Headline Roundup • May 7th, 2020
Justice Department Drops Michael Flynn Case
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Daily Beast
It may not be a pardon. But the Justice Department has dropped charges against Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Flynn, an important figure in the war on terror who gave Trump’s 2016 run military validation, will avoid prison time after the Justice Department provided a deliverance on Thursday that Flynn had long sought. It is also the second redemption that Trump has provided the general, who served as his first national security adviser for less...
Bloomberg
Under sustained pressure from Donald Trump, the Justice Department took the highly unusual step of dropping its prosecution of Michael Flynn, the president’s first national security adviser, even though he had pleaded guilty more than two years ago to lying to FBI agents.
The move was disclosed in a court filing on Thursday shortly after the career prosecutor in charge of the case withdrew without explanation. Attorney General William Barr publicly backed the decision, which came after weeks of demands by Trump and his allies to redress what the president...
National Review (News)
The Justice Department has moved to withdraw its case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, citing “newly discovered and disclosed information,” according to a new court filing.
The move, first reported by The Associated Press, comes less than an hour after the top prosecutor on the case, Brandon Van Grack, submitted his withdrawal from the case. The decision said that the White House interview Flynn gave to the FBI, which ultimately led to his guilty plea, was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”
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