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Home Front: Politix
Obama Appointed Judge Mysteriously Recuses Himself From Michael Flynn Case
2017-12-08
ZH. HT Insty
The case against former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn has taken a strange turn, as U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras abruptly recused himself Thursday night with no explanation. Contreras is an Obama appointee who also sat on the FISA court while the Trump team was under surveillance by the Obama administration. Judge Emmet Sullivan, an Bill Clinton appointee, was randomly assigned to take over the case after Contreras' recusal.

Of note, Contreras was appointed to the FISA court on May 19, 2016 - before the warrant to surveil one-time Trump advisor Carter Page was issued "in the summer" of 2016. It is unknown whether or not Contreras was involved in the decision, or whether he was involved in surveillance on Michael Flynn.

In fact every single FISA Court judge was appointed during the Obama administration:
Posted by:Frank G

#9  AT is a free site, and a good one mind you.

I certainly under-use it but every day politically, they have their finger on the pulse.
Posted by: newc   2017-12-08 21:03  

#8  I don't have an AT account and I can access all parts...
Posted by: Frank G   2017-12-08 19:08  

#7  I don’t have an American Thinker account, so newc’s link only got me access to the comments, not the article. But this blogger posted the whole thing, which I share with others in my predicament.

Ever more interesting times...
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-08 18:45  

#6  Deep State - lift the rock, let the light shine, and watch the insects run.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2017-12-08 16:59  

#5  Good link, Newc!
Posted by: Frank G   2017-12-08 14:21  

#4  Moar
Posted by: newc   2017-12-08 13:07  

#3  It looks like that’s Judge Emmet G. Sullivan.

Very interesting times.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-08 12:54  

#2  Instapundit also posted the Zero Hedge link. In the comment thread was this:

WildernessLawyer
an hour ago
Judge Sullivan, to whom the Flynn case has been reassigned, presided over the Ted Stevens prosecution, so he has bitter first hand experience with DOJ misconduct. In the Stevens case, after he learned of government misconduct, he went so far as to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether the government lawyers who ran the Stevens case should themselves be prosecuted for criminal wrongdoing. It makes you wonder if the reassignment of the case to Sullivan was truly random. If it was indeed random, Flynn may have caught a very lucky break -- and the Mueller gang may have caught about the worst break imaginable because, if Sullivan decides they have stepped over the line, their licenses to practice law could be in jeopardy. Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel here.

We do live in interesting times.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-08 12:50  

#1  In fact every single FISA Court judge was appointed during the Obama administration

Yeah... that wasn't set up to attack your enemies.

Nope. Not at all.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-12-08 12:01  

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