What is this “next step, if any” business, Sen. Burr?
Sounds like a helluva fight you’re preparing to put up there.
Man, how nice it must be to blow off a subpoena.
The next step is simple: perp walk right down his front steps after serving a warrant to search his private residence.
What the FUCK are they hiding? If it isn’t gigantic, they’ve now screwed themselves, because the entire world will want to know.
I guess I am woefully ignorant. Can someone more versed in legal matters explain how one can not comply with a subpoena? Doesn’t noncompliance mean jail?
If I know Burr, he’s looking for any easy opportunity to back away from this investigation, take his socks off, and just sit back and relax without any pressure to, you know, do the right thing for this country.
I’m guessing Flynn ain’t gonna talk to anybody he can avoid unless and until somebody offers him a good plea deal.
The next step, as if Burr doesn’t know it, is a contempt of congress charge. I believe that is a felony.
POV from TheHIll
He’ll be claiming the 5th by tomorrow at the latest.
Which part of “under penalty of” is unclear?
Standing his ground…in a pool of quicksand.
Want immunity and then refuses a Congressional subpoena for documents, probably on the grounds of self incrimination. Now the DOJ gets their shot at him. When all is said and done (because he can be brought back on active duty with DOD inspector general investigation) maybe he could find out how Ft. Leavenworth handles recalcitrant individuals. Obama is vindicated for his termination.
So Trump has added witness tampering to his interference with an investigation and obstruction of justice.
Let me just say this: Lock him up. . . Lock him up. . . Lock him up. . . Lock him up!
Just throw his useless ass in jail.
So this coward, traitor???, can’t even stand up for himself!
Has he been working again the United States for years - as a general?
What did this guy do!!!
According to wiki, Flynn is playing the odds in Republican Congress that is loath to prosecute under Contempt of Congress.
It is a long process that has to go to floor votes.
“Following the refusal of a witness to produce documents or to testify, the Committee is entitled to report a resolution of contempt to its parent chamber. A Committee may also cite a person for contempt but not immediately report the resolution to the floor. In the case of subcommittees, they report the resolution of contempt to the full Committee, which then has the option of rejecting it, accepting it but not reporting it to the floor, or accepting it and reporting it to the floor of the chamber for action.”
“The procedure for holding a person in contempt involves only the chamber concerned. Following a contempt citation, the person cited is arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms [for the] Senate, brought to the floor of the chamber, held to answer charges by the presiding officer, and then subjected to punishment as the chamber may dictate (usually imprisonment for punishment reasons, imprisonment for coercive effect, or release from the contempt citation).”
“Concerned with the time-consuming nature of a contempt proceeding and the inability to extend punishment further than the session of the Congress concerned (under Supreme Court rulings), Congress created a statutory process in 1857. [… ] last used by the Senate in 1934”
I am not surprised. He is facing criminal prosecution. My guess is he is afraid that whatever he produces to the Senate will be used against him in a court of law. This kind of jockeying is normal.