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To: Robert DeLong
Yep, Beck did say "that's what they got General Flynn on". It's in the transcript above. Not the best words for Beck to use, but he wasn't implying that's what Flynn was "charged" with, as you wrote. Flynn was charged with lying to the FBI, about the "interference" and his dealings with Turkey.

Obama, Biden, and the previous administration were after Flynn. Probably due to his efforts to uncover their dealings in Ukraine (Why otherwise?).

Beck says in the transcript above:

What was the reason that Joe Biden said we could get General Flynn remember the FBI said there's nothing here he didn't do anything wrong. There's nothing here. And the next day they had an emergency meeting at the White House, without the FBI, the FBI said Case Closed. They had this meeting, Joe Biden was in it, Susan Rice was in it, and so was Barack Obama. and we know because of notes that Barack Obama said, what do we, what can we do. Joe Biden said, we can use the Logan Act. The Logan act is something that was enacted in the 1700s it's never been used, but it is when somebody would go over to a foreign country and say, I'm representing the United States of America.

Maybe they (the Obama administration) didn't "get him (Flynn)" on the Logan Act, but they charged him with lying to the FBI about it. Think about that; the just-us-department actually charged Flynn with lying to FBI agents when agents questioned him out of some frivolous, drummed up by Joe Biden concern about breaking a 200-year-old law no one has ever been charged with since enacted over 200 years ago. Not only that, but the agents also led Flynn to believe he didn't need a lawyer when he did.

The crooked Obama administration used the corrupt FBI and every agency at its disposal to cover up their Ukrainian crimes. Now it's all come undone because Biden's crackhead son left a ton of evidence of their crimes on his laptop at some computer repair shop.

And not only have the Ukrainian crimes come to light, but also the far worse China crimes as well.

18 posted on 10/19/2020 8:55:27 AM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous
Maybe they (the Obama administration) didn't "get him (Flynn)" on the Logan Act, but they charged him with lying to the FBI about it. Think about that; the just-us-department actually charged Flynn with lying to FBI agents when agents questioned him out of some frivolous, drummed up by Joe Biden concern about breaking a 200-year-old law no one has ever been charged with since enacted over 200 years ago. Not only that, but the agents also led Flynn to believe he didn't need a lawyer when he did.

I assume this is you talking, because Beck never said this, and it doesn't even appear in the transcript you provided in post 11. Good job BTW. 8>)

I know what they charged him with which is why I said Beck stated something that was incorrect. Another thing he said that was incorrect, and if those are your words above also are incorrect, was that the Logan Act was never used, but two indictments were handed down. No convictions resulted, but they were used to secure indictments. I would have preferred he had stated exactly what happened, or said it was used, but was never successfully prosecuted. I say this not to be critical of Beck, but for him to present the actual facts, for his own reputation.

SOURCE: Wikipedia

The first occurred in 1803 when a grand jury indicted Francis Flournoy, a Kentucky farmer, who had written an article in the Frankfort Guardian of Freedom under the pen name of "A Western American." In the article, Flournoy advocated a separate nation in the western part of the United States that would ally with France. The United States Attorney for Kentucky, an Adams appointee and brother-in-law of Chief Justice John Marshall, went no further than procuring the indictment of Flournoy, and there was no further prosecution of the Kentucky farmer. The purchase of the Louisiana Territory later that year appeared to cause the separatism issue to become moot, and the case was abandoned.

In 1852, Jonas Phillips Levy became the second and, to date the last, person to be indicted under the Logan Act. Levy, an American merchant and sailor who was living in Mexico at the time, had acquired a grant to build a railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrowest point across Mexico. Secretary of State Daniel Webster had been pressuring Mexico to accept a treaty that would allow a different group of American businessmen to build the railway. Levy wrote a letter to Mexican President Mariano Arista urging him to reject Webster's proposed treaty, prompting Webster to seek an indictment against Levy for violating the Logan Act. Federal prosecutors were forced to dismiss the case after Arista refused to hand over the original copy of the letter, depriving them of the evidence they needed to convict Levy.

19 posted on 10/19/2020 9:46:13 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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