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Old 7th May 2020, 11:51 AM   #1
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Justice Deparment Drops Case Against M. Flynn

After pleading guilty, the Dept. of Justice (read that "Barr") has dropped charges against Michael Flynn.

This is an unprecedented move. After months of Trump railing against how Flynn was railroaded, etc. Anyone else smell something rotten here?

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The Justice Department on Thursday dropped its prosecution of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his conversations with a Russian diplomat in the weeks before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The bombshell move, which was granted promptly by the federal judge in the case, comes more than two years after Flynn’s guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the then-ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/mich...epartment.html

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Old 7th May 2020, 11:52 AM   #2
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I'm afraid that stench has been there for a while now.

Trump wants to get his buddies off without sullying his own name before the election. Barr is giving him cover.

Roger Stone charges dropped in 3... 2... 1...

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Old 7th May 2020, 12:01 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger View Post
Trump wants to get his buddies off without sullying his own name before the election. Barr is giving him cover.
Supposedly before Trump came along, Barr and Mueller were friends.

I wonder how Mueller feels about Barr now.
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Old 7th May 2020, 12:09 PM   #4
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Dropping charges against someone who's pleading guilty? Isn't that like kicking an own goal?
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The JD did not say that Flynn didn't lie (which Flynn admitted he did), only that they can't "prove it" BARD.

Uh huh.
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Old 7th May 2020, 12:19 PM   #6
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The lying was a proces crime. The DOJ is dropping the investigation that triggered that process. Because that investigation was bogus to begin with.
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Old 7th May 2020, 12:37 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by theprestige View Post
The lying was a proces crime. The DOJ is dropping the investigation that triggered that process. Because that investigation was bogus to begin with.
Is it only wrong when a Liberal/prog/democrat does it?
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If there was blatant state overreach then dropping the charges may be the right thing to do, regardless of how one feels about Trump.
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Wasn't he set up?
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Originally Posted by theprestige View Post
The lying was a proces crime. The DOJ is dropping the investigation that triggered that process. Because that investigation was bogus to begin with.
What do you think you mean by "process" crime? Lying to federal agents is an actual crime, and Flynn confessed to it in court as part of his plea bargain.
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Originally Posted by theprestige View Post
The lying was a proces crime. The DOJ is dropping the investigation that triggered that process. Because that investigation was bogus to begin with.
I have mixed feelings about this.

The feds really seem to enjoy setting up perjury scenarios and nailing people for them, especially if they can't make a larger case. Generally speaking, I am never really comfortable with this. Opponents of Flynn really care more about his involvement with the extremely corrupt Trump election campaign than they do about the importance of not lying to federal agents.

I also have no illusion that Barr's justice department is dropping this after a come-to-jesus moment about this practice. This is obviously about bailing out Trump loyalists. No-one else finding themselves in the perjury trap can expect to get relief, unless they are doing dirty work for Trump.

The Trump era has made for some strange bedfellows. You have libs cheering on federal law enforcement, and conservatives bemoaning the overreach of law enforcement.

Strange times indeed.
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Old 7th May 2020, 01:11 PM   #12
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DOJ drops case against Flynn

The Department of Justice has withdrawn its case against Michael Flynn.

https://apnews.com/ae1ad252bb13490db2ceffc5d17b6d92

This is not terribly surprising, given recent revelations about how the case against Flynn started, and given that the prosecution illegally withheld this information until now. Van Grack is up a creek without a paddle, and he knows it.
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What about all the charges they dropped as part of the plea bargain that is being thrown out?
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Originally Posted by Bob001 View Post
What do you think you mean by "process" crime? Lying to federal agents is an actual crime, and Flynn confessed to it in court as part of his plea bargain.
What about all the other crimes dropped as part of his plea bargain are those open again?
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Originally Posted by ponderingturtle View Post
What about all the charges they dropped as part of the plea bargain that is being thrown out?
What about them? Do you think they will be reinstated?

They won't.
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There's already a thread. Sorry.
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Originally Posted by TragicMonkey View Post
Dropping charges against someone who's pleading guilty? Isn't that like kicking an own goal?
I don't think you've been following developments in this case. A lot has changed, and a lot of new information has come out since his initial plea.
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What about them? Do you think they will be reinstated?

They won't.
Of course they won't. Barr has put the DOJ under the political control of Trump.
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What do you think you mean by "process" crime? Lying to federal agents is an actual crime, and Flynn confessed to it in court as part of his plea bargain.
It's a crime that arises from the process of investigating/prosecuting some other crime. It's still a crime, but let's be clear: Lying during a bogus criminal investigation is not the same as committing the crime that's being "investigated". There was no justification for interrogating him, which kind of renders moot his lie during that interrogation.

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I also have no illusion that Barr's justice department is dropping this after a come-to-jesus moment about this practice. This is obviously about bailing out Trump loyalists.
No, it's not a come-to-jesus moment. Van Greck got caught with his pants down. He had a legal obligation to turn over all Brady material to the defense, and recently uncovered documents prove that he didn't. His prosecution was sunk because of that. This is an admission of that fact. You can speculate whether or not that material would have been uncovered for someone else, but 1) it's just speculation, and 2) this is exactly the sort of thing that, if uncovered, can sink a prosecution of anyone.
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Originally Posted by theprestige View Post
It's a crime that arises from the process of investigating/prosecuting some other crime. It's still a crime, but let's be clear: Lying during a bogus criminal investigation is not the same as committing the crime that's being "investigated".
IANAL, how is it different? Different sentencing guidelines? Different rules for how it is investigated or prosecuted?
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What do you think you mean by "process" crime?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_crime

The underlying crime they were nominally investigating was a violation of the Logan act. If you're familiar with this act and its history, you will know why that's a farce.
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Of course they won't. Barr has put the DOJ under the political control of Trump.
It's funny that you think anyone could complete a prosecution of Flynn at this point, given the recently uncovered documents.
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Originally Posted by Ziggurat View Post
It's funny that you think anyone could complete a prosecution of Flynn at this point, given the recently uncovered documents.
Which ones, specifically, do you think undermine the case? Please quote fully the relevant portions.
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Bogus criminal investigation? The guy was an unregistered lobbyist for Turkey, writing editorials while he was being named National Security Adviser.
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Bogus criminal investigation? The guy was an unregistered lobbyist for Turkey, writing editorials while he was being named National Security Adviser.
That wasn't what he was charged with, that wasn't what he plead to, and that had nothing to do with why he was being investigated.
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Originally Posted by Babbylonian View Post
Which ones, specifically, do you think undermine the case? Please quote fully the relevant portions.
As one (but not the only) example:
https://www.scribd.com/document/459057200/doc-188
Handwritten note from an agent:
"What's our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?"

Not only is this suggestive of an illegitimate purpose for the investigation of Flynn, but just as importantly in terms of the case against Flynn, this is Brady material. Withholding it from the defense was illegal. Given the protracted fight that Flynn had in order to get this material, the fact that it came out this late in the process after Van Grack swore up and down to the court that everything had already been turned over, basically dooms any hope that any prosecutor could have ever had in going forward with the case against Flynn.

If there was ever a legitimate case against Flynn, Van Grack ****** it up beyond any hope of repair. And if you think he did it to protect Trump, you need to share your drugs with the rest of the class.
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It's funny that you think anyone could complete a prosecution of Flynn at this point, given the recently uncovered documents.
It's funny that you think there is anything in those documents that is outside standard police procedure.
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It's funny that you think there is anything in those documents that is outside standard police procedure.
First, to the extent that you're right, that's pretty damning of standard police procedure. Second, as I keep having to point out because people want to ignore it, the fact that this stuff wasn't turned over to the defense years ago is at least as much of a problem as the contents themselves.
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Wasn't he set up?
Didn't he set himself up?
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Judge Sullivan will have to accept the DoJ dropping the case. With Flynn already having appeared in court and admitting to lying to the FBI, there is grounds for sentencing him on the basis of that.

It'll get appealed and trump will sic his followers on Judge Sullivan, so who knows what'll happen.
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I'd far rather see the case dropped than see him get a pardon. With the case dropped, jeopardy doesn't attach, and once Trump is gone, and the rotten core of the DOJ is cleaned out, with the corrupt AG replaced with with someone who has integrity, the DOJ will be able to take the case up again, and prosecute the traitorous SOB and lock his arse up.

Flynn sold his country down the river for personal gain, to the Russians and the Turks of all people. He might not technically have committed treason, but he is a traitor nonetheless in every other way.
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I'd far rather see the case dropped than see him get a pardon. With the case dropped, jeopardy doesn't attach, and once Trump is gone, and the rotten core of the DOJ is cleaned out, with the corrupt AG replaced with with someone who has integrity, the DOJ will be able to take the case up again, and prosecute the traitorous SOB and lock his arse up.

Flynn sold his country down the river for personal gain, to the Russians and the Turks of all people. He might not technically have committed treason, but he is a traitor nonetheless in every other way.
I guarantee you that the case will never be picked up again, no matter who becomes president. If you think otherwise, it's because you haven't actually paid attention to the case, and don't actually understand why it was dropped.
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Judge Sullivan will have to accept the DoJ dropping the case. With Flynn already having appeared in court and admitting to lying to the FBI, there is grounds for sentencing him on the basis of that.
That's some pretty deep delusion you've got going on there.

Flynn will never be sentenced.
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it was dropped because the president and all his minions are ********** of the first degree, corrupt to the core. If you think anything else you are a deluded fool.
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America is dead as a nation of any integrity, it is a criminal state. trump has corrupted it to the core.
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it was dropped because the president and all his minions are ********** of the first degree, corrupt to the core. If you think anything else you are a deluded fool.
Bitch and moan all you want, but none of your complaining will make any of this true. The recent document dump was damning for the case against Flynn. That's simply an objective fact. And as time goes by, even Trump-hostile legal experts are going to have to admit that.
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Originally Posted by Ziggurat View Post
That's some pretty deep delusion you've got going on there.

Flynn will never be sentenced.
Of course not. He's a conservative under a conservative government. It's not wrong if you're a republican.
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Of course not. He's a conservative under a conservative government. It's not wrong if you're a republican.
Let's not abuse the once-honorable word conservative. They are right-wing extremists. Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush would be expelled from today's Repub Party as soft-hearted socialists.
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Let's not abuse the once-honorable word conservative. They are right-wing extremists. Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush would be expelled from today's Repub Party as soft-hearted socialists.
The current crop of conservatives. I mean, Flynns crimes being dismissed is being celebrated by conservatives here. it's not wrong if you're a republican.

They would be dancing to a different tune if Flynn was a Democrat under a Democratic government.
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