The Malicious Entrapment of Michael Flynn
Thanks to the fortitude and convictions of a District Court Judge and a courageous Attorney General the facts surrounding the FBI case against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn are finally being revealed. Normally when an individual pleads guilty to a crime they wave their right to exculpatory evidence. Due to an abundance of unusual circumstances, Judge Emmet Sullivan (United States District Court for the District of Columbia) required the government to turn over any exculpatory materials in its possession that pertained to Flynn back in February of 2018. The Justice Department is still, albeit at a slow pace, turning over documents in the case. Just yesterday we learned of FBI notes suggesting a perjury trap:
Unsealed FBI notes reveal the intent of the FBI’s 1/24/17 interview of Flynn:
“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute [Flynn] or get him fired?”
There was also the element of coercion in this case as the FBI was gesturing to prosecute Michael Flynn's son unless he entered into a guilty plea. So Flynn confessed to lying to the FBI about a perfectly legal conversation he had with Russian Ambassador Kislyak. Think about that for a minute? There was no apparent crime, yet the FBI was interviewing him about a conversation they listened in on.
Fortunately Flynn has obtained new counsel, Sidney Powell, who has really been effective in raising serious questions about his previous defense and the behavior of the FBI. Flynn has now sought to withdraw his guilty plea.
It's just absolutely appalling what these agents, and then special counsel operatives, did to General Flynn," Powell told Fox News' "Hannity" on Wednesday night. "It's abuse of their authority at every turn.""I interpret the notes as absolutely damning of their conduct and their plan," Po well went on. "They rejected the advice of the apparent lawyer who wrote on the handwritten note that they not play games with the White House and instead that is exactly what they did. "Their standard practice in other cases [is] to warn of a [Section] 1001 violation [for making false statements to federal investigators]," Powel conti nued. "None of that applied to General Flynn. They had only special violations, of every protocol known for him because they were determined to take him out." ........Sidney Powell
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michael-flynn-fbi-handwritten-notes-get-him-lie-fired
Attorney General Bill Barr continues to oversee the DOJ's investigation into the FBI's egregious handling of the Flynn case.
I could have waited on this until Flynn receives a formal exoneration, but I can see from here that Judge Sullivan will have little choice but to vacate the earlier judgement. The President recently left open the possibility of restoring Flynn to the role of National Security Advisor. Wouldn't that be sweet justice? Michael Flynn would then have the chance to act on his vow of rebuilding the intelligence agencies from top to bottom. Don't bet on it. Congressional democrats would fight any such nomination. With this President well into the final year of his first term, there are still unfilled positions due to democrat resistance.
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Let's take a minute to review:
Carter Page had his Civil Liberties violated:
The Flynn case is now being exposed and I would say the trap set for George Papadopoulos is on deck:
Trump is OFF TOPIC
Evidence of a frame piling up!
I saw Andrew McCarthy, I think, say if he was a gangbanger or mafia boss who killed people, he would would have been advised he was under investigation, told the purpose of the interview and advised him of his rights. Instead, since he was a combat veteran with 33 years of service who James Comey didn't like, they broke protocol and decided to take him out.
This should bother every American who believes in the rule of law, regardless of your political persuasion. An apolitical police apparatus is necessary for a functioning republic.
I'm sure it does bother every American who believes in the rule of law. As all of this shit comes out, those who once called such claims a "conspiracy theory" or a "deflection from the Russia investigation", will now become conspicuously silent!
The corrupt Obama/Biden Administration fired Flynn and then their dirty FBI pals led by Comey set up a scam to take Flynn down and destroy his life after the election.
Once again, Fox News carefully followed and accurately reported on this debacle.
SSDD
You may recall that the outgoing president Obama warned the incoming President about two things:
One was the madman who ran North Korea. (A dictator who has been, thus far, dealt with and may at this time be dead).
The other was Michael Flynn. I have to believe the main problem with Flynn was his desire to restructure the intelligence agencies. (He was their first target.)
Years ago, Obama scoffed at the idea of Russia being a geopolitical threat. It didn't take him, along with his pals, to create "The Russia Hoax" that consumed MSM for 4 years and ended with a whimper. 44 certainly wasn't the brightest crayon in the presidential box.
That would obviously be an even greater inducement to go after him. Isn't it amazing how they started with the "Logan Act?"
I wonder how historians will deal with progressive icon Sally Yates?
All I can say is thank God Hillary Clinton didn't succeed him. This would be a radically different country today.
The promised "transformation" would have been a fait accompli! We would have seemed united with part of the nation elevated above the rest and many moaning in silence. Obama still gave them a taste of victory and it will be tough to keep them away from power, but we must prevail!
We truly dodged a lethal bullet in 2016!
It was a huge turning point, every bit as big as the move from inflation, gas lines & Carter to Ronald Reagan or the move from James Buchanan to Abraham Lincoln. It was a historical turning point of epic proportions.
MSNBC's "legal experts" are babbling that this is all just standard procedure. (the trapping of a high ranking incoming official!) Their experts are just shrugging off this with "everyone does it."
Everyone associated with this should be fired and brought up on charges. It's like Boss Hogg was running the FBI.
Remember when people - even liberals - used to be horrified at this kind of corruption in law enforcement?
FBI Planned To Close Michael Flynn Investigation, And Then Peter Strzok Intervened | The Daily Caller
"Former FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok intervened at the last minute in early 2017 to stop the bureau from closing an investigation into Michael Flynn, the incoming national security adviser, according to government files unsealed Thursday.
The FBI was investigating Flynn and several other Trump campaign associates at the time for possible links to Russia as part of Crossfire Hurricane. But as of Jan. 4, 2017, the FBI’s Washington Field Office had determined that there was no justification to continue investigating Flynn, whom the FBI referred to with the code name “Crossfire Razor.”
Your title should read: Ex General Gets Burned for Doing Something Against the Law
Entrapment: the action of luring an individual into committing a crime in order to prosecute the person for it
Entrapment is where da'man suggests that you do something illegal and maybe sweetens the pot to entice you to do so and then you do commit a crime that you would not have committed under normal circumstances. Then da'man arrests you for committing that crime. That is not what happened at all.
He lied.
The FBI had a Transcript of the call showing that he lied.
All this happened before the meeting.
Game over. He has been caught lying. Period.
What da'man does with this info is a moot point at this juncture, because he lied.
coercion easily fits the parameters of entrapment:
2 : the action of luring an individual into committing a crime in order to prosecute the person for it
BTW; You are new here, welcome aboard. I prefer we don't use the posters/cartoons..etc.
Nah. Flynn entrapped himself with the Russians and the Turks---and his belief that he was personally unaccountable and beyond the strictures of law. The judge was right, Flynn is a traitor to his country and himself.
This is going nowhere.
We will find out real fast. As I stated in the article, I could have waited on this until Flynn receives a formal exoneration, but I can see from here that Judge Sullivan will have little choice but to vacate the earlier judgement.
Will I be right?
And that's a big "if"! Joe is on MSNBC right now, unable to answer the simplest questions concerning Tara Reade's allegations!
He refuses to open up his Senate records held by the University of Delaware. Tara Reade says her complaint is filed there!
"Mika did an excellent interview with Biden. Biden doubled down on keeping them from the public to avoid their papers being used as "fodder." He would not even agree to a search even documents confined to Reade references. Biden starting strong but disassembled on the issue...
"While Biden called the allegation of whether he raped a woman "irrelevant," it is relevant. Biden succeeded in putting a spot light on Delaware. This is the type of cringe-worthy examination you see in trials when a smooth witness suddenly becomes alarmed or irate on the stand".....Jonathan Turley
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday called out the media for downplaying the bombshell files released earlier this week showing FBI officials discussed whether they wanted to interview ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn in order to “get him to lie.”
During her first briefing as press secretary, McEnany slammed the media for “scant” coverage of the files unsealed by the Justice Department earlier this week.
“I’ve watched a lot of your networks. I’ve read a lot of your papers," she said. "I’ve seen a whole lot of scant information on Michael Flynn when there was a whole lot of speculation on Russia, Russia, Russia culminating in $40 million dollars of taxpayer money being lost and the complete and total exoneration of President Trump.”
“This was a grave miscarriage of justice,” McEnany said of the case. “I am very glad the FBI thought to keep a paper trail…I’m glad they kept such good documentation of their intent to slow walk General Flynn into a trap and to, essentially, create a grave miscarriage of justice.”
Former independent counsel Ken Starr reacted on Monday to the shocking revelations about the FBI’s handling of the investigation into then-national security adviser Michael Flynn , saying they show that the bureau’s senior leaders were out to get Flynn and the Trump administration.
“I think this is all about the president of the United States and the effort to obstruct the administration and the effort to do everything that they can to make the path forward for the president of the United States, including the Russia investigation , as difficult as possible,” Starr, a Fox News contributor, said on “Fox & Friends.”
Documents unsealed Wednesday show that bureau officials discussed their motivations for interviewing Flynn at the White House in January 2017 — with one note questioning whether the "goal" of investigators was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired."
The materials surfaced as Attorney General Bill Barr has continued to oversee the Department of Justice's investigation into the handling of the Flynn case. Flynn previously charged that top FBI officials, including then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe , pressed him not to have the White House counsel present during the questioning with two agents that led to his guilty plea on a single charge of lying to federal investigators.
Internal FBI documents unsealed Thursday indicated that Peter Strzok – the now-disgraced anti-Trump former head of FBI counterintelligence – ordered the investigation of Flynn to remain open even after it was slated to be closed due to a lack of so-called "derogatory" information.
“It’s a confirmation that this was a very unrighteous, if not outright unlawful, effort by Jim Comey's FBI,” Starr, the former independent counsel who led the Whitewater investigation into then-President Bill Clinton in the mid-1990s, said on Monday.
Starr noted that FBI agents “wanted to close this part of the investigation down, they were overruled.”
“That is simply wrong,” he continued. “It may be unlawful, but it certainly is highly unprofessional and is total unfairness to the former national security adviser whose career was ruined.”
Starr added that it was also “unfair to the country.”
Host Brian Kilmeade noted that Strzok, one of two agents who interviewed Flynn, allegedly manipulated official records of the former national security adviser’s 2017 interview that led to him being charged with lying to investigators.
He then asked Starr, “What does it make you think?”
“It makes me think that there may actually be criminal culpability on the part, maybe, presumption of innocence, but this is wrong,” Starr said in response. “It is so incredibly wrong at a moral and professional level.”
Starr then asked, “How could senior people in the FBI engage in this kind of obstructive conduct?”
“If it doesn't meet all of the elements of obstruction of justice, it comes pretty darn close, but at a minimum it shows they were out to get General Flynn,” he continued.
He clarified that “they” refers to the senior leadership of the FBI.
“That means they were out to get the Trump administration,” Starr said.
Just in:
I was skeptical about this recent news since Flynn actually did plead guilty to lying to the FBI. And that has been the argument so far from those who cheered Flynn's downfall and reject the recent discoveries. But why have we not seen this in the mainstream media news since it was released 1/29/20?
Declaration from Flynn on 1/29/20.
The declaration goes into detail about the circumstances of his initial plea.
More detail HERE .
There is definitely some sufficiently detailed exculpatory evidence presented here.
Thank you all. I can finally close this one down!