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    Former national security adviser Michael Flynn has a new attorney: former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, one of the earliest and fiercest critics of the Justice Department and the FBI’s investigation into a potential conspiracy between President Trump’s campaign and Russia.

    The move appears to signal a shift in posture, if not in strategy: Powell, a former Justice Department attorney who has written extensively about overzealous prosecutors, has claimed that Flynn was spied on as part of a “set-up” by the FBI, and that his entire case should be “dismissed,” taking a far more aggressive public stance than Flynn’s previous lawyers, Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony, ever did.

    Flynn, who fired Kelner and Anthony last week, awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his conversations with former Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the transition period. The current federal court docket still doesn’t list a lawyer for Flynn.

    Powell said in October that Flynn should withdraw his guilty plea. But she indicated in an email to POLITICO on Wednesday that Flynn’s legal strategy hadn’t changed. “He will continue to cooperate with the government as he has done from the beginning,” she wrote.

    Flynn’s old legal team tried to argue in December that the retired lieutenant general was entrapped by the FBI, and it quickly backfired. They claimed at the time that the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn in January 2017 about his conversations with Kislyak had tricked him by lulling him into a false sense of security and failing to insist that he have a lawyer present for the interview.

    Judge Emmet Sullivan, however, was not sympathetic. “How is raising these points consistent with accepting responsibility?” he asked Flynn and his lawyers as they stood before him. He then lambasted Flynn for lying to federal agents on White House grounds while serving as the president’s national security adviser in January 2017, and for lying about his lobbying work for the Turkish government. “Arguably, you sold out your country,” Sullivan said.

    Powell, meanwhile, has made a cottage industry out of attacking Mueller and his team. She has a website called “creepsonamission.com” that sells T-shirts and books attacking former FBI and Justice Department officials involved in the Russia probe and Flynn’s case specifically. And she’s called Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann “the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct.”

    In December, Sullivan gave Flynn the opportunity to postpone his sentencing hearing to continue his cooperation with the government in a probe of illegal lobbying for the Turkish government that is being conducted out of the Eastern District of Virginia. A joint status report on Flynn’s case from federal prosecutors and his defense team is due Friday.
    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...lawyer-1362006

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    Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice is the true story of the strong-arm, illegal, and unethical tactics used by headline-grabbing federal prosecutors in their narcissistic pursuit of power. Its scope reaches from the US Department of Justice to the US Senate, the FBI, and the White House. This true story is a scathing attack on corrupt prosecutors, the judges who turned a blind eye to these injustices, and the president who has promoted them to powerful political positions.

    From the Foreword

    This book should serve as the beginning of a serious conversation about whether our criminal justice system continues to live up to its vaunted reputation. As citizens of a free society, we all have an important stake in making sure that it does.



    based a lot off the SCOTUS overturning the Weissman peosecutions

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    I hope this new lawyer works out well for Flynn. This whole thing stunk from the beginning. The FBI agents made it sound like they just wanted a little chat over some coffee. They assured Flynn that he didn't need an attorney for their little talk. That right there makes it look like a casual talk, nothing official, nothing as though the agents were wanting Flynn to engage in an "official FBI business" questioning.
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    Powell said in October that Flynn should withdraw his guilty plea. But she indicated in an email to POLITICO on Wednesday that Flynn’s legal strategy hadn’t changed. “He will continue to cooperate with the government as he has done from the beginning,” she wrote.
    so im not clear what this is all about.
    Flynn ought to withdrawal,but he's been so damaged by now I guess he just wants it to end

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    He can’t withdraw his plea without a valid legal reason, there ain’t one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    He can’t withdraw his plea without a valid legal reason, there ain’t one.
    there are all kinds of reasons - in fact Sullivan gave him the opportunity last time he appeared for sentencing

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    so im not clear what this is all about.
    Flynn ought to withdrawal,but he's been so damaged by now I guess he just wants it to end
    Possibly. However............
    Remember way back when there was news of "threats" against him, or more to the point his son if Flynn didn't go along with
    what prosecutors wanted him to do?
    Flynn has been quiet this entire time. Heck, we never even see an image of him walking into a grocery store. I'm only guessing that
    he will remain clammed up and see this through to protect himself and family against whatever he was threatened with.
    That's my dime store novel version anyway. LOL
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    A right-wing Fox "expert" who is deep into conspiracy theories and is a nut. Flynn is throwing a Hail Mary because the judge sees Fylnn as a traitor who sold out the country. Now she is going to ask for another 90 days before sentencing. They may be marking time for a Trump pardon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    Possibly. However............
    Remember way back when there was news of "threats" against him, or more to the point his son if Flynn didn't go along with
    what prosecutors wanted him to do?
    Flynn has been quiet this entire time. Heck, we never even see an image of him walking into a grocery store. I'm only guessing that
    he will remain clammed up and see this through to protect himself and family against whatever he was threatened with.
    That's my dime store novel version anyway. LOL
    yes.
    he already lost his house to legal bills, and Mueller was threatening his kid,

    They set him up like a bowling pin: he's been beat up and battered around.

    Comey admits decision to send FBI agents to interview Flynn was not standard
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/com...s-not-standard

    Recalling his decision to bypass those steps, Comey said, “I thought: ‘It’s early enough, let’s just send a couple guys over.’”

    The January 2017 interview with the FBI is the basis of Flynn’s guilty plea to making false statements in a deal with Mueller's team. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about whether he had talked to former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016 on limiting the Russian government's response to former President Barack Obama's recently imposed sanctions for election meddling. Flynn was pushed out shortly after his interview for misleading Vice President Pence and other officials about those contacts.

    But according to Flynn's legal team, FBI agents in his case did not instruct Flynn that any false statements he made could constitute a crime and decided not to "confront" him directly about anything he said that contradicted their knowledge of his wiretapped communications with Kislyak.

    Earlier this week, Flynn's legal team also made the allegation that the FBI had pushed him not to bring a lawyer to his interview with agents at the White House.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    He can’t withdraw his plea without a valid legal reason, there ain’t one.
    "Ain't". You going all folksy Biden on us now...

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    Flynn lied in conversation with the FBI about his meetings with Russian agent Kislyak, He lied in documents he filed to FBI And the courts. He lied about being a lobbyist and working for Turkey's government. The judge wondered if he should be charged as a traitor. I know rightys do not care if an American military man sells out to foreign countries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gonzomin View Post
    Flynn lied in conversation with the FBI about his meetings with Russian agent Kislyak, He lied in documents he filed to FBI And the courts. He lied about being a lobbyist and working for Turkey's government. The judge wondered if he should be charged as a traitor. I know rightys do not care if an American military man sells out to foreign countries.
    He was set up ffs, what the fuck is wrong with you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gonzomin View Post
    A right-wing Fox "expert" who is deep into conspiracy theories and is a nut. Flynn is throwing a Hail Mary because the judge sees Fylnn as a traitor who sold out the country. Now she is going to ask for another 90 days before sentencing. They may be marking time for a Trump pardon.
    Trump should definitely pardon him, not least because arseholes like you would go apeshit about it!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    He can’t withdraw his plea without a valid legal reason, there ain’t one.
    Have you ever been right about anything, I certainly can't recall even once.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    yes.
    he already lost his house to legal bills, and Mueller was threatening his kid,

    They set him up like a bowling pin: he's been beat up and battered around.

    Comey admits decision to send FBI agents to interview Flynn was not standard
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/com...s-not-standard

    Recalling his decision to bypass those steps, Comey said, “I thought: ‘It’s early enough, let’s just send a couple guys over.’”

    The January 2017 interview with the FBI is the basis of Flynn’s guilty plea to making false statements in a deal with Mueller's team. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about whether he had talked to former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016 on limiting the Russian government's response to former President Barack Obama's recently imposed sanctions for election meddling. Flynn was pushed out shortly after his interview for misleading Vice President Pence and other officials about those contacts.

    But according to Flynn's legal team, FBI agents in his case did not instruct Flynn that any false statements he made could constitute a crime and decided not to "confront" him directly about anything he said that contradicted their knowledge of his wiretapped communications with Kislyak.

    Earlier this week, Flynn's legal team also made the allegation that the FBI had pushed him not to bring a lawyer to his interview with agents at the White House.
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