Department Of Justice Drops Case Against Michael Flynn
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 7 months ago
They should never have started it.
The Justice Department on Thursday moved to drop its case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, in a stunning development that comes after internal memos were released raising serious questions about the nature of the investigation that led to Flynn’s late 2017 guilty plea of lying to the FBI.
The announcement came in a court filing “after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information,” as the department put it. DOJ officials said they concluded that Flynn’s interview by the FBI was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn” and that the interview was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”
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Documents unsealed a week ago by the Justice Department revealed agents discussed their motivations for interviewing him in the Russia probe – questioning whether they wanted to “get him to lie” so he’d be fired or prosecuted, or get him to admit wrongdoing.
And not only that, but knowledge of this went all the way to the top.
President Obama was aware of the details of then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn’s intercepted December 2016 phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, apparently surprising then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, according to documents released Thursday as exhibits to the government’s motion to dismiss the Flynn case.
Obama’s unexpectedly intimate knowledge of the details of Flynn’s calls, which the FBI said at the time were not criminal in nature, raised eyebrows because of his own history with Flynn — and because top FBI officials secretly discussed whether their goal was to “get [Flynn] fired” when they interviewed him in the White House on January 24, 2017.
Obama personally had warned the Trump administration against hiring Flynn, and made clear he was “not a fan,” according to multiple officials. Obama had fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014.
Unexpectedly. Just like I’m sure of his knowledge of running guns to Mexico along with his AG, when it becomes found out at some point, will be “unexpected.”
I said from the very beginning (look up my previous posts on this) that the deep state had to take Flynn down because he knew too much about the various military machinations across the globe by the deep state.
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On May 7, 2020 at 10:30 pm, BRVTVS said:
The deep state got what it wanted out of the Flynn case – proof for all the world to see that Trump is a fair weather friend who won’t do anything more than tweet to help his friends who stick their necks out for him. Trump’s unlikely to find another man of Flynn’s stature to trust him again.
On May 8, 2020 at 7:51 am, ragman said:
The only thing Trump cares about is his .1% friends and the fraudulent stock market. Trillions(and counting) for the Wall Street elite and peanuts for the Great Unwashed. If we’re lucky. They ruined the General’s life, and bankrupted him. They are in the process of totally ruining the futures of our children and grand children and no one cares. Now we will have endless investigations, special counsels and other Charlie Foxtrots that will amount to absolutely nothing. None of the traitors involved in this will do one minute in prison. This definitely was done by obama and he will skate. In fact his “wife” will most likely be the next Vice President. God help us!
On May 8, 2020 at 1:36 pm, Ned2 said:
Ragman,
Biden is a smokescreen. He’s in there to distract the dumb masses (dumbasses?) up until the convention.
He’ll drop out then, making way for the actual nominee
I got a Jackson on Wookie/Buttgig 2020
On May 8, 2020 at 10:57 pm, T-Hugger said:
Damn-enough about Trump already. Vote for someone else in November. Get over him, drop it and move on. General Flynn needs to sue the f*ck out of everyone at the FBI & CIA that has a corner office with a window. Extract every dime he lost and all the rest of their savings just to make sure the point (being a lying traitorous shitbag has consequences) is made and then throw the whole bunch out onto the street with an Obama phone and an EBT card with .02 cents on it. Eff Comey, eff McCabe, eff Brennen and anyone they ever called back personaly….That should do for a start.
On May 11, 2020 at 7:54 am, Sanders said:
Looks to me that by allowing this thing to go to its conclusion, a lot of bad players were outed who may not otherwise been – with solid evidence.
Now, lets see what Barr does with what he has, or if he really is the swamp creature we all believe he is and allows the statute of limitations to run out without a single prosecution.
The one who needs a pardon, though, is Roger Stone. They say Trump rewards loyalty. Well, nobody has been more loyal than Flynn and Stone.