Barr Installs Outside Prosecutor to Review Case Against Michael Flynn, Ex-Trump Adviser

[Anonymous]

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He wasn't convicted of anything

Republican dipshit, if you plead guilty, you are convicted. ipso facto, dumbass.

Not true. Did you get your JD from the back of a cereal box?

OMG, you cannot be serious.

The guilty plea was entered and accepted. He is a convicted felon, awaiting sentencing.

Conviction is not considered to be complete until sentence is imposed by the Judge.

Sentencing happens after conviction.

There's this argument floating around that Flynn isn't actually convicted yet. Those are fake facts. But not unsurprising, given who he is and who his supporters are.

Judgment is not final until you have been sentenced.

[Anonymous]

Mike Flynn, General Mike Flynn.
What they did to him was an absolute disgrace.
It was a complete and total political hit job, and a dishonest one at that.
Not good, not good at all.

But let's see.
Let's see what happens.

[Anonymous]

An innocent man's forced guilty plea and conviction can be expunged, like it never happened in the first place. Happens all the time. What can't be erased is all the nasty treatment the left foisted onto this honorable man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An innocent man's forced guilty plea and conviction can be expunged, like it never happened in the first place. Happens all the time. What can't be erased is all the nasty treatment the left foisted onto this honorable man.

Hahaha, innocent man! Yes, you are responsible for destroying our country!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An innocent man's forced guilty plea and conviction can be expunged, like it never happened in the first place. Happens all the time. What can't be erased is all the nasty treatment the left foisted onto this honorable man.

Yes, that happens when there's proof of another man's guilt or of prosecutorial misconduct.

Here, Flynn just changed his mind. That's not going to get his guilty plea withdrawn.

[Anonymous]

Terrific guy, Mike Flynn.
One of the best. A very fine general.
They say he pleaded guilty.
But that depends on who you talk to.

So we're taking a look,
They're taking a look at next steps.

[Anonymous]

Interesting article about innocent people who plead guilty. Even more interesting...the article cites a paper regarding guilty pleas, written by...former Judge John Gleeson.

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/07/innocent-people-who-plead-guilty/

[Anonymous]

A piece by Eli Lake. This is not a "right wing" journalist.
This is very informative and an easy read. Long, but easy. And, provides the timeline, dates, names, and other details to show how he has been railroaded.

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/eli-lake/michael-flynn-gets-railroaded-by-the-fbi/

In their final encounter during the transition following the 2016 election, Donald Trump’s incoming national-security adviser surprised Barack Obama’s outgoing national-security adviser. Susan Rice writes in her memoir that the Michael Flynn she was dealing with had nothing in common with the firebrand she had watched leading a “lock her up” chant against Hillary Clinton at the Republican National Convention a few months earlier. Flynn, a retired general and the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was respectful and subdued, eager for her advice. When Rice extended her hand and wished him the best of luck, Flynn asked her for a hug.

He needed it more than he could possibly have known.

Flynn did not then know that leaders of the FBI and the Justice Department were out for his head. They suspected he was a Russian agent—despite the fact that a counterintelligence investigation into Flynn launched five months earlier by the FBI had found no evidence for such a claim. Three weeks into the Trump administration, the Flynn hunt bagged its trophy. The newly installed national-security adviser was compelled to quit. The stated rationale was that Flynn had lost the confidence of the new vice president because he had supposedly misled Mike Pence about some phone calls between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the United States. That those phone calls became public knowledge was almost certainly the result of Obama-administration leaks of highly sensitive intelligence information.
Flynn did not then know that leaders of the FBI and the Justice Department were out for his head. They suspected he was a Russian agent—despite the fact that a counterintelligence investigation into Flynn launched five months earlier by the FBI had found no evidence for such a claim. Three weeks into the Trump administration, the Flynn hunt bagged its trophy. The newly installed national-security adviser was compelled to quit. The stated rationale was that Flynn had lost the confidence of the new vice president because he had supposedly misled Mike Pence about some phone calls between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the United States. That those phone calls became public knowledge was almost certainly the result of Obama-administration leaks of highly sensitive intelligence information.

That was February. In May, the Flynn hunt resumed. Robert Mueller was named a special prosecutor tasked with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible ties to Donald Trump and his presidential campaign. After months of aggressive targeting, Mueller succeeded in getting Flynn to plead guilty to lying to the FBI—even though the actual FBI agents who had interviewed Flynn assessed that he hadn’t lied at all. Still later, when Flynn’s lawyers sought documents that would clear him of the charge he had lied, the Justice Department fought to keep them secret.

Finally, in May 2020, another Justice Department investigation was concluded. The Trump administration went to court and moved to drop the federal government’s case. As it did so, it released shocking documents from inside the executive branch that reveal the extent of the injustices done to Flynn. The stunning response from senior Obama officials, including Obama himself, was to condemn the supposed politicization of the Trump Justice Department. Now the Judge hearing Flynn’s case has paused the motion. Michael Flynn is still in limbo.

This is the story of the railroading of Michael Flynn.

[Anonymous]

He left out the Rafiekian trial. Put that timeline in there too.

Or does he not know about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He left out the Rafiekian trial. Put that timeline in there too.

Or does he not know about it?

No he didn't. Section V in the piece by Eli Lake:

Flynn had initially registered the Inovo contract in August 2016 through a less stringent law known as the Lobbying Disclosure Act. He did so on the advice of his counsel at the time. And when Flynn took the contract, that advice was sound. The legal environment for FARA registrations was quite permissive at the time. But at the end of 2017, and with Mueller in hot pursuit and with unlimited resources, Flynn—and his son, Michael Jr.—could have found themselves facing years in prison. So Flynn, in financial ruin and wishing to get his son out of Mueller’s crosshairs, agreed to cooperate.

And cooperate he did. Before his first sentencing hearing at the end of 2018, Mueller’s team initially recommended no jail time for Flynn, in part because he was a good cooperative witness. Over time, though, Flynn began to regret his decision. Some of this was because of the failure of Mueller’s investigation to bring a single charge against any American for coordinating with Russia’s influence operation in 2016. Some of it was also because details about the government’s own misconduct in the investigation began to leak out. So in 2019, Flynn ended his relationship with his lawyers from Covington and Burling, the ones who had filed his initial FARA registration forms on the Inovo matter and who had also represented his partner Bijan Rafiekian, who had also been indicted on FARA violations.

Flynn also began to back out of his cooperation with the government’s case against Rafiekian. In July 2019, prosecutors decided they would not call Flynn as a witness and threatened to prosecute Flynn as a co-conspirator. At first Flynn’s lack of cooperation didn’t matter because that same month, a jury found Rafiekian guilty of being an unregistered agent for the government of Turkey. But the judge in the case overturned the jury verdict in a blistering judgment on the prosecution. “The government has failed to offer substantial evidence from which any rational juror could find beyond a reasonable doubt” that Rafiekian was an agent of Turkey

The judge’s ruling was significant for Flynn in one important respect. In 2017, during the run-up to Flynn’s plea agreement, the Wall Street Journal reported that Flynn and his son had been approached by Turkish government officials to try to kidnap Gulen and bring him back to Turkey in exchange for $15 million. A November 10 story in the Journal said that Mueller’s team was investigating the matter. Flynn’s lawyers have categorically said this episode never happened. There is no mention of the episode in the prosecution of Rafiekian. The one on-the-record source for this allegation was former CIA Director James Woolsey, who himself sought a contract with Turkey to defame Gulen.

[Anonymous]

👀 Judge Sullivan hires high powered attorney - the one who represented Kavanaugh in his confirmation battle - to argue his case for not immediately tossing Flynn guilty plea.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-judge-hires-high-powered-dc-attorney-to-defend-his-actions-in-flynn-case/2020/05/23/9cae4d5e-9d0c-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html#click=https://t.co/1z9KLuCMbi

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:👀 Judge Sullivan hires high powered attorney - the one who represented Kavanaugh in his confirmation battle - to argue his case for not immediately tossing Flynn guilty plea.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-judge-hires-high-powered-dc-attorney-to-defend-his-actions-in-flynn-case/2020/05/23/9cae4d5e-9d0c-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html#click=https://t.co/1z9KLuCMbi

Yep.
One would think he could justify his actions on his own. He is a judge, after all. Curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:👀 Judge Sullivan hires high powered attorney - the one who represented Kavanaugh in his confirmation battle - to argue his case for not immediately tossing Flynn guilty plea.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-judge-hires-high-powered-dc-attorney-to-defend-his-actions-in-flynn-case/2020/05/23/9cae4d5e-9d0c-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html#click=https://t.co/1z9KLuCMbi

Can't he explain it himself? Will the appeals court allow this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:👀 Judge Sullivan hires high powered attorney - the one who represented Kavanaugh in his confirmation battle - to argue his case for not immediately tossing Flynn guilty plea.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-judge-hires-high-powered-dc-attorney-to-defend-his-actions-in-flynn-case/2020/05/23/9cae4d5e-9d0c-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html#click=https://t.co/1z9KLuCMbi

Can't he explain it himself? Will the appeals court allow this?

Sure he could. Should he go for the unripe angle, or separation of powers issue, or the integrity of his courtroom, etc
, or all of the issues?

A good lawyer will help to decide which is the best way to respond, which issues to include or leave out, etc.

[Anonymous]

Crooked judge, a crooked judge.
What he did to General Flynn was a disgrace.
Just because he tried to sell out his country and then lied about it.
Who's to say he didn't have a perfectly legitimate reason?

So it's disgusting and very unfair.
That I can tell you.