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I think he may have been more amenable. The whole case is a mess. The agents who interviewed him did not think he was lying. I understand the initial plea – Flynn was under financial stress and the Mueller gang was threatening to prosecute his son and pressured him to agree to the plea just before they knew the Strozek/Page texts would go public which was a game changer. The second time around is harder. It’s too bad he had such terrible and conflicted representation.
Yea but. . .what did Flynn actually say or do that created this terrible mess of a case? I have never seen that specified. Have you Gumby?
Probably DC juries. One convicted the other guy in the FARA case and the judge threw out the verdict.
At the time of his “crime” of lying about speaking to the Russian ambassador about sanctions, Flynn was the incoming NSA chief, designated by the POTUS elect. Isn’t it the job of an NSA chief to communicate with foreign nations, amongst other duties?
I did a quick Google search and got this (from the Hindustan Times, of all places):
“It is undisputed that Mr. Flynn not only made those false statements to the FBI agents, but he also made the same false statements to the vice president and senior White House officials, who, in turn, repeated Mr. Flynn’s false statements to the American people on national television,” (Judge)Sullivan said in a 92-page ruling.
It is really difficult to understand why Flynn would make a false statement to the FBI and the Vice President concerning the nature of his conversation with the Russian, Kislyak. Nothing Flynn might have said would have been binding on POTUS. Flynn pleaded guilty almost two years ago. He could have served his 30 days and been done by now. It’s all very strange.
But the FBI agents thought he wasn’t “lying” …
I don’t remember exactly what the “lie” was ) if I ever knew. Is it possible he simply misspoke after dozens of calls to leaders?
Also- how did they know if lied? I seem to remember that might have indicated someone was listening on the call that shouldn’t have been.
@annefy, with all the NSA unmasking, it is highly likely that his conversation was listened to and recorded, especially with Kislyak. It is also unfathomable that Flynn didn’t know any conversation he had with Kislyak would be recorded. But Flynn pleaded guilty and then re-uped on his guilty plea. Now we have a skirmish between Judge Sullivan and Flynn’s new lawyer, Sydney Powell. I hate to see this. So now we have Manafort, Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Cohen, Flynn, and Roger Stone all convicted of some crime as a result of Mueller investigation. I am still waiting for all the criminals that illegally predicated the investigation to pay their dues as well.