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Entrapment is for MOOSLIMS, not red blooded white Americans! Also, Happy Ramadan! /s
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So if standard FBI tactics are bad, should Flynn be exonerated?
The FBI does play a vital role in oversight of the government committing crimes. But if they go about it the wrong way, are they just?
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“Just” is far from the right word. So is “exonerated”. If he is let off the hook, so should everybody else that they pursue, not just him. Then reinvestigated the “right” way, whatever that is. And they don’t pursue “justice”, they pursue lawbreakers. Law and justice occasionally overlap, often don’t.
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Watching the conservative media’s feigned hysteria over how he was treated is a heck of a thing. No lawyer or judge who deals with criminal law in any capacity would see anything unusual in this, which means the folks squawking loudest are, by definition, either the least informed or the most disingenuous.
So, pretty standard conservative stuff, really.
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Pigs gonna pig.
Certainly not before anyone else jailed through similar tactics is exonerated.
If Republicans were really pushing for a fairer, more just system for everyone then I’d wish them all the luck. That’s not what they’re doing at all.
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When the truth is a crime, this is doing their job. Its a problem when the truth is itself not illegal and the investigators are just trying to force a lie to prosecute. Flynn knowingly committed federal crimes. He had competent legal support and lied because the truth would include confessing to a crime. This is not the same bullshit strong arm tactics that the FBI uses for other people.
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Anyway, Donald Trump is the one who fired Flynn, and he did it because Flynn lied to Vice President Pence. Did Trump make a mistake by firing Flynn? Did Trump lie about why he fired Flynn?
ETA: Those are the questions I would like to confront Trump with, not some sort of rhetorical defense of Trump’s bizarre decision tree.
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I see what you did there!
(and I wish more media outlets would do that too)
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There was a part during the impeachment hearings where one Congressman, after phone records linked Nunez, Parnas, Fruman, and Giulani to each other, went on about “how do you match up phone numbers and who owns them? WHO ORDERED THE MATCH UP?!!”
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If you listen to Opening Arguments podcast, the co-host Andrew Torrez used to work for Flynn’s original law firm (staid, white-shoe Covington & Burling), so he delights in mocking Flynn’s pivoting to a Trumpist law firm-of-one and its quite mockable Sidney Powell:
I mean, Sidney Powell’s twitter is r i d i c u l o u s:
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The only reason Trump hasn’t really tried to get rid of the FBI is because they helped him get elected. From Wikipedia:
On October 28, 2016, days before the election, Comey notified Congress that the FBI had started looking into newly discovered emails. On November 6, Comey notified Congress that the FBI had not changed its original conclusion.[4] Comey’s timing was contentious, with critics saying that he had violated Department of Justice guidelines and precedent, and prejudiced the public against Clinton.[5] The controversy received more media coverage than any other topic during the presidential campaign.[6][7][8] Clinton and other observers argue that the reopening of the investigation contributed to her loss in the election.
James Comey was repaid by being dismissed by newly elected President Trump who of course left the post vacant. Then there was the curious case of Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Holy crap! I just convinced myself Trump is trying to destroy the FBI. I never thought I’d fell sorry for those folks.
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