CNN is definitely a problem

billysink

EOG Dedicated
Ex-judge says Dumb Alfie's hero isn't innocent and free! Bill Barr's push to have the Flynn charges dropped was a gross abuse of power. Oh my!


Ex-judge says push to dismiss Flynn case is gross abuse of power



WASHINGTON (AP) — A former federal judge appointed to review the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn said there was evidence of a “gross abuse” of prosecutorial power and that the request should be denied.

Former U.S. District Judge John Gleeson said in a filing Wednesday that the government “has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President.” He urged the judge handling the case to deny the motion and argued that Flynn had committed perjury.

Gleeson was appointed by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in a special role to weigh in on the case, but it will ultimately be up to Sullivan and potentially an appeals court whether to accept the Justice Department’s motion to drop the case.

Flynn pleaded guilty, as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, to lying to the FBI about conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States during the presidential transition period.

In January, Flynn filed court papers to withdraw his guilty plea, saying federal prosecutors had acted in “bad faith” and broken their end of the bargain when they sought prison time for him.

Initially, prosecutors said Flynn was entitled to avoid prison time because he had cooperated extensively with the government, but the relationship with the retired Army lieutenant general grew increasingly contentious in the months before he withdrew his plea, particularly after he hired a new set of lawyers who raised misconduct allegations against the government.

But the Justice Department filed a motion last month to dismiss the case, saying the FBI had insufficient basis to question Flynn in the first place and that statements he made during the interview were not material to the broader counterintelligence investigation into ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.

Officials have said they sought to dismiss the case in the interest of justice, upon the recommendation of a U.S. attorney who had been appointed by Attorney General William Barr to review the handling of the Flynn investigation.

Gleeson slammed the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the case, saying the arguments from prosecutors were “riddled” with legal errors.

“The Government’s ostensible grounds for seeking dismissal are conclusively disproven by its own briefs filed earlier in this very proceeding,” Gleeson wrote. “They contradict and ignore this Court’s prior orders, which constitute law of the case. They are riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact. And they depart from positions that the Government has taken in other cases.”

Sullivan also asked Gleeson to explore whether he should hold Flynn in “criminal contempt for perjury.”

As part of his plea, Flynn had to admit in court, under oath, that he lied to the FBI and violated federal law. It is a crime to lie under oath in court.

In the filing, Gleeson said it was clear that Flynn had committed perjury and should be punished but that it should be a factor considered at his sentencing, as opposed to additional charges being brought against him.

“This approach — rather than a separate prosecution for perjury or contempt — aligns with the Court’s intent to treat this case, and this Defendant, in the same way it would any other," Gleeson wrote.

Gleeson was a federal judge in New York for more than two decades. Before becoming a judge, he had been a federal prosecutor and handled numerous high-profile cases, including the case against late Gambino crime family boss John Gotti. He’s been in private practice since 2016.

A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments Friday about Sullivan’s refusal to immediately dismiss the case. Flynn’s attorneys have asked the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to step in and force Sullivan to end to the case. They have also accused the judge of being biased, arguing he overstepped his authority when he did not immediately grant the Justice Department’s request to dismiss the case.

Sullivan has separately scheduled arguments on the dismissal motion for July 16.

holee foook fat boy Bill Barr ate his own man and berried his bones.

That is fukkin hilarious.


ahahahahahaaaahhheeeeeluuuulzaha
 

boston massacre

EOG Master
Cuomo right now casting a wide net at all systemic racism and whites AGAIN.



Enjoy Watching The Black Commentators.

Stating To The Democrats.

"Who The Fuck Do You Think You are, Telling Me and Other Blacks, That YOU, as a Democrat, Do Not Have To Go Out Earn Our Vote ?

"Don't Ever Take Me for Granted". " Don't Ever Take My Vote for Granted", Because I am Black.

Love Watching It.
 

cheapseats

EOG Master
See where a reporting group was attacked in ATL. You think peeps aren't aware of the feces they spew. Liberal hack - friggin bitches. To bad the attack resulted in them leaving the area.
 

Bigrunner

EOG Master
Hydrogen Peroxide is often recognized as one of the safest types of disinfectants, both for human health and the environment. Most people are familiar with the hydrogen peroxide that is available in a brown bottle at the pharmacy. This is the 3% variety that can go on a wound or used as a mouthwash.
Hydrogen peroxide has a really nice environmental footprint. The breakdown components are water and oxygen. It has a very good health and safety profile, too. If you can use 3% to wash your mouth out at the dentist, you can be pretty confident that your health risk from exposure to it is limited.

Once again I prove Dumb Alfie wrong. Rushing to Dumb Trump's defense with Hydrogen peroxide. Here's the proof Dumb Alfie wanted.
 
Bigrunner just posted info on Trump. Sorry if my post above is against the rules. I saw Bigrunner's post above so added to the CNN/left thread.
 

Jammer

EOG Dedicated
Bigrunner just posted info on Trump. Sorry if my post above is against the rules. I saw Bigrunner's post above so added to the CNN/left thread.

Don't worry dude, thread will be moved- JK keeping the leash tight. Wuff Wuff. Some of these guys don't talk sports, they go to the back page.
 

winkyduck

TYVM Morgan William!!!
I wonder if Big Runner is still defending this filth pile.


So let me see if I have this right:

Bill Clinton gets crucified for his sexual improprieties because it shows how bad his character is
Der Fuhrer commits so many more sexual improprieties but the same people ripping Clinton tell us we have it wrong and what #IQ45 did before he got in office is not important.

The 2-faced hypocrisy of #GQPTraitorstoDemocracy is scary!

No way to defend this filth. But yet the same people wanting this guy hung and killed are saying we need to leave Pedophile Matt Gaetz alone.

Seriously. It is just impossible for ReTHUGliCONS to ever get their act straight
 

mr merlin

EOG Master
So let me see if I have this right:

Bill Clinton gets crucified for his sexual improprieties because it shows how bad his character is
Der Fuhrer commits so many more sexual improprieties but the same people ripping Clinton tell us we have it wrong and what #IQ45 did before he got in office is not important.

The 2-faced hypocrisy of #GQPTraitorstoDemocracy is scary!

No way to defend this filth. But yet the same people wanting this guy hung and killed are saying we need to leave Pedophile Matt Gaetz alone.

Seriously. It is just impossible for ReTHUGliCONS to ever get their act straight
How do you like the job your boy Biden is doing?
 
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