When General Michael Flynn entered into the seemingly coerced plea agreement with the special counsel team and prosecutor Brandon Van Grack (November 30, 2017), he gave up the right to defense discovery in his case. In hindsight this will likely be viewed a mistake.
(h/t Techno Fog) During a court appearance today by new attorney Mrs. Sidney Powell, the topic of needing a classified security clearance -to review documents- was raised. The DOJ responded to the assertion by saying no classified information was provided to the prior Flynn defense team, therefore Ms. Powell doesn’t need not carry that concern.
However, by admitting the DOJ provided no classified information to the defense, the prosecution is simultaneously admitting they never provided Flynn with a copy of the phone call transcript (December 29, 2016) between President-elect Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The content of that phone call lies at the heart of the FBI interview that took place on January 24th, 2017.
Judge Emmet Sullivan originally asked for the Flynn/Kislyak transcript; however, the prosecution said it was irrelevant to their case. The judge accepted the non-production.
It is suspected Flynn may have been under a FISA surveillance warrant which seems confirmed by the Weissmann/Mueller report. The FBI intercepted, recorded, and later transcribed the December 29, 2016, conversation.
This is why the issue of how the FBI agents write the 302 summary of the Flynn January 24, 2017, interview becomes such an important facet.
On June 6, 2019, the DOJ released the FBI agent report (FD-302) written after their interview of Michael Flynn on Jan 24th, 2017. (Full pdf below) From prior testimony we know that FBI Agent Peter Strzok did the questioning and FBI Agent Joe Pientka took notes.
For some reason, within the DOJ release of the report they are continuing to redact the name Joe Pientka. [Could be due to ongoing employment]
It’s worth noting according to Mark Meadows the Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz has interviewed Joe Pientka extensively; prior attempts by congress to gain testimony from Pientka were blocked by the FBI and Rod Rosenstein.
FBI Agent Joseph Pientka was never interviewed by the joint House judiciary and oversight committees (Goodlatte and Gowdy). The reason, as explained by Meadows, was simple; Pientka was on Weissmann and Mueller’s special counsel team. Congress was not allowed to interfere in the Mueller probe. In hindsight this looks like Weissmann, Mueller & Rosenstein strategically using the investigation as a shield from sunlight.
The interview took place on January 24, 2017. The report was written Jan 24th, 2017. The wording was then deliberated by the small group, approved by FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and entered into the record on February 15th, 2017.
Here’s the FD-302 report:
Prosecutor Brandon Van Grack filed a cover letter attempting to explain the reason for the Flynn interview on January 24th, 2017, and a delay in the official filing of the interview notes (FD-302) on February 15th, 2017, and then another edit on May 31st, 2017.
To explain the FBI delay, Van Grack claimed the FD-302 report “inadvertently” had a header saying “DRAFT DOCUMENT/DELIBERATIVE MATERIAL” (screen grab)
What the special counsel appeared to be obfuscating was a process of deliberation within the investigative unit, headed by FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, surrounding the specific wording of the 302 report on the Flynn interview. Likely how best to word the FBI notes for maximum damage.
In late 2018 Prosecutor Brandon Van Grack was attempting to hide the length of the small group deliberations within the FBI. In hindsight it seems he did not want the court to know Andrew McCabe was involved in shaping how the Flynn-302 was written.
However, we know there was a deliberative process in place, seemingly all about how to best position the narrative, because we can see the deliberations in text messages between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok: See below (note the dates):
The text message conversation above is February 14th, 2017.
The Michael Flynn FD-302 was officially entered into the record on February 15th, 2017, per the report:
The interview took place on January 24th, 2017. The FD-302 was drafted on January 24th, and then later edited, shaped, and ultimately approved by McCabe on February 14th, then entered into the official record on February 15th.
It was a deliberative document from the outset. Thanks to the Strzok/Page text messages we know the 2018 cover letter from the Special Counsel is misleading. The Feb 15th, 2017, date was the day after McCabe approved it (three weeks after the FBI interview).
May 17th, 2017, Robert Mueller was assigned as special Counsel. Then, the FD-302 report was re-entered on May 31st, 2017, removing the header; paving the way for Mueller’s team to use the content therein.
The original authorization for the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller was May 17th, 2017. The recently released Weissmann report shows there were two additional scope memos authorizing specific targeting of the Mueller probe. The first scope memo was August 2nd, 2017, OUTLINED HERE, and is an important part of the puzzle that helps explain the corrupt original purpose of the special counsel.
The second scope memo was issued by Rod Rosenstein to Robert Mueller on October 20th, 2017. The transparent intent of the second scope memo was to provide Weissmann and Mueller with ammunition and authority to investigate specific targets, for specific purposes. One of those targets was General Michael Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr.
As you review the highlighted portion below, found on pages 12 and 13 of the Weissmann report, read slowly and fully absorb the intent; the corruption is blood-boiling:
This second scope memo allowed Weissmann and Mueller to target tangentially related persons and entities bringing in Michael Cohen, Richard Gates, Roger Stone and Michael Flynn Jr. Additionally this memo established the authority to pursue “jointly undertaken activity“.
The four identified targets within the original July 2016 investigation, “Operation Crossfire Hurricane”, were George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and Carter Page. (See HPSCI report):
General Flynn was under investigation from the outset in mid-2016. The fraudulent FBI counterintelligence operation, established by CIA Director John Brennan, had Flynn as one of the early targets when Brennan handed the originating electronic communication “EC” to FBI Director James Comey on/around July 31st, 2016.
The investigation of General Flynn never stopped throughout 2016 and led to the second investigative issue of his phone call with Russian Ambassador Kislyak:
Page #12 October 20th, 2017, Scope Memo:
The first redaction listed under “personal privacy” is unknown. However, the second related redaction is a specific person, Michael Flynn Jr.
In combination with the October 2017 timing, the addition of Flynn Jr to the target list relates to the ongoing 2016/2017 investigation of his father for: (1) possible conspiracy with a foreign government; (2) unregistered lobbying; (3) materially false statements and omissions on 2017 FARA documents; and (4) lying to the FBI.
This October 20th, 2017, request from Weissmann and Mueller aligns with the time-frame when special counsel team lawyers Brandon L. Van Grack and Zainab N. Ahmad were prosecuting Michael Flynn and cornering him into a guilty plea.
Getting Rosenstein to authorize adding Mike Flynn Jr. to the target list (scope memo #2) meant the special counsel could threaten General Flynn with the indictment of his son as a co-conspirator tied to the Turkish lobbying issue (which they did) if he doesn’t agree to a plea. Remember: “jointly undertaken activity“.
Forcing a plea for ‘lying to investigators‘ by threatening prosecution for FARA violations was the identical strategy used against both George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn.
The October 20th, 2017, expanded scope memo authorized Mueller to start demanding records, phones, electronic devices and other evidence from Mike Flynn Jr, and provided the leverage Weissmann wanted. After all, Mike Flynn Jr. had a four month old baby.
The amount of twisted pressure from this corrupt team of prosecutors is sickening. A month later, General Flynn was signing a plea agreement:
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Sweet! ‘Big Dog’ Sidney calling out the Deep State puppies!
You GO, Girl!!!
Damn, where do we contribute to her and the General?
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She is the epitome of a smart no nonsense TX woman that makes you love TX or what’s left of it sadly due to illegal immigration. She’s like Barbara Stanwyck in Big Country. God bless her! She MAGA!
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I’d bet the tax paid thugs said “ah sh-t” when they heard that Ms Powell was Flynn’s new lawyer.She knows them from way back and will fight like hell.
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Conservative_302,
Well put. Agreed.
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Slight Correction: She’s like Barbara Stanwyck in “The Big Valley” TV series. “The Big Country,” directed by the great William Wyler, had a magnificent cast, but Ms. Stanwyck played no part in the film.
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Weissmann, Mueller & Rosenstein need to die in Guantanamo Bay
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Great to have the transcript!
old article: https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/19/michael-flynns-plea-reversal-uncover-federal-corruption/
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Important note: “if the government did not provide Flynn material evidence during plea negotiations, Flynn has grounds to withdraw his plea. ” The Federalist article above. Margot Cleveland you wrote an amazing and insightful article.
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Wish Full court transcripts could be posted. The Great Sidney Powell is going to attempt to expose the crux of many issues we have discussed. Reading full court transcripts would be rewarding.
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So go find them and post them….
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Court: But you’d like to know what this other information is, too.
Mr. Van Grack: Absolutely not, your honor.
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Wow Sundance! What a wealth of information here! THANK YOU and your team (?) for all you do. I just submitted another donation!
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All of the corrupt DOJ/FBI need to find their asses in Rikers.
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mmmmmm under Rikers..
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Actually, if they are IN Rikers, its others who will be finding their,…oh, never mind.
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Holy Cow! There’s lots of history on this type of corruption.
2015
Orrin Hatch to Loretta Lynch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhVJmA_SWsQ
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All of the corrupt DOJ/FBI need to find their asses in Rikers.
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uh oh! She knows a lot and is digging deep! I’m sure the Special Counsel prosecutors are trembling. They sure don’t want here to get there!
Will that “other information” give a new angle? The way she strut out of the court it sure looks like it.
I’m very confident.
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And that last line indicates that the Judge recognizes that she’d like to know what that classified info was. Possibly recognizing the legitimacy of that desire.
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‘Licensed To Lie’ – Sidney Powell
Get it, Read it. Sidney can chew nails and spit out bullets. Flynn made a very wise decision to hire her.
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Sidney Powell is turning it all around.
She’s pressing them for more information. She’s unraveling the case. Needs a security clearence to reveal more.
She’s basically investigating the investigators via the Flynn case. She says “there’s more” than the phone call transcript !!! This is very big!
I think she will reveal something that will mean they’ll have to reveal the transcript after that.
The IG report will reveal some more adding to her case..
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the IG report may have to be delayed due to Ms. Powell’s discovery. They wouldn’t want to be shown as incompetent, not knowing what Ms. Powell is referring to.
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WTF was up with Flynns previous Defence team?
A)Were they ‘playing along’ (along with Flynn) until Mueller investigation completed.
B) Incompetent
C) Unacustomed to dealing with unscrupulous prosecutors.
D)Compromised
Asking for a friend,…
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Some lawyers are not fighters. They run plea bargain mills. I believe Flynn’s lawyers told him to take a deal. Some times I think that works out of people, but in the case of Flynn I think it didn’t since he was so high profile. I really don’t think they wanted to fight for Flynn. I don’t know if it was because they wanted him to go down and bring Trump with him or they just didn’t want to fight. Either way it appears Flynn had an inadequate defense to me. But I don’t know what they had on him.
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Well, it could be Flynn didn’t want to fight, so long as Mueller/weisman could make good on threat to go after his son.
Ultimately, Lawyers have to do what the client wants.
Its only with Mueller shutting down, that threat is lifted.
“Mueller is an HONORABLE man, and his investigation should be allowed to CONTINUE”
LOOK at this PUBLIC statement, in light of the material above.
In particular Lindsey Graham who, along with his mentor was heavily involved in middle east, ISIS support, etc. wanted to pass legislation preventing PDJT from firing Mueller.
An ongoing investigation keeps Flynn in perpetual gag mode, prevents any IG or DOJ investigation.
And Graham wanted to ‘protect’ the investigation, and thinks Mueller is “Honorable”?
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It doesn’t appear that Herr Mueller has been “honorable” in a very long time. Probably not since he left the Marine Corps.
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L.C. Or perhaps since he left the birth canal. Haven’t familiarised myself with his military record. Some people develop homor early in life, some not.
And some, the honor or lack only manifests, at some point when, perhaps they encounter temptation.
Satan is a VERY tricky customer, with a tool box FULL of temptations and inducements.
Main point is, RepubliCON leadership obviously sent out a “blast fax” or memo, instructing Republicans in Congress to make this word for word statement.
Ghomert, Nunes, Jordan, Meadows etc. didn’t make it. Graham, McConnell, etc. DID. The statement is, to me the clear, easy way to seperate RepubliCONS from RepubliCANS, and helps to avoid being fooled by words vs. actions.
I haven’t seen ANY of these RepubliCONS recant (on this “Mueller Honorable” crap) and given what we know now, and what any swamp dweller HAD to know, parroting this statement seems to me like it tells us everything we need to know.
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I’ve read analysis by criminal defense lawyers who stated Flynn’s legal team was superb attorneys from a prestigious DC law firm but they were not specialized in criminal law. They made procedural errors that annoyed the judge, for example, and other mistakes such as the one mentioned above: Giving up the right to defense discovery as part of an obviously coerced plea deal.
Look for Sidney Powell to begin correcting those mistakes.
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When are Americans going to say enough, is enough? The media jackals still behave like we don’t know the truth. Its like living in a parallel universe!
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“parallel universe!” describes it perfectly, I keep expecting Rod serling to step out of the shadows ans say: “You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone.”
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Actually it was Rod ROSENSTEIN running the parallel universe…..
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Actually it was Rod ROSENSTEIN running the parallel universe…..
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Okay, so if the “post comment” doesn’t go to “posting comment” right away and you hit it again because you think you didn’t…..you did.
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It not a parallel universe. It’s a world of mostly good people who go to work every day, take care of their families, and live honest lives who live under the thumb of government overrun by corruption, immorality and criminality that has evolved over time to downright thuggery.
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According to them, the media knows best. Believe them #^>?”*<%@\-/
We mere "irredeemables" are not allowed to see the truth.
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CNN basically told viewers that hilly belongs in prison.
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What eludes me is most on this site know what happened. When is it going to have to be accepted as the truth by the MSM and Democrats? I am so tired of which shell is the pea under?
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I hope I live long enough to see a masterful and accurate mini series or multi year series that implicates all the miscreants responsible for starting and engaging in this stinking, rotten, corrupt plot to prevent the election of a President they didn’t like and then to overthrow him. Accurately portraying the incredible efforts of courageous patriots like Devin Nunes and so on is obviously essential. The cast of heroes and villains in this sordid tale will captivate the attention of many millions of viewers.
Netflix would be perfect for this project but like 99% of major media services in the USA, they’re deeply entrenched in the bowels of the left. When they hired the “adorable, perfect, by the book” Obama couple to produce series and movies and the crazed anti Trump bushman/ex-hermit Letterman to excoriate P Trump it was clear whose side they’re on.
The Conservative side of politics needs to find ways to increasingly counter these lefty media services with their own productions and produce more excellent movies like Gosnell and so on. It can be a very effective way to fight the lies and the culture war.
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Georgia will be the perfect replacement for Hollywood. Maybe share it with South Carolina.
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The only problem with this is that all those lefty actors and actresses would move to Georgia. And then, there goes another red state turned to blue.
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Nope. You forget the abortion law. They reuse to go. Now real people can make real movies. No pedos allowed.
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Trust me, if a big budget movie starts to film in Georgia, the A-listers will be lining up for the lead roles. They are a bunch of blathering gas bags that all loudly make grand proclamations, but never follow through.
Remember how many of them said that they would move to Canada if Trump was elected…?
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Absolutely correct
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The Netflix with Obama helping them produce propaganda now? That Netflix?
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…Another company that has made my ever growing list entitle, “Break them up!”
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In addition to getting their hands on the Kislyak phone call, having the second scope memo declassified would help Flynn’s case tremendously. Wiretapping his son was complete overreach, even a judge with TDS would have to see that. And the two coupled together show exactly ho nefarious they are. Nothing criminal happened on the Kislyak phone call, and yet ,miraculously, based on that call, they find him to be a possible “foreign agent” and use the Section 702 FARA part to get the FISA 2- hop wiretap and then even zero in on his son! I really wonder how many of these cases are necessary to show a pattern before a judge figures out that the Obama Administration was abusing the Section 702 of the FARA to get surveillance on US citizens.
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Ooops, I meant Section 702 of the FISA.
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Oh they know it, Carrie, the judges that is, but getting one to HONESTLY judge the cases is the trick. You see, most of the judges are being blackmailed, coerced, and have their own skeletons they wish to remain hidden. I fear finding an honest, uncompromised federal judge is just as difficult as finding a morally upright senator or congressman.
The entire DC govt apparatus is rotten to the damn core, and it will literally take YEARS to clean it out. America will be damn fortunate if we find enough HONEST PATRIOTS to win this battle via the courts and ballot boxes……God, I sincerely pray that we do. Amen.
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Put it this way, for historical comparison; If the Nixon administration had had this kind of operation going; NSA database being used to blackmail judges, there would have probably BEEN no Watergate.
Judge Serrica would have been told to accept the plea agreement of the Burglars, and the whole thing would have been swept under the rug.
Think about that,….
And ask yourself how many Presidents, Presidential contenders and Presidential staffs do you feel CONFIDENT can/will resist the temptation to USE this awsome power for illicit purposes.
Even now, we all know all the evidence to prove the coup lies right there, in the NSA database, in their own words.
NOT legally accessible, but its RIGHT THERE!
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Amen
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It isn’t just blackmail. A lot of these judges were former prosecutors. They also may hang out in the same circles. Then there is always the possibility of them looking to advance their career.
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I think General Flynn committed perjury in his Defendant’s Acceptance statement when he said “No threats have been made to me”
From what I’ve read, he was definitely under threat of prosecutors / persecutors going after his son.
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How does a hostage out his kidnappers when still in their custody?
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THAT IS THE CORE OF THIS CASE IMO.
SING IT!
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Patty Hearst syndrome. The Stockholm syndrome.
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Agreed. That’s a no-win situation if I ever saw one. “So uh Mike, tell us how your tormentors plan to torture your son the minute you rat them out.”
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Yep. However, there should be some sort of intervention here, and I hope that is exactly what Sydney Powell is up to.
That scope memo will provide daylight.
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Rocketman’s wondering the same thing.
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Yep. same situation.
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Semantics, at that point the implied threat was to his son, not him personally.
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Both of them, actually
But I get your point
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… and my initial phrasing of “committed perjury” was semi-sarc, by the way
just to clarify to all
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… but only semi-
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Duress. All legal agreements signed under duress are null and void. He can start there.
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His pleading guilty to a crime he didn’t commit is perjury. The allocution is testimony under oath, hence perjury.
Actually, the treatment of Manafort goes a long way in making the case for coercion; Heres what would have happened to Flynn and son if he hadn’t agreed to plea.
Not sure how you get that admitted, but Sidney can probably find a way. And yes, prove his plea was under duress, may be able to rescind.
ALL plea deals involve duress, actually.
Weisman team just went much further than is usually the case. But,….PROVE it, with ADMISSABLE EVIDENCE, in a court of law, with a Judge who may have been compromised.
THAT is Sidney Powells challenge.
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His real “crime” was serving in O’s administration. Downhill from there.
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I assume Flynn knows now his family will never emerge from under this government threat unless he fights.
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Well, I would agree with you if Flynn said, “No threats have been to my son.”
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Dec 29 2016 Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats
Dec 31 2016 Kislyak called Flynn
According to a screengrab doc Sundance posted above, Mary McCord (a former DOJ Acting Assistant Attorney General) stated that:
Members of the intelligence community were surprised by Russia’s decision to not retaliate in response to the sanctions. When analyzing Russia’s response, they became aware of Flynn’s discussion of sanctions with Kislyak.
They became aware of the call? Became aware? Like it was some sort of accidental thing? The call was intentionally recorded!
I get the feeling Barry Sotero-Obama’s action was intended to set Flynn up.
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They became aware of the call? Became aware?
Classic Hoover line in EVERY meeting he EVER had with EVERY public official
Right before he slid a file folder marked COPY to them
BTW Same line J. Edgar Comey used in Trump Tower with the President-Elect when he showed him Agent 00PP’s (Licensed to Wizz) dossier.
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It is possible Flynn was being wiretapped before he joined tge Trump campaign. Keep in mind that he as DNI warned the Obama admin that intel showed helpinv Syrian rebels could result kn an ISIS like entity taking over Syria. They didnt listen…he was forced out or retired depending on what version yoj believe. He gave an interview he probably shouldn’t have. Somewhere in there some of the same people involved in setting up Popadop suggested Flynn was cozy with a Russian agent …a grad student at Halpers Univ. Daily Caller had tge story. My guess is they were spying on Flynn as soon as he wandered off the plantation
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Which makes “became aware of the call” all the more egregious.
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Read the lead story on todays AmericanThinker, “Claaper hears Barrs chilling footsteps”;
It details how, in an interview, Clapper lays it ALL on Obama.
Says Barry specifically ordered Stroxz to go forward with Crossfire Hurricane, etc.
So yeah, you BET Obummer set Flynn up, ordered it done, was a full and willing participant.
Article also touches on Durham vs. Mueller. Good read!
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/clapper_hears_barrs_chilling_footsteps.html
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Thanks, Amy2
Not tech savvy, and especially when working off stupid phone, unsure how or if can copy/paste links, but glad you did.
To me this article confirms what I have long suspected; Comey, Clapper and Brennan won’t hesitate to throw all, including O, under the bus if threatened with major time.
It will be the nuhrenberg defence, which will be used along with the “its politics”, “some other guy, not me” “bad intelligence” “incompetent but not criminal” defence to try to create reasonable doubt.
Still, important to get confirmation. Obama’ dingus is definetly on the chopping block. And if they are prepared to finger him, they will finger G of 8, as well.
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Hope springs eternal! I was hoping there were some new admissions from Clapper, considering Durham’s investigation. He is definitely the weak (stupid) link!
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Oh, I don’t know, seems to me theres a lot of competition for weakest (stupidest) link.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s definetly in the running, just not sure anyones crossed the finish line, yet.
“There around the first turn, and Comey pulls ahead, publishing his book,…but Brennans coming up fast from behind, with his CNN contributor contract,…meanwhile Clapper is running THE WRONG WAY, and his jockey is trying to get him turned around! LOL
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Running the wrong way….that’s funny!
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In my mental image, HILLARY is his jockey, and its hillarious!
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It’d be interesting to learn whether this judge is corrupt, incompetent, or falls into the standard M.O. of being under someone’s CONTROL (c/o his blackmail file).
If the latter– those behind it NEED exposed & prosecuted.
As for him… how could anyone REMAIN in a position that ALLOWED for OTHERS to ABUSE it’s POWER? To instead CHOOSE to cooperate in DESTROYING innocent LIVES. And it’s ALL because HE DID something WRONG a/o EMBARRASSING, but isn’t really ACCOUNTABLE for.
How do these people SLEEP at night?
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Most of them on pillows stuffed with $100 bills…….LOTS of $100 bills, that they stole from US!
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Judges generally look after the interests of those who hire them. That is why, in their God-given wisdom, the founders enacted laws against prior restraint and the public jury system, as the original intent of the first amendment, and others; to counter a justice system that moves contrary to the will of the people.
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It looks like the Cliven Bundy case part II. Sullivan needs to dismiss with great prejudice, and the wiessman op-ed is appearing more and more to be fraudulent.
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I wonder, if the declassification authorization by President Trump would allow Barr to release the phone transcript since the content of that phone call is at the heart of the FBI interview that took place on January 24th, 2017?
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If someone on OUR side provided that transcript to Powell, after Barr declassifies it, and she showed up in court with the “information” the treasonous Van Grack said was “irrelevant”………I would LOVE to be in that courtroom to witness that!
These Mule-Ear PROSECUTORS, with Wisemann at the top of the list, ALL deserve to be prosecuted.
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I’m not certain Flynn is clean as the driven snow. But even if he is not he deserves equal justice under the law and due process.
Even rapists and murderers get that.
Otherwise this whole thing we call America is a cluster*uck.
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Thank you Sundance even I now understand what happened to General Flynn. “Flynn was carrying a surveillance ebola virus. He was unwittingly infecting everyone he communicated with.” Amen! Brilliant! Exactly! Now AG Barr has another “predicate” he needs to investigate! How to get him to do that? Anyone? Godspeed Sundance!
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Yet another reminder of a ball dropped (or lost) by Lindsey Graham.
42:00 min mark
Even better he revisits this “very important” issue at 2 hr 45 min when he identifies the only 2 ways Flynn could have been spied on.
(He seemingly is unaware of the 3rd way……..illegally)
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President Obama made an off the cuff comment that the incoming President should not hire Michael Flynn, but where were any government officials debriefing candidate Trump that having Michale Flynn on his campaign would not be appropriate since he had been under surveillance…since 2015!
And what about everyone screeching that candidadte Trump reveal his National Security advisor list?
This is just disgusting!!!
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The Flynn/Stones are blowing this Mueller farce apart.
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Have a yaba daba doo time….a daba doo time. We’ll have a gay old time!
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If this has already been posted, I apologize, but its worth re-posting nonetheless.
The article does a superb job at laying out five possible scenarios Powell/Flynn can take as a next step. The author served as a law clerk at the federal appellate level for several decades. She knows the law/options and does a great job explaining them.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/18/5-ways-michael-flynns-new-lawyer-expose-spygate/
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“Forcing a plea for ‘lying to investigators‘ by threatening prosecution for FARA violations was the identical strategy used against both George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn.”
And neither had a thing to do with Russia.
FARA threat for Papadopoulos would have been Israel and Flynn would have been Turkey.
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There can be quite a long list of FARA violations put together against the bad guys if there were good guys at Justice.
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Its now obvious it was an open secret in D.C., that for almost everyone leaving government ‘service’, including Congress and executive, you could get a ‘good gig’ lobbying for foreign entities, and that ‘only an idiot’ would actually REGISTER.
No one wanted to see enforcement of FARA laws, its the “Golden Goose” for all. But an ‘unenforced regulation’that is never the less on the books, creates a perfect opportunity for making such a charge for selective prosecution.
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OMG!!!!! Checkmate, Sydney! I was just finally able to clearly see what you did there! You tricked them all!
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Yep. The Great Sidney Powell, to quote our Prez! She nailed it, right out of the gate. Let the fireworks begin! I requested that SD post the FULL court transcripts. We’ve waited a long time for a trial and the Great Sidney Powell is going to land a lot of punches. I don’t want to read a condensed version.
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Indeed! Wow…it seems Sydney has the judge and prosecution cornered.
Hats off! She completely skewered them.
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Pence knew Flynn talked to Russian diplomat via CIA/FBI. Pence goes on TV and says Flynn didn’t talk to Russian diplomat via his testimony. Pence helps set up Flynn for lying. https://newspunch.com/cia-michael-flynn-dc-pedophile-list/ – wants him out of the way for different reasons. Not to mention his underhanded way he dealt with Ecuador/Assange/IMF/Freedom of press/War crimes. Pence is a snake much like Pompeo, Bolton and CIA Dir UK Haspel. Look over there! No look over here……..
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Powell’s book is a must read. I was astounded at how corrupt the DOJ is.
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This awesome atty, Powell, bringing to light prosecution didn’t hand over classified docs makes me wonder WTF Flynn’s previous council were thinking OR NOT THINKING!!!
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Or, who were they really working for?
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The smart thing for the Deep-State to do is drop all charges against Flynn before Sydney opens up all the cupboards and closets. But then Obama and Mueller will have to explain why they had so much invested in ruining Flynn. That’s when the buttered popcorn will taste the best.
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Federal Rules on Discovery REQUIRES the feds to turn over to the Defense any and ALL records pertinent to the case. They OBVIOUSLY withheld the “transcript”. The BIG question is WHERE was the defense atty’s, they had to know there was a transcript of the conversation. The FBI 302 would have shown the call was recorded ergo a transcript is compiled. As for Ms. Powell comment ” other information”, me thinks she has access to OR knows of this information. This is NOT a poker play by her. Looks like she WILL be dealing the cards!
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Exculpatory evidence: “DO NOT SHOW DEFENCE”
Emma Thompson played Sidney Powell back in 1993
Art imitates life more than once.
The future yet to come:
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Post script:
the police were acquitted of any wrongdoing, (to continue their corruption in other cases), and that the real perpetrators of the Guildford Bombing have not been charged with the crime.
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