It should be noted that if you get your news from alternative sources, much of the Flynn saga we’ve known about for years now. If you get your news from the mainstream sources, all this will be somewhat new and even still is being slightly distorted.
Flynn didn’t lie. They hoped he would lie, but he didn’t, so they lied. Same thing with Papadopoulos, they accused him of lying, but in fact he did not. So they lied. Documentation that they lied is slowly bubbling to the surface. The people involved need to face the sentences they had planned for their victims.
When you realize that Manafort was charged using files that had been doctored, you begin to see just how bad this whole thing has been.
Excellent evaluation, dead on correct.