She penned an open memo to Obama about his failure to find precedent for the Flynn case dismissal.

Quote:Here is some help—if truth and precedent represent your true concern. Your statement is entirely false. However,it does explain the damage to the Rule of Law throughout your administration.

She first addressed the elephant in the room which was that Flynn was NOT charged with Perjury as Obama alleged.

Quote:Second, it would seem your “wingman” Eric Holder is missing a step these days at Covington & Burling LLP. Indelibly marked in his memory (and one might think, yours) should be his Motion to Dismiss the multi-count jury verdict of guilty and the entire case against former United States Senator Ted Stevens. Within weeks of Mr.Holder becoming Attorney General, he moved to dismiss the Stevens prosecution in the interest of justice for the same reasons the Justice Department did against General Flynn—egregious misconduct by prosecutors who hid exculpatory evidence and concocted purported crimes. As horrifying as the facts of the Stevens case were, they pale in comparison to the targeted setup, framing, and prosecution of a newly elected President’s National Security Advisor and the shocking facts that surround it. This case was an assault on the heart of liberty—our cherished system of self-government, the right of citizens to choose their President, and the hallowed peaceful transition of power.

Quote:Third,the inability of anyone in your alumni association to find “anybody who has been charged [with anything] just getting off scot-free” would be laughable were it not so pathetic. Many of your alum feature prominently in the non-fiction legal thriller published in 2014:Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. A national best-seller, it focuses on the egregious prosecutorial misconduct of your longest serving White House Counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler; your counter-terrorism advisor Lisa Monaco; Loretta Lynch’s DAG for the Criminal Division Leslie Caldwell; and Mueller protégé Andrew Weissmann.

Quote:Fourth, even if your many alumni don’t remember multiple cases that had to be reversed or dismissed for their own misconduct, Judge Emmet Sullivan should remember dismissing the corrupted case against Ted Stevens. Judge Sullivan is the judicial hero of Licensed to Lie. It is that case that caused Judge Sullivan to enter the strong Brady order the Mueller and D.C. career prosecutors violated repeatedly in the Flynn prosecution.

Quote:Fifth, there is precedent for guilty pleas being vacated. Your alumni Weissmann and Ruemmler are no strangers to such reversals. At least two guilty pleas they coerced by threats against defendants in Houston had to be thrown out—again for reasons like those here. The defendants “got off scot-free” because—like General Flynn—your alumni had concocted the charges and terrorized the defendants into pleading guilty to “offenses” that were not crimes.

Quote:Sixth, should further edification be necessary, see Why Innocent People Plead Guilty, written in 2014 by federal Judge Jed Rakoff (a Clinton appointee). Abusive prosecutors force innocent people to plead guilty with painful frequency.

Quote:Seventh,the D.C.circuit in which you reside vacated a Section 1001 case for a legal failure much less egregious than those in General Flynn’s case. United States v. Safavian, 528 F.3d 957 (D.C. Cir. 2008).

Quote:These are just a few obvious and well-known examples to those paying any attention to criminal justice issues. Finally, the“leaked” comments from your alumni call further evinces your obsession with destroying a distinguished veteran of the United States Army who has defended the Constitution and this country “from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” with the highest honor for thirty-three years. He and many others will continue to do so

OPEN MEMORANDUM To:Barack Hussein Obama

Worth a read. I only took snippets of her comments. Obama has been schooled. He won't read it and probably wouldn't understand it if he did read it. I'm of the opinion that Obama sealed his school records because he was a lousy student who only got into Columbia and Harvard due to connections. People that were grooming him for politics greased the skids for him.

Good thing that Obama didn't do the lawyer thing and risk running up against a legal pitbull like Sidney Powell. He'd end up looking really silly.

(05-17-2020 06:03 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  She penned an open memo to Obama about his failure to find precedent for the Flynn case dismissal.

Quote:Here is some help—if truth and precedent represent your true concern. Your statement is entirely false. However,it does explain the damage to the Rule of Law throughout your administration.

She first addressed the elephant in the room which was that Flynn was NOT charged with Perjury as Obama alleged.

Quote:Second, it would seem your “wingman” Eric Holder is missing a step these days at Covington & Burling LLP. Indelibly marked in his memory (and one might think, yours) should be his Motion to Dismiss the multi-count jury verdict of guilty and the entire case against former United States Senator Ted Stevens. Within weeks of Mr.Holder becoming Attorney General, he moved to dismiss the Stevens prosecution in the interest of justice for the same reasons the Justice Department did against General Flynn—egregious misconduct by prosecutors who hid exculpatory evidence and concocted purported crimes. As horrifying as the facts of the Stevens case were, they pale in comparison to the targeted setup, framing, and prosecution of a newly elected President’s National Security Advisor and the shocking facts that surround it. This case was an assault on the heart of liberty—our cherished system of self-government, the right of citizens to choose their President, and the hallowed peaceful transition of power.

Quote:Third,the inability of anyone in your alumni association to find “anybody who has been charged [with anything] just getting off scot-free” would be laughable were it not so pathetic. Many of your alum feature prominently in the non-fiction legal thriller published in 2014:Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. A national best-seller, it focuses on the egregious prosecutorial misconduct of your longest serving White House Counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler; your counter-terrorism advisor Lisa Monaco; Loretta Lynch’s DAG for the Criminal Division Leslie Caldwell; and Mueller protégé Andrew Weissmann.

Quote:Fourth, even if your many alumni don’t remember multiple cases that had to be reversed or dismissed for their own misconduct, Judge Emmet Sullivan should remember dismissing the corrupted case against Ted Stevens. Judge Sullivan is the judicial hero of Licensed to Lie. It is that case that caused Judge Sullivan to enter the strong Brady order the Mueller and D.C. career prosecutors violated repeatedly in the Flynn prosecution.

Quote:Fifth, there is precedent for guilty pleas being vacated. Your alumni Weissmann and Ruemmler are no strangers to such reversals. At least two guilty pleas they coerced by threats against defendants in Houston had to be thrown out—again for reasons like those here. The defendants “got off scot-free” because—like General Flynn—your alumni had concocted the charges and terrorized the defendants into pleading guilty to “offenses” that were not crimes.

Quote:Sixth, should further edification be necessary, see Why Innocent People Plead Guilty, written in 2014 by federal Judge Jed Rakoff (a Clinton appointee). Abusive prosecutors force innocent people to plead guilty with painful frequency.

Quote:Seventh,the D.C.circuit in which you reside vacated a Section 1001 case for a legal failure much less egregious than those in General Flynn’s case. United States v. Safavian, 528 F.3d 957 (D.C. Cir. 2008).

Quote:These are just a few obvious and well-known examples to those paying any attention to criminal justice issues. Finally, the“leaked” comments from your alumni call further evinces your obsession with destroying a distinguished veteran of the United States Army who has defended the Constitution and this country “from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” with the highest honor for thirty-three years. He and many others will continue to do so

OPEN MEMORANDUM To:Barack Hussein Obama

Worth a read. I only took snippets of her comments. Obama has been schooled. He won't read it and probably wouldn't understand it if he did read it. I'm of the opinion that Obama sealed his school records because he was a lousy student who only got into Columbia and Harvard due to connections. People that were grooming him for politics greased the skids for him.

Good thing that Obama didn't do the lawyer thing and risk running up against a legal pitbull like Sidney Powell. He'd end up looking really silly.

Damn.....Sidney Powell clubbed Obama like a baby seal. For the majority of my adult life Leftists have been able to spout baseless accusations virtually unchecked. We appear to have entered a new era, where normal folks are throwing the Bollshite flag on these clowns. The MSM is still trying to run interference, but I believe normal Americans are seeing these Leftist bastards for what they are.

Bill Barr wields the big guns. My guess is that those guns will be loaded and locked in short order.

Sidney Powell, on the other hand, strikes me as a knifefighter. She specializes, and probably enjoys, the close combat.

If I were former President Obama, I'm not sure which of the two would frighten me more.

Epic dismantling of the worst and most incompetent president ever.

Powell’s memo/essay is a masterpiece. The Trump campaign — and really, *anyone* who does not want Joe Biden to be President — should get to work making sure as many people see that as possible. It should especially be placed in the hands of people who care (or claim to care) about “civil liberties.”

(05-18-2020 08:48 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Powell’s memo/essay is a masterpiece. The Trump campaign — and really, *anyone* who does not want Joe Biden to be President — should get to work making sure as many people see that as possible. It should especially be placed in the hands of people who care (or claim to care) about “civil liberties.”

Good point. Where has the ACLU been during all this? Maybe they said something and I missed it?

(05-17-2020 06:03 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  She penned an open memo to Obama about his failure to find precedent for the Flynn case dismissal.

Quote:Here is some help—if truth and precedent represent your true concern. Your statement is entirely false. However,it does explain the damage to the Rule of Law throughout your administration.

She first addressed the elephant in the room which was that Flynn was NOT charged with Perjury as Obama alleged.

Quote:Second, it would seem your “wingman” Eric Holder is missing a step these days at Covington & Burling LLP. Indelibly marked in his memory (and one might think, yours) should be his Motion to Dismiss the multi-count jury verdict of guilty and the entire case against former United States Senator Ted Stevens. Within weeks of Mr.Holder becoming Attorney General, he moved to dismiss the Stevens prosecution in the interest of justice for the same reasons the Justice Department did against General Flynn—egregious misconduct by prosecutors who hid exculpatory evidence and concocted purported crimes. As horrifying as the facts of the Stevens case were, they pale in comparison to the targeted setup, framing, and prosecution of a newly elected President’s National Security Advisor and the shocking facts that surround it. This case was an assault on the heart of liberty—our cherished system of self-government, the right of citizens to choose their President, and the hallowed peaceful transition of power.

Quote:Third,the inability of anyone in your alumni association to find “anybody who has been charged [with anything] just getting off scot-free” would be laughable were it not so pathetic. Many of your alum feature prominently in the non-fiction legal thriller published in 2014:Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. A national best-seller, it focuses on the egregious prosecutorial misconduct of your longest serving White House Counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler; your counter-terrorism advisor Lisa Monaco; Loretta Lynch’s DAG for the Criminal Division Leslie Caldwell; and Mueller protégé Andrew Weissmann.

Quote:Fourth, even if your many alumni don’t remember multiple cases that had to be reversed or dismissed for their own misconduct, Judge Emmet Sullivan should remember dismissing the corrupted case against Ted Stevens. Judge Sullivan is the judicial hero of Licensed to Lie. It is that case that caused Judge Sullivan to enter the strong Brady order the Mueller and D.C. career prosecutors violated repeatedly in the Flynn prosecution.

Quote:Fifth, there is precedent for guilty pleas being vacated. Your alumni Weissmann and Ruemmler are no strangers to such reversals. At least two guilty pleas they coerced by threats against defendants in Houston had to be thrown out—again for reasons like those here. The defendants “got off scot-free” because—like General Flynn—your alumni had concocted the charges and terrorized the defendants into pleading guilty to “offenses” that were not crimes.

Quote:Sixth, should further edification be necessary, see Why Innocent People Plead Guilty, written in 2014 by federal Judge Jed Rakoff (a Clinton appointee). Abusive prosecutors force innocent people to plead guilty with painful frequency.

Quote:Seventh,the D.C.circuit in which you reside vacated a Section 1001 case for a legal failure much less egregious than those in General Flynn’s case. United States v. Safavian, 528 F.3d 957 (D.C. Cir. 2008).

Quote:These are just a few obvious and well-known examples to those paying any attention to criminal justice issues. Finally, the“leaked” comments from your alumni call further evinces your obsession with destroying a distinguished veteran of the United States Army who has defended the Constitution and this country “from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” with the highest honor for thirty-three years. He and many others will continue to do so

OPEN MEMORANDUM To:Barack Hussein Obama

Worth a read. I only took snippets of her comments. Obama has been schooled. He won't read it and probably wouldn't understand it if he did read it. I'm of the opinion that Obama sealed his school records because he was a lousy student who only got into Columbia and Harvard due to connections. People that were grooming him for politics greased the skids for him.

Good thing that Obama didn't do the lawyer thing and risk running up against a legal pitbull like Sidney Powell. He'd end up looking really silly.

Obama got headlines like he wanted. Now he will keep quiet so that Powell's demolishing him doesn't get any more press.

And what about the idea that Presidents shouldn't talk about ongoing prosecutions to avoid biasing the public and judges? Guess the Dems will once again show their hypocrisy by continuing to criticize President Trump for doing so.

(05-18-2020 09:37 AM)bullet Wrote:  And what about the idea that Presidents shouldn't talk about ongoing prosecutions to avoid biasing the public and judges? Guess the Dems will once again show their hypocrisy by continuing to criticize President Trump for doing so.

The media of that era scolded Nixon for making public, pre-trial comments about Charles Manson.