The Flynn thing is interesting.
If you purger yourself during a guilty plea, and the guilty plea is part of a plea deal to avoid much more serious crimes, and then you get everything thrown out....he's going to face charges for the crimes he actually committed right? And not get any credit for all the cooperation.
I mean, we know Turkey was paying him when he wrote that op-ed. And we know he lied on his financial disclosures. And we know he didn't register as foreign agent till he got caught...and that's one item on a list of many things...
What is his play here? Are people really going to rally around him and claim exoneration because he wasn't told not to lie to the FBI?
If you purger yourself during a guilty plea, and the guilty plea is part of a plea deal to avoid much more serious crimes, and then you get everything thrown out....he's going to face charges for the crimes he actually committed right? And not get any credit for all the cooperation.
I mean, we know Turkey was paying him when he wrote that op-ed. And we know he lied on his financial disclosures. And we know he didn't register as foreign agent till he got caught...and that's one item on a list of many things...
What is his play here? Are people really going to rally around him and claim exoneration because he wasn't told not to lie to the FBI?
Was reading some broadstrokes of the politico article regarding all of this, and it all looks a bit weird. Here's one of the quotes that I grabbed that was a bit weird from one of the FBI officials:
“What is our goal? Truth/admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” the notes read.
That just sounds a bit weird. I know that it is a common goal of investigators to ask you questions that they already know the answer to, it just comes off a bit weird to me. I think that Flynn is praying that the new Justice Department under the lead of William Barr will be a bit friendly towards him.
I know Barr has a taskforce setup to investigate the investigation of Barr to see if there was any wrongdoing, still ongoing.
Check out his guilty plea: https://www.justice.gov/file/1015126/download
I take back the perjury statement earlier...it doesn't seem like he's actually claiming innocent (I could be wrong).
I don't get how there is such a huge rally around the guy. I mean, I get he was a huge asset to the military...but he obviously broke the law, admitted it and took a deal that very likely would result in no jail time.
Am I missing something Tecshare? Do you think he's actually innocent? Or just not care that he's guilty since you share political views?
