crap. This serves as an unfortunate warning for anyone outside the deep state that is thinking about joining Trump’s campaign or as an advisor.
Also, another painful reminder never talk to law enforcement especially federal.
In a similar case a few years ago, Col Michael Murphy (USAF JAG) received a punishment of “no punishment” following a court martial conviction because, as a White House military liaison, he received commendations that the government refused to release because they contained classified information. He was later retired at the rank of 2LT because that was the last rank at which he served honorably. Flynn may get the same treatment...
who the heck is in charge of doj and fbi and why don’t they jump in to see justice done?
Why doesn’t Trump just pardon Flynn, good heavens, he’s been through enough BS.
Related “story” at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3775610/posts
Flynn Motion to Compel Production of exculpatory material.
Sidney Powell is bringing in the redacted FISA opinion, the Strzok/Page texts, and signaling serious consideration of moving for dismissal on a “selective prosecution” argument.
The execrable Susan Rice's email sent to herself on Trump's inauguration day---just hours before she was scheduled to leave purported to document part of the strange meeting Obama held.
As Obama's top security aide, Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed
“to share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team........
NOTE: Rice was being replaced by Gen Flynn.
Her actions violated longstanding American tradition. Outgoing administrations have always cooperated in the transition to a new administration, whether of the same or the opposing party, especially on matters relating to national security.
Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration–General Michael Flynn–she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.
If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.
What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new Trump administration?
We can easily surmise that
<><>the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party;
<><>that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele;
<><>that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele;
<><>that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign.
These were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.
There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.
The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything.
And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.
Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from Gen Flynn, her successor, during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.
Illicit Lawfare. There is no justice in or from the District of Corruption.
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