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If there was ever any question about the dishonesty and
corruption that
poisoned the case against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, newly released
documents
erase all doubt.

For more than three years, the FBI and federal prosecutors
concealed
exculpatory evidence proving that the retired Army lieutenant
general and
former National Security Adviser committed no crimes. James
Comey’s FBI
knew it, and special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors knew
it. They
didn’t care. An innocent man could be sacrificed.

In their zeal to damage President Trump, Comey and his
confederates
devised a devious scheme in January of 2017 to target and frame
Flynn.
After secretly recording his perfectly legal and appropriate
telephone
conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, it was
leaked to the
media. This gave FBI assistant director Andrew McCabe an excuse
to contact
Flynn to discuss what the press was reporting. It was a clever
artifice.

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It is well established that McCabe deceived Flynn about the true
purpose
of the call, convincing him to allow two FBI agents to drop by
the White
House for an innocuous chat. The perjury trap was set.

The documents made public on Wednesday exposed the underlying
“goal"
behind the visit with Flynn: “to get him to lie, so we can
prosecute him
or get him fired.”

Let’s think about that for a moment. Since when is it the
business of the
FBI to get a person fired? Is it the job of the bureau to get
people to
lie so that they can be charged with the crime of lying? Can
officials
simply invent or create a crime extemporaneously?

The answer to all these questions is a resounding “no!”

The unsealed smoking gun notes demonstrate how the FBI covertly
weaponized
their power for political reasons. It is obvious that they
didn’t care
about the Flynn-Kislyak discussion itself. They saw it as a
golden
opportunity — a vehicle to wound Trump a mere four days into his
presidency. Comey later bragged to a televised audience about
how they’d
snookered the incoming administration and violated protocols
when they set
the trap.

The new documents also expose how FBI lovers Peter Strzok and
Lisa Page
plotted a way to circumvent agency policy designed to protect
Flynn’s
constitutional rights. Shockingly, emails show that neither
Strzok nor
Page even understood the policy they were determined to break.

Despite all of their scheming and calculating, the perjury trap
failed
miserably. Flynn told the truth. As noted in my last column, the
subsequent FBI report stated that Flynn gave no indication of
deception
It concluded that “Strzok and (redacted FBI agent) both had the
impression
at the time that Flynn was not lying or did not think he was
lying.”

Flynn’s only crime was going to work for President Trump. He
became an
unwitting pawn in the FBI’s quest to find evidence of a
nonexistent
“collusion” conspiracy with Russia to steal the 2016 election.

But truth and honesty were alien concepts to special counsel
Robert
Mueller’s team of ruthless prosecutors. Utilizing the full force
of the
federal government and its unlimited resources, they intimidated
and
bullied Flynn into pleading guilty to a crime they knew he did
not commit.

All of the exculpatory evidence of his innocence was suppressed
and
concealed. The Mueller team, according to Flynn, threatened to
prosecute
his son unless the father capitulated to their demands. That
aspect of his
coerced plea was also hidden from the court when Flynn finally
threw in
the towel. Destroyed financially, he was forced to sell his home.

Flynn’s only crime was going to work for President Trump. He
became an
unwitting pawn in the FBI’s quest to find evidence of a
nonexistent
“collusion” conspiracy with Russia to steal the 2016 election.
It turned
out to be the greatest mass delusion in American political
history.

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More documents are expected to be unsealed in the Flynn matter.
But enough
is known already that the federal judge presiding over the case
should, in
the interest of justice, vacate the forced guilty plea. It will
then be
incumbent on the Department of Justice to dismiss the case
entirely.

All of this exculpatory evidence would have remained buried were
it not
for the intrepid work of Flynn’s new attorney, Sidney Powell, as
well as
the decision by Attorney General William Barr to appoint U.S.
Attorney
Jeffrey Jensen to review the case. Only then did the material
surface.
Under the law, prosecutors were required to provide it to the
defense.

The DOJ should now consider whether crimes were committed by
those who
obscured the truth. Anyone who corruptly impedes the due
administration
of law and justice could face potential obstruction of justice
charges.
Obstruction is a crime against justice itself.

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Current FBI Director Christopher Wray must also face scrutiny.
He likely
knew about the exculpatory evidence for the last two and a half
years yet
appears to have done nothing. This is consistent with his other
actions
dedicated to protecting, at all costs, the FBI’s reputation,
which was
sullied beyond repair by his predecessor, Comey. Wray should
have been
fired long ago,

The treatment of Gen. Michael Flynn is a cautionary tale of the
danger to
all Americans. If the people we entrust to enforce and uphold
the law are
capable of persecuting an innocent three-star general while
covering up
their mendacious acts, imagine what they can do to any of us.

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