“”””I thought Contreras recused because of the alleged relationship between he and Strozk.””””
That is true and the public has known about that for a long time.
The point is the courts have never said anything as to why Contreras was recused. SHOW US THE DOCUMENTS.
“””Less than a week later, and without explanation, the case was reassigned to Sullivan”””
Judges rarely elaborate on why they recuse themselves. It is incumbent on the court to recognize a potential conflict and when they do the Judge is expected to recuse themselves. They don’t have to provide a justification.
The Flynn case was very high profile. Lest, we forget, at that point in time there were many of us correctly pointing out how rotten it all appeared. While the left (media) treated us as tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists, the Judge knew it would all come out in the wash and lend credibility to us so he stepped aside.
The conflicts on the staff of the special counsel alone were enough for many of us to cry foul, but the text messages by Strozk to Page indicating that he would talk to the Judge at the next “cocktail clink” they both attended were pretty damning.
To be fair to the Judge, we don’t know what his view of the relationship was, but Strozk clearly was proud of the assertion that he and Contreras were somehow buddies. Bravado, BS, or real? We will likely never know.
With that said, I want to know if the courts had backchannel communication with the special counsel staff. This would be highly irregular as most things are with this debacle.
I also want to know more about the allegation of Judge Sullivan arranging for Comey to speak at Howard University for 15 minutes for the sum of 100k. Given that Comey was in charge of the FBI that brought the case against Flynn and he was potentially a fact witness, this is very curious and appears to be a conflict, but it needs to be further explored given the source.
Their “scheme” continues to fall apart. At this point, I do not see how everyone walks away from this without penalty.