If Flynn is not made whole, justice will still be incomplete.
Where Does Lt. Gen. Flynn Go To Get His Reputation Back?
After a jury found former Reagan administration Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan innocent of politically motivated fraud charges in a case that dragged on for four years, costing him his job and much of his fortune, he famously asked: “Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?” Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who underwent a similar ordeal, must be wondering the same thing.
Donovan was charged in September 1984, conveniently just before the presidential election. If those who brought the charges thought they would ruin Republican Ronald Reagan’s reelection chances, they were very wrong. Reagan carried 49 states and just under 59% of the vote; former Vice President Walter Mondale garnered just below 42%, carrying only his home state of Minnesota and, of course, Washington, D.C.
Just as the timing in Donovan’s case was no accident, nor was it in Flynn’s case. Yes, he copped a plea, admitting that he lied to the FBI. What’s rarely mentioned is that the legal maneuvers were draining his life savings dry, and his son had been threatened with prosecution for good measure.
So he admitted to doing something he didn’t do in an investigation of a crime he didn’t commit. And Deep State operatives got their first major scalp of President Donald Trump’s administration by taking down Flynn, the president’s national security adviser, after just 24 days in office.
Thankfully, after a document dump this week of exculpatory material that Rep. Adam Schiff and other Trump-hating congressional Democrats tried to hide despite a court order, it’s now beyond any doubt that Flynn was targeted, set up and entrapped. Based on the overwhelming evidence of misconduct, the Justice Department decided to drop the whole case. Just like that, it’s done.
In their motion, the DOJ prosecutors found that “‘pursuant to the Principles of Federal Prosecution and based on an extensive review and careful consideration of the circumstances, that continued prosecution of this case would not serve the interests of justice.”
Or, as Attorney General William Barr told CBS News:
This was not a bonafide counterintelligence investigation. They were closing the investigation in December, they started that process and on Jan. 4 they were closing it. They initially tried some theories of how they could open an investigation which didn’t fly and then they found out they had technically not closed the earlier investigation and they kept it open for the express purpose of trying to catch, lay a perjury trap for Gen. Flynn. They didn’t warn him the way we would usually be required by the department. They bypassed the Justice Department. They bypassed the protocols at the White House and so-forth.
Pretty much dead on. These were charges that never should have been brought. They were purely, and solely, political in nature, an attempt to entrap Flynn, a decorated and respected Army career officer, in order to undermine Trump and perhaps even get him impeached.
Those who pushed this travesty, along with the phony Russian collusion investigation, deserve to be fired and imprisoned for their crimes.