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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is dropping its criminal case against Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, who had previously pleaded guilty to lying to F.B.I. agents about his conversations with a Russian diplomat, a department official said on Thursday.
The extraordinary move comes amid a sustained attack by Mr. Flynn’s lawyers on prosecutors and the F.B.I., accusing them of egregious conduct. In recent days, Mr. Flynn’s lawyers said the Justice Department had uncovered new documents that pointed to misconduct.
In a possible sign of disagreement with the Justice Department decision, Brandon L. Van Grack, the department lawyer who led the prosecution of Mr. Flynn, abruptly withdrew from the case on Thursday. Mr. Flynn’s lawyers have repeatedly attacked Mr. Van Grack by name in court filings, citing his “incredible malfeasance.”
Mr. Flynn first pleaded guilty in late 2017 to lying to investigators and cooperated extensively before moving to withdraw his plea and fight the case in court. He had also entered a guilty plea a second time in 2018 at an aborted sentencing hearing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/politics/michael-flynn-case-dropped.html?smid
ConformistWithACause
Anybody else wonder what's happening in the good timeline?
Frozenstethoscope
The FBI notes re: the interview ask if their "goal" was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired". Malfeasance.Criminal.
Abekrampe
This is why Flynn walks https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/30/james_comey_says_he_violated_protocol_in_flynn_investigation.html
beachbum273
To be fair the prosecution fucked up bigtime.
Selendrile
This is where Russia gate nonsense gets you.. Told you it was all bullshite.
Deviantone365
Right wing left wing doesnt matter the way this all went down is freaking scary
alongharrison1
Again. You and your pussyhat wearing libs go to Venezuela!
nooneneedsmorethan16kofram
icehouseoc112
LOL! Shur.
CharlieWhiskey3
Fruit of a poisoned tree.
zyxzevn
Only telling half the story.. Typical NYT.
Bruhbeans
Uhu, bold words with no backup you got there buddy
ThailandExpress
licmasack
Cheesecakecrush
FBI had it out for him and was fabricating evidence, and plead guilty to that evidence to protect his family.
Bruhbeans
No they didn't.
feelingfine69
If they can do this to a General, imagine what they can do to you. Whether you like Trump or not, this is outrageous. Heads must roll
Asteroidrules
Daily reminder that Bill Barr is a traitor to the United States of America.
CharlieWhiskey3
You spelled COMEY wrong
CatatonicCowMoo
*sigh* I'm not even surprised or outraged anymore. Just tired and sad.
jayskyall
I think that may be ther point
channelranger
That's how autocracy starts- make you so fucking tired of being angry at the bullshit that's going down people stop fighting.
CatatonicCowMoo
Yup. And they're winning that fight.
januskincaid
Hold the fuck on. He pled guilty and was released? What the actual fuck is happening?
Abekrampe
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/30/james_comey_says_he_violated_protocol_in_flynn_investigation.html
IgnoreAlienOrders
How do you plead when the FBI holds a gun to your family's head?
skellumqt
Trump admin is interfering.
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Yes, but I'm not unhappy with anything that argues against our "the government can lie to you but you can't lie to the government" system...
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
This has always bugged be as it seems at odds with your right to not self-incriminate, and the FBI has been using it as a primary tool...
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
for many years now. They don't have to solve the crimes, just get the people they don't like to lie to them in any way, which is not hard.
alongharrison1
It sure was by Obama
upthehillandtotheright
Are you fucking kidding me. That prosecutor is a fucking coward. Fuck Flynn guy should rot in jail
MoldyKumquat
https://youtu.be/kAC_sUeKxgI
Bruhbeans
Jesus what bullshit
MoldyKumquat
Provide sources it's bullshit?
Johnny5dicks
It's YouTuber with opinions. Full stop.
MoldyKumquat
Reading from verified 3rd party news stories. The articles and evidence exist, go look it up. Oh its a YouTuber therefore false. Yea no.
Thorn14
I have to get out of this shithole of a country.
SoCoDude
Wow, hyperbole much? There's hysterical, and then there's this comment.
SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem
Same. I wish I were born in any other first world, democratic nation. The US is overrun with absolute fucking morons who deny reality.
CharlieWhiskey3
But you won't. People like you never do.
808Lion
Ditto
IgnoreAlienOrders
Nobody's stopping you.
CloakedFigure
Ah, the slippery slope of autocracy. Buckle up, America. The potentialities are terrifying. Democracy is under siege.
WorldsSmallestMegaDick
Uh the abuse of power was the fbi blackmailing flynns damily even though they had exulpatory evidence they hid from the courts.
Spiff1983
Joke’s on you...the USA is a Republic. We are NOT a democracy (mob rule).
NomDeImguerre
The US is not an Ochlocracy. Democracy has the people rule within a framework of laws, like the Constitution. An Ochlocracy lacks those.
NelsonDillard
A note from FBI "what is the plan, the truth or get him to lie so we can get him fired" you people are a fucking stupid.
PiTriDish
Eh?
NelsonDillard
When did you applaud a citizen being shaken down by police with ZERO basis for investigation....any other post about cops abusing power is
NelsonDillard
Absolutely eaten alive here. You people are impossible.
SoCoDude
Rationale at Imgur is simple, if we don't like you, any means to destroy you is acceptable.
NelsonDillard
Its crazy how big of a sounding board this is. Full of people who trample any other type of echo chamber. Lunacy watching from the outside
SoCoDude
Totally
PutThePRNDLinD
Trump/Barr have no interest in having anyone hear what he, and others, might say in court. This isn't a surprise, just another injustice.
DVSBSTrD
And we'd better let him keep doing it, because voting for Joe Biden would be the greatest injustice of all!
SilverEagleCafe
Yeah, #metoo and "Believe all women" unless it's your candidate, the they believe in due process again suddenly.
DVSBSTrD
dressedtoth9999
I love the ass backward patriotism. Uncanny and shocking.
omgilovepizza
According to the news they are just moving to drop it, it has to be done by a judge, and the judge is not partisan thankfully.
Prime67
The judge would be overruled for abuse of discretion if he doesn't drop it. The prosecutors will be lucky if they keep their law license.
CharlieWhiskey3
Fruit of a poison tree. Judge will have no leg to stand on.
skellumqt
That is not what "fruit of a poisoned tree" means.
CharlieWhiskey3
Yes it is.. Bad evidence (steel dossier) led to this entire process.
CharlieWhiskey3
Plus section 241 Title 18 makes it fruit of a poison tree
skellumqt
The charges Flynn pled guilty to did not originate with the dossier, but the FBI's interview of him over his Kislyak conversations
CharlieWhiskey3
Section 241 title 18...read it
BriefausdemGeist
Russian bots downvoting this post and comments hard.
LovePat
Liar
BriefausdemGeist
Your account’s been deleted.
licmasack
azazyel
gwhh
I guess trump was wrong.
culinarydream7224
And then there's this guy: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/18/judge-tells-michael-flynn-you-sold-your-country-out-at-hearing.html
licmasack
Good, now he can testify
dank69
Get the damn guillotine already.
IDontWatchDoctorWho
Does nobody else find it weird he says shit like this on Twitter.. or that he says anything at all on it
W92Baj
Only the entire fucking planet
CodeChimpin
I find it unprofessional and unbecoming of someone in his position.
EvilMadMonk
was his record not something around 160 tweets in one weekend?
zerozolo
All people of power should really loose access to twitter.
Quenry
I find it far more weird that nobody stops him.
jeeps005
who would?
jeeps005
or i mean who could
bridgebrain
I'd be fine with the POTUS using twitter if they were competent. Following the nations doings live would be great if it weren't horrifying
Urgentinsurgent
I'm a US citizen and I think I'd like to move to Denmark or Portugal. I should do some research
sandanbeekeeper
Bon Voyage! I’ll be your chaperone, escorting you to your seat, you precious thing. You can join celebrities that swore they’d leave in 2016
ThrowAwayAcct0000
I left last July for a country with universal health care. Thank God!
desmoquattro
Canada's pretty cool too. Less culture shock, and just enough socialism to be awesome! Plus our taxes are reasonable.
manamanamdududududu
You are most welcome
665NeighborOfTheBeast
Ireland is nice!
longshorttermmemorynetwork
Portugal's got one of the better paths to EU citizenship.
WallowsInMud
I'm part French, speak some French too, does France still do foreign legion? I wouldn't mind doing that for citizenship there honestly
SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem
Yeah I really wish I could move to another country like Canada, NZ, the UK, Sweden, you name it. I feel like the US is a lost cause due to
10sky
① Canadian here, you'd be better off crossing us off the list. Politically it feels like Canada is trying to copy USA, seeing yalls messups
10sky
③ healthcare goes, it's not the greatest. While it's great to visit a hospital/doctor for free, that's all you get. Might as well go to UK.
SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem
a large chunk of the dumb-as-fuck population here who are hell-bent on making sure the country is as terrible and backwards as possible.
OriginalSyn
As a Canadian, while it's not USA levels we're not far behind. My premier almost certainly rigged his party leadership election, then
OriginalSyn
His party fired the guy investigating thier election fraud.
10sky
② and going "wow, that was really profitable!" Or "Oh, people didn't like that, we better do it more discretely" Plus, as far as universal
mydisciplesarelegion
We need new adjectives for this level of bullshit. Plead guilty and still get found innocent. This isn’t even a banana republic anymore.
Jay2Kaye
Yeah because guilty pleas are never coerced
Glassman62
He wasn’t found innocent. Charges were dropped because of gross misconduct by FBI. If they find new evidence they could reopen.
chemerso2000
Actually wasn’t the case “dismissed with prejudice”, meaning they can’t retry him on it?
Glassman62
Yes. That’s why they could not use any of the evidence they gathered. It would have to be all new evidence. Basically if he lied again.
Bruhbeans
"gross misconduct" according to a trump approved crony but ok
geistwindmedia
Refusal of passing over exculpatory evidence is gross misconduct. Stating g your goal is get him fired is gross misconduct. Threatening
geistwindmedia
To launch admittedly bogus investigations I to your children to bankrupt them is gross misconduct. Had this been done to literally anyone,
geistwindmedia
Yes crazed imgur users, even mrs clinton, I would be just as disgusted. This horseshit has no place in ANY justice system ANYWHERE.
FunkyMonkey7503
we'll have to see, but if this really is a Brady violation, it's a huge deal. Many prosecutorial careers have been ended over Brady's
Prime67
Withholding Brady material is kinda the definition of gross misconduct. The pros. Will be lucky to keep his law license.
mardukkur
This is a ridiculous lie. The "gross misconduct" is made up bullshit.
Prime67
Umm withholding Brady material after a court order is kind of the per se definition of gross misconduct.
mardukkur
The judge ruled (repeatedly!!!) that this never happened. It's completely made-up bullshit.
Prime67
The judge hasn't made any rulings since the new material (that should have been turned over years ago) has surfaced this month.
VernonTWalldrip
The Justice Department has been hijacked.
Bruhbeans
Jup, and the r/theDonald tagsquad is trying to highjack the comment section. They're a cancer
TheRelevancyOfMyNameIsRelativelyIrrelevant
the Injustice department
RustledYourJimmies
It’s so bloody Orwellian over in the US rights now it’s scary.
Macnin10dos
It’s been hijacked for years, don’t pretend like this is new.
NationofSchrad
More like bought out. Justice has been a joke in this country for a long time.
CharlieWhiskey3
Was hijacked by the Obama administration. Documents are coming.
BHPaperstacks
hahahaha
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Bruhbeans
Think everyone missed that part since it's bullshit
Mimsey
That's the right wing spin on the documents, but if you read them it's clear they were wondering if they could get him to spill more.
AStupidWeeb
AStupidWeeb
The user I responded to was claiming that Flynn was innocent but now he's deleted his comment because he's a coward.
Mimsey
Username checks out. You're a sheep who can't defend your regressive ideology so you just attack others and try to make them play defense.
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Mimsey
You literally can't. The conclusion of the Mueller Report was that Trump benefited considerably from Russian interference. /1
Mimsey
It also warned us that Russian attacks on our elections were ongoing AT THIS TIME, while the GOP was blocking 3 election security bills. /2
Mimsey
https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1004
Zipbang
If he was innocent why not go through with the case and expose any corruption then?
icehouseoc112
Because it’s all a charade my poor sheep.
Jarjarthejedi
Same reason our "innocent" president made sure there would be 0 witnesses at his trial. They're so "innocent" they can't defend themselves
Jarjarthejedi
in a court of any kind and have to pull shenanigans like this to avoid being convicted. And idiots buy that they're "innocent" because,
Jarjarthejedi
after all, the justice system didn't get them! *eyeroll*
geistwindmedia
Jurry tax. Take our deal, or we will fuck your son, his family, and destroy everyone you know and love. Common tactics.
Uptightandwhite
The weight of the federal justice system shouldn’t be underestimated.
DatGringo
did you see what happened to epstein
vIRLWarlock
because he is Bankrupt. He lost literally everything, then they threatened to do the same to his son, which is the reason he plead guilty.
vIRLWarlock
He ran out of money, completely. Then his family was threatened with the same treatment. Wouldn't you plea guilty at that point?>
vIRLWarlock
Not entirely dissimilar to the men getting out of prison on fake rape charges because pleading guilty was the only way they would ever>
vIRLWarlock
leave prison for example.
puddin151
cuz they told him take the plea deal or we will go after your son, innocent people take plea deals all the time our legal system is fucked
CrypticalEnvelopement
Sad but true, lots of innocent people take plea deals. I'm not defending Flynn but our system isn't perfect
Zipbang
What did they have on his son to make him take a deal? Did his son commit a crime too?
puddin151
if they look hard enough there is always something, same reason you don't talk to cops without a lawyer
dave262
This right here.
PumpingLemma
People with connections like Flynn do not take plea deals when they are innocent. He had options. This isn't some poor nobody.
asmpsUnityDog
Those connections wont help when his son is sitting in a federal prison. Flynn took the plea because they threatened his family.
captainhappen
Flynn took the plea deal because he flipped, snitched on Manafort and Stone, and oh yeah, GOT CAUGHT ON A WIRETAP AND LIED ABOUT IT
TimeKeepsOnMoving
It's interesting because it doesn't state who was guilty of the "misconduct". Then the attorney for the JD left. Must have been crazy docs
ClearBlue
More to come when Durham completes his investigation into wrongdoing by the FBI, Justice Department, and intelligence agencies.
Ghostlogicz
He didn’t leave he left the case after they overturned his verdict he fought for and let someone he successfully prosecuted go free
humptyblargh
He withdrew from every case he was currently working on, but he didn't resign. Can't give up the paycheck, he'll need it for his own lawyers
Prime67
It's easy to successfully prosecute a case when you withhold exculpatory information from the defendant and the court...
Ghostlogicz
You saw the same thing in the other trump associate cases when the lawyers all resigned after Barr changed the sentence they had won.
Ghostlogicz
It’s what happens when you have too much integrity to leak or break oath but have lost faith in the leadership and administration
Fluffyleopard
BecauSe innocent people go to jail all the time.
Mimsey
You NEVER see the Right use this logic for anyone else. Why apply it here? In just this case?
Zipbang
So let every one out? Bold strategy Cotton.
berserkerteacup
Kind of ironic turn of phrase, you should look up Picking Cotton, a false eyewitness identification case.
Bolderox
https://nypost.com/2020/04/19/dozens-of-nyc-inmates-back-in-jail-after-coronavirus-release/
Prime67
....have you been paying any attention? They found "no derogatory information" and wanted to close his case 20 days before they interviewed.
Prime67
Him. There was zero basis for the interview. Comey admitted to it basically being a trap to get him fired. His entire ordeal was manifest
Prime67
Injustice. I hope he wins millions for it.
captainhappen
they were going to close the case before they had him on a wiretap talking to the Russians and lying to Pence about it
Prime67
They already had the transcript before they ever interviewed him. They were closing the case and interviewed him with no material purpose.