You can’t swing a dead cat in DC without hitting a lawyer who, at one time, had some sort of security clearance. Flynn picked a lawyer who will never be able to get one – coincidence?
Lock up his sorry ass already!
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Anyone who thinks they’ll get a pardon from Donny that doesn’t do Donny any good is . . . well as crazy as they sound in their latest filings.
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As I recall, it was Judge Sullivan who, on the eve of a sentencing agreement with Flynn sternly questioned whether he REALLY wanted to proceed and either then or at another point, told him that what the judge had seen made him question why Flynn hadn’t been charged with treason. Not sure how this will play out. No doubt Flynn will try the usual “throw everything you can in the air and hope some of it sticks” approach that is the Trump MO.
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Sharpies available?
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At least Pence is making the headlines.
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At least so far.
The more appointments to the federal bench Trump makes (by which I mean "cuts and pastes from the Federalist Society) and Moscow Mitch rams through, the greater the odds that someday we’ll see someone who manages to do both.
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Flynn’s move to shake up his legal team this summer… was interpreted by some observers as a sign that he’d seek a pardon from President Trump.
I don’t think Flynn is angling for a pardon, so much as he’s doing the Manafort-joint-defense-agreement thing. This is Flynn working for hostile foreign governments and/or the GOP “fifth column.”
Like when Concord tried to compel Mueller to reveal how Mueller knew that Concord’s lawyers leaked information to Russians. Flynn is trying to help Russia or Turkey or someone learn how the US gathers intelligence.
Russia is at war with us right now, whether we like it, or Trump admits it. This unacknowledged war has already played out strangely in court, because the American legal system was not designed to resolve war between nations. Mueller basically backed his way onto the battlefield because the many smaller crimes he was investigating were all constituent parts of acts of war.
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Sidney Powell is a clown trying to turn this trial into a Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Trump act. Flynn was hardcore Trump during the campaign and transition. We know they were up to their eyeballs in the no-good.
It seems whenever one of these guys feels behind the 8-ball, they release a cloud of chaff like a lumbering air force transport. That shit needs to be swatted away.
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Wait, texts between two FBI agents months before Flynn conspired with Russia is somehow germane to his sentencing? That’s some serious straw grasping…well, really it’s total BS and should be called that. This does look like an attempt to run the clock out so Flynn doesn’t serve any jail time before his pardon after the 2020 election.
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“Two people talking about something unrelated is essential to my case!!!”
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Intel assets and witnesses are two drastically different things.
Actionable intel and “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” are two drastically different things.
More examples of how the belligerents** embedded themselves (and that fat toad squatting in the WH) literally “behind” enemy lines.
** Yes, I am going to use classic terms of national combatants here.
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Interesting and believable take. I hope this is true, because Flynn was one of the really bad ones.
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Lisa Page and Peter Strzok tricked Russia and Wikileaks into conspiring against Hillary Clinton. Everyone knows that.
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I guess Boyd, Dewey, Cheatham and Howe passed up the opportunity to represent Flynn.
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Just makes you wonder when they say he’s been cooperating with prosecutors for a year and a half, has he really? I think, perhaps, Flynn is not that interested in going to jail so keeps mixing it up, stalling for time.
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In other words, Chutzpah.
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Would love to hear the special secret reasons why the defense needs more classified materials…in order to make an argument for a lenient sentence at the sentencing hearing? Like the Justice Department is withholding evidence of all the good deeds the will mitigate the treasonous ones?
Flynn always knew he was protected and he acted like it - I think that there have been more that 4 delays in sentencing so if I am MF, I am feeling good about the DOJ these days.
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unfortunately, a new sentencing memo will be required of both the prosecution and the defense, given
that things have changed since the last sentencing memo was entered. But I don’t expect there to be a lot of lag between the status conference on the 10th, and the sentencing date.
ding ding ding back atcha!
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Similar to Fox&Friends who just ‘argued’ that Trump’s raiding of $3.6B of DOD military funds (which impacts 23 states, 3 territories- mostly red states that voted for Trump) could easily be rectified by Congress if they re-allocate that specific $3.6B a second time. Jeebus!
Flynn pled guilty. No appeal, subject to Breach of Agreement, which should put him in a prison box, nail it shut, and bury this sucker. Why is this still going on?
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In the larger picture the sentencing hearing was postponed to September to see what cooperation Flynn would give in the Bijan Kian trial (none). So now it’s September and they’re going through the regular sentencing process and Flynn’s attorneys are throwing a spaghetti hurricane. We don’t know what went down in the secret hearing, whether it was the judge going through the motions of considering the spaghetti, or delivering a disciplinary warning (or both). Meanwhile, the Sept 10 hearing schedule sentencing is still on the calendar.
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