Posted on 05/15/2020 5:42:46 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Regarding the decision of the Department of Justice to dismiss charges against General Flynn, in your recent call with your alumni, you expressed great concern: “there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.”
Here is some help—if truth and precedent represent your true concern. Your statement is entirely false. However, it does explain the damage to the Rule of Law throughout your administration.
First, General Flynn was not charged with perjury—which requires a material false statement made under oath with intent to deceive.1 A perjury prosecution would have been appropriate and the Rule of Law applied if the Justice Department prosecuted your former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for his multiple lies under oath in an investigation of a leak only he knew he caused.
McCabe lied under oath in fully recorded and transcribed interviews with the Inspector General for the DOJ. He was informed of the purpose of the interview, and he had had the benefit of counsel. He knew he was the leaker. McCabe even lied about lying. He lied to his own agents—which sent them on a “wild-goose-chase”—thereby making his lies “material” and an obstruction of justice. Yet, remarkably, Attorney General Barr declined to prosecute McCabe for these offenses.
(Excerpt) Read more at sidneypowell.com ...
I think you should remove the I think from your statement. The sentence needs to be declarative. The woman is a bulldog attorney. If the feds are on your back you need her on your side.
I have a lot of hours in courtrooms. If you have ever wondered whether it really makes a difference who you hire as an attorney, wonder no more.
Sidney Powell is Exhibit-A.
Everyone needs to read Powell’s plan on border security.
OMG!! SHE IS FABULOUS!!! What a SMART, STRONG. WOMAN.
she should have put all of 0bama’s awkward pauses, stuttering and stammering into that quote. I listened to his call and how anyone could ever think he was some sort of great orator is just falling for the media hype.
New Director of the FBI
She’s phenomenal!
Finally someone is talking back big time to Obama despite the white glove treatment he usually gets because of the color of his father.
“Yet, remarkably, Attorney General Barr declined to prosecute McCabe for these offenses.”
Yea, kind of funny that.
L
Saving the ammo for the big fish, no doubt.
/sarc
McCabe lied under oath in fully recorded and transcribed interviews with the Inspector General for the DOJ.
This is simple. President Trump, please make General Mike Flynn the head of all intelligence agencies (FBI, CIA, DNI, etc.) and let him clean house. That’ll show the ba$tards!
BIGLY TRUMP ping!
TRUMP TRAIN ping!
Graduate & Professional degree list ping!
McCabe lied under oath in fully recorded and transcribed interviews with the Inspector General for the DOJ. He was informed of the purpose of the interview, and he had had the benefit of counsel. He knew he was the leaker. McCabe even lied about lying. He lied to his own agents—which sent them on a “wild-goose-chase”—thereby making his lies “material” and an obstruction of justice. Yet, remarkably, Attorney General Barr declined to prosecute McCabe for these offenses.
Thanks for the ping. There’s a Hussein Head here who took a shine to me this week telling us Flynn retroactively forfeited his 4th amendment rights by pleading guilty to protect his son.
Our domestic enemies work even harder here during Election Year.
Barry the B*tt Boy doesn’t know the difference between “lying” and perjury.
And this Dumb@ss supposedly went to law school.
But he has extra melanin—so he gets a race card pass every time he says something ignorant, dishonest and/or stupid.
I prefer that she replace Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg!!
But here is a relevant part, sort of a one paragraph indictment of Christopher Wray:
the egregious prosecutorial misconduct of your longest serving White House Counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler; your counter-terrorism advisor Lisa Monaco; Loretta Lynch’s DAG for the Criminal Division Leslie Caldwell; and Mueller protégé Andrew Weissmann. While they worked as federal prosecutors on the Enron Task Force—under the purported supervision of Christopher Wray—they destroyed Arthur Andersen LLP and its 85,000 jobs; sent four Merrill Lynch executives to prison on an indictment that criminalized an innocent business transaction while they hid the evidence that showed those defendants were innocent for six years. Both cases were reversed on appeal for their over-criminalization and misconduct. Indeed,
And yet Wray remains director of the FBI.
Thanks for your veteran perspective, oldplayer. Nice to see praise for a true professional.
I like the cut of her jib.
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