Obama Appointed Judge Mysteriously Recuses Himself From Michael Flynn Case

[Achilles]

Obama Appointed Judge Mysteriously Recuses Himself From Michael Flynn Case

by Tyler Durden
Dec 8, 2017 7:25 AM


Judge Rudolph Contreras
The case against former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn has taken a strange turn, as U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras abruptly recused himself Thursday night with no explanation. Contreras is an Obama appointee who also sat on the FISA court while the Trump team was under surveillance by the Obama administration. Judge Emmet Sullivan, an Bill Clinton appointee, was randomly assigned to take over the case after Contreras' recusal.



Of note, Contreras was appointed to the FISA court on May 19, 2016 - before the warrant to surveil one-time Trump advisor Carter Page was issued "in the summer" of 2016. It is unknown whether or not Contreras was involved in the decision, or whether he was involved in surveillance on Michael Flynn.
In fact every single FISA Court judge was appointed during the Obama administration:



Michael Flynn pleaded guilty last Friday to a false statement charge brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office in relation to the Trump-Russia investigation. The retired Army lieutenant general and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency was fired 24 days into his role as National Security Advisor for lying about his meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn also admitted to lying about his dealings with Turkey as a private lobbyist.
The case against Flynn, however, is not so straightforward. As Robert Parry pointed out last week:

"What is arguably most disturbing about this case is that then-National Security Adviser Flynn was pushed into a perjury trap by Obama administration holdovers at the Justice Department who concocted an unorthodox legal rationale for subjecting Flynn to an FBI interrogation four days after he took office, testing Flynns recollection of the conversations while the FBI agents had transcripts of the calls intercepted by the National Security Agency.

In other words, the Justice Department wasnt seeking information about what Flynn said to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak the intelligence agencies already had that information. Instead, Flynn was being quizzed on his precise recollection of the conversations and nailed for lying when his recollections deviated from the transcripts."

Parry continues; "Then, just four days into the Trump presidency, an Obama holdover, then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates, primed the Flynn perjury trap by coming up with a novel legal theory that Flynn although the national security adviser-designate at the time of his late December phone calls with Kislyak was violating the 1799 Logan Act, which prohibits private citizens from interfering with U.S. foreign policy."

The Logan Act, however, was never intended to apply to incoming officials in the transition period - and in the past 218 years, has resulted in no successful prosecution.

Yates then performed mental gymnastics based on her Logan Act theory to assert that Flynn's deviation from the transcript of the intercepts meant he might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.

This, as Parry points out, would require that the Russians first would have detected the discrepancies; secondly, they would have naively assumed that the U.S. intelligence agencies had not intercepted the conversations, which would have negated any blackmail potential; and thirdly, the Russians would have to do something so ridiculously heavy-handed trying to blackmail Flynn that it would poison relations with the new Trump administration.

In other words, Michael Flynn was surveilled under a FISA warrant, then set up to fail by Sally Yates when he deviated from the transcripts of his intercepted conversations. And the judge overseeing his case, who is on the FISA court, has suddenly recused himself.

Last but not least, journalist Sara Carter revealed on hannity.com that the anti-Trump agent fired from Robert Mueller's Special Counsel, Peter Strzok, was one of two FBI agents who interviewed Flynn on January 24 at the White House, according to a former intelligence official with knowledge of the interview.
[W]ith the recent revelation that Strzok was removed from the Special Counsel investigation for making anti-Trump text messages it seems likely that the accuracy and veracity of the 302 of Flynns interview as a whole should be reviewed and called into question, said Carter's source, who added "he most logical thing to happen would be to call the other FBI Special Agent present during Flynns interview before the Grand Jury to recount his version."

Furthermore, Sara Carter reports that Flynn was tricked into a formal investigation after FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told the retired three-star general "some agents were heading over (to the White House)," which Flynn thought was related to routine work the FBI had been doing - only to realize they were sent there for him.

It wasnt until after they were already in (Flynns) office that he realized he was being formerly interviewed. He didnt have an attorney with him

Between the recused judge who sits on the FISA court, Sally Yates' transcript 'trap,' and the fact that the FBI reportedly interviewed Flynn without an attorney present, it will be interesting to see how the case against Michael Flynn holds up.


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-1...ael-flynn-case

[Lenno]

Deep State Globalist

[CaryC]

This might get interesting to say the least.

Follow up, talking points, etc.:

The Common Sense Show has also learned that the House Intelligence Committee is also on the verge of investigating who leaked the DNC emails to Julian Assange of Wikileaks. Of course, Hillary Clinton would have you believe that it was the Russians. Mad Maxine Waters would have the American people believe it was Donald Trump and this is just one more reason that Trump should be impeached.I have previously demonstrated, through circumstantial evidence that the leaker was none other than Seth Rich, the DNC staffer who was an ardent Bernie Sanders supporter. This means that when the Senate Intelligence Committee turns its sights on the leaked DNC emails, that this will bring the murder of Seth Rich into full view and the whitewash of this “staged robbery” of Rich, which was perpetuated by John Podesta and covered up by former DNC Chair Repressentative Debra Wasserman Schultz (D) and her Federal Washington DC prosecutor brother, Steven Schultz who derailed the investigation and destroyed the possiblity of bringing justice to the family of Seth Rich.As they say in the world of infomercials, “But wait there’s more”, The Common Sense Show has also learned that there are multiple investigations by U.S. legal and political authorities that include, but are not limited to a DOJ criminal investigation, and three separate congressional investigations.

The Great Deception

Before going further down this soon-t0-be historic rabbit hole, it is very important to mention that ALL of these investigations are technically directed at Wikileaks and its role on influencing the 2016 election. This sounds like the failed “Russian collusion” allegations doesn’t it? You would be correct in making this assumption.

Trump’s New Strategy: Flipping (Blackmailing) Federal Judges and Prosecutors

It was investigative journalist, Liz Crokin, who convinced me to take a closer look at the possibility that Special Prosecutor, Robert Mueller, had been flipped and was engaged in supporting Trump by shifting the direction of his investigation into Hillary Clinton territory. In other words, the Russian collusion story is now the excuse to eventually bring in another Russian collusion investigation, the selling of uranium to the Russians by Hillary Clinton.Crokin’s convincing took place in an interview on The Common Sense Show. Six hours later, I was contacted by an FBI agent with the damning information of Judge Navarro and the pending order to release the Bundys’.I freely confess, that Crokin had not fully convinced me that this was a possibility until I was contacted by a long-time acquaintance who was working with the FBI. This FBI source told me the Bundy men would be released later that week which they were. In the events leading up to the release, the trial judge, Gloria Navarro, was confronted by FBI loyalists and was told to release the Bundy men or face Federal charges related to her misconduct in this matter. Crokin contends that is what happened with Mueller.Flipping judges and prosecutors seems to have become a strategy for the Trump administration.From Zero Hedge:

The case against former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn has taken a strange turn, as U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras abruptly recused himself Thursday night with no explanation. Contreras is an Obama appointee who also sat on the FISA court while the Trump team was under surveillance by the Obama administration. Judge Emmet Sullivan, an Bill Clinton appointee, was randomly assigned to take over the case after Contreras’ recusal.
…Contreras was appointed to the FISA court on May 19, 2016 – before the warrant to surveil one-time Trump advisor Carter Page was issued “in the summer” of 2016. It is unknown whether or not Contreras was involved in the decision, or whether he was involved in surveillance on Michael Flynn.
In fact every single FISA Court judge was appointed during the Obama administration…

Conclusion

Zero Hedge goes on to allege that Judge Contreras was complicit in the illegal spying on private citizen Donald Trump. the removal of Contreras is a major victory for Trump because it sends shockwaves to every liberal judge who makes a mockery of the Constitution.Perhaps the most significant issue related to the plethora of investigations is that Trump is making the liberals shake in their boots. Anyone that had anything to do with the murder of Seth Rich has been put on notice.

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/20...es-on-the-run/

[RamRoddoc]

If they could only have had the same tenacity and compunction during the Hildo beast "investigation"...

I might have some small measure of understanding.