Posted on 05/16/2019 6:28:39 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
Appointed by Clinton, black... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_G._Sullivan
Sullivan called Flynn a "traitor" and said that he committed "treason".
Sullivan was a bad guy then AND now.
Thanks for the post.
Anyone actually reading beyond the sensationalistic headline? Didn’t think so.
Thank you for saying, some/many - for I did not. I never trusted him - but then I distrust most judges.
I said he was putting on a show to maintain his facade as a slightly stricter Constructionist.
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Right on the mark!
Judge Sullivan is a white hat who is forcing the FIBs and Mueller attorneys to show him the transcript and the audio tapes of the intercepts with Kislyak, They say in their 302's ..he lied. Judge Sullivan doesn't believe them and rightfully so.
Sundance does an exhaustive explanation of what is going on here:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/16/news-in-flynn-case-documents-released-and-judge-sullivan-has-well-founded-suspicions/
“Ordered”? Like maybe at a MacDonald’s drive thru window?
Think AG Barr will have anything to say about it......
As we sit here in our relative (FR) coccoon, one might necessarily ask, “Why doesn’t Trump unleash his threatened declassification [DECLAS] and get this over with? Why did he assert ExecPriv over the report?
Trump has repeatedly assured us patriots that he will abide by the rule of law. In this case, that law states that Grand Jury evidence and testimony cannot be released while the GJ is seated.
If the GJ info was DECLAS’d, would the Dhimmicrats go on the attack stating that DECLAS violates the GJ law (the same way they thought they couold trap Barr, BTW)? I think yes.
DJT is adept at fighting the right battles at the right time.
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Unredacted then released to the public? The dems worst nightmare!
I doubt it. The Mueller Dossier was written by Hillary’s lawyer, etc.
Uh.....Judge Orders Laws to be broken.
If a whistleblower testifies before a grand jury, it’s understood the whistleblower’s identity is to be kept a secret unless waived.
How could this Judge even know the redacted parts of the Mueller Report?
Is this GP article flawed? Something’s not right.
Wow, that’s quit the extensive write up. Thanks for posting.
Apparently, the Justice Branch runs the US and there is no separation of powers between it and much of the Legislative Branch.
They did. I read some, if not most of their posts.
Their goal is to destroy the lawful Government of the USA, My FRiend. Their goal is to get President Trump out of Office. Failing that, to so poison the minds of the voting public towards him that he won’t be re-elected.
This headline is misleading; it has nothing to do with the Trump collusion hoax.
Mueller and his team of angry Democrat thugs used the media leak as the hook they needed to go after Flynn with a vengeance, ensnared Flynn into a perjury trap and charged him with making a false statement to the feds — even though Flynn didn’t lie.Who unmasked Flynn and who leaked his phone calls with Kislyak to the Washington Post? Congressman Nunes hinted a couple weeks ago in an interview with Maria Bartiromo that his investigation may reveal who the leaker is.
It is also widely believed that there was a FISA warrant on General Flynn — the president should issue Flynn a full pardon and prosecute every corrupt official who illegally targeted Flynn for ruin.
Flynn is still awaiting sentencing after being harassed by Mueller and Obama’s corrupt officials for the past several years.
In answer to a previous poster's questions: yes, I read the whole article. Also two other Conservative Tree House articles from yesterday on the topic, both of which I posted on Free Republic earlier today:
AG Barr on FBI “Spygate” Explanations: “Inadequate” and “Don’t Hang Together”…And, even after all that it's still hard to say what it all means.News in Flynn Case – Documents Released and Judge Sullivan Has Well Founded Suspicions…
If I was forced to choose an interpretation I would say that the Judge is fed up with the lies of the Prosecutors. He wanted Flynn to bring them up, which is why he berrated him, in an attempt to provoke him, but he failed to get a rise out of Flynn.
Now he's taking matters into his own hands. He will not be used as part of a partisan witch hunt where it's obvious that an innocent man is being blackmailed into pleading guilty to satisfy a Political agenda.
The Judge is old, and has nothing to lose. He's retiring shortly, he's too old to ever get nominated the the Supreme Court. This is likely to be the most defining case of his long career.
Consider this episode in his career: (per WIkipedia)
He was used like a tool in that case. A corrupt Justice Department was using prosecutions to effect the election, and in the end Sullivan was had, and presided over a bogus conviction. That's gotta sting and leave a lasting impression.Sullivan presided over the 2008 trial of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, who was convicted of seven felony ethics violations in October. During the trial, the judge refused requests by the defense for a mistrial to be declared, after information was revealed that the prosecution had withheld exculpatory Brady material.[5][6] Eight days after the guilty verdict, Stevens narrowly lost his reelection bid.[7] As more evidence of prosecutorial misconduct became known in early 2009, Judge Sullivan held four prosecutors in civil contempt of court.[8] On April 1, 2009, following a Justice Department probe that found additional evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, the Department of Justice recommended that Stevens' conviction be dismissed.[9] On April 7, 2009, Sullivan set aside the conviction and appointed a lawyer to investigate the prosecution team for criminal contempt.[10] Subsequently, one of the four prosecutors held in contempt committed suicide.[11] Ultimately, Sullivan dismissed the civil contempt charges,[12] and no additional charges were brought against the prosecutors.[13]
Then he got this case:
He was more cynical and demanding of the Government in this case, remembering how he was burnt in Stevens. The footnote above says:In 2014, Sullivan was presiding over a case, Judicial Watch v. IRS,[14] related to an ongoing investigation into the 2013 IRS controversy. There was an attempt to determine where the deleted emails of former IRS employee Lois Lerner had gone, what damage to her computer hard drive occurred, and what steps the IRS had taken to recover the information contained in the emails and on the hard drive.[15][16]
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order today giving the IRS until Aug. 22 to come up with further details on what it did to retrieve e-mail from the malfunctioning computer of Lois Lerner signals his dissatisfaction with the agency’s earlier explanation, contained in an Aug. 11 filing.
Not satisfied with the explanations offered by the Government. Then he got another case where covering up Government wrong doing was front and center:
In 2015 Sullivan presided over a FOIA lawsuit involving the matter of Hillary Clinton's private email use while Secretary of State.[17]And per Fox News he wasn't real happy with the lack of production of documents by the State Department
Sullivan pressed DOJ lawyers on whether the State Department had done enough to comply with the public records laws by combing through the emails Clinton had provided but not the others she said were personal.So, to me that paints a picture of an old guy who's been screwed with by the Deep State guys in a number of high profile cases, and in at least one of them left with egg on his face....
Sullivan said he wanted the State Department to ask Clinton if any third parties had access to copies of the emails. The judge also said he would not micro-manage the dialogue between the State Department and the FBI but would leave it up to them to work out the details.
He's old, he's wise to them, he's kinda pissed of at these Deep State types continually lying and hiding evidence, particularly exculpatory evidence of the type that was hidden in the Steven's case and permitted him to oversee a conviction that had to be voided.
He's got nothing to lose, so he's gonna make his last stand right here.
He wanted Flynn to stand up for himself, and pushed him too, but Flynn is in too deep. What he's being threatened with is too repugnant for him to do anything but lie and take the guilty plea, as the FBI are strongly encoraging him to do.
We know the FBI threatened to indict Flynn's son earlier in the case. As an old man who wouldn't plead to a process crime to keep your son out of prison for a non-crime?
June is going to be even more fun than May has been so far! The Govt. has until May 31 to comply with the Judge's orders.
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