The filings written by Flynnās new lawyers are always so hilarious. They really turn the drama up to 11.
Anyone who thinks Flynn wasnāt lying to the FBI agents hasnāt really looked at the evidence against him in the indictment and plea deal. I dare anyone to try and make a case that he doesnāt remember talking about sanctions
And when your mind is closed to the ideas of others, why should their minds be open to YOUR ideas?
Itās not my ideas, but the facts laid out in the court filings.
Facts which are routinely ignored by the right.
Do you really think Flynn forgot he talked about sanctions with the Russian ambassador?
Do you not think the fbi threatened his family?
Do we think the FBI threatened whose family, Flynn's? They may have threatened his son with criminal charges as well. So what? The son is also guilty of crimes.
I am getting sick and tired with the constant defense that everyone indicted and convicted of crimes, who was associated with Trump is somehow a victim and innocent.
Even if they are in fact set up, we should be upset they didn't like it?
They werenāt.
then why did the FBI lie about FISA
why did they threaten his kid?
why are we having proof in court it *was* done and yet you still say "no it wasn't"?
1. What did that have to do with Flynn?
2. What court proof?
3. Why did they threaten his kid?
With Michael T. Flynn facing possible indictment, Special Counsel Mueller likely is using the threat of also prosecuting Flynnās son for leverage. This Wall Street prosecution tested tactic from Enron and Drexel may result in a guilty plea, with the question cooperation against whom.
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The extensive reporting around the involvement of Flynnās son certainly suggests there is legitimate justification for interpreting the Flynn component of the investigation as a prosecutable family affair. Federal prosecutors leveraging one family member against another is a page directly out of a four-decade old prosecutorial playbook used successfully in Wall Street prosecutions. One need not look beyond the Enron prosecutions and guilty pleas of Andrew and Lea Fastow, husband and wife, and the Drexel-related guilty plea of Michael Milken, with Lowell Milken (his brother) averting prosecution, to find the use of this tactic in high profile white-collar prosecutions, that is outside of organized crime and gang prosecutions.
5. Why did he lie to tbe FBI? we arenāt talking minor lies, we are talking pretty major omissions of fact.
if this were being done to liberals, would you still adamant they were full of shit based on the same evidence?
Yes.
it's just as frustrating to see people delete evidence, destroy where the evidence was kept, stall for months on the initial request, get caught lying and so forth and hear people go "she didn't do nuffin..."
that's the gov we've created isn't it?
If that happens they should be held accountable and based on what the IG report found, the FBI be gone through with a fine tooth comb. I am guessing you are talking about Clinton. It is frustrating to see a person repeatedly investigated over and over despite nothing ever being found, for what seems more and more like partisan political reasons.
Flynnās fate is in the courts. There is nothing there that does not suggest he did not do what he claimed Initially. He
changed lawyers and then suddenly his tune.
According to prosecutors:
They also highlighted the severity of Mr. Flynnās crime. They said he lied repeatedly to F.B.I. agents as a high-ranking White House official about whether he discussed sanctions with Mr. Kislyak before Mr. Trump assumed office ā potentially conducting foreign policy while President Obama was still in power.
Prosecutors noted that others who pleaded guilty to lying to investigators in the Russia inquiry ā including the former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and Alex van der Zwaan, a lawyer ā were sentenced to prison, and they were private citizens. As a longtime government employee, Mr. Flynn should have known better, they suggested.
āNeither defendant was a high-ranking government official, held a position of trust vis-Ć -vis the United States, held a security clearance, had a special understanding of the impact of providing misleading information to investigators or denied responsibility for his unlawful conduct,ā prosecutors wrote.
He wasnāt coerced to lie. He didnāt āforgetā and suddenly āremember. He was treated the same as other white collar criminals. If the little guys got jail time, why does Flynn get off?
and it is just as frustrating to see people break laws and have their side go "no she didn't" and yet try to hold the other side accountable for far lesser issues that are usually made up and exaggurated.
i can promise you - if trump is ever asked for evidence and he plays games up to and including deleting it - i will be livid at him and consider him guilty as i would assume you and the "i hate trump" crowd would as well.
would people do the same for those on "their" side.
now, if sounds like you are simply 100% saying the FBI didn't do this to him. before i get all into this, is that your stance, that the FBI did NOT coerce him into testifying?
The major problem here isnāt that they coerced him to testify, even though they did and itās a problem. THEY WITHHELD EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE. ITS A ******* BRADY VIOLATION, THATS ******* MAJOR.
does this go back to the missing 302s? still learning how all this fits together from a legal perspective.
the FBI alters his interview:
As a self-proclaimed adherent to Hanlonās Razor, I once cynically viewed the frenzied focus on FBI actions during the 2016 Russian election-meddling investigation as partisan and overwrought. Hanlonās Razor suggests that we never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by...
www.washingtonexaminer.com
Motion to Compell:
On Wednesday, the previously sealed Motion to Compel filed against federal prosecutors in the Michael Flynn case was made public with only minor redactions.
www.scribd.com
what happened:
"One of the most damning charges contained within Powellās 37-page court brief is that Page, the DOJ lawyer assigned to the office of then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, may have materially altered Flynnās interview FD-302, which was drafted by Strzok. FBI agents transfer handwritten interview notes onto a formal testimonial document, FD-302, within five days of conducting an interview, while recollections are still fresh. "
we also see how against hillary, "gross negligence" was reduced to careless - by who? strozk. there were mandatory penalties for "gross negligence" so that had to be toned down.
so we have "tone down what we say about hillary, amp up what we say about trump & co" and we have proof the fbi lied to FISA and now altered MORE testimony and simply removed 302s from the equation.
Coyote - this is why i find it difficult to swallow you're still "gosh how come none of them are guilty" when we see an overwhelming pattern of players identified to be "on the left" abusing said power in order to change, hide, destroy evidence.
i would not want this done to you. obama. hillary. trump. anyone. if they are in fact guilty NONE OF THIS is necessary.
yet you're here, as i understand it, defending the FBI and trying tor refocus on flynn, not the actions of the FBI. i'm more than willing to evaluate flynn from every side possible but i'll do the FBI and all involved as well.
you seem to be, from my point of view, dismissing the FBIs actions completely so we can keep the focus on Flynn, just as the FBI would want. however, *I* would rather see us clean up the FBI *if* they are doing this. most of the people who did all this are already gone also. now it's time to bring charges if they did in fact violate ANYONES rights.
are you ok with looking to see if the FBI did in fact violate rights of Flynn and others? Are you even open to the idea that RUSSIA was a setup against Trump or is all that and anything involved in it simply right wing fantasies?
if you're mind isn't open, discussion is pointless. i just want to know if i need to stop wasting my time.