Updated,
6.7.19:
4:52 pm:
Well, the plan was not to spend all day on it, but here I am, spending all day on it. For anybody who's interested, the Flynn conversation referred to was near the end of a 5 page release. It looks like 10 pages, but the other 5 pages is a duplicate. ( I think, since I am not going to go look at that thing again to verify. )
The prosecution involved perhaps as many as 4 lies to the FBI claimed by the Mueller gang. As I mentioned, you cannot determine if Flynn lied on the basis of the 302's alone. There has to be evidence of something. The 302 reads like those who are asking the questions knew what they were looking for, and so if Flynn lied, it had to be for a reason.
However, we don't have any way of knowing that. The government won't make that public, but it may have given that information to Judge Sullivan
exclusively.
If Sullivan doesn't get it, then what does he do?
1:30 pm:
After studying the released 302 a bit, and not wishing to spend all day on this, I have come to a preliminary conclusion that Judge Sullivan is attempting to verify if Flynn really did make false statements to the FBI.
If he did, and if he pleaded to that effect, Flynn doesn't have a leg to stand on.
You cannot make that determination unless you have access to the wire tapped conversations of Flynn. How they got those wiretaps is another matter. However, if they got the wiretaps as they must have, because there is no information in the Mueller report that shows how Flynn was purportedly lying; and if those show that he was indeed lying, then Flynn is guilty.
I think that is what Judge Sullivan is attempting to verify. If he does find that those match up, then he will sentence Flynn, and Flynn may well have nothing to complain about.
It could well be that they got those wiretaps through a fraudulent FISA app, then that would be something.
However, they may have their asses covered on that one too. For if there was an information meeting to get their story straight, then there may not have been anything that is plainly false about the Steele Dossier. Not that anything in it was verified for factual accuracy as to the central allegation of Russian collusion, but that serious factual errors might have been removed as a result of the Kavalec meeting.
Then the Kavalec meeting might well have been unethical in the extreme, and maybe even illegal. However the FISA app itself might have been "good enough" to pass the smell test.
All of this is speculation. It was all bravo sierra and political. Still is. But you may not get any convictions for stuff like this.
6.6.19:
Comment:
This one just goes on and on, like an Energizer Bunny. If this one results in anything but a dismissal of the case, I'd be surprised. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.
Anything could happen these days.
It is obvious to me that Flynn didn't deserve this. But this is the way it is these days.
