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Original Message Bad news for Flynn's defense team, unfortunately.

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'No relevance': DOJ says FISA report doesn’t justify dismissing Michael Flynn case
by Jerry Dunleavy | February 12, 2020 10:21 PM

(Washimgton Examiner) - The Justice Department rejected claims by retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s lawyers that the agency watchdog’s recent surveillance abuse report contained evidence that would justify dismissing the case against him.

Prosecutors argued on Wednesday that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse report bore “no relevance” to Flynn’s guilt.

“The errors and misconduct described in the OIG report … do not amount to ‘egregious government misconduct' necessitating the dismissal of the charge against the defendant for making material false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on January 24, 2017,” wrote Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Van Grack in a court filing.

Flynn’s defense team, led by former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, argued in January that Horowitz’s report revealed Flynn had been unfairly targeted by the FBI.

“Even though the investigation pertains to the abuses of the FISA process, not the FBI and DOJ’s misconduct regarding Mr. Flynn, the IG report simultaneously documents at least some of [the] FISA process abuses and misconduct against Mr. Flynn,” Powell told the court. “The IG report is replete with exculpatory evidence that, had it been known to Mr. Flynn, he never would have pled guilty."...

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