General Michael Flynn is finally suing for the wrongs against him: He deserves to be compensated for his unjust suffering.

American Thinker ^ | 03/04/2023 | Andrea Widburg

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One of the most despicable things the Deep State did during the Trump era was its persecution of General Michael Flynn. Finally, though, Flynn is pushing back, having filed a claim for $50,000,000 against the United States of America for malicious prosecution and abuse of process.

What happened to Flynn, which was the first act in the Russia hoax, was an utter travesty. His phone calls were illegally unmasked, he was immorally inveigled without an attorney into a conversation with unprincipled FBI agents, his words during both the phone call and the FBI interview were twisted out of their obvious meaning so that the government prosecuted him relentlessly based upon nothing, his cowardly attorneys gave him harmful advice, and a biased, unprincipled judge did everything he could to keep the Justice Department from making things right by finally dismissing the lawsuit. What Flynn experienced was an American combination of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and Franz Kafka’s The Trial.

Image: Lt. General Michael Flynn. YouTube screen grab.

For a long time after the nightmare ended, and his case was finally dismissed, Flynn seemed to have gone to ground. Thankfully, though, it appears that he was gearing up for his $50,000,000 malicious prosecution case against the United States:

Flynn contends that the DOJ was aware the prosecution against him lacked merit and cites a DOJ motion from then-U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea saying “The Government is not persuaded that the January 24, 2017 interview was conducted with a legitimate investigative basis and therefore does not believe Mr. Flynn’s statements were material even if untrue. Moreover, we [sic] not believe that the Government can prove either the relevant false statements or their materiality beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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“The DOJ therefore admitted that they should never have brought this prosecution against General Flynn because the interview that formed the basis of the criminal information should never have happened and, even though it did happen, it was not a proper basis for the felony charge,” his legal team asserted.

The filing names the United States of America as a defendant.

Flynn is seeking compensatory damages to be determined by the court but that he expects to exceed $50 million, in addition to his legal fees and any other court-determined relief.

[Responsibility2nd]

50 Million Dollars.

Not enough. There also needs to be criminal trials with hundreds even thousands sent to prison as a result of the overthrow of the government of the United States of America.

[DIRTYSECRET]

What took him so long?

[Jeff Chandler]

Any constitutional lawyers want to weight in?

[blackdog]

Judge Sullivan needs to be personally sued.

[Twotone]

Since we’re $30 Trillion in debt, what’s $50 Million more? I hope he gets it. But I’d rather the people who abused him so horribly would have to pay from their own pockets.

[Spktyr]

Nope. Sovereign immunity in general and qualified immunity for the LEO/DOJ types.

[davidb56]

Take the 50 million and start his own army like the rooskie guy, then clean house on the ones that screwed him.

[Alberta's Child]

I wish Flynn well, but I have long believed that too many of his legal problems were self-inflicted. The fact pattern laid out in this article and the linked references within it also contain contradictions that undermine some of the key points the author tries to make in support of Flynn. Here is one example from the linked article that supposedly reinforces the “illegally unmasked” point:

Dan Bongino also believes that Obama took these steps to set up Flynn:

- He had authorized spying on Kislyak;
- He knew Kislyak would call Flynn about the sanctions and expulsions;
- He knew Flynn would be in the Dominican Republican for the calls; and
- He knew that calls to the Dominican Republican would create a unique “phone print” that would allow his administration to view the phone calls without unmasking Flynn.

Here are two important problems with this narrative:

1. Flynn was conversing on his personal cell phone with his Russian counterpart while he was in the Dominican Republic. This seems like a serious security breach on its face — and one that should disqualify someone from serving in any position involving national security.

2. Any phone conversation that took place in the Dominican Republic would not be subject to U.S. legal protections against “unmasking” — which takes that allegation in a lawsuit right off the table. Who even knows how many shady characters conduct surveillance on mobile phone calls in a Third World dump like the Dominican Republic?

[sauropod]

Yep.

[blackdog]

Sullivan was the gatekeeper and malicious weapon being aimed and fired at Flynn, with the FIBs giving instructions.