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DOJ Relents, Says It Would Accept Probation For Michael Flynn As He Moves To Withdraw Guilty Plea
2020-01-31
[FoxNews] They're now backing down?

The Department of Justice backed down from seeking jail time Wednesday and made clear that prosecutors would accept mere probation in the case of former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn ‐ a shift that comes as Flynn moves to withdraw his guilty plea leveraging accusations of government misconduct.

Just weeks ago, the DOJ said it would seek up to six months of prison time for the retired Army lieutenant general who spent just 24 days at his post in the Trump administration. Represented by an aggressive new attorney, Flynn days later had moved to withdraw his guilty plea for making false statements to two FBI agents in 2017 ‐ statements that eventually wrapped him up in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

"In truth, I never lied," Flynn wrote in a new supplemental motion to withdraw his guilty plea filed Wednesday. "My guilty plea has rankled me throughout this process, and while I allowed myself to succumb to the threats from the government to save my family, I believe I was grossly misled about what really happened."
Flynn needs to join forces with Page and sue all these criminal hacks back to the stone age.

Related: PJ Media - Feds Back Off Jailing Michael Flynn After Stunning New Evidence That Gov't 'Lied' and 'Framed' Him
Posted by:Woodrow

#14  Swamp dwellers starting to place their bets on a Trump 2020 victory and starting to look for cover?
Posted by: magpie   2020-01-31 12:15  

#13  Ref #12: Give these clowns the vacated Epstein cell.

Same warden, same guards please. Performance bonuses all around.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-01-31 11:04  

#12  Give these clowns the vacated Epstein cell.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-01-31 10:18  

#11  I've been throught he court system alot in my lifetime. When they offer up probation they don't have or don't have enough for it to be worth going through a trial for.
Posted by: Chris   2020-01-31 09:58  

#10  Electric chair set to "slow roast." Clapper can sit in Brennan's lap to save time and electricity.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-01-31 09:40  

#9  Bring back banishment.

Nah. In this day and age they would just sell books and go on talk shows.

I prefer the noose and lamp posts along Pennsylvania Ave.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-01-31 08:53  

#8  Bring back banishment.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-01-31 08:14  

#7  Kavanaugh, Flynn, Nick Sandmann...

Those who accused these blameless men and this completely harmless, innocent schoolboy are beneath contempt.

Blowsey Ford, Swetnick and their handlers, Schifferbrains, McCabe and Strzok, the howling jackals who tried to get Sandmann doxxed, assaulted or even killed: ALL of these f---ers deserve prison time, every one of them.
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-31 05:50  

#6  ^ yes. The ultimate heresy for which the heretic must be tortured and burned at the stake.
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-31 05:40  

#5  Because he was selected by Trump.

And because he exposed CIA incompetence & worse.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-01-31 05:26  

#4  Destroying a political opponent with false accusations concocted out of nothing.

Destroying evidence produced by your own investigators who concluded there was nothing to these bizarre, stupid, scurrilous accusations.

And up until a few weeks ago, refusing to admit any responsibility at all for these actual crimes, this actual corruption, on their own part -- instead, unbelievably, arguing for MORE prison time for this man whom they vilified, slandered, bankrupted, and tried to totally destroy.

Because he was selected by Trump.

We are once again through the looking glass and into the land of inversion, the insane realm where the accused are the victims and the accusers are the criminals.

F--- these morons. We need prison terms for the people who ginned up these ridiculous accusations and for whoever destroyed the FBI's own 302 report that demolished them.
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-31 05:24  

#3  ^Imagine the consequences to a cop admitting to such a thing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-01-31 05:24  

#2   the original "302" report on the Flynn meeting, in which FBI agents believed that Flynn was telling the truth, has been lost or worse

Total Shitshow. Banana republic time now in the USA.
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-31 05:17  

#1  Excerpt from the PJ article. Hat tip to attorney Powell.


The filing on Flynn's behalf was possible in part due to the Inspector General's report on FISA abuse. Powell claimed that the IG report is "replete with information that is exculpatory to Mr. Flynn and damning of the conduct the FBI used against him. Flynn is one of the four original targeted by Crossfire Hurricane and unmasked by previous administration because of 'his puported ties to Russia.'" Furthermore, the FBI got access to Flynn's information because of the Carter Page FISA warrant, at least two of which we now know were illegally obtained.

Powell believes that the original "302" report on the Flynn meeting, in which FBI agents believed that Flynn was telling the truth, have been lost or worse.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-01-31 03:38  

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