Author: R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR.
The views of the Authors are not necessarily the views of Enigmose
Let us turn to the controversy surrounding Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first choice for national security adviser. Mr. Flynn was prosecuted and found guilty of lying to the FBI years ago, and, as the wheels of justice grind slowly in the United States, after much expense to both the government and to Mr. Flynn he was found guilty and about to be sentenced when the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr two weeks ago let him off the hook. The attorney general, after a lengthy procedure, found Mr. Flynn committed no crime.
Yet, if no crime was committed by Mr. Flynn, that does not mean no crime was committed at all. His perfectly legal conversation with the then–Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was leaked to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius. As George Neumayr and I have been claiming since this story broke, the person or persons who leaked this classified conversation committed a serious crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. They are the people who should now be indicted.
The attorney general was right. There was no predicate for charging Mr. Flynn with a crime back in 2017. Incidentally, that was not his judgment, or at least it was not his judgment alone. The Justice Department’s decision was reviewed by a seasoned prosecutor, Jeff Jensen, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. He found in a 108-page report that there was reason to dismiss the case against Mr. Flynn. His report is damning. It throws the FBI’s whole pursuit of Mr. Flynn into doubt — as George and I said back in 2017. There should be prosecutions here, and they will not be prosecutions of Mr. Flynn.
Yet if Mr. Jensen’s report cleared Mr. Flynn, why are the Democrats and the press so eager to castigate the attorney general and not Mr. Jensen? All we read in the press is that the country’s best legal minds are outraged at the attorney general. Almost 2,000 former employees for the Justice Department signed an open letter protesting Mr. Barr’s action. (Thousands of other former Justice Department employees apparently abstained.) The answer is because the attorney general oversees the entire cleanup of “Spygate” with all its working parts. The surest way to close down this enormous undertaking is to take out Attorney General Barr. Full Article @ American Spectator
The Firehose of Falsehood Hits Flynn, Gorka, and King
The firehose of falsehood campaigns against Flynn, Gorka, and King have a number of things in common.
First they came for General Mike Flynn, and I did not speak out— - Because I was not a truth-telling military officer who contradicted the worldview of Max Boot and Jennifer Rubin and David Ignatius and others on the Washington Post payroll. Read More
Forget About Seeing Any Justice For Obamagate
Disabuse yourself of your naïve delusion that we still live in a country with a justice system
Allow me to disabuse you of your naïve delusion that we still live in a country with a justice system and break it to you that no one is going to jail for what was done to Flynn, or for the unmasking business, or for the Russia hoax or, for that matter, for any of the corrupt Dem/foreigner collaborations exemplified by the payoffs received by stripperphile and Bolivian folk medicine enthusiast Hoover Biden.
No one.
Well, maybe Mike Flynn himself will. Since his judge is now making up the law as he goes along – in law school they taught us that the judicial branch didn’t prosecute, but that was before the Trump Exception™ to existing principles – I actually expect that the next time the General shows up in court the judge will sentence him on his coerced plea to a “crime” that never happened and order the marshals to immediately take him into custody. Read More
In the Flynn Case, It’s Time for an Extraordinary Writ
With every passing week it will be harder to stop Judge Sullivan from violating the constitutional restrictions on the power of our courts.
Do not wait. That is the part of wisdom for President Trump and Attorney General Barr as the United States seeks to end its wrongful prosecution of General Michael Flynn. It is for the United States to petition the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for a writ of mandamus against Judge Emmet Sullivan. A newspaper is not a lawyer. Our advice, though, could not be more emphatic: Do ... not ... wait.
We say that because with every passing week it will be harder to stop Judge Sullivan from violating the constitutional restrictions on the power of our courts. The courts may decide only actual cases and controversies. When both sides desire to end their dispute, the power of the court to act is over. Judge Sullivan seems so emotionally invested in this case that he chafes at that restriction. Meantime America and General Flynn are both being damaged. Read More
