https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/5\/8\/21251827\/michael-flynn-russia-investigation-barr-trump-doj<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The decision to toss out Flynn\u2019s case is, to put it mildly, controversial. The DOJ is saying, implicitly, that they can\u2019t prove that Flynn committed the crime he already confessed to, or that it\u2019s simply not worth prosecuting even though he already pled guilty. Either scenario is, well, odd.<\/p>\n
On the surface, there\u2019s only one reason to drop this case: politics. Trump, and his Attorney General Bill Barr, think the Russia investigation was bogus to begin with. Flynn\u2019s lawyers, for their part, have insisted that the FBI mishandled the investigation and entrapped him.”<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
“I reached out to eleven legal experts. While there wasn\u2019t a perfect consensus, every expert agreed that the DOJ\u2019s decision was highly unusual at best and an attack on the rule of law at worst.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[455,350,791],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-department-of-defense","tag-doj","tag-michael-flynn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}