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DOJ drops case against Michael Flynn, in wake of internal memo release
Fox News.com ^ | May 7, 2020 | Brooke Singman

Posted on 05/07/2020 12:00:10 PM PDT by Kaslin

The DOJ decision would appear to put an end to that process.

Earlier Thursday, the top prosecutor on the case, Brandon Van Grack, abruptly withdrew from the case, without explanation, in a brief filing with the court.

Breadcrumbs were being dropped in the days preceding the decision that his case could be reconsidered. Documents unsealed a week ago by the Justice Department revealed agents discussed their motivations for interviewing him in the Russia probe—questioning whether they wanted to“get him to lie” so he'd be fired or prosecuted, or get him to admit wrongdoing. Flynn allies howled over the revelations, arguing that he was essentially set up in a perjury trap. In that interview, Flynn did not admit wrongdoing and instead was accused of lying about his contacts with the then-Russian ambassador – to which he pleaded guilty.

Then on Wednesday, the DOJ released a mostly unredacted version of former acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s August 2017 “scope memo,” outlining the authority then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller had for his investigation. That document revealed for the first time that Mueller’s authority went significantly beyond what was previously known.

Rosenstein’s memo was known to have authorized Mueller to probe “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump,” and “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation,” and “any other matters within the scope of [obstruction of justice laws].”

But the new document made clear that Rosenstein authorized a deep-dive criminal probe into the Trump campaign that extended well beyond Russian interference efforts.

The memo revealed that Mueller was, among other things, looking into whether Flynn “committed a crime or crimes by engaging in conversations with Russian government officials during the period of the Trump transition.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brandonvangrack; flynn; hightime; jamescomey; lisapage; michaelflynn; mikeflynn; perjurytrap; peterstrzok; robertmueller; rodrosenstein
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To: lodi90

> “Wray has been sitting on these the Flynn FIB docs for near 3 years”

Yep. You’re correct with that statement.

But you could be wrong on extrapolating a conclusion from it.

You see, there’s the possibility Wray was told to sit on it because the documents contain information before a grand jury.

I’m not drawing conclusions either way because I don’t know for sure.

But I know this, over the last year there have been people that have wanted to hang Bill Barr and now they’re ready to kissy up to him.

I think what we’re really witnessing here is IMPATIENCE and FRUSTRATION, both of which are completely understandable.


201 posted on 05/07/2020 7:19:18 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: KyCats

Remember...ERIC HOLER...was on that first law firm...

Hope he gets his jackass handed to him....

And now I’m waiting for the shoe to drop on BARRY HUSSEIN...THAT WILL BE A GREAT DAY...AND WE ALL NEED TO TIP OUR GLASS OF WINO TO HIM...AND TELL HIM, FINALLY THE TRUTH WILL BE TOLD, NOW OPEN THAT LOCK BOX, FRAUD..


202 posted on 05/07/2020 7:36:49 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: artichokegrower; generally

I think first . . . it might be a little well warranted fun to:

1. Stake some tall, big-boned ‘men in black’ types in front of his house & in back of his house 24/7.

2. Have NSA types or some such make a lot of clicking etc. sounds on ALL his phone calls.

3. Occasionally have a gov type interject on some of his phone calls, “That’s a brazen lie, Schiff-4-brans.”

4. Have purported friendly “whistle blowers” call him with friendly advice about being sure he has burned all his copies of the video of the underage black sex victim he murdered at the Standard Hotel—& then raped the corpse of.

5. Have El Chapo call him & tell him that El Chapo has documented all the corrupt payoff’s El Chapo paid him to treasonously keep the border open for child sex trafficking, MS13 invasion & Jihadi invasions. And that he is submitting all the documentation to AG Barr within 48 hours.

6. Have a purported black ops bloke or 3 call him late at night and offer to Fosterize some of the main witnesses against his child sex abuse—for several $million each.

7. Affix a module to his car that not only tracks it but erratically beeps every 3-12 minutes.

8. About 02:00-03:30 beam the “voice of God” tech into his head as though he is overhearing evildoers planning to Fosterize him so he doesn’t tell more about them.

9. “Mistakenly” mail DOJ planning memo’s to him on confiscating his wealth on a near horizon date for crimes against children & humanity & treason against the U.S.A.

10. Stage convincing pics of his name, plaques, etc. on all his offices and other Congressional related stuff being erased, removed, expunged.

11. Have a pic sent to him of a couple of plaques outlining his horrific treason & other crimes in bronze placed in a prominent place near Congress & calling him one of the most despicable, debauched, lying, treasonous, corrupt, disgusting piece of human garbage to ever haunt the halls & streets of D.C.

12. Have a video sent to him of a long string of Congressmen streaming by his grave late at night & pissing on it.


I realize we don’t ‘get into’ cruel & unusual punishment. And, in some respects the above are not near as cruel as he has been to his victims and the citizens of the USA. But the above is kind of a perverse thought experiment/sick joke at Schiff-4-brain’s expense.


203 posted on 05/07/2020 8:10:26 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: originalbuckeye

Will the Feds ‘make Flynn whole again’?? They should take the money out of the retirement funds of every criminal who set him up.....right up to Brennan and Comey!

Amen. At 15-20% interest per month.


204 posted on 05/07/2020 8:13:53 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: bagster

My error msg indicated might be an overwhelmed site.


205 posted on 05/07/2020 8:39:53 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: Boogieman

LMAO, as if that were possible.

Is that an indication of little faith

or

a LOT of being poorly read/informed?


206 posted on 05/07/2020 8:41:10 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: KyCats

And I hope patriots make a huge amount of noise about their evil deeds as corruptocrat globalist atnys.


207 posted on 05/07/2020 8:42:22 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: bagster

You ain’t seen gloating yet.

I suspect we could field an Olympic Gold Medal class gloating team with very little effort or bother.


208 posted on 05/07/2020 8:43:33 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I don’t wish folks to choose hell via suicide. However, I probably would not shed any tears on news of such traitorous corruptocrat people Fosterizing themselves.


209 posted on 05/07/2020 8:44:28 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: Spacetrucker

My notions of “poetic justice” for the Marxist globalist corruptocrat traitors would be to parade them through D.C. streets in hobbles, on a chain gang while onlookers spit at them & threw rotten veggies & eggs at them.


210 posted on 05/07/2020 8:47:47 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: Boogieman

Many people think many things that are wrong.

Including—persistently, it seems—you.


211 posted on 05/07/2020 8:49:28 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: bagster

Maybe we should let those information challenged about the massive Red-pilling ‘intel op’ enjoy their delusional & very poor reality testing a while longer. It will make their crashing & splattering on the concrete of their own ignorance & stupidity all the more spectacular & fun to watch. Might even end up timed about 4th of July.

Though it seems like things are racing along too fast for it to take that long.


212 posted on 05/07/2020 8:52:24 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: WaltStuart

most persistently.


213 posted on 05/07/2020 8:53:26 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #Godwins)
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To: Boogieman

Delusional involves being ignorant of or markedly askew from a considerable number of data points that most others see very differently & are congruently in concert about.

Those of us following the Red-pilling intel op have 10’s of THOUSANDS of data points all indicating validity, congruence, value, import etc. with several hundred confirmations by POTUS TRUMP himself.

At most, naysayers likely have less than 8-12 data points of murky congruence & little to no confirmation except normalcy bias etc.


214 posted on 05/07/2020 8:56:31 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: Boogieman

On a continuum . . . from absolutely DISproven in a science lab in front of the Supreme Court Justices all the way over to the opposite of PROVEN in a science lab in front of the Supreme Court Justices

there is a huge range of nuanced data points that TEND to weigh in—in one direction or the other.

You seem to be utterly uninformed, undiscerning, possibly full-blown blind to thousands of nuanced data points all leaning heavily in the affirming of the intel op direction.

Not a wise stance to “die” for, imho.


215 posted on 05/07/2020 9:01:10 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: Boogieman

Trump will prove to have been the absolute best President ever and possibly better than the last 12 combined—maybe except for Reagan.

—MOST brilliant, hard working, efficient, effective, patriotic (who else took on such attacks & lost $1 billion+ for the trouble), generous, kind, creative problem solver, excellent at Sun Tzu, patient, fiercely on the side of the USA against all attacks, great listener & researcher, etc. etc. etc. AND chosen and Anointed of God—witness Mark Taylor & Kim Clement youtube prophesies.


216 posted on 05/07/2020 9:04:58 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: Boogieman

Maybe that became the main part after all the other “main parts” he predicted failed over and over again for years.

Your perceptions & data collection seem to be horribly askew from reality.


217 posted on 05/07/2020 9:08:41 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: Boogieman

Yes, the vast majority of predictions Q has made have failed for years and years. Try and keep up.

That’s simply WHOLESALE thoroughly INACCURATE, FALSE.

Out of 4,141 drops, I’d estimate that less than 4-12 were deliberate disinformation (which we were warned about).

Even if it were 12 such disinformation posts, that would be 0.002897% inaccurate.

You sure have an extremely wild-haired crazy notion of what “vast majority” mean.


218 posted on 05/07/2020 9:13:29 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: KyCats
Flynn’s first law firm was Covington and Burling. Eric Holder is a senior partner. C&B are among the premier firms in Washington dating back pre-Roosevelt. A malpractice suit against them would never get to court. A good attorney whose specialty is professional malpractice might get to first base by suggesting that the C&B attorneys representing Flynn failed to investigate his claims of prosecutorial malfeasance and blackmail. A tough row to hoe.

Rather, Flynn would be better served by establishing civil liability for his claims using DoJ’s own documents as well as those of the Bureau. Rare to win damages from the federal government, but possible. Remember though, all of this is on hold pending any criminal action by Durham and if Trump loses in November, everyone involved will skate and sell books about how Barr corrupted the Department.

219 posted on 05/07/2020 9:16:42 PM PDT by masadaman
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To: Kaslin

Been singing Hallelujah all night!


220 posted on 05/07/2020 10:25:03 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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