DOJ Dropping Criminal Case Against Ex-Trump Adviser FlynnReuters - May 7, 2020 3:08 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday abruptly sought to drop the criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, following mounting pressure from Trump’s political allies on the right.
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And now Flynn needs to sue everybody involved in this bogus prosecution. We now know that not only is there no evidence of any crime, there never was any evidence and the FBI knew it from day one. We also know that the FBI agents investigating the case wanted to drop it right from the start, but they were pressured by their politically-appointed bosses to try and invent a crime. We even have a hand-written memo stating that the interview at which Flynn supposedly lied was conducted for the express purpose of trying to trip him up in order to create an excuse for a prosecution. And even then, the agents conducting the interview said that Flynn didn't lie - an opinion that was only changed several months later when the top brass was demanding an excuse for a prosecution.
The people responsible for this need to lose their jobs and their pensions. They need to reimburse Flynn for the millions of dollars he spent defending himself against these bogus charges, plus punitive damages to make sure nobody ever tries a stunt like this again.
And no, I don't care that he plead guilty in 2017. He went bankrupt paying lawyers and the government had started threatening his family. I guarantee that you (whoever you are) would have confessed under far less pressure. A confession given under duress is no confession under any concept of justice.
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