{"id":32059,"date":"2017-12-01T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T15:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32059"},"modified":"2017-12-01T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T15:51:40","slug":"some-background-on-the-indictment-of-michael-flynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32059","title":{"rendered":"Some Background On The Indictment Of Michael Flynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Flynn is expected to plead guilty this morning of lying to the FBI. Seems as if a lot of other people have done that in the past with limited consequences, but that was then and this is now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/12\/01\/michael-flynn-charged-in-special-counsels-russia-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> is reporting the details this morning.<\/p>\n<p>These are the details of the charges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;On or about Dec 29, 2016, FLYNN did not ask the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Government of Russia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government_of_Russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Government of Russia<\/a>\u2019s Ambassador to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">United States<\/a> &#8230; to refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed against <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Russia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=55.75,37.6166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=55.75,37.6166666667 (Russia)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Russia<\/a> that same day; and FLYNN did not recall the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"List of diplomatic missions of Russia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_diplomatic_missions_of_Russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Russian Ambassador<\/a> subsequently telling him that Russia had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of his request.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;On or about December 22, 2016, FLYNN did not ask the Russian Ambassador to delay the vote on or defeat a pending <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Nations Security Council resolution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Security_Council_resolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">United Nations Security Council resolution<\/a>; and \u00a0that the Russian Ambassador subsequently never described to FLYNN Russia\u2019s response to his request.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this point I am not going to mention that this information was probably obtained through the illegal surveillance by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidency of Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Obama Administration<\/a> during and after the election. That alone would result in the case being thrown out in a legal court.<\/p>\n<p>I want to mention a few other things about Michael Flynn. Unfortunately, he is a pawn in a much larger attempt to end the Trump presidency before it can be successful. Since the economic success of the Trump Administration is already becoming obvious to anyone who is paying attention, those who want Trump impeached are starting to get desperate. I would also like to note that the FBI has a past history with Flynn that might influence those doing the investigating.<\/p>\n<p>In September, I posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> that included the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>When the FBI launched an investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, one of the bureau\u2019s top former counterterrorism agents believed that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe would have to recuse himself from the investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Former <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Special agent\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special_agent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Supervisory Special Agent<\/a> Robyn Gritz was one of the bureau\u2019s top intelligence analysts and terrorism experts but resigned from the bureau five years ago after she said she was harassed and her career was blocked by top FBI management. She filed a formal sexual discrimination complaint against the bureau in 2013 and it was Flynn, among many others, who publicly came to her aide.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In her first on-camera interview she described the retaliation from McCabe and others in the bureau as \u201cvicious.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u2026She told Circa, current senior level management, including McCabe, created a \u201ccancer like\u201d bureaucracy striking fear into <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Bureau of Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.895216,-77.025131&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.895216,-77.025131 (Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">FBI agents<\/a> and causing others to resign. She eventually resigned herself, but her case is still pending.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lying to the FBI is not a good idea, but I would like to note that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Clintons\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clintons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Clintons<\/a> have done it consistently over the years with very little consequences. The indictment of Flynn is nothing more than the deep state at work. Those responsible for the illegal surveillance need to be held accountable, and all conflicts of interest in the office of the special prosecutor need to be revealed and dealt with. Unfortunately, Flynn has been caught up as a pawn in a much larger witch hunt. It should also be noted that Flynn was fired after about a month in his job in the Trump administration for lying to Vice-President Pence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Flynn is expected to plead guilty this morning of lying to the FBI. Seems as if a lot of other people have done that in the past with limited consequences, but that was then and this is now. Fox &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32059\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3807,3357,10409,420,6862,4490,10448,3035,1083,3106,285],"class_list":["post-32059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3807","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-presidential-campaign","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-government-of-russia","tag-president-of-the-united-states","tag-retired-lt-gen-michael-flynn","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia","tag-united-nations-security-council","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32060,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32059\/revisions\/32060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}