I might cop a plea myself. I would NOT, however, turn around later and try to undo everything I had done up to that point by fighting a vain case in Federal court.
[I might cop a plea myself. I would NOT, however, turn around later and try to undo everything I had done up to that point by fighting a vain case in Federal court.]
What may have stuck in his craw is that he misunderstood what being a cooperating witness in a plea deal meant. Based on cases I’ve read about, they don’t actually say it directly, but the agents involved basically want you to make up an internally consistent lie that they can use to stick it to the suspect of their choice. Flynn may have thought they wanted him to tell the truth about what he knew, which might not have helped them make a case. Hence, the backing out, once he understood that they wanted him to make up and push a lie to convict someone the FBI wanted to make a case against.