Malicious Prosecution
There needs to be Recourse
this is from Dec 2018........not Dec 2019
Many years ago, I was in DC and stayed at the Capital Hilton. Was at the bar with a friend and a DC cop came in. An Embassey had just been robbed and all DC cops were kicked out as the FBI had arrived.
Talking about the FBI, I still remember what the DC cop said...."The FBI can shred anything they please."
Isn’t Flynn an Air Force general, not a army general? Whoever wrote this article could not get the basic facts right.
year-old news...
Keep in mind, everybody, that at some chronological juncture in these machinations by FBI, DOJ, et al individuals, Andrew McCabe is reported to have said, “First we f**k Flynn, and then we f**k Trump”! Is it possible that Whore-owitz could have done his exhaustive investigation without ever encountering THAT statement by McCabe? NO! So assuming he IS aware of it; how and where has he buried it so that it is fastidiously absent from his IG Report?
But Judge Sullivan should let Flynn walk, and not just because he may lack a photographic memory. Instead, Flynn should be liberated due to the FBI’s evident misconduct.
According to recent news reports, the FBI encouraged Flynn to meet Strzok and his fellow interrogator without the benefit of legal counsel. In another redacted FBI document dated January 24, 2017, an apparent FBI official writes:
“I explained to LTG Flynn that my desire was to have two of my agents interview him as quickly as possible. He agreed and offered to meet with the agents today. … I explained that I thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a conversation between him and the agents only. I further stated that if LTG Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like the White House Counsel for instance, that I would need to involve the Department of Justice. He stated that this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with the agents without any additional participants.”
Last week on MSNBC, fired FBI Director James Comey admitted that he avoided normal procedures in Flynn’s case. “If the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the White House counsel, and there would be discussions and approvals of who would be there,” he admitted.
Instead, on its fourth day in office, Comey took advantage of the neophyte Trump White House and its staff, and sent the agents anyway. “I thought: It’s early enough, let’s just send a couple guys over.”
Comey bragged that this was “something I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more … organized administration.”
The fact that the FBI encouraged Flynn to exclude his or the White House’s lawyers from the interview is a brand new monument to Miranda rights abuse.
The Supreme Court ruled in a 1966 case, Miranda V. Arizona, that all Americans have the right to have an attorney present when speaking with law enforcement and need to be warned that they have the right to remain silent, and that anything they say can and will be used against them in a court of law.
It would be bad enough had the FBI not reminded Flynn of this right. But to go the extra mile and bamboozle him into excluding an attorney during what Flynn seemingly considered a friendly chat was abominable.
The idea of Flynn going to prison because the FBI “got away with” hoodwinking him out of having an attorney on hand as he was grilled by FBI agents reeks of the legal systems in Venezuela or Russia, where the accused do not have legal protections that Americans enjoy. The FBI should not get into the habit of un-Mirandizing interrogation subjects.
"I hope this results in an investigation by the inspector general of the tactics used by the FBI," Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday on Fox News Channel's “America's Newsroom.”
"I think that Flynn was coerced into pleading guilty to a crime of which he was innocent,” Dershowitz added. “He was coerced by threats against his son, threats against his fortune."
Indeed, Flynn had to sell his house to pay his attorneys. Such financial ruin has befallen Special Counsel Robert Mueller's victims – even witnesses not accused of crimes who drown in lawyers' bills simply to testify.
Judge Sullivan should vacate Flynn's guilty plea, dismiss charges against him, order the FBI to pay his legal fees, and sanction Mueller and his band of enraged Democrats for this grotesque miscarriage of justice.
In December, 2018, Trey Gowdy and other competent interrogators had no chance for Any cooperation from the corrupt FBI/JD, at the time of those hearings.
They did a SUPERB job laying pavement, nevertheless, for enabling the current Trump version of Attorney General to now LAND THE PLANE.
All this information thoroughly entraps Comey, with his own words, from his own Big Mouth, all of his story changes, lack of memory, etc., as this article demonstrates.
Did I miss where it mentioned the judge overseeing Flynn maters having said something important?
Sure didn't notice it.
All I noticed was talk about a remake of a 302 report.
Sounds like Judge Sullivan is preparing to vacate the guilty plea and dismiss the charges as the bogus fabrication that they are.
That’s fine. BUT you should post the correct date of the article. This is December 13, 2018... A YEAR AGO! The IG report was filed on 9th Monday and hearing on it on the 10th.
This very case heavily impacted by the Report. The FISA abuse involved FLYNN too, as he was surveilled on his phone calls.
The handling of the 302s is part of this IG Report in re the FISA warrants skip and hop to FLYNN and all others in the campaign and new WH.
Flynn’s case is going to be dismissed, and the perpetrator prosecutors may be put up on falsifying evidence, as will the FBI/DOJ perpetrators. And yes, Flynn will sue.
One year ago. Another year lost to Flynn. But a timely reminder of Comey and associates’ MO.
No voice or video recording? If I were the judge, I would dismiss the 302 reports as unreliable and demand a video recording.
Comey could pay Flynns’ legal fees and buy him a replacement house out of his book proceeds and that’s the least that should happen.
This might have been the article you meant>
https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/13/how-the-ig-fisa-abuse-report-affects-michael-flynns-case/
(snip).....Then two weeks ago came another surprise: After having argued for months that there was no need to delay Flynn’s sentencing, federal prosecutors contacted Powell to suggest postponing the sentencing. Powell concurred and then the government filed a joint motion asking the court to cancel the upcoming sentencing briefing and hearings.
In the motion, the government presented two rationales for the delay. First, the parties noted that until the court ruled on the pending motion to compel, briefing would be premature. Second, and more significantly, the joint motion noted “that the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is conducting an Examination of the Department’s and the FBI’s Compliance with Legal Requirements and Policies in Applications Filed with the US. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Relating to a certain US. Person,” and stated that “the parties expect that the report of this investigation will examine topics related to several matters raised by the defendant.”
Now that the report is out, the question is how it will affect Flynn’s case....(Snip)