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2019-07-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Latest Development In Flynn Case Proves Special Counsel Was A Cover For Taking Down Trump

[The Federalist] The special counsel’s investigation was a sham controlled by the intelligence community. Evidence has long suggested as much, but testimony earlier this week from Michael Flynn’s ex-lawyer‐that Flynn’s former legal team had not seen recently revealed information purporting to implicate Flynn in a conspiracy with a Turkish agent‐confirms it.
One of many such initiatives by the Deep State.
This testimony came on Tuesday when Flynn’s former Covington and Burling lawyer, Robert Kelner, took the stand at the trial of Flynn’s former partner at Flynn Intel Group (FIG), Bijan Rafiekian. Rafiekian, who co-founded FIG with Flynn, is on trial for conspiring with his co-defendant Kamil Ekim Alptekin and others (unnamed in the indictment) to act as an unregistered agent of the Turkish government and conspiring to file a material false Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) statement. (Alptekin is a fugitive believed to be in Turkey.)

The government had planned to call Flynn as a witness at Rafiekian’s trial, but at the last minute prosecutors informed the court that Flynn would not testify. Instead, prosecutors notified the court that they viewed Flynn as an unindicted co-conspirator and that they intended to present hearsay evidence against Rafiekian‐something allowed if Flynn had conspired with Rafiekian and Alptekin to file the false FARA statements.

Last week, presiding Judge Anthony J. Trenga held that the government had not yet presented sufficient evidence of a conspiracy to admit prior statements made by Flynn and Alptekin. Until prosecutors made a preliminary showing of a conspiracy at trial, Trenga ruled, the hearsay evidence would not be admitted, and even then the government may be bound by its prior admission that Flynn was not a co-conspirator.

Then last Friday came the revelation that the government possessed previously undisclosed information supposedly implicating Flynn in a separate conspiracy with Alptekin. Rafiekian’s attorney disclosed this shocker at the close of a pre-trial hearing, telling the court that before the start of the proceedings, the government had handed him a one-sentence statement. "If I may read it for purposes of the record," Rafiekian’s lawyer continued:

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-20 01:31|| || Front Page|| [25 views ] Top

#1 I'm trying to formulate a 25-words-or-less summary of this convoluted story.

Posted by Bobby 2019-07-20 06:52|| 2019-07-20 06:52|| Front Page Top

#2 There is only one reasonable explanation for this: The intelligence community viewed the special counsel’s investigation as an insurance policy meant to destroy Trump. And Flynn was just a means of getting to Trump.

The author's bottom line above. She's coming to the party a bit late. Many of the guests have already departed.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-20 07:10|| 2019-07-20 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 GEN Flynn was, to my mind at least a great innovator with intel and timely distribution. I wouldn't underrate the animus the collected agencies have for him personally.

Posted by Cesare 2019-07-20 08:40|| 2019-07-20 08:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Ref #3: My take on Gen. Flynn as well. Yes, the "animus of the collected agencies" generally excludes those within the Department of Defense.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-20 08:49|| 2019-07-20 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Why is Steele not being prosecuted as an "unregistered foreign agent"?

Posted by Lex 2019-07-20 10:24|| 2019-07-20 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 The left has assiduously tried to take down Trump before and after he was POTUS. Everyday it is death-by-a-thousand-cuts from all directions from the left, Donks, RINOS, MSM, and even some foreigner s. Trump must have the skin of an armadillo. The usual Pub response would have been to cave long ago. Go Donald and thxs for taking the slings and arrows.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-07-20 11:45|| 2019-07-20 11:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Why is Steele not being prosecuted as an "unregistered foreign agent"

He was very likely "registered" (and compensated) under a different type of....hmm hmm system. To charge him as an "unregistered foreign agent" would open up a virtual Pandora's box. A Pandora's box that would make any defense attorney ecstatic.

Very possibly the same with Nellie Ohr I might add.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-20 12:02|| 2019-07-20 12:02|| Front Page Top

#8 To paraphrase the old joke, they pulled out just enough to win.

Posted by KBK 2019-07-20 21:25|| 2019-07-20 21:25|| Front Page Top

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