Flynn in major trouble for speaking to Russia about sanctions

[TSA]

I broke djohn

[djohn2oo8]

Hillary and her team had many connections with the Russians and probably more financial interests than Trump as well.

Lawdy. #59

[djohn2oo8]

You've months to make your sandwich and no one's had to eat anything. 86 pages and not a single person charged with a crime.

Lol #60

[Raul Manafort]

Papa dJohn's!

[djohn2oo8]

I never claimed Podesta/Clinton/Alefantis would be charged with anything nor did I accuse them of doing anything, unlike djohn2008. I find it ridiculous that even needed to be pointed out to you.

Lol you said Clinton would be indicted twice

#61

[TSA]

Lol #60

1441 pages and still not a single person charged with a crime concerning Trump/Russia election collusion

[TSA]

djohn why do you run and hide so often when blows up in your face? Why can't you just man up and take your lumps?

[Brazil]

Brah.

tbh...

[Spurs Homer]

61

Anyone can read the last few pages and re-confirm just how wrong traitor boy is.

SMH.

[Blake]

epic meltdown

How is him showing your failures a meltdown?

[Chris]

more womp womp

[Pavlov]

more womp womp

why would it take two and a half years for Uday to say whom he called, Chris?

[Spurs Homer]

more womp womp

If those were Republicans who said this - I highly doubt it -

if they were Dems - maybe.

Still would not absolve Jr. or Sr. - of crimes.

[boutons_deux]

"Trump has one tool to deal with problems, a hammer.

When you only got a hammer, everything is a nail: “You’re fired!”****

Robert Mueller knows this.

Thus, he is smart enough to position himself to retort calmly;

“Yes, and you sir, are finished as president,”

all while he reaches across the table to fold up his computer, gather his coat, all with a sly smile across his face:

“I am done here, anyway.”

No one in the media can say it, because it’s speculative, and it pretty-well states straight up:

“Your president is a child, and cannot deal with the truth.”

We can.

I can.

Take absolutely nothing from the fact that no one has been charged with conspiracy.

, Don Jr. lied his ass off to the Congress, and he’s not indicted yet, for the exact same reason.

Mueller will get one shot, and one shot only.

Until he has everything ready to go, office boxed up and a four-day weekend planned with his wife in Barbados, he holds on that shot.

He has prepared all his life for that moment. Let’s trust him.
****

He is a prosecutor with a funny little twist to his job.

The better he does his job,

the more professional,

thorough,

ethical,

conscientious,

all that together by the pound,

the more likely his reward will be termination.

Look at the crimes charged and note how

he put guys on the hot seat with real felonies and jail, but doesn’t implicate the big baby.

That’s not an accident.

And neither is the fact that

everyone around Trump has committed a felony lying about Russia.

At this level, there are no coincidences. Every word is planned, every move, everything matters.

They lie about Russia because the truth is more dangerous.

Mueller has not charged the real conspiracy yet, because he knows what logically follows if he does his job.

The better he does the last job he’ll ever hold,

the more likely it ends with the first termination of his life.

I’ll say it.

He’s got this.

Take that away from it all."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...paign=trending

[TSA]

I’m thoroughly enjoying watching the whole narrative collapse week by week

[boutons_deux]

DJTJr didn't / can't talk face to face with Fadder?

Nothing's collapsed, They are all going down, for collusion, lying to Congress, money laundering, etc, etc.

[Spurs Homer]

I’m thoroughly enjoying watching the whole narrative collapse week by week

Hahahaha!

How hilarious when

HOPE

rises again!

[Chris]

This includes Hillary/Comey/Brennan/McCabe FBI swat teams GO!

[djohn2oo8]

Hahahaha!

How hilarious when

HOPE

rises again!

I will take his failures past 100

[djohn2oo8]

Tomorrow should be fun if the memo is released as expected. The spin from the left is going to be all time.

#62

[djohn2oo8]

You're a fool to pretend there is only a four page memo, even your boy Schiff isn't trying to sell that bull story.

#63

[djohn2oo8]

I think the memo is being used as a primer for the public so that when the OIG report is released they aren't completely shocked at the amount of corruption that was going on in the Obama administration. Did you read every page of the Church Committee reports?

#64

[djohn2oo8]

nervous laughter from mono

The public now knows the FBI purposely hid information from the FISC when applying for the FISA warrant. The public is now prepped for the OIG investigation findings.


a) Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior and FBI officials.

b) The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named U.S. person, but does not name Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a U.S. Law firm (Perkins Coie) representing the DNC (even though it was known by DOJ at the time that political actors were involved with the Steele dossier). The application does not mention Steele was ultimately working on behalf of -- and paid by -- the DNC and Clinton campaign, or that the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele for the same information.

#65

[djohn2oo8]

And you said Flynn was in major trouble for talking to the Russians about sanctions, he wasn’t. He never was. He never will be. I’m willing to bet he’ll be cleared of the bull non-factor process crime as well.

List the 2 process crimes and the 2 that have absolutely nothing to do with Trump or his campaign. Add the 3rd Gates crime that has zero to do with Trump as well. Let’s have some fun.

Has he been cleared yet?

#66

[djohn2oo8]

Not only did Flynn not commit treason but there is also a chance he gets cleared. First time I've heard Judge Sullivan filed an order directing Mueller to provide Flynn with any evidence in the special counsel’s possession that is favorable to Flynn.

New developments in Flynn's case raise questions about the cir stances under which he pled guilty to lying to the FBI.

Back in early December, Trump fans started throwing stuff at me for suggesting that we await more information about FBI agent Peter Strzok before demanding that he be drawn and quartered. Yes, it was clear that Strzok engaged in serious misconduct: The married G-man’s reported extramarital affair with his married FBI colleague Lisa Page was scandalous not only for the obvious reasons but as potential blackmail material against counterintelligence agents. Plus, Strzok appears to have been the main investigator in the Hillary Clinton emails case that the FBI and Justice Department bent over backwards not to prosecute; and there is reason to believe his rabidly anti-Trump text messages with his paramour crossed the line from arrogant political banter to unprofessional investigative decision-making. But there were dissonant notes, too, cutting against the neat ditty about a high-ranking government agent acting on a corrupt partisan agenda. For one thing, I was hearing from people with good national-security credentials that Strzok was a highly effective counterintelligence agent. And then there was Mike Flynn. The first revelations about Strzok’s texts came only days after General Flynn, who had fleetingly served as President Trump’s first national-security adviser, pled guilty in the Mueller investigation to a charge of lying to FBI investigators. Strzok had conducted the interview with Flynn. Combine that with the fact that he had been a principal in all the important FBI interviews in the Clinton caper, and the presumption crystalized: Political hack Strzok went kid-gloves on the Hillary Gang and scorched-earth on Trump World.

That’s not reality, though. Here’s how I recounted what actually happened in the December column: Strzok did not decide on his own to interview Flynn. We know the matter was being monitored at the highest level of the Justice Department, by then–acting attorney general Sally Yates and then–FBI director James Comey. Strzok and a colleague were assigned to interview Flynn. More importantly, Strzok apparently reported that he believed Flynn had been truthful. Shortly after the interview occurred, it was reported that the FBI had decided no action would be taken against Flynn. On March 2, Comey testified to a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee that, while Flynn may have had some honest failures of recollection during the interview, the agents who questioned him concluded that he did not lie. Far from setting Flynn up, it seems that Strzok would exculpate him. Flynn was prosecuted not because Strzok is an anti-Trump zealot, but apparently because Strzok’s finding that Flynn was truthful was negated by Mueller’s very aggressive prosecutors. Did they decide they knew better than the experienced investigators who were in the room observing Flynn’s demeanor as he answered their questions?

Of course, the point is moot now because Flynn has admitted his guilt. Still, I wonder whether Mueller’s team informed Flynn and his counsel, prior to Flynn’s guilty plea to lying to the FBI, that the interviewing agents believed he had not lied to the FBI. I still wonder what Mueller’s team told Flynn before the guilty plea. There are good reasons to do so. Flynn’s case is back in the news thanks to Byron York’s important Washington Examiner report yesterday. He retraces the history: Because Flynn was a Trump transition official and incoming national-security adviser, there was nothing at all inappropriate about his discussing Obama-imposed sanctions against Russia with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Nevertheless, then–acting attorney general and Obama partisan Sally Yates seriously considered prosecuting Flynn under the absurd, never-invoked Logan Act. This misconception that Flynn had done something wrong led Yates and Comey to have Flynn interviewed as if he were a criminal suspect. Apparently unconcerned, Flynn agreed to be interviewed without counsel. Strzok came away from the session believing that Flynn had told the truth. Comey, Byron York reports, “told lawmakers that the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe that Flynn had lied to them, or that any inaccuracies in his answers were intentional.” Yet, ten months later, with Yates, Comey, and Strzok now out of the picture, Mueller decided to charge Flynn with lying to the FBI anyway. And Flynn decided to plead guilty — perhaps because he was guilty . . . or perhaps because he lacked the resources to sustain the legal fight . . . or perhaps because he feared Mueller’s team would otherwise prosecute his son. There are a few other oddities about the case.

After Flynn pled guilty, I argued that this showed Mueller did not have a collusion case. If he did, he would have forced Flynn to plead guilty to some kind of criminal conspiracy involving the Trump campaign and Russia, and had Flynn implicate his Trump World coconspirators in the course of allocuting in court. Instead, Flynn pled out to a mere process crime, giving Mueller a scalp but not much else. The judge who accepted Flynn’s guilty plea was Rudolph Contreras. Mysteriously, just days after taking Flynn’s plea, Judge Contreras recused himself from the case. The press has been remarkably uncurious about this development. No rationale for the recusal has been offered, no explanation for why, if Judge Contreras had some sort of conflict, the recusal came after the guilty plea, not before. We can note that Contreras is one of the eleven federal district judges assigned to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. We do not know if Judge Contreras signed one or more of the FISA warrants the Justice Department sought for Trump campaign figures Carter Page and Paul Manafort (or even if signing a FISA warrant would cons ute grounds for a conflict in Flynn’s case). We can note, however, that Contreras is one of just three FISA court judges who sits in the District of Columbia, where it is likely the Trump-Russia FISA warrants were sought.

When Judge Contreras pulled out, Flynn’s case was reassigned to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan. We now know that one of Judge Sullivan’s first actions on the case was to file an order directing Mueller to provide Flynn with any evidence in the special counsel’s possession that is favorable to Flynn, whether on the issue of guilt or of sentencing. Significantly, the order stresses that if Mueller has such evidence but believes it is not “material” and therefore that Flynn is not en led to disclosure of it, Mueller must show the evidence to the court so that Judge Sullivan may decide whether to mandate its disclosure.

Now, it could be that this is just Judge Sullivan’s standard order on exculpatory information, filed in every case over which he presides. But it is noteworthy that Flynn had already pled guilty, and in the course of doing so had agreed to Mueller’s demand that he waive “the right to any further discovery or disclosures of information not already provided” — in addition to forfeiting many other trial and appellate rights. (See plea agreement, pages 6–7.) It certainly appears that Sullivan’s order supersedes the plea agreement and imposes on the special counsel the obligation to reveal any and all evidence suggesting that Flynn is innocent of the charge to which he has admitted guilt. Could this provide General Flynn with factual grounds of which he was previously unaware to seek to have his plea vacated? Would he have a viable legal basis to undo the plea agreement that he and his lawyer signed on November 30? We do not know at this point. All we can say is that Flynn’s sentencing has just been postponed until May.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...-investigation

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