Yesterday the draft memo written by the FBI agents who interviewed General Michael Flynn in January 2017, was released to the public two days after Flynn's defense team was given the document by the government. The agents concluded that Flynn "was not acting as a Russian agent" and that he told them what he believed to be true. In other words, Flynn did not lie to the FBI.
This interview is the basis for the charges brought by the Mueller prosecutors against Flynn for lying to the FBI. Flynn plead guilty to the charges after fighting them. He was out of money to pay for lawyers and the Mueller team threatened him that they would go after his family next. As a result he just gave up fighting. Since then, though, Flynn got a new lawyer who started fighting the charges. With the Mueller group gone, the Justice Department looked at the case and decided to drop the charges. The political judge on the case would not just accept the prosecutor's decision. It was an astounding move by the court. The court of appeals ordered the trial court to drop the case, but the judge is still trying to overturn that result.
Now this draft memo has surfaced. It's a major bombshell. The government --meaning the Mueller team--was legally required to turn this document over to Flynn's lawyers in mid 2017. The failure to do so means that any conviction against Flynn would have to be overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct. Forget that the memo basically contains an admission by the FBI that Flynn didn't lie and was not guilty; the withholding of the memo alone completely required the end of the case.
Despite all this, the Flynn case goes on. Enough is Enough!! The case has to be dismissed.Indsueed, the trial judge should be censured by the appeals court for his improper behavior. Most important, the Mueller prosecutors should be brought up on charges for prosecutorial misconduct. If the failure to turn over this memo was intentional, some of these prosecutors should be disbarred.
This interview is the basis for the charges brought by the Mueller prosecutors against Flynn for lying to the FBI. Flynn plead guilty to the charges after fighting them. He was out of money to pay for lawyers and the Mueller team threatened him that they would go after his family next. As a result he just gave up fighting. Since then, though, Flynn got a new lawyer who started fighting the charges. With the Mueller group gone, the Justice Department looked at the case and decided to drop the charges. The political judge on the case would not just accept the prosecutor's decision. It was an astounding move by the court. The court of appeals ordered the trial court to drop the case, but the judge is still trying to overturn that result.
Now this draft memo has surfaced. It's a major bombshell. The government --meaning the Mueller team--was legally required to turn this document over to Flynn's lawyers in mid 2017. The failure to do so means that any conviction against Flynn would have to be overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct. Forget that the memo basically contains an admission by the FBI that Flynn didn't lie and was not guilty; the withholding of the memo alone completely required the end of the case.
Despite all this, the Flynn case goes on. Enough is Enough!! The case has to be dismissed.Indsueed, the trial judge should be censured by the appeals court for his improper behavior. Most important, the Mueller prosecutors should be brought up on charges for prosecutorial misconduct. If the failure to turn over this memo was intentional, some of these prosecutors should be disbarred.
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