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Federal judge mulls contempt charge against Michael Flynn

Judge Emmet Sullivan named a retired judge to weigh the issue after the Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss the case against the former Trump national security adviser.

A federal judge is signaling that he may pursue perjury or contempt charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn over his effort to abandon an earlier guilty plea to a charge of lying to the FBI.

The Justice Department moved last week to drop the prosecution of Flynn launched by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan threw a major stumbling block in front of that effort by announcing that he is appointing a former federal judge to advise the court on how to respond to the government’s motion.

Sullivan said he’s also asking the retired judge, John Gleeson, to recommend whether Flynn should face a criminal contempt charge for perjury—apparently for declaring under oath at two different court proceedings that he was guilty of lying to the FBI, before he reversed course an January and claimed he had never lied.

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 4:42 pm

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 4:27 pm All the "proof" that Trumps Idiot Corps needs.

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Goodjobgoodpost.

See what I mean?

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The Flynn case isn’t over until the judge says it’s over


By John Gleeson, David O'Neil and Marshall Miller

John Gleeson served as a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of New York and chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in that district

The Justice Department’s move to dismiss the prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn does not need to be the end of the case — and it shouldn’t be. The Justice Department has made conflicting statements to the federal judge overseeing the case, Emmet G. Sullivan. He has the authority, the tools and the obligation to assess the credibility of the department’s stated reasons for abruptly reversing course.

The department’s motion to dismiss the Flynn case is actually just a request — one that requires “leave of the court” before it is effective. The executive branch has unreviewable authority to decide whether to prosecute a case. But once it secures an indictment, the proceedings necessarily involve the judicial branch. And the law provides that the court — not the executive branch — decides whether an indictment may be dismissed. The responsible exercise of that authority is particularly important here, where a defendant’s plea of guilty has already been accepted. Government motions to dismiss at this stage are virtually unheard of.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... -its-over/

Watching FoxNews tie the word "unmasking" to multiple stories about Flynn is so gross. Just more purposeful efforts to make wearing a mask vs. not wearing one a pitiful statement vs. a public health action.

Heck, go try to find a story about COVID-19 on the front page of foxnews.con. You'll have to scroll to find one.

@ODNIgov Director John Ratcliffe says transcripts of calls involving ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn have now been declassified

Rep. Eric Swalwell

Holy hell. Imagine your country’s democracy was just attacked and the first time you talk to the Ambassador from the attacking country and you don’t condemn them for the attack? Instead, you ask them to go easy on us? Yeah, Flynn lied. He also betrayed America.

The Flynn transcripts shows what we always knew - he lied.

He and Kislyak DID discuss sanctions. At length. No way this just slipped Flynn's mind.

who, or what, is the common enemy?

democracy?

"They did not discuss anything having to do with the United States’ decision to expel diplomats or impose sanctions against Russia."

Mike Pence
January 15, 2017
CBS News Interview

Did I miss something? Didn't Flynn plead guilty?

Wasn't he also planning to kidnap a cleric on American soil and send him to Turkey--for money--at the time he was lying? Seems like unusual quals for National Security Adviser.

When's the parade in his honor?

Feels right to bump this one.

This guy should be impeached.

As sad as Barr’s shenanigans are, what even sadder is that the majority of Merican voters don’t even know who Barr is.