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    The Left Approved of Obama Granting Clemency to Terrorists and Traitors, But Is Trigg

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    The Left Approved of Obama Granting Clemency to Terrorists and Traitors, But Is Triggered by Flynn's Pardon


    BY MATT MARGOLISNOV 26, 2020



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    The political left went into a collective hissy fit at the news that President Trump granted a full pardon to former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. If there was ever a case where there was a miscarriage of justice, it was this one, and the pardon was a long time coming. Flynn was set up by the Obama administration and railroaded by the FBI. Simply put, they went after him for something that was not a crime, then set up a perjury trap for him in order to get him fired as Trump’s national security advisor. Obama officials also withheld exculpatory evidence, launched and carried out a bogus investigation over claims of Russian collusion where there was no empirical evidence.



    The efforts to target Flynn went all the way to the top. In fact, evidence shows that former Vice President Joe Biden suggested using the Logan Act to go after Flynn.



    As George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley noted, however, the pardon shouldn’t have even been necessary. The case should have been dropped months ago after evidence presented by Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, showed that “corrupt agents” threatened Flynn’s son to pressure him into pleading guilty.


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    General Flynn's Full Pardon was the obvious and only way to end the gross injustice he was suffering from.


    Sullivan is a vile man for the persecution bullcrap he generated.




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    Quote Originally Posted by Sunsettommy View Post
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    The Left Approved of Obama Granting Clemency to Terrorists and Traitors, But Is Triggered by Flynn's Pardon


    BY MATT MARGOLISNOV 26, 2020



    Excerpt:



    The political left went into a collective hissy fit at the news that President Trump granted a full pardon to former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. If there was ever a case where there was a miscarriage of justice, it was this one, and the pardon was a long time coming. Flynn was set up by the Obama administration and railroaded by the FBI. Simply put, they went after him for something that was not a crime, then set up a perjury trap for him in order to get him fired as Trump’s national security advisor. Obama officials also withheld exculpatory evidence, launched and carried out a bogus investigation over claims of Russian collusion where there was no empirical evidence.



    The efforts to target Flynn went all the way to the top. In fact, evidence shows that former Vice President Joe Biden suggested using the Logan Act to go after Flynn.



    As George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley noted, however, the pardon shouldn’t have even been necessary. The case should have been dropped months ago after evidence presented by Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, showed that “corrupt agents” threatened Flynn’s son to pressure him into pleading guilty.


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    General Flynn's Full Pardon was the obvious and only way to end the gross injustice he was suffering from.


    Sullivan is a vile man for the persecution bullcrap he generated.




    Obama didn't pardon any terrorist or traitors. All of his pardons and clemencies were for low level stuff, 5 years or less, some time served.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    Obama didn't pardon any terrorist or traitors. All of his pardons and clemencies were for low level stuff, 5 years or less, some time served.
    You didn't read in the link, here is what you miss:


    But when Barack Obama pardoned retired Marine Corps general James E. Cartwright, who pleaded guilty to charges of lying to the FBI, just days before leaving office in 2017, they weren’t triggered at all.

    Cartwright served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Obama, and was “a key member of Mr. Obama’s national security team in his first term and earned a reputation as the president’s favorite general,” according to the New York Times. Cartwright had leaked classified information regarding Iran’s nuclear program to the media and lied to FBI officials investigating those leaks. He faced up to two years in prison before Obama pardoned him.

    General Flynn wasn't a terrorist or traitor either...... he didn't willingly lie to the FBI (victim of a perjury trap), unlike Cartwright who DELIBERATELY lied to the FBI.


    Leftists howl over Flynn who was being screwed by a lawless judge and by the FBI, who gets deservedly pardoned, while Cartwright is a real criminal who LIED to the FBI'


    This is rank hypocrisy


    Meanwhile this is what happened:


    General Cartwright left government in 2011. The leak investigation that ensnared him began in June 2012, when David E. Sanger, a reporter for The New York Times, published a book, “Confront and Conceal,” and an article in The Times that described Operation Olympic Games, an American-Israeli covert effort to sabotage Iranian nuclear centrifuges with a computer virus. F.B.I. agents came to believe that General Cartwright had also been a source for a February 2012 Newsweek article that discussed cyberattacks against Iran.


    But when F.B.I. agents interviewed the retired general about the book and articles, he initially lied about his discussions with the journalists, according to a government sentencing memo.


    The memo said the agents showed the general emails that contradicted his account, and he passed out and was hospitalized. Several days later, when the interview resumed, he changed his account of the discussions.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Sunsettommy View Post
    You didn't read in the link, here is what you miss:





    General Flynn wasn't a terrorist or traitor either...... he didn't willingly lie to the FBI (victim of a perjury trap), unlike Cartwright who DELIBERATELY lied to the FBI.


    Leftists howl over Flynn who was being screwed by a lawless judge and by the FBI, who gets deservedly pardoned, while Cartwright is a real criminal who LIED to the FBI'


    This is rank hypocrisy


    Meanwhile this is what happened:





    Want to go on with more fiction?
    Apples/hand grenades. Flynn is a Russian and Turkish operative. What he did was illegal. What your link suggests is that Cartwright shared info about American actions re. Iran. Not acceptable, but nothing close to Flynn's treason. Flynn was actively working against America, and for Russia when he got caught.

    He was also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by Turkey to aid in the kidnapping of a cleric who had asylum here. It failed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Galt View Post
    Apples/hand grenades. Flynn is a Russian and Turkish operative. What he did was illegal. What your link suggests is that Cartwright shared info about American actions re. Iran. Not acceptable, but nothing close to Flynn's treason. Flynn was actively working against America, and for Russia when he got caught.

    He was also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by Turkey to aid in the kidnapping of a cleric who had asylum here. It failed.

    Ha ha ha, the INITIAL FBI interview showed the call with the Russians was LEGAL, never was charged for it.


    You like so many leftists ignore the exculpatory evidence the Obama era people led FBI kangaroo court attack on Flynn, suppressed until it was declassified, which is WHY the Prosecutor quickly dropped the case against Flynn, and the DOJ requested the case be closed since NO ONE wanted to pursue it anymore.


    Democrats really need to stop lying to themselves over General Flynn:

    Do Democrats Really Want to Celebrate the FBI's Heinous Abuses Against Mike Flynn?

    BY TYLER O'NEILMAY 07, 2020
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    As Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University, put it, then-FBI Director James “Comey et al sought to create a crime in the absence of any evidence of criminal conduct. The case has now collapsed and represents one of the most ignoble moments for [former Special Counsel Robert] Mueller. The Justice Department did the right thing in seeking this dismissal. The new evidence not only undermined the legitimacy of the prosecution but the Justice Department itself. For those blinded by this age of rage, the abuse has been ignored and even defended.”



    and the long posted exculpatory evidence,


    As National Review‘s Andrew C. McCarthy, a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, explained, Powell’s evidence seemed to confirm not just that Flynn had been set up but that Mueller’s staff had threatened to target his son unless he confessed to the false statements charge.


    “As I’ve noted several times over the years, it has long been speculated that Flynn — though he did not believe he was guilty (and though the agents who interviewed him also did not believe he had intentionally misled them) — nevertheless pled guilty to false-statements charges because prosecutors from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s staff threatened him,” McCarthy wrote. “Specifically, Flynn is said to have been warned that, if he refused to plead guilty, prosecutors would charge his son with a felony for failing to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent. Such a so-called FARA violation (Foreign Agent Registration Act) is a crime that the DOJ almost never charged before the Mueller investigation, and it had dubious application to Flynn’s son (who worked for Flynn’s private-intelligence firm).”


    “Well, Powell now contends that the new disclosures demonstrate that Mueller’s prosecutors — she specifically cites Brandon Van Grack, who now runs Justice’s FARA unit — did indeed promise Flynn that they would not charge his son if Flynn pled guilty. Worse, Powell avers that the prosecutors coerced Flynn and his counsel to keep this agreement secret. That is, this was to be a side deal that would not be written into the plea agreement and therefore would be kept from the court and the public,” McCarthy added.


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    Why Was Flynn Targeted? – A Timeline Review of the Three Phases….

    Posted onMay 1, 2020by sundance

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    ♦ December 29, 2016 – Reacting to the sanctions, Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak calls incoming National Security Director Michael Flynn. The intelligence community is monitoring the call. (Mueller Report)

    ♦ December 31, 2016 – Kislyak Call #2 (Mueller Report)

    ♦ January 4, 2017 – The FBI Washington Field Office informs the intelligence community via an Electronic Communication, they are closing the 2016 Flynn investigation.




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    The perjury trap is documented in the link.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    Obama didn't pardon any terrorist or traitors. All of his pardons and clemencies were for low level stuff, 5 years or less, some time served.
    Not true.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sunsettommy View Post
    You didn't read in the link, here is what you miss:





    General Flynn wasn't a terrorist or traitor either...... he didn't willingly lie to the FBI (victim of a perjury trap), unlike Cartwright who DELIBERATELY lied to the FBI.


    Leftists howl over Flynn who was being screwed by a lawless judge and by the FBI, who gets deservedly pardoned, while Cartwright is a real criminal who LIED to the FBI'


    This is rank hypocrisy


    Meanwhile this is what happened:





    Want to go on with more fiction?
    I read the link. Flynn lied and plead guilty. I don't much care that he got pardoned, my argument is that it's an admission of guilt to take it.

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