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Home Front: Politix

Sidney Powell: Open Memorandum to Soetoro

2020-05-15

[Sidney Powell.com] 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.

Posted by:Besoeker

#7 But...but...but I thought Baraq was a constitutional law professor.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-05-15 11:58

#6 Did the old heart good to read Sidney Powell's memorandum. She is a patriot. The best solution is to declassify everything related to these crooks and traitors for the American people to see and then charge them. If this den of crooks is not cleaned out, the corruption and sedition will dog us into the future.

Posted by: JohnQC 2020-05-15 10:34

#5 Also I didn't know that Mueller's attack dog Andrew Weissman was central to the prosecution's shenanigans in the Arthur Andersen case.

Also, her reference to the Judge Rakoff book about the epidemic of prosecutorial abuse is sickening.

Man, these people are disgraceful.

Zero is right: rule of law on this country is truly in peril. Except he and his bastards are the biggest source of the threat.

Posted by: Lex 2020-05-15 06:18

#4 Sidney's got more / bigger stones than all the DOJ weasels put together. Definitely stronger and more cunning than Barr.

Thank god that we have this woman fighting against these bastards - on behalf of not just Flynn but our Republic.

Posted by: Lex 2020-05-15 06:12

#3 (a) All honor to Sidney.
(b) Time to require FBI to video-type all their interviews?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-15 05:58

#2 You have to admire her, but damn she'd be hard to be married to.

Posted by: Mercutio 2020-05-15 05:55

#1 Wow. That's devastating, b. Thanks.

This last shot - note the delicious use of ironic quote marks - is the kind of bitch-slapping that Zero-Soetoro desperately needs:

Finally, the “leaked” comments from your alumni call further evinces your obsession with destroying a distinguished veteran of the United States Army who has defended the Constitution and this country “from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” with the highest honor for thirty-three years. He and many others will continue to do so.

1 As a “constitutional lawyer,” surely you recall that perjury (or false statements) also requires intent to deceive. In Bronston v. United States, 409 U.S. 352 (1973), the Supreme Court reversed a conviction of perjury. In Bronston, the defendant’s answer was a truthful statement, but not directly responsive to the question and ultimately misled federal authorities. The Court determined: “A jury should not be permitted to engage in conjecture whether an unresponsive answer, true and complete on its face, was intended to mislead or divert the examiner; the state of mind of the witness is relevant only to the extent that it bears on whether “he does not believe [his answer] to be true.”

To hold otherwise would be to inject a new and confusing element into the adversary testimonial system we know.” Id. at 359. The FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn specifically noted that his answers were true or he believed his answers to be true—completely defeating criminal intent. Furthermore, General Flynn knew and remarked they had transcripts of his conversations.

Posted by: Lex 2020-05-15 05:52

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