Glenn Greenwald’s Invented Claims in Defense of Bill Barr and Mike Flynn
This post uses an error-ridden Glenn Greenwald piece to show what the public record on Mike Flynn’s prosecution really is.
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Bill Barr and Chris Wray Schedule a Press Conference to Admit Trump Let an Al Qaeda Terrorist onto Our Military Base
Today, Billy Barr and Chris Wray had a press conference to announce that — in spite of his Muslim Ban — Trump had permitted an affiliate of AQAP, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, into this country, and onto a military base, where he bought a gun and murdered three sailors. But they didn’t take the obvious conclusions away from that.
Steve Bannon’s Bas-Relief Confession that Trump Told Him to Deny Discussing Sanction Relief
The transcript of Steve Bannon’s second appearance before the House Intelligence Committee makes it clear that the White House gave him a script of misleading denials. He followed that script in his testimony to Mueller.
Schrodinger’s Materiality: Bill Barr’s DOJ Has an Active Filing Arguing Flynn’s Lies Were Material
The Mike Flynn case is the rare opportunity where the kind of Both-Sides journalism the Beltway press loves to practice has merit. On one side, there’s Bill Barr’s DOJ, which has a currently active argument that Mike Flynn’s lies were material to a legitimate investigation. On the other side, there’s Bill Barr’s DOJ, which has a different argument that because there was no legitimate investigation at the time, Mike Flynn’s lies were not material.
Three Days in December 2016: Sanctions, Nukes, Syria, and Russia
Between three days in December 2016, some intelligence report or reports involving Mike Flynn seems to have flowed through very senior government officials, first to Treasury, then to NATO, and then to CIA.
As Richard Burr Rushes to Release Volume Five of SSCI’s Russian Investigation, the FBI Closes In
Richard Burr is pushing to get the final volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into Russia’s tampering in 2016 declassified before the August recess. That may explain why the totally justified investigation into Burr’s potential insider trading is happening so aggressively and publicly.
Billy Barr Put a Firearms Prosecutor in Charge of Reviewing a Counterintelligence Investigation
The career prosecutor Bill Barr brought in from St. Louis to review the Mike Flynn prosecution is an expert on felons brandishing guns, not on counterintelligence investigations.
Judge Sullivan to Judge Gleeson: Pick Flynn’s Perjury
I warned Sidney Powell not to get too cute with Judge Sullivan. I noted that her efforts to get her client out of his guilty plea involved him making materially conflicting sworn statements. Too late.
Of over 40 Potential Unmaskings of Mike Flynn During the Transition, Just One Led to Criminal Charges
Ric Grenell has sent credulous reporters into a tizzy with a list of unmaskings of Mike Flynn that show of over 40 potential unmaskings, just one led to a criminal investigation.
The Legal Posture of the Flynn Case: Emmet Sullivan Has Up to Six Pending Decisions, Not One
Many, perhaps most, people who’ve commented in the last week have noted that Emmet Sullivan has the prerogative whether to accept DOJ’s motion or not. It’s true he has that authority. But he actually has up to six different decisions pending, including fully briefed sentencing memoranda and multiple conflicting sworn statements from Flynn.
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