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Judge rejects claims by Trump ex-adviser Flynn of FBI misconduct

[JPost] - A U.S. judge on Monday flatly rejected a last-ditch effort by President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn to get criminal charges against him dropped based on his accusations of misconduct by prosecutors and the FBI.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Flynn to appear for sentencing on Jan. 28, concluding that Flynn had failed to prove a "single" violation by the prosecution of withholding evidence that could exonerate him.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-17 02:52|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ] Top

#1 Judge Emmet Sullivan

Posted by 3dc 2019-12-17 05:59|| 2019-12-17 05:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Clinton judge, first appointed by Bush.

You haven't seen the hidden evidence to prove corruption so you can't see it.

Right. If anyone were honest in the DOJ they would charge the judge with corruption.

Posted by Woodrow 2019-12-17 06:04|| 2019-12-17 06:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Ref #1: Too early to declare trending, but appears to be so often the case.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-17 06:54|| 2019-12-17 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 saw another article this am, where the judge said Flynn gave up his Constitutional rights by pleading guilty. Gee I didn't know you could give them up since THEY ARE INALIENABLE. Would think being railroaded into a false confession would have some impact.

Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-17 07:15|| 2019-12-17 07:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Unless I miss my guess, this will all end up shoved directly up Emmet's fat arse, but he's done his duty as a Clinton bench appointee.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-17 07:19|| 2019-12-17 07:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Judge Sullivan relied on the Meuller report that stated there was no bias in the FBI. Grounds for appeal when the Durham report will state the opposite.

Posted by Elmereger Clavins7805 2019-12-17 07:22|| 2019-12-17 07:22|| Front Page Top

Obviously Judge Sullivan missed the chapter on Strzok and Page.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-17 07:26|| 2019-12-17 07:26|| Front Page Top

#8 The well spring of the FBI Flynn setup:

FBI’s McCabe Might Have Been Out for Revenge in General Flynn’s Case
Sally Yates and James Clapper have never offered any evidence but they’ve utterly destroyed Ret. General Flynn’s reputation. We now find out that the FBI’s Acting Director Andrew McCabe had a serious motive for revenge against the general.

Instead of recusing himself, he’s in charge of the Flynn matter.

Circa News reports that secret memos show Trump adviser roiled the bureau by intervening in an agent’s discrimination case before he was targeted in Russia case.

Two years before the FBI launched their probe against Flynn, he intervened on behalf of a decorated counterterrorism agent who accused now-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and other top officials of sexual discrimination.

Flynn’s intervention on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz was highly unusual. He was in effect a hostile witness against McCabe, a rising star.

The FBI, instead of considering Flynn’s views, sought to keep him from becoming a witness in her Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case. Her case is pending.

McCabe has a sketchy role in this. He admitted the FBI opened an internal investigation into Gritz’s personal conduct after learning the agent “had filed or intended to file” a sex discrimination complaint against her supervisors.

Nope. No FBI bias at all.

Posted by Elmereger Clavins7805 2019-12-17 07:36|| 2019-12-17 07:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Gen Flynn served his country honorably for years.

However, once he retired he set us a biz, the Flynn Intel Group for himself that was basically lobbying. He wrote an anti Gulan editorial and got lots of money paid indirectly by Erdogan.

This actually has nothing to do with the charge for which he pled guilty (which involves lying about a not particularly significant conversation with the Russian Ambassador) but it shows that Gen Flynn is not worthy of much crying.

Posted by lord garth 2019-12-17 08:16|| 2019-12-17 08:16|| Front Page Top

#10 One of the weird things about this case is that even though Flynn plead guilty, the govt has repeatedly requested that sentencing be delayed.

Posted by SteveS 2019-12-17 09:16|| 2019-12-17 09:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Does Flynn have a GoFundMe page?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-12-17 12:06|| 2019-12-17 12:06|| Front Page Top

#12 abu

he does not have a GoFundMe but he does have a legal defense fund

https://mikeflynndefensefund.org/

Posted by lord garth 2019-12-17 12:44|| 2019-12-17 12:44|| Front Page Top

#13 What about the fruit from the poisoned tree? Seems like these ginned up process crimes should be purged out of the system.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-17 14:16|| 2019-12-17 14:16|| Front Page Top

#14 the Judge wanted Flynn to retract his guilty plea

but Flynn did not do that

perhaps because the process crime to which he pleaded guilty isn't as serious as things he hasn't been charged with

for example, he took in lots of bucks from agents of Turkey between mid 2016 and mid 2017 which would be legal except that he didn't register as a foreign agent until Mar 2017 - this is also a pretty trivial crime, however, he was an official of the US Govt from Jan 20 to Feb 13, 2017 a time when he was also a foreign agent. He may not have been actively working for Turkey those three weeks but then again he may have (per some witneses he delayed one of the anti ISIS ops by the Kurds in order to help Turkey during that time).

I don't think Flynn wants to be prosecuted for that and I don't think the US wants to prosecute him for that as it requires a lot of secret clearance testimony and makes the US look bad.

Posted by lord garth 2019-12-17 17:18|| 2019-12-17 17:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Curioser and curioser.
We're not hearing the whole story, methinks

Posted by Lex 2019-12-17 17:55|| 2019-12-17 17:55|| Front Page Top

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