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beatrice_otter) wrote2018-12-11 10:45 pm
beatrice_otter) wrote2018-12-11 10:45 pm
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Mike Flynn's Plea for Leniency
So, Mike Flynn just submitted his reasoning on why he shouldn't go to jail, and Rachel Maddow read large chunks of it on tonight's show. Mostly, it's because he's been so helpful (which the special prosecutor agrees) and has been invaluable to nailing everybody else on the Trump team who broke the law.
But there's another point he's making. And that point is that nobody told him it was wrong to lie to the FBI.
I mean. What the fuck? Granted, it's good to have law enforcement officers be upfront and not try to entrap people (because anything they can do to a guilty person, they can do to an innocent one) and so having police and FBI remind people of the penalties for lying to them is in general a good thing.
But. Dude had spent decades working at high levels of government in security areas. They asked him if he wanted to have White House lawyers sit in (which should have been a Giant Red Flag that they were not there to be all buddy-buddy with him). He was the national security advisor to the President.
And ... he's trying to claim that he shouldn't serve jail time because he didn't know it was wrong to lie to the FBI?
Wooooooow.
But there's another point he's making. And that point is that nobody told him it was wrong to lie to the FBI.
I mean. What the fuck? Granted, it's good to have law enforcement officers be upfront and not try to entrap people (because anything they can do to a guilty person, they can do to an innocent one) and so having police and FBI remind people of the penalties for lying to them is in general a good thing.
But. Dude had spent decades working at high levels of government in security areas. They asked him if he wanted to have White House lawyers sit in (which should have been a Giant Red Flag that they were not there to be all buddy-buddy with him). He was the national security advisor to the President.
And ... he's trying to claim that he shouldn't serve jail time because he didn't know it was wrong to lie to the FBI?
Wooooooow.