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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 06:48 AM Sep 2020

Court-appointed adviser to Michael Flynn judge: "this motion reflects a corrupt and politically..."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/court-corrupt-doj-drop-michael-flynn-case-412555

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s lies to the FBI are so clear — and their effect on the FBI’s Russia probe so obvious — that the Justice Department’s decision to drop the case can only be a pretext to help an ally of President Donald Trump, a court-appointed adviser to Judge Emmet Sullivan argued Friday.

In an unsparing, 30-page brief, John Gleeson, tapped by Sullivan to argue against the dismissal of the case, suggests that the Justice Department’s arguments for letting Flynn off the hook conflict with its positions in other cases — and even in earlier rounds of the Flynn case itself — and therefore can only be chalked up to Trump’s pressure campaign.

“There is clear evidence that this motion reflects a corrupt and politically motivated favor unworthy of our justice system,” wrote Gleeson, a former federal judge in Manhattan who was appointed by President Bill Clinton. ( bolding mine )

Gleeson, acting as an "amicus" or friend-of-the-court, also faulted the Justice Department for not grappling in any way in its brief with Trump's numerous statements blasting the criminal case and their potential impact on the decisions of prosecutors and their bosses.
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Court-appointed adviser to Michael Flynn judge: "this motion reflects a corrupt and politically..." (Original Post) steve2470 Sep 2020 OP
A wise and honest man gives a wise and honest assessment RVN VET71 Sep 2020 #1
Luckily, his report is not aimed at influencing the administration. 3Hotdogs Sep 2020 #3
This traitor, Michael Flynn, should be locked up for life! In other countries it would be death... Illumination Sep 2020 #2
Reminds me of another traitor, Lt. Col. Ollie North, flamin lib Sep 2020 #4

RVN VET71

(2,699 posts)
1. A wise and honest man gives a wise and honest assessment
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 08:14 AM
Sep 2020

But will it make a difference to the worm-eaten brains of the corrupt Trump Administration? More to the point, will any of the cults 40+million members view it as anything but deep-state intransigence (or whatever Trump-Barr choose to call it)?

3Hotdogs

(12,456 posts)
3. Luckily, his report is not aimed at influencing the administration.
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 08:22 AM
Sep 2020

It is aimed at the judge who is deciding the case.

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
4. Reminds me of another traitor, Lt. Col. Ollie North,
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 09:55 AM
Sep 2020

who in his own testimony before Congress admitted to forming a "self directed, self funded, independent office" to formulate and execute Central American policy. An organization that ran drugs from Columbia into Los Angeles to buy small arms for the Contras who formed death squads for any opposition including a group of Catholic nuns.

George H Bush pardoned him and all the other criminals that Reagan allowed to run his administration.

I just don't understand why Reagan is lionized by the public at large when his administration is third in corruption, behind Nixon and Trump and 8 times that of Bill Clinton.

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