Judge Sullivan appointed a special prosecutor in the Stevens case to investigate the DOJ abuses. Can he do likewise now? Obviously Sessions has no intention of reigning in the felons in HIS DOJ.
Below is another excellent article re the probable mistrial of General Flynn:
General Flynn Should WITHDRAW His Guilty Plea. His New Judge Is A Government Misconduct Expert
Daily Caller ^ | February 16, 2018 | Sidney Powell
Posted on 2/16/2018, 6:37:05 AM by billorites
Extraordinary manipulation by powerful people led to the creation of Robert Mueller’s continuing investigation and prosecution of General Michael Flynn. Notably, the recent postponement of General Flynn’s sentencing provides an opportunity for more evidence to be revealed that will provide massive ammunition for a motion to withdraw Flynn’s guilty plea and dismiss the charges against him.
It was Judge Rudolph Contreras who accepted General Flynn’s guilty plea, but he suddenly was recused from the case. The likely reason is that Judge Contreras served on the special court that allowed the Federal Bureau of Investigation to surveil the Trump campaign based on the dubious FISA application. Judge Contreras may have approved one of those four warrants.
The judge assigned to Flynn’s case now is Emmet G. Sullivan. Judge Sullivan immediately issued what is called a “Brady” order requiring Mueller to provide Flynn all information that is favorable to the defense whether with respect to guilt or punishment. Just today, Mueller’s team filed an agreed motion to provide discovery to General Flynn under a protective order so that it can be reviewed by counsel but not disclosed otherwise.
This development is huge. Prosecutors almost never provide this kind of information to a defendant before he enters a plea — much less after he has done so. This is one of myriad problems in our justice system. As Judge Jed Rakoff wrote several years ago, people who are innocent enter guilty pleas every day. They simply can no longer withstand the unimaginable stress of a criminal investigation. They and their families suffer sheer exhaustion in every form — financial, physical, mental, and emotional. Add in a little prosecutorial duress — like the threat of indicting your son — and, presto, there’s a guilty plea.
Judge Sullivan is the perfect judge to decide General Flynn’s motion. The judicial hero of my book, Emmet Sullivan held federal prosecutors in contempt for failing to disclose evidence, dismissed the corrupted prosecution of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the Department of Justice.
That independent counsel, Henry Schuelke, issued a scathing report finding systematic, intentional and pervasive misconduct in the Department of (In)Justice. He identified the prosecution’s deliberate concealment of evidence favorable to the defense. That is why Judge Sullivan both issues such Brady orders in each of his cases and encourages every other judge in the country to do the same.
Emmet G. Sullivan is one judge who is ready, willing and able to hold Mr. Mueller accountable to the law and who has the wherewithal to dismiss the case against General Flynn — for egregious government misconduct — if Mueller doesn’t move to dismiss it himself.
Judge Sullivan’s experience can only help General Flynn as more evidence appears every day to reveal that Flynn should not have been prosecuted. James Comey testified to Congress that the agents who interviewed Flynn — including the hopelessly compromised Peter Strzok — thought Flynn was telling the truth. The entire FISA warrant application becomes more problematic by the day.
Within the next six weeks, we will probably have the bombshell report of Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General for the Department of Justice. He is the one who discovered the Strzok-Page emails, and he has been investigating the FBI and DOJ in their Clinton cover-up for the last year.
Since Flynn entered his guilty plea, we’ve learned that information Mr. Comey leaked deliberately to “trigger” Robert Mueller’s entire investigation was classified. Also, FBI agents Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were working on an “insurance policy” to protect the country against a Trump presidency. It seems plausible that this “insurance policy” included the appointment of a special prosecutor.
Indeed, the bases for throwing out everything Robert Mueller has touched grow exponentially as more truth finds sunlight.
Watching guilty pleas evaporate is nothing new for Mr. Mueller’s favored lieutenant Andrew Weissmann. Along with his Enron Task Force comrade Leslie Caldwell, Weissmann terrorized Arthur Andersen partner David Duncan into pleading guilty. (RELATED: Meet The Very Shady Prosecutor Robert Mueller Has Hired For The Russia Investigation)
Weissmann and Caldwell made Duncan testify at length against Arthur Andersen when they destroyed the company and 85,000 jobs only to be reversed by a unanimous Supreme Court three years later. Turns out, the “crime” they “convinced” Mr. Duncan to plead guilty to was not a crime at all. The court allowed Duncan to withdraw his plea. And, that was not the only Weissmann-induced plea to be withdrawn either. Just ask Christopher Calger.
Judge Sullivan is the country’s premiere jurist experienced in the abuses of our Department of Justice. He knows a cover-up when he sees one. Until the Department is cleaned out with Clorox and firehoses, along with its “friends” at the FBI, Judge Sullivan is the best person to confront the egregious government misconduct that has led to and been perpetrated by the Mueller-Weissmann “investigation” and to right the injustices that have arisen from it. Stay tuned for the fireworks.
Sidney Powell, former federal prosecutor and veteran of 500 federal appeals, is the author of LICENSED TO LIE: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. She is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Senior Policy Advisor for America First.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3632567/posts
They bankrupt people with huge legal costs. Then get them to plead guilty to some small infraction or face financial ruin.
I hope Sullivan does the right thing and tosses this case.
“The evidence can be used by Flynn’s defense “solely in connection with the defense of this case, and for no other purpose, and in connection with no other proceeding.”
I am not a lawyer, but does that mean that Flynn can’t use the evidence to sue Mueller for withholding evidence favorable to Flynn?
will the unracted fisa application be part of the evidence submitted to judge sullivan??
Something suggests the limited use of evidence for Flynn, implies that it might also be of benefit in prosecuting the fbi
Well, Obama-Hillary’s FBI-DOJ is TRYING to do everything they can think of to limit the release and use and publicity (and anything else that they can think of) of any “new evidence” by writing this agreement with Flynn’s defense lawyers.
Re-read the “agreement” - Mueller’s DOJ insiders/swampers against Flynn are trying to make sure that the “new evidence” that they know that they must release to FLynn CANNOT be used “in any other case”. Also, they are trying to prevent Flynn’s lawyers (Flynn himself!) from being able to release it publically.
If they succeed in suppressing the release to anybody else, then - when it is leaked BY Mueller/the DOJ - they (the DOJ insiders) re-prosecute Flynn for “release of classified information/breaking his agreement/being a bad person. The distraction charges (”of being a bad person anyway”) then become Hillary’s media’s talking points. Not the actual information itself.
Which is their plan anyway. Talk against the information, not what the information means or what it actually is.
1. In December the new judge Sullivan told Mueller to present exonerated evidence if there was any to Flynn and his legal counsel
2. In January then Mueller asked for a stay of sentencing Flynn, pushing it to May
3. In February, Mueller asked that the evidence he turned over to Flynn legal counsel be sealed
4. We still don’t know about why Judge Contreras was removed from the Flynn case, after he accepted Flynn’s guilty plea (many suspect he was on the FISA court when Carter Page application for warrant came through)
All of this put together spells that Mueller will have to drop the case Or the Judge will vacate the plea deal
The prosecution is asking to be allowed to hide information that may be exculpatory in any other proceedings?
Seems a little underhanded to me.
Constitutional protections are extended to everyone on earth - citizen or non-citizen - except white males. Proceed accordingly.
Guilt plea will be rejected by new judge of record?
yeah!WOOT!
In my opinion this is sort of a catch 22. Keep something hidden whether at the Mueller or FBI level and run the risk of the IG report exposing something they have kept hidden. That is if the IG report waits until after May to finally get out there. Maybe the judge waited that long so that reports findings can be added.
In the meantime, while the Attorney General is AWOL and Mueller is defacto running everything and squandering thousands of FBI man-hours on bull shit. 17 are murdered in a Florida high school.
If not for the corrupt DOJ, Stevens would have been re-elected in 2008 and most likely would not have been on the plane which crashed and cost him his life in 2010. He would be 94 now if still alive so might have not run for re-election in 2014, but we would have had a better senator from Alaska for at least 6 more years.