{"id":42621,"date":"2020-05-07T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42621"},"modified":"2020-05-07T22:29:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T22:29:54","slug":"doj-tosses-out-a-guilty-plea-what-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42621","title":{"rendered":"DOJ tosses out a guilty plea? What in the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I don’t think I misunderstand what has happened here.<\/p>\n

Michael Flynn, who served for 24 days as Donald Trump’s national security adviser, lied to the FBI and Vice President Mike Pence about the Russian interference in our 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Then the retired Army lieutenant general pleaded guilty<\/em> to charges brought by the FBI. He admitted<\/em> to breaking the law!<\/p>\n

Oh, but wait! Now the Department of Justice says Flynn’s admission of guilt is insufficient for him to be punished for committing a federal felony. So the DOJ declares it won’t prosecute Flynn.<\/p>\n

I agree with what a friend of mine said on social media: Attorney General William Barr needs to be disbarred! This an absolute travesty of justice!<\/p>\n

Barr’s rationale<\/a> reportedly is that the lie that Flynn told the FBI and Pence wasn’t “material” to the Russia probe, which had been started by former FBI Director James Comey and continued by special counsel Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n

Wasn’t this clown asked directly what he told Russian operatives about their attack on the election? Didn’t he then lie to the FBI and to Pence? And didn’t he then admit to lying?<\/p>\n

This looks to me — and, yes, others — like a systematic dismantling of the Comey\/Mueller probe into the Russian attack on our electoral system.<\/p>\n

It’s not necessarily a done deal. The DOJ needs approval of its recommendation by the judge to whom Flynn entered his guilty plea. I don’t know what the judge will decide. My hope is that he tosses William Barr’s request aside and then chews the AG out for trying to circumvent justice.<\/p>\n

Ridiculous.<\/p>\n\n

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I don’t think I misunderstand what has happened here. Michael Flynn, who served for 24 days as Donald Trump’s national security adviser, lied to the FBI and Vice President Mike Pence about the Russian interference in our 2016 presidential election. Then the retired Army lieutenant general pleaded guilty to charges brought by the FBI. He … Continue reading DOJ tosses out a guilty plea? What in the world?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42623,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42621\/revisions\/42623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}