agreed but then the ugly issue of immunity and deal making rears its ugly head

I don't think that anyone involved in this should be granted immunity

if found guilty, it should be the death penalty, and if they need a deal for turning evidence, then they get life in solitary

but no one should try to overthrow the duly-elected government and try to frame the President and get off with no repercussions

Oral arguments set for next Friday, 6/12, in front of a three judge panel of the DC Federal appeals court.

From the Washington Post:

D.C. Circuit sets oral argument date to review Judge Sullivan’s refusal to immediately close Michael Flynn’s case


By Ann E. Marimow
June 2, 2020 at 7:43 PM EDT

A federal appeals court in Washington announced Tuesday that it will hold oral arguments next week to review Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s refusal to immediately dismiss the case against Michael Flynn, a former national security adviser to President Trump.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will consider on June 12 whether the judge has the power to examine and put on hold the Justice Department’s plan to drop its long-running prosecution of Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents about his pre-inauguration contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

Flynn’s attorneys took the rare step of asking the D.C. Circuit last month to intervene midstream and force Sullivan to put an end to the case, in addition to accusing the judge of bias. The Justice Department on Monday joined Flynn in the request, telling the court that prosecutors, not judges, decide when to bring — and when to withdraw — criminal charges.


After the appeals court agreed to review Sullivan’s actions, the judge took the unusual step of hiring a high-profile trial lawyer to respond and explain his reasons for investigating whether dismissing the case is legally appropriate and in the public interest.
The panel reviewing the case next week consists of Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, Robert Wilkins and Neomi Rao.

https://www.washingtonpost.com....html?outputType=amp

The judges hearing the arguments were nominated to their seats by Presidents George H. W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, respectively. Hopefully they won’t drag out the decision.

I just finished watching some of the hearing where that weasel Rosenstein is busy deflecting and lying his ass off.

SOB doesn't seem to recall or know anything. Funny, it was ALL his doing! Sickening. Had to turn it off. Regards 18DAI

I'm watching C-Span now. As soon as Klobuchar started talking, my blood began to boil. These dems never NEVER give up the con, or stop repeating the same talking points over and over. It's really sickening.

haven't been able to watch Rosenstein testimony today, but John Solomon reports:

https://justthenews.com/govern...n-against-misconduct

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein conceded on Wednesday that by August of 2017 there was no evidence that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russians to sabotage the 2016 election, even though the investigation into that allegation would persist for another year and a half.

Addressing Rosenstein during the hearing, committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham asked him: "The whole concept, that the campaign was colluding with the Russians, there was no 'there' there in August of 2017, do you agree or not?"

"I agree with the general statement," Rosenstein replied.

Rosenstein in many cases appeared to be admitting that he himself was significantly in the dark about the F.B.I.'s early Russian investigations. At one point he claimed that former F.B.I. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe “was not fully candid with me” regarding bureau proceedings.

He also told the committee he was unaware that an F.B.I. field office had recommended that Gen. Michael Flynn be dropped from the investigation. Rosenstein was asked by Graham if he knew that "in January of 2017, the F.B.I. field office said, 'we recommend General Flynn be removed'" from the F.B.I.'s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

"I did not," Rosenstein responded.

"Would that have mattered?" Graham asked, to which Rosenstein responded: "Yes."

Rosenstein also told senators that he would not have signed the renewal of the FISA warrant for Trump associate Carter Page if he had been aware of exculpatory information withheld from the FISA court. "If you knew then what you knew now, would you have signed the warrant application?" Graham asked him.

"No, I would not," Rosenstein said.

Rosenstein later indicated that he was not familiar with the full contents of that renewal request. Though he earlier claimed to have read it, he later conceded that he hadn’t read “every page” but that he had reviewed it and was familiar with its contents.

“My recollection of it … it was actually fairly persuasive,” he said. “ It had already been approved three times. This was just a re-authorization.”

think about that. all the BS we heard about how it was authorized 4 times was just that - bullshit. Rosenstein approved a document that said a former Trump campaign advisor was a Russian agent. And in so doing, he opened up the entire Trump campaign to continued spying by the FBI



The former Trump administration official's apparent lack of knowledge regarding the investigations over which he exercised significant authority was highlighted by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who at one point delivered scathing remarks against what he suggested was a compromised investigatory apparatus.

"You came into a profoundly politicized world, yet all of this was allowed to go forward under your leadership," Cruz said. "That, unfortunately, leads to only two possible conclusions: Either that you were complicit in the wrongdoing ... or that your performance of your duties was grossly negligent."

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Either that you were complicit in the wrongdoing ... or that your performance of your duties was grossly negligent."

This crook was totally involved up to his beady eyes in the conspiracy.

McCabe already complaining about Rosenstein

https://justthenews.com/govern...resident-and-his-men

Former F.B.I. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe sharply criticized former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday, calling "completely false" Rosenstein's assertions that McCabe at one point temporarily withheld information from him pursuant to the Trump-Russia investigation.

Rosenstein testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday regarding his handling of certain elements of the F.B.I.'s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. At one point he said that McCabe "was not fully candid" with him during the course of that investigation, including that McCabe had failed to immediately inform Rosenstein of bureau proceedings related to Crossfire Hurricane after Rosenstein came on the job.

In a statement apparently authored shortly after Rosenstein made that assertion, McCabe said that Rosenstein's "claims to have been misled by me or anyone from the F.B.I." were "completely false."

Rosenstein in the closing moments of the hearing defended his claims.

"I did not say that Mr. McCabe misled me," he said. "Those were not my words. I think he is responding to somebody's question."

"What I said was, he did not reveal the Comey memos to me for a week. And that is true. He revealed them to me only a couple of hours before they showed up in the New York Times, and he did not reveal to me that he was having internal deliberations with his team about whether to target high-profile people for investigation."

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bare minimum - Rosenstein is a gutless incompetent who found himself at a critical moment in U.S. history and was found to be afraid to stand up for "Justice" as he led the Dept of Justice


"This was just a reauthorization"

Better to go down in history as an idiot than a co-conspirator.

Better to have two witnesses fighting than hope a pair of conspirators will confess out of the goodness of their hearts.

Undercover Huber reporting that Rosenstein testified:

the Mueller Team wrote their own scope memo.

Everybody thought Rosenstein drafted the memo

"Not only did they have no adult supervision, they were supervising themselves"

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The more we learn, the more we find out it was all worse than we ever thought

Each and everyone of them will say anything in attempting to save their ass. These treasonous maggots really need to be imprisoned ASAP.

For those who need a really good laugh.

Get this. I’m reading the May 18 - 31 issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology. I’ve been a long time subscriber and I always glance at the Who’s Where page.

I did double take. I saw a familiar mugshot of one of our most favorite traitors and seditionists alive - James Clapper.

He has joined the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Ethics and Rule of Law’s Executive Board.

Trying very hard to understand what he would know about either of those two topics and it says a lot about what kind of barrel scraping UPenn has to do to fill a seat.

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re Gen Flynn

for 12 Jun 2020




seen at Techno Fog

That should be interesting. Henderson was nominated to the South Carolina Circuit by Reagan and then the D.C. Circuit by Bush 41; she had an odd moment on D.C. and gun rights in 2007 ("a militia protects a state and D.C. is not, by definition, a state") but otherwise seems solid. Wilkinson was an Obama appointee that our old friend Harry Reid hustled through onto the bench. Rao was appointed by Trump last year.

Nice update from Catherine Herridge:

Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee authorizes @SenRonJohnson to issue subpoenas FBI Crossfire Hurricane, State Dept contact author “Steele Dossier” and unmasking by former government officials. +30 names READ @CBSNews



https://twitter.com/CBS_Herrid.../1268957599539527680

Cody Shearer and Sid Blumenthal - 2 of the dirty tricks specialists for the Clintons

The mysterious FBI agent Joe Pientka who the FBI has kept hidden for 3 years.





from various tweets

That should be one of those "most wanted posters" It is a who's- who of the people that should be in prison for what they did.

I think that the person labelled Susan Powers should be labelled Samantha Power in that picture

https://theconservativetreehou...analyst/#more-193595

The notoriously political DOJ lawyer who was assigned to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page , has joined notoriously political DOJ lawyer Andrew Weissmann as a paid MSNBC analyst. The media are not even pretending any more.



JUST ANNOUNCED: @MSNBC welcomes Former FBI Lawyer @NatSecLisa as an NBC News & MSNBC National Security & Legal Analyst.

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The media are not even pretending any more.

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NatSecLisa

And they've long since lost their sense of irony.