{"id":176605,"date":"2020-05-07T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/07\/worst-attorney-general-ever\/"},"modified":"2020-05-07T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:16:00","slug":"worst-attorney-general-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/07\/worst-attorney-general-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst Attorney General Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite 2 guilty pleas, the Department of Justice has dropped its case against Michael Flynn<\/a>, in what is likely the single most egregious case of an Attorney General malfeasance in the history of the Republic.<\/p>\n

Legal experts are dumbfounded at the decision, which they see as unprecedented<\/a>. <\/p>\n

After an extraordinary public campaign by President Trump and his allies, the Justice Department dropped its criminal case on Thursday against Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump\u2019s first national security adviser.<\/span>

<\/span>Mr. Flynn had previously pleaded guilty twice to lying to F.B.I. agents about his conversations with a Russian diplomat during the presidential transition in late 2016.<\/span>

<\/span>The move was the latest example of Attorney General William P. Barr\u2019s efforts to chisel away at the results of the Russia investigation. Documents that Mr. Flynn\u2019s lawyers cited as evidence of prosecutorial misconduct were turned over as part of a review by an outside prosecutor whom Mr. Barr assigned to re-examine the case. Mr. Barr has cast doubt not only on some of the prosecutions in the investigation but also on its premise, assigning another independent prosecutor to scrutinize its origins.<\/span>

<\/span>The decision for the government to throw out a case after a defendant had already pleaded guilty was also highly unusual. Former prosecutors struggled to point to any precedent and portrayed the Justice Department\u2019s justification as dubious.<\/span>

<\/span>By abandoning the case, the department undid what had been one of the first significant acts of the special counsel investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia\u2019s 2016 election interference \u2014 the prosecution of a retired top Army general turned national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to investigators.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is why the first priority of the next President of the United States must be to fully investigate and prosecute every single member of the Trump administration to the fullest extant of the law, ESPECIALLY<\/b> Robert Barr.<\/p>\n

If he has his law license a year after Trump is out of office, then this is a defeat for a rule of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite 2 guilty pleas, the Department of Justice has dropped its case against Michael Flynn, in what is likely the single most egregious case of an Attorney General malfeasance in the history of the Republic. Legal experts are dumbfounded at the decision, which they see as unprecedented. After an extraordinary public campaign by President Trump …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,364,407,454],"class_list":["post-176605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}