Flynn lawyers demand 40 documents connected to Russia investigation

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Flynn lawyers demand 40 documents connected to Russia investigation
by Jerry Dunleavy
 | September 11, 2019 09:20 PM



Mike Flynn’s lawyers demanded access to 40 documents and information from seven meetings connected to the Russia investigation and accused the Justice Department of concealing exculpatory evidence, according to records unsealed Wednesday by a federal judge.

The potentially exonerating records being sought by the former Trump national security adviser’s lawyers, led by former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, touched on everything from text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page to possible Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act surveillance of Flynn, and from FBI interview notes of conversations between FBI agents and Flynn to questions about mysterious figures such as FBI informant Stefan Halper and Maltese academic Joseph Mifsud.

“Because the government is supposed to pursue justice, not merely convictions, its responsibility to produce Brady material is a grave one, its scope wide-ranging, and its duration ongoing,” Powell wrote to the court.

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Flynn Attorney: Government Withheld Exculpatory Information, Conducted “Ambush”

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https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/09/10/flynn-attorney-government-withheld-exculpatory-information-conducted-ambush/

On Tuesday night, Atty. Sidney Powell, who now represents Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret), Trump’s first national security adviser, told Sean Hannity that government prosecutors committed “egregious misconduct” in her client’s case which led to his accepting a “guilty” plea in December 2017 for lying to the FBI about his late 2016 contacts with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Included in the misconduct, Powell, said, was Mueller’s knowledge of the “ambush” orchestrated by former FBI Director James Comey, who claimed responsibility for sending two FBI agents to speak with Flynn at the White House on January 24, 2017 in an ad-hoc interview after then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told Flynn he did not need an attorney present.

Also discussed among the three was that after the agents interviewed Flynn, neither believed Flynn had lied.

Powell said that Mueller received an instructional “letter” from then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein permitting him to “target” Flynn’s son for investigation, which prompted Flynn “to enter a guilty plea while they were hiding all the evidence that showed he had not been an agent of Russia…”

“The plan, at least right now, anyway, is not to withdraw the guilty plea, per se, but to have the entire prosecution dismissed because of the egregious misconduct,” Powell said.

In response to his question, Powell told Hannity she could not confirm that he was “over the target” when he speculated that Flynn accepted the “guilty” plea as a result of prohibitive attorneys’ fees at the time and the specter of his son’s investigation by the Special Counsel’s office.

Flynn Sr. reportedly sold his home to raise money to pay his attorneys.

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