Posted on 05/15/2020 7:16:02 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Now that Attorney General William Barr has rightly dismissed the case against Michael Flynn, the Justice Department should review all similar prosecutions and dismiss those that come within the principles that led to the dismissal of the Flynn case.
If these principles were persuasive enough to warrant action in the Flynn case - and I believe they were - they cannot rightfully be limited to one high profile case, without lending support to the accusation, even if false, that politics may have played a role in the Flynn case. The Justice Department must not only be just, it must appear to its citizens to be just. So what are these principles?
The first is that even if some of Flynn's answers to the FBI were not entirely truthful, they were not "material" to any legitimate investigation. It is difficult for some people to understand that lying to the FBI or even to a grand jury is not by itself a crime. The lie must be "material." That is a somewhat technical word that can have several meanings. One such meaning is that if the FBI already had incontrovertible evidence that provided indisputable proof of the answer to the question, then the answer given by the person being questioned - whether true or false - could not be material to the investigation.
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The old cliche is if you do not know who is paying; look in a mirror.
“Who is paying for that retired judge to do Sullivan’s bidding?”
Probably no one. No conspiracy is needed to explain why partisan liberals do what they do.
Now Sullivan has invited the Covington firm back into the game:
When you sit down to play poker, look around the table to see who the sucker is. If you can't figure that out, then the sucker is you.
th FBI lied
Schiff lied
Comey lied
Brennan lied
Obama lled
Biden lied
I am mystified as to why the Justice Dept. and Flynn’s Defense Counsel haven’t yet petitioned the DC Circuit to remove Judge Sullivan. I have heard a lot of talk about that being a natural course of action, but nothing has happened yet. Why not?
Covington screwed Flynn when they tried to cover up their own mistakes in the foreign agent filing. Plus - any derogatory information they would have about Flynn would be covered by client-attorney.
HOw do you restrain the judge, impeach him?
Try getting the House of Congress to initiate that investigation.
mayube tar and feather Sullivan? Run him out of a rail?
Yes. Look at all cases brought by these people and start dismissing or commuting sentences.
The immediate thing to do would be appeal the request for amicus briefs. I don’t know if they need Sullivan to do something to finalize the order before they can do that.
Exactly. It is a conspiracy of ideology and perceived interest. If a leftist has any doubt about what action is required, they need only read the NYTs, Mother Jones, or Vox.
How about the Prosecution of a sitting President being tried for treason,or at the very least being brought before a tribunal of some sort for being caught on an Open microphone telling an enemy,a communist country,that he can be more flexible on Nuclear weapons after his last election.
Where was the 24\7 coverage,the demands for an impeachment?
dershowitz is a hillary sycophant phony
Covington “lost” key evidence AND withheld evidence that would have changed the whole case.
Soooo, Why haven’t they done that yet?
The immediate thing to do would be appeal the request for amicus briefs. I don’t know if they need Sullivan to do something to finalize the order before they can do that.
What the judge is doing delays the process but Flynn isn’t really harmed yet. Wait for the judge to do something tangible that can be appealed such as holding Flynn in contempt, sentencing him on the original plea, etc. Wait for the judge to take substantive action, then there’s enough to appeal.
The game is to try and goad Trump to pardon Flynn.
A pardon implies guilt. Go through this process - even if a pain in the butt - with the ultimate result Flynn is exonerated.
I know all about them. But their relevancy here seems to be in regard to Flynn's guilty plea, which Sullivan is contemplating constitutes perjury. The Covington posse isn't going to say they advised him to plead if he was innocent.
Right, a pardon would undercut Flynn’s credibility once he’s free to speak. The power of his perspective needs to be preserved, not blunted by a pardon.
What options do the Powell/Flynn team have with this new development?
If the sense is that they are continuing to harass Flynn to keep him under the gag order, it there a way that Flynn could rescind that - and SPEAK.
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