Posted on 05/19/2019 9:40:29 AM PDT by bitt
General Flynn was given an ultimatum by the corrupt Mueller team – choose either your son or your country! This grotesque abuse of power and the legal system by the Mueller gang should never have happened and should not go unpunished!
General Flynn worked for the Obama Administration but at some point was fired by Obama for apparently disagreeing with his policies and actions and speaking out against his failed policies in Iraq and Syria. Soon after, then candidate Trump ran for office and General Flynn supported the future President and introduced the candidate at rallies and then was offered a position on the Trump team.
Obama was upset with Flynn for supporting Trump and it appears that he had some sort of vendetta with Flynn for his comments on the growing threat of ISIS. It’s also suspected that after Flynn parted ways with President Obama he was set up at a dinner with Russians where he was seated next to Russian President Putin in December 2015.
The American spy in England used often by the Deep State, Stefan Halper, seated Flynn next to Putin and then it is suspected used this information as an informant for the Obama administration to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on General Flynn.
Additional information on the framing of General Flynn was reported from a woman who said she was used as a Russian against the General –
Svetlana Lokhova, the Russian historian at the center of Michael Flynn investigation for ‘alleged contacts with Russians’, told Fox News in an exclusive interview with Catherine Herridge, that she is not a Russian spy and that she thought “there’s a high chance that is was coordinated, and believe it needs to be properly investigated.”
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“Trump hired Bolton, and Trump doesn’t hire people who are off the deep end.”
Laughable, I give you Sessions, MacMaster, Tillerson the homo of the BoyScouts, smirking Wray who thinks Mueller was an honest investigator, yapping dog back stabbing “bachelor” Mattis, Kirstjen Neilsen etc... there is a long list of craptastic picks.
Love Trump, but some of his picks are very poor. In reality, like any President his slate of possible choices is carefully narrowed, and in Trump’s case anyone who supported his agenda would be immediately targeted for ruin by Mueller and the deep state. He has very few available choices.
“Flynn lied about talking to Russians, and Trump believed it. This was before Trump realized that Obama’s and Hillary’s holdovers (moles) in the DOJ, FBI, and who knows who else was out to get him”
Doubtful because Trump was briefed by Rogers the day after the election about the wiretaps at Trump tower and he moved his HQ. I don’t think it was that Trump believed him, but he was placed in an impossible position. Pence stands there saying it on TV, and Trump had to either support Pence or Flynn. If he said Pence was wrong, his already very politically weak administration would implode.
He had no choice but to stand with Pence, but I doubt he believed it.
Pence is to Trump, as Bush was to Reagan. A GOPe plant intended to moderate his policies and do things like get Flynn out and a neocon in.
“Ever since Pence caved on the pizza issue”
Not familiar with that
Enron was guilty of massive accounting fraud. They deserved to go out of business. The leaders of the company were sentenced to multi-decade prison terms for good reason.
Arthur Andersen certified their books. How can anyone trust an accounting company that either covers up fraud or doesn't even notice it is occurring, and which has massive conflicts of interest?
It's too bad that the lower level people at both companies had to lose their jobs and that stockholders had to find out too late that the success of Enron was built on fraud. The people at the top should have had these people in mind, as well as the risk to their own companies from their unethical behavior.
Wikipedia says that the maximum employment at Arthur Andersen was 28,000.
Funny how some people “love” Trump, despite doubting his abilities to pick “good” people. Somehow he managed to be totally successful his whole life, picking excellent people, in building and development as well as TV, and all of a sudden lost that ability when he got elected.
George W Bush did drive Bustani out of the OCPW in the lead up to invading Iraq, no one really denies that. The claim that Bolton threaten Bustani's children living in New York started in 2018. If Bustani was threatened in 2002, he could have said when giving interview about his removal as head of the OCPW.
My memory is that at the time during the build up to going into Iraq and Afghanistan, while not friendly toward Bush, was a little less hostile. Given that, the claim that a senior White House official threatened the family of the head of the OCPW would have been newsworthy. Waiting seventeen years to say this is a little bit suspicious.
Frankly with the way the Liberals harass their enemies, it’s a wonder that Trump found people that are willing to work for him.
Flip flopped on LGBT, a la the cake shop in CO.
Will Michael Flynn Plead Guilty And Cooperate To Protect His Son?
By Jacob Frenkel, Forbes Contributor, 11/27/17
PIC National Security Advisor Michael Flynn arrives for a press conference between US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 13, 2017. The White House announced February 13, 2017 that Michael Flynn has resigned as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, amid escalating controversy over his contacts with Moscow. In his formal resignation letter, Flynn acknowledged that in the period leading up to Trump’s inauguration: ‘I inadvertently briefed the vice president-elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador.’ / AFP / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
With Special Counsel Robert Mueller expected to indict both Michael T. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, and Flynn’s son, Michael G. Flynn, in connection with the investigation into Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election, speculation is mounting as to whether the elder Flynn will plead guilty to help his son, and in the process help himself. The elder Flynn’s lawyers recently stopped communicating with the President’s legal defense team, which some interpret as Flynn preparing to cooperate with Mueller. While Flynn certainly is focused on his own potential liability, that his son is a “subject” of the investigation places the elder Flynn in the difficult position of cooperating and accepting criminal culpability, rather than fight, in order possibly to prevent his son from being prosecuted.
The extensive reporting around the involvement of Flynn’s son certainly suggests there is legitimate justification for interpreting the Flynn component of the investigation as a prosecutable family affair. Federal prosecutors leveraging one family member against another is a page directly out of a four-decade old prosecutorial playbook used successfully in Wall Street prosecutions. One need not look beyond the Enron prosecutions and guilty pleas of Andrew and Lea Fastow, husband and wife, and the Drexel-related guilty plea of Michael Milken, with Lowell Milken (his brother) averting prosecution, to find the use of this tactic in high profile white-collar prosecutions, that is outside of organized crime and gang prosecutions.
Considerable attention has focused on the potential bases for the investigation and possible prosecution of the elder Flynn. If Mueller’s team were to charge the elder Flynn, and particularly if the elder Flynn were to enter a guilty plea to some charge or charges, then the Special Counsel indictment of Paul Manafort and Robert Gates and the George Papadopolous Statement of the Offense related to Papadopolous’ guilty plea certainly shed light on potential charges. Based on the public reports of the subject matters of the investigation around the elder Flynn, Mueller likely would, at a minimum, include material false statements or omissions on filings under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and possibly on his security clearance form or FBI interview.
The culpability of and potential charges against Flynn’s son, based on public reports, is less clear. Media reports identify Flynn’s son as the Chief of Staff and principal aide to his father at Flynn Intel Group, his father’s consulting and lobbying firm. Reporting further reflects that Flynn’s son attended a December 2015 dinner in Moscow with his father, who sat at a table with Russia’s President; that Russian television network RT paid for Flynn’s son’s travel to Moscow, and RT begrudgingly registered in early November 2017 as a foreign agent under FARA; Flynn Intel Group received $530,000 for work benefitting the Turkish government; and work for Turkish interests relating to Fethullah Gulen, the United States resident Turkish cleric accused of fomenting an attempted coup in 2016. Flynn’s son’s attending meetings and communicating with clients are not, of themselves, criminal offenses. Rather, prosecutors will need evidence of Flynn’s son’s actual intentional participation in criminal acts or his intentionally conspiring with his father to commit a criminal act, in order to bring criminal charges. However, the elder Flynn’s legal team having stopped communicating with the President’s legal defense team may suggest that prosecutors have expressed privately their intent to bring such charges against Flynn and his son, and that they may be negotiating a resolution.
In order for the Special Counsel to threaten and actually bring criminal charges against Flynn’s son, the prosecutors must believe, as set forth in the United States Attorney’
Manual (USAM), that Flynn’s son’s “conduct constitutes a criminal offense, the admissible evidence will probably be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction and that a substantial federal interest would be served by the prosecution.” Normally, DOJ policy would disfavor leveraging one close family member against another. The Flynn scenario, however, falls expressly within an exception. That is “specific justification exists, among other circumstances, where (i) the witness and the relative participated in a common business enterprise and the testimony to be elicited relates to that enterprise or its activities; (ii) the testimony to be elicited relates to illegal conduct in which there is reason to believe that both the witness and the relative were active participants; or (iii) testimony to be elicited relates to a crime involving overriding prosecutorial concerns.” Mueller’s team need not look beyond the three alternative justifications – any one is sufficient for the exception to apply; meanwhile, all three expressly apply to the father-son Flynns.
There should be no confusion that somehow the conduct is by the Flynn Intel Group, instead of by its founder/owner (Michael T. Flynn) or its Chief of Staff and active participant in day-to-day operations, including meetings and communications (Michael G. Flynn). In 1909, the United States Supreme Court articulated the legal principle that persuasively controls today, that “a corporation acts by its officers and agents, their purposes, motives and intent are just as much those of the corporation as are things done.” And, DOJ policy is very clear in its focus on individual accountability for the acts of a corporation. This policy favoring prosecuting the corporate officials provides unequivocally that “Provable individual culpability should be pursued, particularly if it relates to high-level corporate officers, even in the face of an offer of a corporate guilty plea or some other disposition of the charges against the corporation.”
One of Mueller’s prosecutors was a member of the Enron Task Force that unabashedly leveraged threat of and actual family prosecutions for guilty pleas. Andrew Fastow was Enron’s Chief Financial Officer. Lea Fastow, his wife, who had an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and left Enron in 1997 as its Assistant Treasurer, had her name on various bank accounts targeted in
the investigation and was a participant in a number of Enron’s off-balance-sheet partnerships.
In October 2002, the Government indicted Andrew Fastow for conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering. In May 2003, the Government filed a superseding indictment that also included Lea Fastow and seven others. Subsequently, the Fastows negotiated a plea agreement that reduced significantly the potential jail time for Lea Fastow and effectively protected her.
At the time, the Fastows had two small children, ages 5 and 8. The plea deal offered to the Fastows was to stagger their prison sentences so that the children would not be deprived of both parents at the same time. In connection with their guilty pleas, the Judge sentenced Lea Fastow to one year for a federal tax crime and Andrew Fastow to six years for two counts of conspiracy, which he served after Lea Fastow left prison. The terms of the plea also required Andrew Fastow to cooperate against Enron’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, which he did.
Enron prosecutors successfully used a similar plea leveraging strategy earlier in the case against Michael Kopper, described as Fastow’s principal lieutenant. Kopper pled guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The terms of the plea required Kopper to surrender $12 million, which represented the gain that he and his domestic partner, William Dodson, received on a $125,000 investment. The plea deal resulted in no prosecution of Dodson. Kopper cooperated and testified against others. In 2006, a federal judge sentenced Kopper to 37 months in jail.
The decisions that Andrew Fastow and Kopper made to plead guilty and cooperate were similar to Michael Milken’s plea in the early 1990s to prevent the Government from pursuing prosecuting his brother, Lowell.
Prosecutors had charged both Michael and Lowell Milken in what was considered, at the time, the largest criminal case in Wall Street history. For Michael Milken to agree to plead guilty, he remained steadfast that the Government drop all charges against his brother. Michael Milken received a 10-year prison sentence and paid a $600 million fine.
The facts and locations are different, but the leveraging for plea tactics are the same. The Flynns are K Street, not Wall Street. The conduct is foreign agent registration and undisclosed interactions with foreign governments, not manipulating financial transactions and statements to the detriment of shareholders. Family loyalty is still family loyalty. The unanswered questions to which the public awaits answers are will the elder Flynn strike a deal, whether and to what extent that deal will protect his son, and against whom will both Flynns cooperate.
I’ve read “Licensed to Lie”. Based on personal experience, nothing in the book surprised me. Shocked, yes; surprised, no.
President Trump should move immediately to grant a full pardon to the General. That’s immediately as in RIGHT NOW, MR. PRESIDENT!
Thug life, DC style,
Been going on a while.
No bandanna, no dew rag,
That just ain't their bag.
Fancy suits, fancy ties,
Telling very fancy lies.
Red or blue, never seen,
The one they love is solid green.
Use the law, it's a club,
People know that that's the rub.
Feed the lie, face the wheel,
No other choice but to make a deal.
5 to 10, that's the time,
For not committing any crime.
This man should be hung from his feet like Mussolini and beat with sticks
Only if you want to accept the way the DOJ presented fraudulent information to the courts would you believe it was properly handled. You really need to read the real story and how twisted it was.
Fighting for years to get “Brady” material on the various cases that the prosecutors insisted didn’t exist and then being handed discs with information for the defense to go through and finding that the prosecutors had YELLOW HIGHLIGHTED all the Brady material to leave out of documents ordered to be turned over. WHOOPS! Didn’t exist, right?
How would you feel informing a judge of all these shenanigans and having the judge shrug his shoulders? It is truly enough to make an honest person cry. You failed to mention that this kind of prosecution of innocent people led to the suicide of one man who had gone through more than any one person should have had to go through...trial, conviction, reversal, retried with a judge unable or unwilling to understand the facts that a first grader could have understood. We’re not talking a year or so - we’re talking YEARS of - YES - persecution!!!!
“”It’s too bad that the lower level people at both companies
had to lose their jobs”
Really - By the time the dust settled, those who perpetrated the fraud on those companies and the courts, had bailed out and found out exactly what those people it impacted had gone through for years. They didn’t like it. They fled like rats from a sinking ship and then most were rewarded with higher positions in the DOJ: which really was the goal for those on the prosecution team. Does the name Weissman sound familiar?
Amazing that some of the same names involved in the DOJ then are the ones involved today in the debacle being carried out in DC. Along with the lies of AG Holder that things were going to change at the DOJ when reversals started coming down from the US Supreme Court and things remained the same without even the courtesy of a return phone call or acknowledgement of memorandums the defense sent.
Tell me again the “good reason” for that kind of injustice. If you can’t see it could happen to anyone they set their mind to, then don’t know what to tell you..
The book Sidney Powell has written has the perfect title - “LICENSED TO LIE”. Still going on.
Do yourself a favor - read the book.
She is definitely someone who isn’t afraid to speak her piece. The judge in TX in the (many) Enron proceedings did not appreciate her. Kind of comical. She is 6’ tall and she said in the book she wears 3” heels - she could look at the judge over the top of the judge’s desk (?) but with the 3” heels, she could look him straight in the eye. He didn’t appreciate it or try to hide his annoyance with her. Sometimes he just turned his chair around so he didn’t have to look at her and she knew he wasn’t listening to her but she didn’t stop talking. She gave it all she had for a lot of years - never giving up. I wasn’t kidding when I replied to another poster that reading this book is enough to make you cry knowing what those people were put through for the agenda of the DOJ...and no one cared.. Incredible but definitely EYE OPENING! Even more so now because we’ve seen the same thing in DC for the past 2 1/2 years!
*** I wouldn’t trust anything that comes out of the mouths of anyone associated with the OPCW.
That’s the org that’s been caught out lying through its teeth about the “gas attacks” in Syria as part of the effort to drag us into yet another pointless war. ***
If you’ve read the recently leaked doc’s, it is pretty clear the UK/US wanted the truth omitted so the UK/US could bomb Syria.
Any fool who looked at the pic’s could see the yellow cylinders were not dropped from a helicopter, but placed.
My President is either complicit or naive. I don’t like either possibility.
+1
Bolton has always been a massive neocon, itching for war.
I assume he’s paid well for that.
He was a military officer - LtGen and was appointed to head Defense Intelligence Agency. He made the mistake of allowing local commanders access to locally produced intelligence products in the field so that they could get timely information thus cutting the DC I/C out of the loop. This pissed off the deep state swampdroids no end.
A lot of Trump's success is giving local commanders authority to do their jobs, unhindered by quite so much of the swampocracy.
I think a lot of people agree with you but are in the choir already. These people are so despicable that it is unpleasant to even think about them.
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