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…William Barr may have played a role in the government’s shifting sentencing recommendations for retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn. In Flynn’s case, prosecutors have twice reversed course on their…

…between Flynn and Kislyak, she spoke with Assistant Acting Attorney General Mary McCord. She said they felt that although Flynn’s conversation was a technical violation of the Logan Act, they…

…give Flynn these warnings. However, focusing on that issue has obscured a very real encroachment on Flynn’s constitutional rights by the FBI in the January 2017 interview – his right…

…after the president fired Flynn, Trump said Flynn “hadn’t done anything wrong” in his call with the Russians. Comey’s memo continued: The president “explained that he just couldn’t have Flynn…

…dinner with Flynn, after which she “surprised everyone and got into [Flynn’s] cab and joined [Flynn] on the train ride to London.” Halper further “recalled that LOKHOVA ‘latched’ onto Flynn…

Earlier this week, Michael Flynn’s star attorney, Sidney Powell, filed under seal a brief in reply to federal prosecutors’ claims that they have already given Flynn’s defense team all the…

…24, 2017 questioning of Flynn that the retired general purportedly lied to Strzok and Pientka about his conversations with Kislyak. In late 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements…

…the law firm Covington and Burling for sentencing. Although the government had recommended a sentence of no prison time for Flynn, Sullivan berated Flynn and questioned whether Flynn might have…

…agent compared Flynn’s conduct during the January 2017 interview to Flynn’s “norms,” and at the time concluded Flynn was not lying. These facts would have been important for Flynn and…

…Sergey Kislyak during the Trump transition period. Mere days after Flynn assumed office, then-acting attorney general Yates directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to interview Flynn, purportedly pursuant to…

…baseline on Flynn. These facts would have been important for Flynn and his attorneys to know before the former national security advisor pleaded guilty, and likewise important for Flynn and…

…innuendo. The title, “Impulsive General Misha shoots himself in the foot,” set the tone, with the foreign moniker Misha sensualizing the scene. “General Misha,” Andrew claimed, was how Flynn signed…

…Flynn was their prime target. This article was later cited by McCabe as the reason why they were justified in concealing from Flynn the real purpose of their interview. Flynn…

…of Flynn. Tuesday’s order followed a briefing by Powell and federal prosecutors on the possible effects on Flynn’s sentencing of recently unsealed court records in the criminal case against Flynn’s…

…truthful, Yates, while serving as acting attorney general, had directed Strzok to interview Flynn and had pushed for charges against Flynn under the Logan Act. Another member of Mueller’s team,…

…of the two agents to interview Flynn in January 2017 and after talking with Flynn—with his prior demeanor as a baseline—would conclude he did not think Flynn was lying. That…

…as part of the normal procedure for closing cases that were going nowhere, he was rebuffed. But when the FBI later interviewed Flynn, falsely conveying to Flynn that he was…

Prosecutors in the federal case against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn over the weekend asked the court to authorize Flynn’s former attorneys to provide information and documents about their representation of…

…of former National Security Adviser, Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn (USA-Ret.).” “The original list was in alphabetical order; the revised list is in chronological order, including the date the request…

…original attorneys and replacing them with a team headed by Powell, Flynn moved to withdraw his guilty plea. While that motion was pending, Attorney General William Barr appointed an outside…

…Flynn in their entirety. The motion was unopposed by Flynn. Sullivan, who at one point accused Flynn, a decorated military combat veteran, of being a traitor to his country, refused…

…the Flynn investigation, provided Powell previously withheld evidence that confirmed many of Flynn’s claims. That evidence included text messages and handwritten notes establishing that when the FBI interviewed Flynn on…

…and publicly filing exculpatory evidence for Flynn or evidence of FBI misbehavior during its investigation of Flynn. Sullivan, who called Flynn a traitor during court proceedings and suggested that Flynn…

…Flynn’s call, blowing it up into evidence that the Russians and the Trump team somehow conspired to get Trump elected. The nub of the entire Flynn controversy is that Flynn…

…this conversation, FBI Agent Peter Strzok intercepted the documents closing the investigation into Flynn, then led a casual chat with Flynn, designed to trip up the newly named Trump national…

…to Attorney General William Barr asking for a review of Flynn’s case before she had entered her appearance in court as Flynn’s attorney. Sullivan not only confronted Powell about this,…

…lethal to America’s foes. A decade later, a retired lieutenant general Flynn transitioned from his second career as a savvy policy commentator, and a less-than-savvy K Street merchant, to throwing…

…already happened, actually; consider that Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was Trump’s first pick to be national security adviser, despite the squalid spectacle of Flynn, as a recently-retired three-star general, leading…

…intelligence officials, Flynn himself never discussed the financial sanctions against Russian individuals and entities levied by the Obama administration. Instead, Flynn focused on preventing U.S. “tit-for-tat” escalation following the Obama…

On Tuesday, attorneys for Michael Flynn filed a sentencing memorandum and letters of support for the former Army lieutenant general in federal court. The sentencing memorandum reveals for the first…

…over evidence previously withheld from Flynn’s defense counsel. The latest court filing came the same day Flynn’s attorney, former federal prosecutor turned defense attorney Sidney Powell, swatted down Democrat Rep….

…proceedings that the retired lieutenant general had committed treason. Then, when it came time to sentence Flynn, even though the government had touted Flynn’s extraordinary cooperation with the special counsel’s…

…unsealed documents revealed that the FBI agents’ interview with Flynn was a perjury trap all along. Handwritten notes from FBI agents who ambushed Flynn at the White House without his…

…difficult parting from General Flynn. There is a legacy here. If you listen to Brennan’s recent testimony, a real hostility, really a clear, personal hostility to the president. Look, people…

…under oath that he never briefed Obama on the conversations between Flynn and Kislyak which were used to justify Flynn’s ouster as President Donald Trump’s top foreign policy adviser. The…

…Attorney General William Barr, to them, is but a political pawn who cannot be trusted to oversee the Flynn case. Yet this thesis ignores the reality that Barr brought in…