On Friday, while most of America prepared for the long Labor Day weekend, things exploded in the Michael Flynn case. What began with an intriguing status report, which exposed the chasm between Flynn’s new powerhouse attorney Sidney Powell and prosecutors, culminated with Powell’s filing of a 19-page brief detailing prosecutorial misconduct and seeking sanctions against government attorneys for withholding evidence.
Flynn, who pleaded guilty in late 2017 to lying to FBI agents about conversations he had in December 2016 with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, awaits sentencing before federal Judge Emmett Sullivan. In Friday’s status report, prosecutors told Sullivan that Flynn’s “cooperation has ended” and that the case is ready for sentencing.
Conversely, Powell argued “the case is not ready for sentencing,” first because new counsel still needs “a significant amount of time” to review the mountainous file. But it was the additional reasons for a delay Sullivan detailed that piqued the interest of pundits.
“There are serious issues to be addressed by the Court before we can proceed further,” prosecutor-turned-defense-attorney Powell wrote. “First, the government continues to deny our requests for security clearances,” and the impasse requires court intervention, Powell argued. Among the classified information Powell sought clearance to review are “the transcripts and recordings of the phone calls that supposedly underpin the charges against Mr. Flynn,” and “the original or first draft of the FBI 302 of the interview of Mr. Flynn on January 24, 2017,” as well as “any records or documents that show everyone who made changes to that 302.”
Powell’s status report position ended with a note that Flynn’s defense team “expect[ed] to identify more issues for the Court promptly, and we will file the appropriate motions to address those issues as soon as possible.”
Powell soon proved to be a woman of her word, when hours later she filed a “Motion to Compel Production of Brady Material” under seal, and an accompanying brief in support of that motion, which was filed on the public record. (Under Brady and its progeny, the government must turn over material favorable evidence—called exculpatory evidence—as well as material evidence adversely affecting the credibility of a government’s witness, known as impeachment evidence.)
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See Also:
(1) Yes, Comey did leak classified information
(2) Why Is The FBI Obstructing The Release Of James Comey’s Memos?
(3) Former U.S. Attorney Slams ‘Unqualified’ James Comey After Damning IG Report
(4) Deep State: Lisa Page, Peter Strzok Conducted FBI’s Review to Classify Comey’s Memos
(5) Inspector General Rebukes James Comey For Putting Himself Above The Nation
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Take the time to watch this interview with Flynn attorney Sidney Powell. Mueller’s reputation and those of who he counts on as staunch allies. Most if not all gut wrenching ethics lacking if not criminal co-conspirators has been a wide open secret throughout Washington and beyond for decades. Now consider this fact… “Bill Barr and Robert Mueller have been close friends for 30 years, from the Justice Department to family weddings and the Bible study attended by both of their wives.” With a resume like that Trump seeks him out? Barr had to have known what everybody else in the Washington establishment knew about Mueller. Unless he was living under a rock which he clearly wasn’t. Yet despite all that was known he remained close friends throughout? Who would consider somebody the likes of Robert Mueller a close friend? William Barr that’s who. Yet Trump could find nobody else more trustworthy? And don’t even get me going on Trump appointing Christopher Wray to head up the FBI either. What has Wray done since his appointment other than do everything in his power to conceal evidence and obstruct any attempts to expose the Deep State collaboration by the FBI.
After Barr said he believed the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign, Wray questioned his boss’s assessment in public. “It’s not the term I would use,” Wray told Congress.
When the government gets stuff wrong, as it did in the Russia case on Comey’s watch, transparency is the best panacea for restoring public trust.
Claiming FBI agents have a privacy right to avoid facing hard questions, portraying public source documents as national secrets and doing the Muhammad Ali “rope-a-dope” dance to thwart disclosure is not an acceptable alternative.
It’s a lesson Chris Wray should learn, quickly.
Who advised Trump to hire this guy? Whoever that person was should be fired in the same breath as is Wray. The FBI does not need a Director who is on work experience. Or performing in an ‘on the job training’ program’. He is either incompetent or he is corrupt. Period. IMO Wray is just one of many still wielding undeserved power inside the FBI/DOJ. A deep state soldier or just a coward keeping his head down and consumed with nothing else than taking care of #1… himself.
Hannity keeps asking guests almost nightly “can you tell me that for sure people are going jail” and last evening the first crack in any resolve of that ever happening came from Jason Chavez. When asked that question for the umpteenth time he finally replied (paraphrasing) that believed that there would probably be indictments coming. Then he added that he had little if any confidence that there would be convictions as a result.
Trump’s biggest and best ally is himself. Declassify declassify declassify. Get the information out to the public. Expose the Deep State to America. Alas, with the MSM refusing to report it even it if he did all may very well be lost. Providing Obama his second term to ‘ finish the job’ is going to go down in history as the death knell for the American Constitutional Republic. Once the shining beacon of hope to the free world. There is one hope left IMO, and a faint one it is. Trump must be re-elected for a second term. Once/if he is he needs then to go take on the Deep State like a wood chipper after a wind storm. Even so assuming the electoral college manages to survive decades of a failed and radicalized education system in 2024 will the GOP be able to field a candidate capable of carrying on his legacy? Dark times lie ahead folks.