Washington Free Beacon: DOJ Dropping Criminal Case Against Ex-Trump Adviser Flynn

DOJ Dropping Criminal Case Against Ex-Trump Adviser Flynn
Reuters - 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.

Reposted because I accidentally clicked the "Delete" button and Blogger has no mechanism to undo that. Shame on you, Google.

- - -

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.

Circa: Did the FBI retaliate against Michael Flynn by launching Russia probe?

Did the FBI retaliate against Michael Flynn by launching Russia probe?
by John Solomon and Sara Carter

...
The FBI launched a criminal probe against former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn two years after the retired Army general roiled the bureau’s leadership by intervening on behalf of a decorated counterterrorism agent who accused now-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and other top officials of sexual discrimination, according to documents and interviews.

Flynn’s intervention on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz was highly unusual, and included a letter in 2014 on his official Pentagon stationary, a public interview in 2015 supporting Gritz’s case and an offer to testify on her behalf. His offer put him as a hostile witness in a case against McCabe, who was soaring through the bureau’s leadership ranks.

The FBI sought to block Flynn’s support for the agent, asking a federal administrative law judge in May 2014 to keep Flynn and others from becoming a witness in her Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) case, memos obtained by Circa show. Two years later, the FBI opened its inquiry of Flynn.

The EEOC case, which is still pending, was serious enough to require McCabe to submit to a sworn statement to investigators, the documents show.

The deputy director’s testimony provided some of the strongest evidence in the case of possible retaliation, because he admitted the FBI opened an internal investigation into Gritz’s personal conduct after learning the agent “had filed or intended to file” a sex discrimination complaint against her supervisors.

McCabe eventually became the bureau’s No. 2 executive and emerged as a central player in the FBI’s Russia election tampering investigation, putting him in a position to impact the criminal inquiry against Flynn.

Three FBI employees told Circa they personally witnessed McCabe make disparaging remarks about Flynn before and during the time the retired Army general emerged as a figure in the Russia case.
...

So now the truth starts to come out. The FBI director (formerly deputy director) was accused of sexual discrimination. Flynn wrote a memo supporting the accusation. The FBI retaliated by initiating investigations against both and by filing bogus criminal charges against Flynn.

And that's about it. Everything else we've been told for the past six months is just political grandstanding. Read the rest of the article here.