AP Exclusive: Justice Dept
dropping Flynn’s criminal case
Associated Press,
by
Michael Balsamo
&
Eric Tucker
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
5/7/2020 2:45:36 PM
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for Trump and his supporters in attacking the FBI’s Russia investigation. (Snip) The Justice Department said it had concluded that Flynn’s interview by the FBI was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn” and that the interview on January 24, 2017 was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jinx 5/7/2020 2:48:04 PM (No. 404029)
Better late than never. It is about time. This is looooong overdue!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MainelySane 5/7/2020 2:49:44 PM (No. 404031)
Please, General Flynn.. for the rights of all law abiding American citizens... please sue Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe, Stzok, Priestap, Page et. al., individually. Please.. don't do for the money (I would), but do it for the sanctity of law!
Hallelujah!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/7/2020 2:50:23 PM (No. 404032)
The DOJ is at the end of hiding documents. Any more releases would only further convict them---so they got out the best way they could, by dropping the case.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 5/7/2020 2:53:05 PM (No. 404035)
Trump should now fire Wray and make Flynn head of the FBI.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
StormCnter 5/7/2020 2:55:53 PM (No. 404039)
Well, Hallelujah! Now we need to figure out how to restore General Flynn's financial security. It can't be brought back to what it was, but it would help.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pros7767 5/7/2020 3:01:45 PM (No. 404050)
#2, he should do it for both the principle and the money! Sue the damn government too for allowing this to happen! I would happily have my tax dollars go to this hero as opposed to all the illegals!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
plaids 5/7/2020 3:03:37 PM (No. 404055)
This is great, also need to drop the Roger Stone case too. I listened to him lay out his prosecution for two hours last night.
It's about time real justice come to fruition!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/7/2020 3:04:08 PM (No. 404057)
FTA: "Flynn himself admitted as much, pleading guilty before asking to withdraw the plea,....." That's simply journalistic malpractice to restate that he admitted to lying without mentioning the newly revealed proof that he was blackmailed by the FBI by threatening to destroy his son's life as they had done his.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MainelySane 5/7/2020 3:04:54 PM (No. 404059)
#4,... Sidney Powell might as well go all in, for Flynn! Comey is worth about $8 million for his book deal. They all own property around D.C. She can help him sue his original "legal team" too for unprofessional conduct.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 5/7/2020 3:07:04 PM (No. 404063)
Boy, howdy! Talk about asking where you go to get your reputation back! And your house! And your life savings! And everything else you liquidated to try to fend off the hounds of hell also known as the FIB!!!!!!
Not being a legal eagle, I have no idea if this is good or bad. I believe at one point Ms. Powell said they didn't want the D(irty)OJ to just drop the charges; they wanted their illegal attacks to be exposed and the guilty to be held responsible. But perhaps this case with Flynn in which he was compelled to plead guilty to save his son isn't the best place to go on the offense. At any rate, congratulations to Ms. Powell and Flynn for boxing them in to the point where they have to back down! Bravo!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 5/7/2020 3:08:29 PM (No. 404065)
P.S. Oops! Forgot to add that I hope Flynn DOES NOT sue the goverment. All that does is take money from us. Go after individuals and make them pay, not government agencies that are taxpayer funded!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Mushroom 5/7/2020 3:12:29 PM (No. 404071)
No. This what I have been talking about, there must be a penalty for these actions. You raked this guy over the coals, broke any number of rules and laws. You don't get to say "oops" when you are caught. You need to go to jail. And judges can fit in a cell just as well.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lazlototh 5/7/2020 3:22:42 PM (No. 404080)
I hope Covington & Burling is looking at its malpractice policy limits. What a horrific job the firm did, and certainly when I was in law school it may have been the hardest DC firm in which to get a job (I had no interests in DC but other classmates did). In addition, since the prosecution is being dismissed with prejudice, Flynn should, if he wants to, be able to get a good book deal, maybe someday a movie, and a lot of money for speaking engagements if he chooses to do so. I wish him well. I have been watching this on the edge of my seat like it's the longest most important football game of all time. And Sydney Powell - what an amazing job - flamboyant and theatrical but delivering throughout!
This is fantastic news and they made sure it wasn't a Friday document dump.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 5/7/2020 3:23:22 PM (No. 404081)
Re #4
WHAT AN EXCELLENT IDEA! Make Flynn the head of the F.B.I. right around the time that the indictments from the Durham report start coming down! Oh karma!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
curious1 5/7/2020 3:23:38 PM (No. 404082)
Exactly #12. Nifong the persecutors. When they get out of prison, put them in front of a firing squad. Comey, Shrillary, Obola and the others? Just put them in front of a firing squad. That's probably why they dropped the case instead of going forward and allowing further discovery by Powell. Van Grack, Wisemann and the others ought to be in jail tonight awaiting trial.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
john56 5/7/2020 3:40:54 PM (No. 404099)
The m.o. in civil suits is to sue anyone and everyone who you can make a passable case and let the judge sort it out. That means that if Gen Flynn and Ms Powell decide to go that route, they would sue the US Government because of the illegal actions of its employees and also sue those employees (Comey, et al.) because they acted outside their legal duties in setting up Gen Flynn.
And Plantiff's exhibit #1 would be that yuk-yuk session that Comey had with Nicole Wallace at the 92nd St Y where he admitted to entrapping Gen Flynn by sending a couple FBI guys over -- oh yeah, you don't need a lawyer.
If your next door neighbor is a FBI agent and you talk niceties about the weather over the back fence, you need a lawyer.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2020 4:05:23 PM (No. 404134)
And the AssPress pukes insist that "Flynn lied".....yeah, like telling someone that you saw a red car on a taped phone call. Then later when asked by the FBI, "Did you say you saw a crimson car?"
If you reply "Yes".....YOU LIED.....you said "red"....
The FBI agents in this know that minor errors in repeating a discussion are normal, our memories are imperfect, and the agents wrote that "Flynn did not lie" in their notes.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/7/2020 4:23:48 PM (No. 404158)
The genesis of the Lieutenant General Michael Flynn political persecution was during the Obama years when President Obama fired Flynn from a high level intelligence position. That because evident when Obama met with President Elect Trump and personally told Trump not to hire Flynn as his National Security Advisor.
Once it became evident that Trump was not going to take Obama’s advice regarding not hiring Flynn as his National Security Advisor, the politicized FBI super bureaucrats immediately swung into action to set up Flynn by commencing an investigation of Flynn without having any legitimate predication, with the motive of having Flynn removed from his National Security Advisor position, obviously after receiving a “Do it by the book” wink and a nod from the highest levels of the Obama Administration.
Remember the CIA and the FBI super bureaucrats did not like Flynn, as he had a plan to reorganize the intelligence functions of the US intelligence community which would impinge upon a lot of the DC “Deep State” bureaucratic “Ivory Towers”.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
stuBdoc 5/7/2020 4:24:31 PM (No. 404159)
The spin on this article is disgraceful. As someone else posted, it's journalistic malpractice to state that Flynn lied to the FBI without mentioning that he was presented with a perjury trap, then told to plead guilty or they would prosecute his son. It's also false to claim that agents were more concerned about his Russia activities, they knew there was nothing there, but they were concerned that Flynn would expose them in their dirty coup attempt. Aside from which, McCabe and the IC despised Flynn.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
lgplgp 5/7/2020 4:29:06 PM (No. 404166)
AP is "fake news" and in this article AP themselves is admitting as much! FTA "It comes even though prosecutors for the past three years have maintained that Flynn lied to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. Flynn himself admitted as much, pleading guilty before asking to withdraw the plea, "
"Flynn himself admitted as much" when he was coerced into the admission by the FBI and his lawyers to protect his son and family.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/7/2020 4:41:14 PM (No. 404186)
This was obviously a large helping of crow for the AP to swallow. They keep referring to discredited information like saying that Flynn lied when the original FBI notes say that he didn't. Plus, we now know that the FBI went over with the purpose to entrap Flynn, also illegal. It was used, unjustly to give Mueller's bullies a "win" and justification for their investigation. It was fuel for a lot of media stories against Trump.
Now we know that BO's partisans ginned the whole thing up. And the AP has to report it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
planetgeo 5/7/2020 4:57:41 PM (No. 404197)
Firings? Heck, I want to see 2am raids on about a dozen homes to roust the perpetrators on live Pay-Per-View. I don't care what it costs. There are enough people who will want to watch it that we could retire the national debt.
And yes, fire Wray (after he gets out of his jammies after the 2am raid) and put Flynn in charge of the FBI, with back pay and interest. Between Flynn and Grinell, the clean-up on aisles 3-8 of the whole intelligence deep state should be Wagnerian in its napalm glory. Ride, Valkyries, ride!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Krause 5/7/2020 5:05:50 PM (No. 404205)
Pretty much everything Obama as President has been, or is being, undone, for good reason. When it's all said and done, he accomplished nothing. What a waste of 8 years.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Jennie C. 5/7/2020 8:09:58 PM (No. 404378)
This literally never happens.
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