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Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has reportedly offered to testify about President Trump's campaign and Russia:
President Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has reportedly told the FBI that he is willing to testify about the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia, in exchange for immunity from prosecution, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Flynn resigned in February, after it was reported that he misled White House staff on his interactions with Russia and had discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak ahead of President Trump's inauguration. The Journal reported, citing officials familiar with the matter, that the FBI and the House and Senate Intelligence committees that are investigating Russia's attempts to interfere in the U.S. election have not taken his lawyers up on the offer.
Flynn's lawyer said in a statement that "General Flynn certainly has a story to tell, and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit."
[...] In September, criticizing Hillary Clinton over former aides being given immunity deals as part of an investigation into her private email server, Flynn said, "When you're given immunity that means you've probably committed a crime."
Also at the LA Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, NYT, and Politico.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @04:38PM (1 child)
In law, it is axiomatic that the civil and penal codes are so big and vague that everyone everywhere is guilty of something. Selective enforcement is a common political and economic weapon.
That's inherently unjust. A just society would hold citizens accountable only to a brief and comprehensible code of laws. In such a society, where a citizen fully understands all the constraints placed upon him, there is no need for lawyers. This was true in ancient Athens, where both sides of a case presented their arguments themselves without legal counsel.
When lawyers have a place in the legal process and "a man who defends himself has a fool for a client," the legal system has become corrupt and unjust. That injustice largely stems from the presence of those same lawyers within the legislative process. Lawyers run the law-making bodies and have a vested interest in multiplying the laws and their complexity in order to keep themselves employed, to the detriment of the citizens.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday March 31 2017, @05:34PM
And what's your point?
True justice exists only in fairy tales. Out here in the real world you get only as much justice as you can pay for - either by bribing corrupt judges, or actively participating in legislative and judicial oversight to deny the rich the opportunity to do the same.
Bribery can only buy justice when the wronged is the wealthier party, and oversight requires that a sizable portion of the population are willing to get, and *stay*, organized in providing oversight (and funding for it). But people are lazy, and are easily lured into complacency so long as they aren't personally forced to face severe corruption. And so we get the current situation.