Posted on 11/27/2019 7:51:20 AM PST by John W
U.S. prosecutors and defense attorneys for Michael T. Flynn asked a federal judge Tuesday to postpone Flynn’s long-delayed sentencing until after the Justice Department’s internal watchdog issues a report in coming weeks on the handling of the FBI’s investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016.
Sentencing for President Trump’s former national security adviser is set for Dec. 18, and federal prosecutors were scheduled to notify the court Monday whether they would reverse their recommendation of probation and instead ask for prison time for the retired three-star Army general.
However, in a terse, two-page filing, both sides said Tuesday evening that they expect the forthcoming report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, due Dec. 9, “will examine several topics related” to a Flynn defense’s request to find prosecutors in contempt for alleged misconduct.
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I don’t think Flynn’s legal team expects the report to help their client directly by documenting specific cases of wrongdoing on the part of the FBI.
More likely, they believe it will contain references to exculpatory material that the prosecution hasn’t turned over to them under their required Brady filings.***
Crooked deep state prosecutors, should turn over ALL exculpatory material a long time ago.
Flynn’s whole case is a political hit.
If he can get probation, he should take it IF he would be eligible for a pardon/commutation from Trump.
Trump needs to clean house, get rid of all people that do their job for politics instead of justice.
When I read that, I thought the sneaky bastids.
They NEVER miss an opportunity to LIE about the REAL genesis of the whole tragedy.
Shameless and totally corrupt...oh, and TOTALLY FAKE.
There's no doubt in my mind that this is the case.
In their last filing they demanded access to the cell phones of shadowy CIA operative Joseph Mifsud.
Their filing included very detailed information about his phones, including the number of phones he was using when this whole charade began in 2016 (two), the serial numbers of those phones, and the serial numbers of the SIM cards for those phones.
There's no way in hell they got that information from anywhere other than the DOJ and/or CIA.
See Post #23.
The rampant unmasking may have impact, though. Especially given his actual role at the time (cabinet designee)
Good, thanks.
Powell should get all she asks for so it can be fair.
Corrupt prosecutors must comply also.
That itself ought to raise a number of giant red flags for a lot of people. It seems astonishing that senior national security nominee would be so reckless that he'd make a sensitive phone call like that from a Third World dump.
Ugh, ...you probably are right on the money.
It’s sad. Once these investigations are over, they will in all likelihood never be able to start them up again.
It will in essence be the Crossing of the Rubicon for the USA. Afterwards, there will not even need to be the false pretense of laws and order. This nation will soon tear itself apart.
I think it is psychologically impossible for Trump NOT to get PERSONALLY involved. If he does go down, it will be because he cannot restrain himself and because he believes he is invulnerable and does not need to protect himself.
Barr's job as AG is to make sure the DoJ is functioning properly, which is has not been for some time now. His job is to fix that through institutional change, not personally prosecute cases. He has to put the right people in charge of such things and call out when his subordinates are not following the policies as established by the chief executive.
Part of that institutional change has to be making sure that law is applied equally to all. Coup plotters must be rooted out for this to occur.
Sometimes the prosecution (prostitution? as they would say on Married With Children) will claim "inevitable discovery." But also the defense would have to establish that the warrant was illegal, and the govt would claim that would reveal their "sources and methods."
In my opinion, they have found a way to get around the 4th amendment, and Trump can't refuse to sign reauthorizations of the Patriot Act because they get attached to appropriations bills. There are bad congresscritters in both parties.
SCOTUS might be afraid to rule against the Patriot Act.
“It will in essence be the Crossing of the Rubicon for the USA. Afterwards, there will not even need to be the false pretense of laws and order. This nation will soon tear itself apart.”
Professional, exactly how I’m seeing the Flynn Case. Should Judge Sullivan fail to grant the defense what it asks for, not only will Flynn’s reputation remain in shatters, the rule of law will be over. The weight of the world rests on Sullivan’s shoulders.
Agree. The smokescreen and spin from the Left will be incredible leading into the supposed release of the report on 9 Dec.
The FBI didn’t do nuttin’ and the whole thing including whatever John Durham is doing is nothing but retribution, revenge against the patriotic Deep State.
Oh, and ignore that Clapper twice on TV admitted they were only following Obama’s orders.
Partisan Politics have met Partisan Justice.
If the fact that Horowitz and Durham are Democrats is a decisive factor in their work, then we don’t need to bother or worry about it all. The United States of America is finished as a Republic already. It is already totalitarian. We can stop worrying and start shooting, the deed is then done.
President Trump will overrule any low IQ actions by these people.
For modern day democrats it is decisive. Better hope one of them is an old style democrat from when they still were patriotic.
Have you read "The Plot Against the President" by Lee Smith? If Horowitz has followed the same leads as exposed in that book, or at least checked into its description of what happened, a bunch of FBI/DOJ folks should fry. Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Yates as a bare minimum.
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