Why did the FBI want Flynn fired?

[Care4all]

yes, it's called lawlessness!

The "lawlessness" was the FBI and the MPF's minions usurping justice and persecuting a man who did nothing wrong.

The documents expose them, their own words prove they were on a war path against Trump and anyone connected to him. They flagrantly lied to FISA Courts, used "evidence" they knew to be fraudulent in order to perpetuate a witch hunt that lasted for 3 years and end in a joke of a impeachment.

BTW, if you're ever brought under investigation and your lawyer's office is raided, are you going to be upset?

THAT's LAWLESS. That's your meat puppet faggot's minions at work, that KGB sorts of shit.

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Pete, you've been spun a story by your right wing media about those emails imo.... they are vague, can go in the direction of what I think they mean and likely what the left wing media is spinning about them.....

...that seems to be the world we live in..... there is no room, for us to agree on anything, ever.....

as long as we both use opposing media sources, and both believe our news sources, to be fairly accurate.....

it's sad this is what America has come down to....

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Why did they set up a perjury trap for Flynn? What was their ultimate goal?

Specifically, liberals

What was their goal?

Logan act?

Why?

60 Minutes should do an expose on it. We ll see.

 

[Care4all]

Why did they set up a perjury trap for Flynn? What was their ultimate goal?

What fucking "perjury trap"?

Flynn lied ENTIRELY BY HIS OWN CHOICE, nobody made him perjure himself by lying about his talks with Russians and working for the Turkish government.

Sure...........kinda like the Dear Hunter playing Russian roulette against your own son......................If you don't give us what you want we'll keep pulling the trigger on your son.

Go fish. No one was discussing Flynn's son in January 2017 when he decided it was a good idea to lie to FBI about his dealings with Russians.

There was absolutely no leverage on him, he lied for a very simple reason - he thought telling the truth was worse.

winner winner chicken dinner!!!

 

[DJT for Life]

Why did they set up a perjury trap for Flynn? What was their ultimate goal?

Specifically, liberals

What was their goal?

Logan act?

Why?

They wanted him fired because Flynn had previously worked for the Obama Administration and was fired
because he was telling Obama off, about his dealings with the fuckin' ragheads.

But Obama knew Flynn was no dummy. As head of the NationalIntelligence he would get all the info
on the FBI and would know what they were doing. They had to get him out of the way to make their
scheme work. They almost succeeded, but alas...they failed and now former President Zero is behind
the Eight-Ball.

 

[WTH_Progs?]

Why did they set up a perjury trap for Flynn? What was their ultimate goal?

Specifically, liberals

What was their goal?

Logan act?

Why?

Because he broke the law. He was making promises to the Russian government to remove sanctions after they attacked the USA. He took money from the Russian government and the Turkish government. He was a dirty traitor to the nation.

The judge at his trial where he plead guilty more than once, called his behaviour “treasonous”.

ILMAO you said Russia attacked the USA

 

[Care4all]

Why did they set up a perjury trap for Flynn? What was their ultimate goal?

Specifically, liberals

What was their goal?

Logan act?

Why?

There was NO perjury trap, look up the legal definition of it.... the criteria was NOT MET.

Flynn was compromised..... he lied to the American people, and to Pence and to Priebus....

he told us, pence, priebus etc and the FBI, that he never spoke to Ambassador Kislyak about the Obama sanctions put on them that day or the ambassadors being expelled, for their systematic interference in our presidential election...

but the FBI had a tape of Kislyak speaking to the Kremlin, about his conversation with Flynn about the Obama new sanctions on them...and the expelling of Russian diplomats.... flynn convinced the Russians, not to retaliate... because Trump would be in office in a month, and basically they would not have to worry about the President Obama sanctions....

Flynn was compromised!

The Russians KNEW Flynn was lying to VP Pence and Priebus, the white house press secretary, about their conversations on the sanctions and expulsion of diplomats just put on them for the election interference....

This is Kompromat, for the Russians, to use on Flynn, when the time was right... blackmail material....

THE RUSSIANS KNEW HE WAS LYING..... to all of us....

Some back up sources

The Secrets Flynn Was Desperate to Conceal

The former national security adviser’s lies protected himself. But they also protected Trump.

www.theatlantic.com

Why Michael Flynn Is Walking Free

The former national security adviser figured out that loyalty to Trump is now a better bet than loyalty to the rule of law.

www.theatlantic.com

Why Michael Flynn Is Walking Free
The former national security adviser figured out that loyalty to Trump is now a better bet than loyalty to the rule of law.

MAY 7, 2020
David A. Graham
Michael Flynn was an early, instinctive Trumpist.

The retired general was an enthusiastic backer of Donald Trump’s candidacy, leading chants of “Lock her up!” at the 2016 Republican National Convention. And his less public work bore the hallmarks of Trumpism too: brazen lying, shameless profiteering, conspiracy-mongering, and bigoted tweeting.

Nonetheless, Flynn didn’t immediately grasp how much the rules of the game changed when Trump won the 2016 election. When Flynn, the newly minted national security adviser, got in trouble with the law, he quickly took up the standard playbook of white-collar criminals in pre-Trump America. When the FBI caught him lying, Flynn copped a plea and agreed to cooperate with the government in exchange for a lesser sentence.

Only after that December 2017 plea deal did Flynn grasp the new reality: Cooperating with authorities might get you off easy, but staying loyal to the president will get you off entirely. So even though he’d already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, Flynn changed his mind, tried to withdraw his plea, and began fighting the prosecutors he’d promised to help tooth and nail.

It was a bold move, the sort of unorthodox strategy for which he’d become famous as an intelligence officer. And today it paid off, as the government moved to drop all charges against Flynn. The reversal, from confessed felon to scot-free, is a microcosm of how dramatically the rule of law has weakened during the Trump administration.

Flynn was fired from the White House in February 2017, just days into his tenure as national security adviser. Before Trump’s inauguration, Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with the Russian foreign minister. But Flynn lied about those conversations to FBI agents. He also lied about them to Vice President Mike Pence, which was the reason given for his dismissal. (Flynn was not forced out when the president learned of the deception, but only when it was reported in The Washington Post.)

Flynn had a host of other problems too. He had lied repeatedly about taking money from the Turkish government for lobbying, failing to file required documents. He appeared to have lied about who paid for a 2015 trip to Russia, where he sat with Vladimir Putin. He was also involved in an arcane for-profit nuclear-reactor scheme in the Middle East. (One clear takeaway of the investigation is that, potential criminal acts aside, Flynn had no business getting anywhere near the sensitive job of national security adviser.)

Given these many legal problems, Flynn did what many prudent defendants do: He agreed to work with prosecutors in exchange for pleading guilty to only a small part of the many possible charges against him—in this case, lying to the FBI. But the longer he had a chance to see Trump in action, and to see how easily the president obliterates the supposed safeguards for rule of law, the more Flynn seemed to have second thoughts. Why take your chances with a charge and potential sentence, when you could instead return to the fold and let the president take care of you? So Flynn fired his lawyers; hired new, brasher ones; and announced that he wanted to withdraw his plea. The new attorneys got results instantly: Trump started tweeting positively about Flynn, suggesting that he was some sort of martyr.

The immediate predicate of the government’s move to dismiss the charges today was the release in April of FBI notes about its interviews with Flynn. Among the notes, an unidentified FBI employee wrote, “What is our goal? Truth/admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” The notes are the latest example of dubious FBI behavior. As a recent Justice Department inspector-general report found, the FBI has repeatedly abused rules for obtaining warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. As I have written repeatedly during the Trump administration, the FBI’s long record of abuse means that its statements cannot be taken at face value; the bureau will look out for its own interests, and break the rules to do so if it must. (There is no evidence, contra Trump’s claims, that Flynn was politically targeted by the Obama administration.)

The FBI notes set off a firestorm in conservative media, which argued that Flynn had been unfairly targeted by the bureau. The putative concern over unfair prosecutions rings false for Trump and his allies, who have demanded iron-fisted “law and order” in cases that don’t involve the president’s cronies. Moreover, many legal experts believed that the notes were insufficient to convince Judge Emmet Sullivan that Flynn was entrapped.

But as it happened, the notes didn’t have to convince Sullivan, because the Department of Justice withdrew the charges before the judge had to reach a conclusion. (Sullivan could still reject the DOJ’s motion. The long-running prosecutor on the case abruptly withdrew from it today, a likely sign of disagreement, and The New York Times reports that the motion stunned prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office.) Flynn’s defenders argued that the FBI was out to get him, and if the FBI is out to get you, it will find a way. But there’s a corollary: If Attorney General William Barr’s Justice Department wants to let you off, it will find a way too.

The whole process is stunning: Flynn was accused of committing several crimes, admitted to one to try to get himself off easy, agreed to cooperate, reneged on the deal, and is now free, having escaped punishment for both the crime to which he confessed and those on which he avoided prosecution.

Yet Flynn’s escape is not merely an isolated outrage. It is also a test case for loyalty to Trump. Since Flynn flipped on Trump, and then flopped back, his fate offers a lesson for others who might find themselves in a bind and tempted to turn on Trump, who continues to engage in the sort of behavior that got him impeached.

If there is any doubt about the White House’s role, the president telegraphed the outcome of this case on April 30, when he was asked whether he’d pardon Flynn. Trump said he didn’t think he’d have to.

“Well, it looks to me like Michael Flynn would be exonerated based on everything I see,” he said. “Look, I’m not the judge, but I have a different type of power. But I don’t know that anybody would have to use that power.”

This wasn’t just good guessing—it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Trump-Barr Justice Department appears to have different standards based on one’s political allegiance: For Trump critics, such as former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and political opponents, such as the Biden family, it looks high and low for a way to investigate or prosecute, leaning on novel or untested legal theories. But for loyalists (even a prodigal loyalist such as Flynn), it offers the benefit of every doubt, or at least does its best to soften the penalties (as it did for Roger Stone).

Cooperation deals are supposed to show criminals that returning to the fold and honoring rule of law has its benefits. But the Flynn case shows that those benefits pale in comparison to honoring loyalty to Trump.

 

[Jitss617]

It never should have gone to trial US Federal law specifically says you can not charge someone solely with perjury. States can but the Fed is not supposed to.

It didn't go to trial because he plead guilty in a plea bargain where he agreed to cooperate with the government and in return they would drop all of the other charges against him and allow him to plead guilty to one charge of lying to the FBI.

Lock her up!