The Flynn Case Is a Travesty
National Review,
by
Editors
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
5/3/2020 4:38:17 AM
For more than three years, Michael Flynn waged a strange battle to clear his name after pleading guilty to lying to FBI agents and then declining a judge’s invitation to withdraw the plea. But there has always been something very wrong about the case, and we’ve learned more about it in recent weeks.
The retired army general, fleetingly President Trump’s first national-security adviser, was investigated during the Trump transition by anti-Trump officials at the FBI and Obama Justice Department on nebulous grounds.
There was no criminal predicate for the probe: Flynn’s communications with Sergey Kislyak — then the Russian ambassador to the U.S. —
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/3/2020 7:55:17 AM (No. 399175)
I wonder if the Judge in this case is letting the information keep coming out, until the government's necks are twisting in the wind. The evil prosecutors thought they should be pugnacious, but now they have hung themselves, as the passage of time has allowed more and more government misbehavior to be disclosed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/3/2020 8:02:26 AM (No. 399182)
No, it was a conspiracy of illegal spying, plotting, and criminal acts by senior officials in many parts of BO's administration. It was massive corruption on a scale never before revealed at a federal level. BO turned the government into Thugs R Us.
It wasn't just Flynn or even Trump that was targeted. It was the entire new administration and the American People who voted it into office. BO's cartel would not ALLOW it to be.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rarebear 5/3/2020 9:41:39 AM (No. 399266)
Wow! The milquetoast National Review almost approaches admonishing it’s Old School Mates, the Federal Government, by almost nearly taking a stand against abuse of power by it’s old friends because what they kind-of-almost did to General Flynn by setting him up to rob him of his liberties and his reputation was maybe not very good. That’s pretty much the sense of what this courageous piece conveyed to me. What backbones these beltway elitists at the NR have!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
sanspeur 5/3/2020 10:00:41 AM (No. 399291)
the n r is a travesty ..insert their “never Trump” issue here . Won’t give ‘em a click .
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HotRod 5/3/2020 10:29:11 AM (No. 399319)
If there was ever a case that should be thrown out of court, this is it! No American should EVER be subjected to abuse by dishonorable government agents, for any reason! Not even for a political agenda!
The judge may be one of those dishonorable government people. We shall see.
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The travesty is Flynn's own making by pleading guilty to a crime.
So, did he lie to the FBI, or to the court? He told the court he was guilty...now he says he wasn't. Railroad job or not...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/3/2020 11:21:38 AM (No. 399370)
Nothing strange about his battle NRO. Nothing strange at all. If you would step outside your bubbles for a moment, you would see that America loathes seeing innocent men/women entrapped in a false crime and then hounded into ruin. Aided and abetted by their own shifty, dodgy, corrupted and crooked lawyers. So there is nothing strange about the battle at all, except in the minds of spineless squishes who exist at NRO. That is how real Americans conduct their lives NRO.
I suspect the Judge in this case has discovered that not only the FBI but the prosecutors treated them like fools by letting this judge make rulings based on only partial facts. Judges have a tendency to hate that and they respond very poorly.
Flynn is not responsible for this travesty of justice. He got railroaded into it when they threatened him with going after his son. I guess a previous comment doesn't understand that. This is not on the General. This is ultimately on Obama for allowing those agents, prosecutors, and others to get away with crimes against innocent people. The lawyers who worked secretly hand in glove with the prosecutors and Mueller need to be disbarred and prosecuted for serious misconduct. You do not make secret deals then neglect to tell your client about those deals. Those deals were all made in the interests of the Swamp, not the General.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/3/2020 11:27:17 AM (No. 399379)
The travesty lies in the inordinate amount of time it has taken to get it to this point. I hope I live long enough to attend the Comey perp-walk party.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 5/3/2020 1:00:52 PM (No. 399494)
Dang! Even the NeverTrumper lunatics at NatReview get it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
john56 5/3/2020 2:33:08 PM (No. 399617)
Gen Flynn took a plea to get this over with. His lawyers sold him down the river. The government kept required "Brady" exculpatory evidence from him. Herr Mueller and his Swamp Gestapo tried to frame his son for some unmentioned (and probably equally phony) crime. They had already bankrupted him, made him sell his house, and such. You and I might make the same decision. Give me a charge my lawyers tell me is okay, make a plea deal, and get it done.
Fortunately, at some point, the General came to his senses and fired the shysters who, as we find now, kept much of this from him -- and were themselves being squeezed by the Swamp Gestapo mentioned above -- and hired Sidney Powell to take over.
When this case is dismissed (or better yet, thrown out of court with predijuice, which means it can't be retried), I hope that Gen. Flynn and his lawyers get started on the civil suit, Flynn vs. Comey, et. al. (which sadly, will also include the US Government) for their malicious and politically inspired proscecution. While money will not make Gen Flynn whole for the cr*p he endured over the past 3-4 years, it will be a deterrent to the Swamp Creatures who think they can do this again.
And I trust Gen. Flynn will be well compensated for their crimes and Ms Powell will have earned enough in continhency fees to be the highest paid lawyer in the USA. By the way, I'm volunteering for that jury.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
vinegrower 5/3/2020 6:24:24 PM (No. 399762)
#6 You know exactly why he pleaded guilty to a NON crime. No one needs to explain it to you.
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