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President Trump's former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations with the Russian ambassador last December during the presidential transition, bringing the special counsel's investigation into the president's inner circle.
Mr. Flynn, who appeared in federal court in Washington, acknowledged that he was cooperating with the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into Russian interference in the 2016 election. His plea agreement suggests that Mr. Flynn provided information to prosecutors, which may help advance the inquiry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/michael-flynn-guilty-russia-investigation.html
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Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I.
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(Score: 5, Touché) by Knowledge Troll on Saturday December 02 2017, @07:02PM (2 children)
I'm not sure what you are talking about here, can you please elucidate? Is this in reference to the article at hand and lying to the FBI is a trivial matter everyone does? You may be right that everyone does it but I don't think I'd call it trivial. If there is something else you are thinking of please let me know I am genuinely curious.
I doubt that their concern is the rule of law actually. I'm not a Hilary fan by any means; in fact I don't like her at all. I originally wanted to see prosecution on the email handling issue, which was quite bad, and the assorted related issues like destruction of evidence. However to go back one hop in history of presidential administrations then worry about violation of the email handling processes for federal employees in that capacity and then think this is universal application of the rule of law to the problem is pure fantasy. There have been a large number of senior staff in the white house over the past few administrations from either party that have admitted to handling their email in the same way. I got over it because everyone is getting away with it so what really can be done?
True universal application of the law would include going after them unless the statute of limitations has been exceeded. I don't think anyone claiming they want to prosecute HIllary to maintain the rule of law has any interest at all in going back to figure out who else needs to have the book thrown at them including people in their party.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @02:21AM (1 child)
Trump supporters really dislike the Bush crime family. It's like this...............
It starts way back with the father of the older one. He tried to organize a coup (the fascist "Business Plot") and he fought McCarthy's effort to protect our country from communism.
Then the older one was involved in some shady stuff. He ran the CIA, and was in Dallas when JFK was shot. Hmmm.
Then the older one got to be VP under Reagan. Oddly, Reagan got shot. Hmmm.
Finally we elected him, the democrats having offered a clone of Carter as an alternative. Bush jacked up taxes and took away gun rights. WTF??? This is not what we wanted. He also did lots of globalist shit that later led to job losses. Grrr...
Bush would've signed NAFTA. We tried for Perot, knowing that'd probably fail, and let a democrat win. Bill also screwed us, signing NAFTA. Well, the alternative was Bush signing it.
Along comes the second Bush. Aw, fuck. He's a dipshit, but the alternative is Gore. Gore openly wants to fuck our economy. OK, well Bush it is then.
Then we're offered Kerry. He seemed kind of slimy, and "better the devil you know", so Bush again. Ugh. That was an unpleasant vote.
McCain is yet another globalist, as is Obama. Why do they all hate America? I think most of us went for McCain, very reluctantly, but Obama got out the vote and won.
Romney is yet another awful globalist. His career was buying up American companies, getting rid of American workers, and then selling the companies. Can you see why we didn't elect him?
For 2016, it was looking like another Bush/Clinton battle. WTF. Get us off this merry-go-round of globalists. Oh, there's this wild guy Trump who at least bothers to promise the right stuff and has a history of energetically getting shit done. Let's try that! So we gave heartburn to the entire republican establishment, few of whom give a shit about America. We're now enthusiastically trying to work with Bannon to chuck the unpatriotic congress critters, mostly via the republican primaries.
...............so we're totally down with prosecuting a Bush or two. They can join the Clintons at a supermax prison. Let's do it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @03:57PM
"He ran the CIA, and was in Dallas when JFK was shot. Hmmm."
and had just had a successful practice run with noriega