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posted by janrinok on Saturday December 02 2017, @11:59AM   Printer-friendly

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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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday December 02 2017, @11:41PM (2 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Saturday December 02 2017, @11:41PM (#604464) Homepage Journal

    Here's a cogent analysis of the situation [lawfareblog.com].

    Pooh pooh at it all you like, but The Shadow [wikipedia.org] knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.

    And rather than using your brain, your (assuming you're a good man, which is, at least to me, an open question) lack of thought helps evil to triumph. As such, history has something to say to you [quoteinvestigator.com]:

    The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing

    Do you read the bible, Arik? [youtube.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday December 03 2017, @12:02AM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Sunday December 03 2017, @12:02AM (#604471) Journal
    "Here's a cogent analysis of the situation [lawfareblog.com]."

    It's certainly more cogent than what you've posted prior to this, but if alarm bells didn't go off in your head reading this then you need repairs.

    "The surprising thing about the plea agreement and the stipulated facts underlying it is how narrow they are. "

    Yes, your source acknowledges just what I pointed out, and calls it 'surprising.'

    "There’s no whiff of the alleged Fethullah Gulen kidnapping talks. Flynn has escaped FARA and influence-peddling charges. And he has been allowed to plead to a single count of lying to the FBI. The factual stipulation is also narrow. It involves lies to the FBI on two broad matters and lies on Flynn’s belated FARA filings on another issue. If a tenth of the allegations against Flynn are true and provable, he has gotten a very good deal from Mueller."

    If a tenth of the allegations were true and provable he certainly wouldn't have accepted this, that's true. And this would cause any reasonable, non-partisan observer to consider the possibility that the allegations were a pile of horseshit from start to end. Which is, as you say, 'pretty obvious' if you bother to investigate them individually.

    But that's not what he does, no. After acknowledging several indications that this was a political prosecution with a severe lack of evidence, your source proceeds to wave it all away on the basis of a string of rather dubious assumptions for which he, like you, doesn't seem to be able to find any evidence.

    But hey, at least he made an effort.
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    • (Score: 2, Informative) by NotSanguine on Sunday December 03 2017, @12:29AM

      by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Sunday December 03 2017, @12:29AM (#604482) Homepage Journal

      You go, boy (and I do emphasize the word 'boy')!

      Continue to be deliberately obtuse, and we'll see how this plays out.

      As things play out, perhaps for once in your life you'll re-evaluate, rather than sticking your head even deeper up your ass.

      I'd direct you to peruse my sig, but even that doesn't apply to you as there seems to be no logic, just the urge to defend your "tribe."

      My tribe is humanity and to a lesser extent, Americans. And we deserve better than the wonderful gift [amazon.com][NSFW] your "tribe" is offering.

      Full stop. Have a wonderful day!

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