Former Federal Judge John Gleeson called Atty. Gen. William Barr’s May 11 decision to dismiss 62-year-old Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s perjury case an “abuse of power.” According to Gleeson Flynn “has committed perjury for which he deserves punishment,” Gleeson said, giving U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan reason to continue the trial, even though the legal authority, the Department of Justice, decided to withdraw the charges. Yes, everyone can stipulate it’s a highly unusual situation to dismiss previous DOJ charges. Calling Flynn’s dismissal “a gross abuse of prosecutorial power,” Gleeson shows he can’t evaluate Flynn’s case. Gleeson’s one-size-fits-all application to law doesn’t apply to Flynn when 59-year-old former FBI Director James Comey engaged in an illegal counterintelligence investigation of the 73-year-old President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Flynn was caught in an FBI sting operation not predicated on any legal probable cause. Comey was not permitted to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign simply because he wanted to help former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton get elected in 2016. Calling Barr’s decision to dismiss Flynn’s case “a gross abuse of prosecutorial power,” Gleeson proves he doesn’t understand what happened to Flynn. Recently declassified documents prove that Comey sent 50-year-old former FBI agent Peter Strzok and former agent Joe Pientka to informally interview Flynn at the White House January 24, 2017, only four days after Trump’s inauguration. Comey admitted he made no effort to coordinate Flynn’s interview with White House counsel. Gleeson has made outrageous prejudicial statements against Trump and Atty. Gen. Bill Barr.
Gleeson contends without knowing Flynn’s case that the DOJ engaged in highly illegal activity dismissing Flynn’s case. “The Government has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President,” said Gleeson, assuming facts not in evidence. He would object vigorously to any attorney making such outrageous statements in his courtroom. Gleeson knows that Trump was subject of an illegal counterintelligence investigation in which Flynn was snared in the process. Barr isn’t doing a political favor to Trump, he’s trying to undo the damage done by Comey’s FBI to the DOJ by using the nation’s federal law enforcement apparatus to undermine Trump’s 2016 campaign. Gleeson completely ignores Comey’s hghly illegal conduct in setting up Flynn in a perjury trap. Gleeson should give Barr some credit that he’s trying to clean up the FBI and DOJ’s misconduct.
Gleeson insists that Flynn “has indeed committed perjury” to U.S. District Court Judge Emmit Sullivan during case proceedings “for which he deserves punishment.” Whatever Flynn deserves, he doesn’t deserve Comey’s Jan. 24, 2017 decision to send Strzok and Pientka to the White House for an informal interview. Gleeson isn’t considering the fact that when 55-year-old former National Security Adviser Susan Rice “unmasked” Flynn’s conversations with 69-year-old former Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak, Flynn didn’t think he was speaking to the Russian government. Kislyak was a long-term fixture in Washington’s cocktail party scene for nearly 30 years. How would Flynn know that to FBI agents he was speaking to the Russian government? Former President Barack Obama was concerned about the Trump’s transition team undermining his anti-Russian foreign policy.
When Rice “unmasked” Flynn’s phone calls with Kislyak, Obama was concerned that Trump’s transition team was undermining the last days of his foreign policy that expelled 35 Russian diplomats Dec. 31, 2016 for allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election. Gleeson isn’t privy to Barr and U.S. Atty. John Durham’s investigation into Operation Crossfire Hurricane, where Comey investigated the Trump campaign to help Hillary get elected. Gleeson doesn’t get that Comey’s FBI was engaged in a highly illegal counterintelligence examination when he sent Strzok and Pientka’s to the White House Jan. 24, 2017 to interview Flynn. Gleeson thinks Flynn perjured himself when the FBI had no legal probable cause to interrogate him. Gleeson doesn’t get how highly illegal Comey’s Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence operation to completely warrant Flynn’s dismissal.
No one in the federal court system, DOJ or FBI can fathom yet the gross breaches of the U.S. criminal justice system by the FBI, DOJ and National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama. Recently declassified documents show that Obama conducted an Oval Office meeting Jan. 5, 2017 with former vice President Joe Biden, former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National of Intelligence James Clapper, former Deputy Atty. Gen. Sally Yates, all of whom discussed investigating Flynn. Gleeson doesn’t get that the “gross abuse of prosecutorial power” was with Obama’s White House, with Comey’s FBI that exploited federal law enforcement to help Hillary get elected. Gleeson keeps repeating himself not understanding what happened to Flynn.
