smr wrote:NDA's...hmmm...what allows a person to testify to break a NGA. Hmmm...a cooperating witness in an investigation(s) can disclose secrets that would be barred from disclosure to the public. Judge Sullivan appeared ready to throw out the perjury charges.
Ummm, no. No he was not.
Not even remotely.
Seriously, just try getting your news from an actual news organization sometime.
So why did Flynn stop this by his statement that he knowing lied. Apparently Judge Sullivan was not convinced and rescheduled the hearing for March 13th.
Good grief, you need to actually read what happened in that courtroom.
Flynn didn't stop anything except the Judge getting even more pissed off at him because of his public statements that seemed to be going back on his acceptance of responsibility for his actions. If you want to get a plea deal where all the long years of jail time you were potentially facing magically go away you are not just trading cooperation, you are taking responsibility for your illegal acts and convincing the judge you know what you did wrong and are not going to run out and do it again.
If you start making public statements that this is all nooooooo faaaaaaair waaaaaaaa and the judge sees them, which this one did, that kind of undermines the entire argument you are making to that judge to let you off the hook.
And that judge was already clearly not inclined to let Flynn off the hook after he read all that redacted info about what he had done.
So when the judge confronted him about it in his courtroom he and his lawyers were damn sure to be very clear that yes he did know he was guilty and yes he was accepting responsibility and no he was not trying to argue the FBI entrapped him and no he did not want to back out of his plea agreement. In fact the Judge was so clearly pissed off at the things his defense had been saying suggesting that the FBI somehow tricked him into perjury that Flynn's lawyers had to throw themselves on the grenade and plead with the judge to please not hold Flynn responsible because that was their defense strategy not his.
Because if he did want to back out on his plea the Judge made it very clear he was going to be spending a very long time in prison.
This proceeding has me truly baffled because of the lack of information that would allow me to draw some conclusions.
I repeat. Get your information from real news. Just give it a try.