Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s, 62, Kafkaesque journey through the federal criminal justice system continues with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided to take up Judge Emmett Sullivan’s request for a full-court review. Sullivan objected after a three-judge panel voted Mary 27 2-1 to dismiss Flynn’s case recommended by 69-year-old Atty. Gen. Bill Barr. Barr antagonized DOJ and federal prosecutors recommending Flynn’s four-year-old case get dismissed due to newly declassified documents showing that the FBI set Flynn up in a perjury trap Jan. 24, 2017. Unbeknownst to Flynn, former National Security Director Susan Rice, under orders from former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper accused Flynn of violating the 1799 Logan Act.
Flynn was nominated by 74-year-old President Donald Trump Nov. 17, 2016 as National Security Advisor, over a month before Obama created a crisis with Russia , expelling 35 Russian diplomats for alleged spying. Obama and his national security team worked feverishly to discredit Trump before the election, using former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA “the Steele Dossier” to accuse Trump of ties to the Kremlin. Comey opened up an illegal counterintelligence investigation on Trump’s campaign based on the “Steele Dossier,” wild accusation that Trump’s campaign colluded with the Kremlin. Comey knew in July 2016 when he was given Hillary’s “Steele Dossier”by the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) that it was pure rubbish. Comey thought nothing of duping the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court to wiretap Trump’s campaign.
Joe Biden, now the Democrat Presumptive Nominee, hatched the idea of investigating Flynn under the Logan Act for meddling in U.S. foreign policy. Flynn honestly didn’t think talking to Washington socialite Sergey Kislyak was speaking with a Russian intelligence officer. Trump wanted Flynn, especially after Obama evicted 35 Russian diplomats, to help mend fences with Russia to avoid any tit-for-tat retaliation by Russian President Vladimir Putin. So when Comey sent former FBI Agent Peter Strzok to the White House to interview Flynn Jan. 24, 2917, only four days after the inauguration, it blindsided Flynn. Flynn was caught flat-footed in an FBI sting operation initiated by Obama and Biden. When new documents proved it was a calculated sting on Flynn, Atty. Gen. Barr wanted to dismiss the case, even after Flynn plead guilty to lying to FBI agents.
When Flynn’s case is reviewed in the Democrat-leaning D.C. Court of Appeals, it’s unlikely they’ll take into account evidence that the White House and FBI engaged in an illegal sting operation or perjury trap. When Flynn plead guilty to lying to federal officials Dec. 1, 2017, six months after former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein appointed 75-year-old Robert Mueller Special Counsel, no one knew about the FBI’s shenanigans. Federal prosecutors had recording of Flynn talking to Kislyak during the transition period in 2016, then compared it against Flynn’s denials of any contact with former FBI Agents Peter Strxok and Joe Pientka. That’s all Mueller’s team looked at, because had they looked any deeper, it would have discredited the Special Counsel investigation. Mueller knew from Day One that his investigation was all built on Hillary’s fake “Steele Dossier.”
When Barr recommended dismissal, it was based on newly declassified documents showing undeniable FBI misconduct. Not only did Comey not follow protocol going the White House Jan. 24, 2017 to interview Flynn, Strzok made notes showing that he exercised various option to catch Flynn lying or get him fired, not whether or not there was substance to the interview. Barr has reviewed the transcripts of Flynn’s brief conversations with Kislyak showing only cordiality for an incoming national security advisor hoping for better relations with the incoming administration. Getting Flynn on a process crime when the transcripts show he did nothing wrong talking to Kislyack led Barr to correct the unfairness of Flynn’s prosecution. Agreeing to hear Flynn’s case at the request of U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan indicates a possible different result.
If the D.C. Appeals Court does not admit newly declassified evidence proving FBI misconduct, then Flynn could wind up convicted, like he was in Sullivan’s court room. New evidence clearly shows a conspiracy at the highest levels of the Obama administration to prosecute Flynn for violating the 1799 arcane Logan Act. Transcripts on a Jan. 5, 2017 Oval office meeting with Obama, Biden, Comey, Rice, Lynch, Brennan, Clapper and former Deputy Atty. Gen. Sally Yates, point to a conspiracy to set up Flynn for violating the Logan Act. Transcripts indicate that Biden made the suggestion to prosecute Flynn under the Logan Act, a law that has not one conviction in U.S. history. “This is not the unusual case where a more searching inquiry is justified,” Jude Neomi Rao wrote the majority opinion for the three-judge panel. If the full court uphold’s Sullivan’s conviction, look for Trump to intervene.
