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发帖数: 29576 | 1 福林早已经认罪了，mueller现在要求推迟宣判两个月。
国会听证FBI探员认为福林没有意撒谎，可他居然认罪了，有猜测是被FBI威胁他儿子。
但法庭能判一个没犯法的认罪吗？
The Mystery of Michael Flynn’s Guilty Plea
He pleaded guilty to a crime FBI agents said he didn’t commit.
One of the stranger moments of Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe is
Michael Flynn’s Dec. 1, 2017 guilty plea for lying to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. The former White House national security adviser pleaded
guilty to a single count of making false statements, even though then FBI
director James Comey had told Congress in March that the two FBI agents who
interviewed Mr. Flynn believed he hadn’t lied.
These columns reported this Comey testimony based on sources at the time of
Mr. Flynn’s plea (“The Flynn Information,” Dec. 1, 2017). Now comes
confirmation from a less redacted version of the House Intelligence
Committee’s Russia report released late Friday.
On pages 53-54, the report notes that in March 2017 “Director Comey
testified to the Committee that ‘the agents . . . discerned no physical
indications of deception. They didn’t see any change in posture, in tone,
in inflection, in eye contact. They saw nothing that indicated to them that
he knew he was lying to them.’” The quotes are from the committee
transcript of Mr. Comey’s remarks.
The report goes on to say that then Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe “
confirmed the interviewing agent’s initial impression and stated that the
‘conundrum that we faced on their return from the interview is that
although [the agents] didn’t detect deception in the statements that he
made in the interview . . . the statements were inconsistent with our
understanding of the conversation that he had actually had with the
ambassador.’”
Recall that the inconsistency concerned whether Mr. Flynn had discussed U.S.
sanctions against Russia with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. Vice
President Mike Pence had said publicly that Mr. Flynn had not discussed
sanctions, and once it came to light that he had, Mr. Flynn resigned.
But Mr. McCabe also nonetheless told the House Intelligence Committee that
“‘the two people who interviewed [Flynn] didn’t think he was lying, [
which] was not [a] great beginning of a false statement case.’”
All of this relates to the mystery of why Mr. Flynn pleaded guilty to making
false statements. It made little sense for him to lie since as a seasoned
intelligence officer he would know the U.S. eavesdrops on the Russian
ambassador. He also willingly sat for the FBI interview with no legal
counsel, suggesting he felt no risk in doing so.
Certainly the statements about the FBI agent’s impression of Mr. Flynn
would not have helped Mr. Mueller’s case at trial had Mr. Flynn not pleaded
guilty. The plea deal noted that Mr. Flynn’s sentence would depend on his
“assistance in the investigation,” and perhaps Mr. Flynn felt he lacked
the money to defend himself in court. He also may have wanted to spare his
son, whom Mr. Mueller was also targeting.
In any case it is a dubious practice for a prosecutor to force a cooperating
witness to plead guilty to a crime he didn’t commit. Perhaps Mr. Flynn is
supplying testimony behind the scenes that puts all of this in a better
light, but the facts on the public record to date don’t reflect well on Mr.
Mueller’s prosecutorial tactics toward Mr. Flynn.
The House report also reflects poorly on Mr. Comey’s credibility. Despite
the transcript of his testimony, Mr. Comey at least three times on his book
tour has denied telling Congress that the FBI agents did not think Mr. Flynn
was lying. “Did you tell lawmakers that FBI agents didn’t believe former
national security adviser Michael Flynn was lying intentionally to
investigators?” Fox News’ Bret Baier asked Mr. Comey on April 26.
“No,” Mr. Comey replied, adding that “I didn’t believe that and didn’t
say that.” Asked a similar question by NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mr. Comey
responded, “Not true. And I don’t know what people heard me say, if they’
re reporting it accurately, what they heard me say, they misunderstood. But
that’s not accurate.”
Perhaps Mr. Comey’s memory is faulty, as happens with human beings, though
then he might commiserate with Mr. Flynn. On the other hand, Mr. Comey has
jailed many Americans for false statements to the FBI, with no accommodation
for mistakes of memory.
The latest House release also shows again the games that the Department of
Justice and FBI are playing with redactions. The FBI has for weeks fought
Intelligence Committee requests to declassify this portion of its report,
though the only harm from public knowledge is to Mr. Comey’s reputation and
to the credibility of Mr. Mueller’s prosecution.
The FBI has a conflict of interest in overseeing redactions given that the
behavior of its leaders and agents are in question. This is one more reason
for President Trump to use his authority to declassify all of the Russia
2016 files.
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发帖数: 4124 | 2 Mueller隐瞒的证据，外加威胁家里人，估计是这样。
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【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: 福林早已经认罪了，mueller现在要求推迟宣判两个月。
: 国会听证FBI探员认为福林没有意撒谎，可他居然认罪了，有猜测是被FBI威胁他儿子。
: 但法庭能判一个没犯法的认罪吗？
: The Mystery of Michael Flynn’s Guilty Plea
: He pleaded guilty to a crime FBI agents said he didn’t commit.
: One of the stranger moments of Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe is
: Michael Flynn’s Dec. 1, 2017 guilty plea for lying to the Federal Bureau of
: Investigation. The former White House national security adviser pleaded
: guilty to a single count of making false statements, even though then FBI
: director James Comey had told Congress in March that the two FBI agents who
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发帖数: 368 | 3 已经是第二次推迟了。12月认罪，本应3个月内决定刑期，但是2月份双方决定推迟3个
月，现在又推迟两个月
接受guilty plea的法官Rudolph Contreras是Peter Strzok的熟人，批准过Carter
Page的FISA监听，而且他现在已经回避案件。
据传Nunes现在传唤的DOJ文件就是有关这个法官的。尽管Nunes威胁要以藐视国会法办
Jeff Sessions，但是DOJ还是以威胁国安、影响正在进行的犯罪调查为由拒绝交出文件 | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 4
还有那个George Papadopoulos也是很早认罪被mueller拖着不过庭，估计吊着压迫他们
供出床铺黑材料，一宣判就没leverage了。
"Due to the status of the special counsel's investigation, the parties do
not believe that this matter is ready to be scheduled for a sentencing
hearing at this time," Robert Mueller's prosecutors and Flynn's lawyers told
the DC federal court on Tuesday.
George Papadopoulos, who also worked on the campaign with Flynn, had a
status report due to the court last week, and its deadline was pushed back
one month.
【在 s*********g 的大作中提到】
: 已经是第二次推迟了。12月认罪，本应3个月内决定刑期，但是2月份双方决定推迟3个
: 月，现在又推迟两个月
: 接受guilty plea的法官Rudolph Contreras是Peter Strzok的熟人，批准过Carter
: Page的FISA监听，而且他现在已经回避案件。
: 据传Nunes现在传唤的DOJ文件就是有关这个法官的。尽管Nunes威胁要以藐视国会法办
: Jeff Sessions，但是DOJ还是以威胁国安、影响正在进行的犯罪调查为由拒绝交出文件
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