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In the Michael Flynn case, Trump's corrupt DOJ tried to drop the charges against the admitted perjurer after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on the case.
Trump's full-time personal lawyer and part-time Attorney General, Billy Barr, launched an investigation in order to smear the FBI for daring to accumulate evidence against Flynn. Smearing the FBI would also help our president advance his mission to undermine the rule of law in general. So it's a twofer.
But the judge, Emmett Sullivan, smelled a rat and declined to let the charges be dropped. It turns out that a judge has the right to reject a request to dismiss the charge if that request is an attempt to elicit the judicial branch’s complicity in what is a corrupt, politically motivated decision.
At a hearing on all this on September 29, 2020, a lawyer representing one of the FBI agents noticed that someone had altered the notes submitted by the agent. The DOJ told the judge that it “inadvertently” forgot to remove post-its it had attached to documents it produced to Flynn as part of the Bill Barr-ordered review of Flynn’s prosecution. The post-its skewed the timeline around the Russia probe in order to amp up claims that former Vice President Joe Biden — Trump’s presidential opponent — was deeply involved in the FBI’s supposed anti-Trump plot.
Oops.
Federal judges don't like being lied to, however "inadvertently." Judge Sullivan said this incident broke his trust that federal prosecutors would file accurate documents. Now, Sullivan is demanding that the DOJ produce two declarations attesting to the veracity of exhibits it has filed in the case since making the unprecedented decision to drop charges against the former national security adviser in May. The judge also wants prosecutors to itemize each exhibit by date, author, and name, and to type up all handwritten documents filed in the matter.
The order creates reams of work for the DOJ in its bid to drop charges against Flynn, and compels federal prosecutors to back up numerous claims they’ve made in the case after the DOJ conceded that the document had been altered.
That's your Trump administration in action. Not merely corrupt. Corrupt and incompetent.
Trump's full-time personal lawyer and part-time Attorney General, Billy Barr, launched an investigation in order to smear the FBI for daring to accumulate evidence against Flynn. Smearing the FBI would also help our president advance his mission to undermine the rule of law in general. So it's a twofer.
But the judge, Emmett Sullivan, smelled a rat and declined to let the charges be dropped. It turns out that a judge has the right to reject a request to dismiss the charge if that request is an attempt to elicit the judicial branch’s complicity in what is a corrupt, politically motivated decision.
At a hearing on all this on September 29, 2020, a lawyer representing one of the FBI agents noticed that someone had altered the notes submitted by the agent. The DOJ told the judge that it “inadvertently” forgot to remove post-its it had attached to documents it produced to Flynn as part of the Bill Barr-ordered review of Flynn’s prosecution. The post-its skewed the timeline around the Russia probe in order to amp up claims that former Vice President Joe Biden — Trump’s presidential opponent — was deeply involved in the FBI’s supposed anti-Trump plot.
Oops.
Federal judges don't like being lied to, however "inadvertently." Judge Sullivan said this incident broke his trust that federal prosecutors would file accurate documents. Now, Sullivan is demanding that the DOJ produce two declarations attesting to the veracity of exhibits it has filed in the case since making the unprecedented decision to drop charges against the former national security adviser in May. The judge also wants prosecutors to itemize each exhibit by date, author, and name, and to type up all handwritten documents filed in the matter.
The order creates reams of work for the DOJ in its bid to drop charges against Flynn, and compels federal prosecutors to back up numerous claims they’ve made in the case after the DOJ conceded that the document had been altered.
That's your Trump administration in action. Not merely corrupt. Corrupt and incompetent.
