Thread: Mueller releases memo summarizing FBI's interview with Michael Flynn

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Now there is a statement that most people here can agree on.

Oh okay, well then, please one of you who aren't confused because you know the answer to my question of who involved DOJ in this foreign policy matter to begin with, please post it.

So no one knows who involved the DOJ in a foreign policy, foreign affairs, diplomatic endeavor? Who in their right mind would involve anyone in the DOJ let alone the FBI in a foreign policy, foreign affairs, diplomatic endeavor unbeknownst to the President of the United States?!

I think Obama knew and approved the whole scheme. That's why DemoQuacks are so desperate and why they lie so much about it.

Michael Flynn to be sentenced - live updates


UPDATED ON: DECEMBER 18, 2018 / 12:01 PM / CBS NEWS

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is in court in Washington, D.C. Tuesday morning to be sentenced for lying to the FBI about conversations he had with Russian Envoy Sergey Kislyak.

Early in the hearing, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan asked former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn a series of questions about his guilty plea before discussing his sentence, and he focused on a complaint raised by Flynn's attorneys in their sentencing recommendation -- that Flynn had not been notified that lying to the FBI is a crime prior to his January 2017 FBI interview.

"Do you challenge the circumstances by which you were interviewed by the FBI?" Sullivan asked him Tuesday. "No," Flynn responded.

Were you not aware that lying to FBI was a crime, Sullivan asked.

"I was aware," Flynn said.

Sullivan asked, "Do you seek an opportunity to withdraw your plea in light of those revelations?"

"I do not your honor," Flynn said.

And then he asked Flynn whether he was "satisfied with your attorneys?"

"I am," Flynn responded.

Flynn affirmed that he understood and that his guilty plea stands.

In the sentencing phase of the hearing, Sullivan noted, "Mr. Flynn agreed to plead guilty to count 1," and went on to discuss the particulars of Flynn's case. Flynn lied to the FBI, he noted, "while on the physical premises of the White House." But he also acknowledged the leniency requested by the special counsel for his cooperation. Speaking for the special counsel, attorney Brand Van Grack, asked by Sullivan if Flynn is continuing to cooperate, said that "it remains a possibility" that Flynn is continuing to cooperate with the government.

The special counsel's office has recommended that Flynn receive zero to six months of incarceration due to his "substantial assistance" in the investigation. He met with the special counsel 19 times as part of his agreement to cooperate with the government in its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The special counsel says Flynn has been cooperating in "several ongoing investigations." Flynn helped government investigators on a "range of issues, including interactions between individuals in the Presidential Transition Team and Russia."

President Trump tweeted about Flynn's sentencing earlier Tuesday: "Good luck today in court to General Michael Flynn. Will be interesting to see what he has to say, despite tremendous pressure being put on him, about Russian Collusion in our great and, obviously, highly successful political campaign. There was no Collusion!"

Flynn's attorneys think he should receive probation and community service and be spared prison time, out of respect for his decades of military service and his "genuine contrition for the uncharacteristic error in judgment that brought him before this court."

On Monday, the judge in the case, Emmet Sullivan, ruled that the interview notes from Flynn's first interview with the FBI, conducted by agent Peter Strzok, must be released to the public, an order the special counsel complied with Monday evening.

Clare Hymes and Grace Segers contributed to this report.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-flynn-sentence-today-national-security-advisor-trump-administration-live-stream-today-2018-12-18/

Judge says Michael Flynn's crime is serious: 'Arguably, you sold your country out!'

9 min ago

Judge delays Flynn sentencing

From CNN's Katelyn Polantz
Michael Flynn will not be sentenced today.
Judge Emmet Sullivan says it is fine to delay Flynn's sentencing and proceed by having both sides update the judge on his case in March.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Judge says Michael Flynn's crime is serious: 'Arguably, you sold your country out!'

Flynn kept our diplomatic team in Moscow from being dismantled and ejected from Russia. How is that "arguably selling out our country?" Flynn also apparently asked Russia to side with our ally, Russia, on the UN motion concerning the settlements in Gaza for which the Obama Administration had no position. How is that "arguably selling out our country?"

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

9 min ago

Judge delays Flynn sentencing

From CNN's Katelyn Polantz
Michael Flynn will not be sentenced today.
Judge Emmet Sullivan says it is fine to delay Flynn's sentencing and proceed by having both sides update the judge on his case in March.

Oh brother, so it drags on. Ugh!