Posted on 07/08/2020 4:47:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
The case against Michael Flynn is a corpse. It’s dead. There is no case and yet, this legal circus continues. The former national security adviser under President Trump was the victim of a political assassination attempt. He survived, but the damage is done. Flynn was one of the boogeymen in the Trump-Russia collusion allegation, which was exposed as a total myth. Not shocking since zero evidence of collusion was ever unearthed in that effort by members of the liberal media or Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s hyper-partisan investigative team. It doesn’t mean that they didn’t try—they did—but came up empty.
The basis for this entire witch hunt was the Trump dossier, a piece of political opposition research that was bankrolled by Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was unverified nonsense that was used to go after Flynn, launch a spy operation against the Trump campaign, and secure a FISA spy warrant against Carter Page, a former Trump campaign official. The Russian collusion nonsense roped in Flynn, who after being investigated, the FBI found no evidence of wrongdoing. He made some phone calls to then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, which were originally reported to possibly being smoking guns. Nope. They were run-of-the-mill calls that any incoming administration makes. They were also declared legit by then-FBI Director James Comey. And still, even with no evidence to go after him, the FBI still interviewed him over the calls. The agents reported back that they felt he didn’t lie to them.
New evidence points now that former Vice President Joe Biden, who alleged that he didn’t know anything about the Flynn probe, was the one who suggested using the Logan Act to further go after Flynn around the time when the FBI was about to close its investigation into the former general. President Obama was recorded ordering the DOJ to get the “right people” on it. all of this was included in the notes of disgraced anti-Trump FBI Agent Peter Strzok.
Flashforward to the Mueller probe rehashing the Flynn allegation, despite zero evidence, and then putting the screws to him, forcing him to plead guilty to the politically motivated “lying to the FBI” charges. Now, we have new documents being released to the Flynn team, but one of which, a memo from the DOJ, remains to be overturned. That piece of paper could be the holy grail in the sense that it reportedly exonerated the former Trump official before this wild goose chase reached its most absurd levels (via Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner):
..though relevance not clear @SidneyPowell1 told court, “We’ve also learned that there was a letter dated January 30, 2017 or an internal (DOJ)memo..that completely exonerates Mr. Flynn of being an agent of Russia and that document has not been produced to us yet.” @CBSNews pic.twitter.com/Oqfi6vVWGh— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) July 8, 2020
Flynn update:
The DOJ has produced MORE evidence to Flynn's team.
1) Handwritten notes from Strzok and former Deputy AG Gauhar - from the day after the Flynn interview (1/25/17)
2) Internal DOJ memo (1/30/17; may have cleared Flynn)
3) Notes of former Acting AG Dana Boente pic.twitter.com/NPX0KfXRkg— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) July 7, 2020
Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. attorney in the nation’s capital, said … that the documents handed over to Flynn’s defense team included handwritten notes from Strzok taken at a meeting on Jan. 25, 2017; notes from former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tashina Gauhar at the same meeting; an internal DOJ document dated Jan. 30, 2017; and handwritten notes from then-acting Attorney General Dana Boente which were dated March 30, 2017. The notes remain sealed by the court.
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Notes from Strzok released in late June show former Vice President Joe Biden raised the Logan Act during an early January 2017 Oval Office meeting about Flynn.
Documents declassified this year indicate that Strzok abruptly stopped the FBI from closing its investigation into Flynn in early January 2017 at the insistence of the FBI’s “seventh floor” after the bureau had uncovered “no derogatory information” on Flynn. Emails showed Strzok, along with FBI lawyer Lisa Page and several others, sought to continue investigating Flynn, even considering the Logan Act.
Notes from the FBI's head of counterintelligence, Bill Priestap, show him asking, “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
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An email from March 2017 by Gauhar and notes taken by her in May 2017 are mentioned a number of times in special counsel Robert Mueller’s lengthy 2019 report. Mueller found that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election in a "sweeping and systematic fashion," but he "did not establish" any criminal conspiracy between Trump and Russia.
The judge presiding in this case, Emmet Sullivan, had turned this case into more of a circus, when he refused to drop the case after the DOJ filed a motion to dismiss, noting the history of misconduct; James Comey and Andrew McCabe were going to try and clip Flynn no matter what. Instead, he allowed amicus briefs from the most anti-Trump legal minds to be filed and appointed a former judge, John Gleeson, to fight the motion and possibly look into perjury charges. the DC Court of Appeals ripped apart Gleeson’s arguments and ruled that the judge drop the case. After all, there is none. Both parties want this dropped, with the prosecutor resigning months ago. Yet, it’s sort of hard to do that, regarding ego, when you sat up there and accused Flynn of being a traitor. Time to eat crow, judge. You were wrong. Eat it and move on. This legal fiasco has been embarrassing enough and it’s all due to your reckless actions. Set Flynn free.
I will just remind people of the Judge Sullivan, Sons, Rod Rosenstein, Cummings, Pugh rumor
Hope Sydney Powell is checking into the Sons arrest and what happened.
Biden wins or steals the election, corruption in this government is going to explode exponentially.
He will most likely steal, or try steal the election,
The DOJ is still acting like Holder is running it.
Time for the judge to have a pair of handcuffs magically appear on his desk one morning.
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Side issue - I thought Judge Sullivan had 20 days to respond to court order or Flynn case was dead - correct ?
Today is day 14
20 Mitch McConnell days or 20 Trump days?
There’s over a month difference
Sullivan should be kicked off the bench and then be disbarred.
And you would be mistaken.
Leadership seems to be thinking, “If I can just hold out until November, Biden will be elected and this will all go away.”
Although in a few months, this thought may be replaced by, “If I can just hold out for 4 more years, someone will be elected and this will all go away.”
It would be extremely ironic if, after Flynn is cleared and the case is ended, President Trump fires Wray and nominates Flynn as the new Director of the FBI.
Flogged 39 strokes fits in there somewhere.
I don’t see why the judge should care. Is an impeachment going to get through the Senate? Not a chance.
This is hardball and for keeps.
I’ll take reasons for Biden to fake dementia for $600, Alex!
If you ever wondered what the difference was between the rule of law and the rule of men Judge Sullivan is eloquently articulating the later. There is no justification for his delay except to throw his judicial weight around and do as much damage as possible. Sad.
I guess that if Judge Sullivan just wants to inflict the maximum pain on his victim, he could wait until the last possible day, and submit an appeal to the full Circuit Court - just to eat up time.
And who appointed Judge Sullivan ?
Same guy who appointed Roberts.
GWB.
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