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Bads new for Flynn's defense team, unfortunately. _____ 'No relevance': DOJ says FISA report doesn’t justify dismissing Michael Flynn caseby 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."... READ MORE: [ link to www.washingtonexaminer.com (secure)] Quoting: Fist in the Box DOJ is the god damn criminals who spied on Trump and helped Hillary hello!!!!!!!! WATCH THIS AND IT PROVES ME! Quoting: Q33 This Roger Stone prison debacle is only stalling our President until he wins in November! Hang loose, the Democrats are out for blood this summer. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77846618 It's do or die for the rich pols dem or gop both are woven from the same cloth. The only entities that need to be behind the President are the We the American people and the US Military. He has both, and they are trapped. They will attempt anything to avoid "a Day of Reckoning". Quoting: Trump_Wins! Let me guess, Q sent you? This President won’t even shutdown this BUREAUCRACY of a government that he pledged to dismantle and you think he is going to shut down his former party when he won’t even cut off their primary source of revenue to the thousands of HUMAN TRAFFICKING HUBS still masquerading as SANCTUARY CITIES a thousand days and counting since the inauguration? Not one elected politician has been arrested because of those illegal sanctuary cities Trump is preventing that day of reckoning multiple times now His former party was on the verge of extinction after the 2016 election Only a RlN0 PUPPET could allow Pelosi to steal the House back By design so he can pretend to be powerless to stop them
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