When Department of Justice prosecutors announced they were dropping the charges against General Michael Flynn for allegedly lying to the FBI, it should have been a formality for Judge Emmet Sullivan to accept their nolle prosequi motion because at that point, the opposing parties were no longer adversaries.
Readers may recall that Robert Mueller's rogue team of special prosecutors took advantage of highly questionable and unethical motives and investigative techniques by FBI agents to accuse Flynn of a felony for lying to the FBI. Due to bad legal advice from his counsels from the firm Covington & Burling, Flynn initially pled guilty in the court of Judge Rudy Contreras.
Incompetently but still represented by Covington, Flynn unfortunately committed perjury by entering a second guilty plea after prosecutors threatened to charge his son, but Sullivan delayed sentencing to give Flynn more time to cooperate with the Special Counsel's office.
Then on May 7, 2020 after the resignation of Mueller prosecutor Brandon Van Grack, a new team of DOJ prosecutors assigned to the case by Attorney General William Barr asked Judge Sullivan to dismiss the case but the judge refused because Flynn had already pleaded guilty, not once but twice, in spite of the fact that exculpatory documents had subsequently been produced showing that former FBI director of counterintelligence William Priestap questioned whether the purpose of interviewing Flynn was only to trap him in a lie to get Flynn fired from the administration at a minimum.
Probably the best way to describe the hearing on the whole would be to compare it to a tag-team wrestling match where assistant U.S. attorney Kenneth Kohl, and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Hashim Mooppan teamed up with Flynn counsel Sidney Powell against Judge Sullivan and amicus counsel John Gleeson in a no-holds-barred cage match.
Gleeson didn't seem to care about anything except two facts: Flynn had pleaded guilty in court twice, and Donald Trump was interested in the outcome of the trial.
Attorney Kohl asked a fascinating question in response to the idea of putting General Flynn on trial in light of the new exculpatory evidence: would Judge Sullivan like to see the prosecution call tainted witnesses such as former assistant FBI director Andrew McCabe, who was fired for lying himself? Or James Comey?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/emmet_sullivans_kangaroo_court.html
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