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Home Front: Politix
President Obama Declares ‘There Is No Precedent That Anybody Can Find’ For The Flynn Motion [He May Want To Call Eric Holder]
2020-05-10
[JonathanTurley] Former President Barack Obama is being quoted from a private call that the "rule of law is at risk" after the Justice Department moved to dismiss the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Obama reportedly told members of the Obama Alumni Association that "There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free." Without doubting the exhaustive search referenced by President Obama,
Ouch!
he might have tried calling one "alum": former Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder moved to dismiss such a case based on prosecutorial errors in front of the very same judge, Judge Emmet Sullivan. [Notably, CNN covered the statements this morning without noting the clearly false claim over the lack of any precedent for the Flynn motion]

The new material shows that Obama was following the investigation of Flynn who he previously dismissed from a high-level position and personally intervened with President Donald Trump to seek to block his appointment as National Security Adviser.
The Obama statement is curious on various levels. First, the exhaustive search may have been hampered by the fact that Flynn was never charged with perjury. He was charged with a single count of false statements to a federal investigator under 18 U.S.C. 1001. I have previously wrote that the Justice Department should move to dismiss the case due to recently disclosed evidence and thus I was supportive of the decision of Attorney General Bill Barr.
Posted by:Clem

#11  ^ Nice catch, I'd forgotten
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-10 17:42  

#10  Yup, absolutely "unprecedented!": Obama Pardons James Cartwright, General Who Lied to F.B.I. in Leak Case
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2020-05-10 16:14  

#9  I watched CBS report on this last night. All they did was play the recording as if it was Gospel. There was no opportunity for any Republican, for anybody in the Trump administration, for anybody on Flynn's legal team to tell their side of the story. It was a totally one-side pile of steer manure. The result is people believe Obama who is one of the smoothest damn liars ever to open his mouth.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-05-10 15:16  

#8  New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case in the 2008 Election and swept under the rug by Eric Holder. Ring any bells, Obama?
Posted by: magpie   2020-05-10 14:47  

#7  "There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free."

Unless Mexico gets their request into Fast and Furious.

Whoa mister, 'scot-free'?, isn't that a bit, you know, racist. Maybe throw him in the Paddy Wagon?

*Chris Farley Voice*
Remember..remember when Obama talked up his Irish roots in Ireland, and went to a pub, and said, "I've never had Guinness. Tastes good; tastes so much better than it does in the states."

That was awesome.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-05-10 12:56  

#6  Politics have nothing to do with justice in Obama's mind. He is a believer that if you go against him, you should be jailed.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2020-05-10 12:14  

#5  It's rather touching listening to him pine for the good old days when a politician stayed bought, a fight stayed fixed, and the railroaded stayed behind bars.
Posted by: Cesare   2020-05-10 10:00  

#4  "There is no precedent that anybody can find"

if you don't even bother looking, you'll never find it

forever a contemptible, mealy-mouthed ****sucker
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-05-10 08:10  

#3  The only Harvard Law Review editor - who attained his post not through merit and grades but via affirmative action i.e. a popularity contest - to never have written a single article. Because he's too stupid and lazy to write anything of consequence on his own.

Giving new meaning to the "Con" in Con Law.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-10 01:10  

#2  If he was a real lawyer he'd know different.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2020-05-10 01:05  

#1  obama's fingerprints are on this issue

basically, it is his blue dress (as I recall someone saying)
Posted by: lord garth   2020-05-10 00:27  

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