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Flynn. So there were filings today in Gen. Flynn& #39;s case by his counsel, by DOJ and by the amicus curiae, retired judge, Gleeson. I& #39;ll start with the easy stuff and work my way to the harder stuff. /1
First, Andy McCabe& #39;s lawyer, Michael Bromwich, (whom you may remember as part of Christine Blasey-Ford& #39;s legal team) sent a letter to Judge Sullivan a few days ago that Judge Sullivan ordered placecd on the docket. That is not uncommon for judges to do, btw. /2
So Bromwich& #39;s letter is a whiny screed about how - Oh. Mer. Gawd. - there are dates written on McCabe& #39;s notes that are not in his handwriting & how dare mean old @SidneyPowell1 use them to supplement her icky filings on behalf of Flynn! /3
You may recall that Strzok& #39;s lawyer, Aitan Goelman, did the same prior to the hearing and Judge Sullivan asked the DOJ about that. He asked DOJ, not Sidney, because it was fucking obvious to anyone with a brain in their head that she got them that way from DOJ. 
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So DOJ filed a pleading today saying, yeah about those dates written in someone else& #39;s handwriting, those are from where FBI agents reviewing the cases put sticky notes with the estimated dates of the notes on them and they got copied that way - w/o the sticky notes removed. /5
I kid you not that this is the level of stupid that this case has sunk to. DOJ even conferred with Strzok& #39;s lawyer to confirm that Strzok was not claiming anything else was not in his handwriting. So that& #39;s a big ole nothing burger, as the young folks say. /6
In other earth shattering news, Gleeson filed a 3 page pleading advising Sullivan that in his opinion he could take "judicial notice" of DJT& #39;s tweets. This means a court can accept them as evidence because they so obviously are genuine.This is straight legal stuff - boring. /7
And then there& #39;s a boring filing by DOJ giving formal notice to the court that DOJ sent letters to Sidney giving her copies of the Strzok & McCabe notes with . . . wait for it . . . the sticky notes removed! God, it& #39;s just scintillating. /8
No we& #39;re getting to something more interesting, however. Sidney filed a fifth supplement in support of DOJ& #39;s motion to dismiss. The pleading is short & sweet. It says an FBI lawyer on Jan 25, 2017 took notes in a meeting that support the theory of dismissal. /9
Actually, team Flynn should correct this filing - hey @jbinnall - because it actually says the meeting was conducted on Jan 25, 2020, NOT 2017, which clearly can& #39;t be right & isn& #39;t what& #39;s on the notes. The notes say, Jan 25, 2017. /10
A lot of issues dealing with dates in these filings. This is how boring/picayune lawyering can be sometimes. Gotta sweat the small stuff, unfortunately. /11
Anyway, the notes appear to be from FBI lawyer, James Baker, from a meeting the day after the Flynn interview, and thank God he has nice (old fashioned cursive) handwriting so they are easy to read. /12
The notes are talking about a potential Logan Act prosecution of Flynn and hahahaha - listing all the reasons that would not work, just like we& #39;ve been saying all this time. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙄" title="Gesicht mit rollenden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit rollenden Augen">/13
The notes quote someone as saying "no reasonable prosecutor" would charge a Logan Act charge in this case. NO KIDDING. Also it would be an uphill battle, a 1st time case & a note about "other transition teams" which probably means other transition teams had done the same. /14
So basically all the stuff that actual defense lawyers who don& #39;t have TDS have been saying since 2017 about how an investigation for a "Logan Act" violation was a crock of "doo-doo" as George HW Bush used to call it. /15
And it gets better. The notes also contain the assessment that Flynn is "probably not" in a covert relationship with Russia based on his interview and the other facts known to FBI. No shit, Sherlocks. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙄" title="Gesicht mit rollenden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit rollenden Augen">/16
There is also some half-assed "counter-intelligence analysis" about how Flynn was telling the public something different about the call than what FBI & the Russians knew, but so what given govts tell the public stuff all the time like that & the Russians know that too. Lame. /17
All in all, those notes are preeeeeety interesting. /18
