Turtlesoup
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Oh stop with the BS-----I know you goofy Trump haters would like to change history and move the field posts, but again Flynn was criminally charged with lying when he hadn't lied to investigators who were lying and running a coup. They had no GROUNDS for an investigation (which they lied about) plain and simple. Anything and everything that they found after that point is MUTE....However, if you want to play games---and move away from the actual false charges of lying---I'll take it as a win for ME and start talking about your lost in a rabbit hole comments.That’s very much not true. McCabe asked Flynn to sit down for a voluntary interview regarding his conversation with the Russian ambassador. Flynn agreed.No one gave him that impression. Two FBI agents don’t show up to your office randomly for friendly conversations.I haven't heard anyone say that. However, he was deliberately given the impression it wasn't an official investigation. If your neighbor is an FBi agent, is it a crime to tell him that your dog didn't crap in his yard?Hey, sounds pretty stupid to me. But people said that Flynn didn’t know it was illegal to lie to the FBI so that’s the new standard.Maybe he didn’t intend to alter it? Maybe he didn’t know that was illegal?Great. So the guilty plea of Clinesmith is in no way validation or evidence of any illegal action.He was "caught" doing nothing illegal, moron. And, yes, a guilty is not proof of anything, especially when a establishment douchebag like Mueller is the prosecutor. Thousands of people who plead guilty were later found to be innocent and set free.He actually was caught red handed.Remember. Pleading guilty doesn’t actually mean you did anything illegal.
if you are referring to Flynn, the fbi agents stated they didn’t think he had lied. He was threatened into pleading guilty, so they wouldn’t also break financially his son, as they had done to him. Big difference. Total faux comparison.
Flynn was caught red handed too.
Everyone who pleads guilty does so because of the threat of a worse sentence.
So therefore there’s no proof he did anything wrong since a guilty plea doesn’t mean a crime has been committed. That’s the stupid world we live in thanks to Billy Barr.
Congrats. Our country just got dumber because of you.
You don't think that altering a document in order to get the FISA court to approve of a surveillance warrant isn't illegal?
Of course not. He's a lawyer. How could he possibly know it wasn't legal.
Actually that is what the FBI claimed they were there for..........a friendly conversation about the switch over of power etc. Flynn even flat out asked them about it and the fbi lied about what they were doing there-------
Maybe the fbi should be in prison for lying....
Oh geebus.......
Let's start with getting a few basics down.
1) There was no predicate to investigate Flynn---Flynn had done nothing wrong so any investigation launched at this point was ILLEGAL AND AN ABUSE of POWER. To investigate someone without cause (predicate) is a clear violation of civil rights law. All of the claims that the FBI made before about having cause have been shown to be a lie.......Comey, McCabe, and Stroz are now retracting all claims. They are best trying to claim that the ambassadors call was grounds---even though they know that nothing said during call was in any way grounds for any investigation.
2) In Flynns position, talking to foreign ambassadors is a common practice unworthy of any investigation It is the typical when administrations switch over.
3) As Flynn would later note---foreign ambassador phone calls are RECORDED by our FBI/NSA group--ergo the FBI already knew what was said and Flynn already knew that they knew what was exactly said. Flynn had no reason to lie or even fear an interview and the FBI knew they had no reason to question anything that was said. The FBI who has been snagged lying repeatedly claims that they told Flynn it was about the Ambassador----Flynns account is different. Now who do I believe---Flynn who hasn't lied, or the FBI who has been snagged lying over and over.
4) If you are investigating someone for a crime, it is law that you inform them that they have a right to an attorney. The FBI said flat out to Flynn that he didn't need an attorney ergo they said he wasn't under investigation.
6) COMEY-----despite what McCabe is now spinning specifically stated the that the FBI did not tell Flynn the real reason for why they wanted to interview him. IN FACT THE FBI'S NOTES FROM THAT TIME HAVE THE FBI DISCUSSING THEIR GOALS OF THE INTERVIEW WHICH WAS TO TRY TO TRICK FLYNN INTO TO LYING OR GET HIM FIRED. They could care a less about the phone call to the ambassador-----they weren't investigating anything--they were abusing their position violating Flynns rights and running a coup trying to take out Trumps people one way or the other.
These are not basics, they are mostly incorrect.
1. Flynn hadn't done anything wrong? Well apart from running an illegal lobbying organization (not filing required FARA documentation while working on behalf of Turkey in secret), receiving money from Russia against regulations and stipulations with his government contract. Not all FBI investigations are criminal, they also handle counterintelligence. Flynn was to be entrusted with our country's most secure and deeply held secrets, but he was lying about conversations he had with Russian government officials to his own bosses. You telling me that doesn't warrant an investigation? Nonsense.
2. That's fine. But conducting policy with foreign officials is not common practice. There's only one president at a time and his behavior, while not illegal, was not common or considered appropriate.
3. Paints more of a picture of Flynn's arrogance thinking he was above accountability. Flynn's account is not different based on any court filings I've read. As for Flynn has ever lied? Well, even if we accept your argument of his innocence, he did plead guilty to his offenses, so at the very least he lied in that regard.
4. You may have a right to an attorney but that doesn't mean you need to have an attorney, which is exactly what Flynn was told. He was also told he could have one present. So this point is not logical.
Lets talk about the Fara documentation that you are touting....yes flynn did it, but hun it is just a procedural error and naught more with no malice intent. Typically when such an oversight occurs, the feds just work with the individual to get back into compliance. Why the special hit job on Flynn when so many others have done the exact thing with no criminal charges.... .
"Under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, U.S. citizens who lobby on behalf of foreign government or political entities must disclose their work to the Justice Department. Willfully failing to register is a felony, though the Justice Department rarely files criminal charges in such cases. It routinely works with lobbying firms to get back in compliance with the law by registering and disclosing their work."---AP March 8, 2017
Oh lordy going after Flynn for accepting a speaking fee from a Russian television? Is that what you are trying to desperately get Flynn with? It violated no previous work policy and to cover his azz his attorney's went ahead and listed it as foreign income something like a big whopping $34,000--not that such fees necessarily required to be listed btw. He took speaking fees from a television company not a foreign government.
Everything Flynn did was appropriate...its dishonest to claim otherwise. Incoming administration have talks with foreign dipolmats all the time .
Flynn was EXTORTED into copping to lying when he hadn't lied------------------which is ILLEGAL, not on Flynns part, but on the FBIs. He didn't lie--he succumbed to the pressure of going bankrupt and having his son and thusly his new grandbaby destroyed if he didn't cave to our abusive FBI. There was no malice intent on his part, just a GOOD man trying to save his family from being destroyed by the evil Clinton/Obama FBI.