https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/06\/10\/gleeson-flynn-sullivan-barr-justice-department-311018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“A former judge selected to advise on a path forward in the criminal case against Michael Flynn is accusing the Justice Department of exercising a \u201cgross abuse of prosecutorial power\u201d to protect an ally of President Donald Trump, distorting known facts and legal principles to shield Flynn from a jail sentence.<\/p>\n
The former federal judge, John Gleeson, skewered Attorney General Bill Barr\u2019s handling of the case, describing it as an \u201cirregular\u201d effort that courts would \u201cscoff\u201d at were the subject anyone other than an ally of Trump. The 82-page excoriation featured a painstaking reconstruction of the Flynn case and accused DOJ of contradicting its own arguments and precedents to justify dropping the case against Flynn.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven recognizing that the Government is entitled to deference in assessing the strength of its case, these claims are not credible,\u201d Gleeson wrote. \u201cIndeed, they are preposterous.\u201d” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[790,791,170],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-courts","tag-michael-flynn","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","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=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}