re: Flynn forced to sell home to pay legal costs

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Flynn's not stupid and he has competent counsel (competent enough to bankrupt him in a year at least).

I wonder why they didn't think of that...

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I would imagine that he didn't have counsel present during his FBI interview in jan 2017, and that is where he started digging his hole.

It boggles my mind that people don't know - don't talk to the feds (or local police) without counsel present. Yes, counsel is expensive but its sorta like Uber @ 2am and DUI.

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That's real talk

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There is a very small segment of the legal world who is well qualified to deal with this level of case. And they don't need to raise their profile.

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I would imagine that he didn't have counsel present during his FBI interview in jan 2017

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I knew that saying "I don't recall" or pleading the fif was [legally] better than lying to the FBI in January of 2017, with or without counsel. And LTG Flynn was a good bit my senior (in age, rank, and experience) last time our paths crossed, so I imagine he would have known that, too.

Something tells me playing dumb or pleading the 5th wouldn't have been the silver bullet our friend seems to think.

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Something tells me playing dumb or pleading the 5th wouldn't have been the silver bullet our friend seems to think.

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I think saying you don't recall only works if you know you've never discussed the matter in question later with somebody else. If you say you don't recall but had later conversations about the same material then you've still got a false statements problem.

Pleading the 5th avoids criminal liability but the investigators are likely to start looking for your crimes.

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That's exactly what happened. He scheduled the interview without knowing what it was about and didn't ask to reschedule with counsel present. Next thing you know he's lying about sanctions conversations, op-eds, SF-86's....

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it was stupid. And what is even more unbelieveable is that others continue to do the same thing. I suspect nunberg's meltdown was at least in part to getting caught doing this.

I would be really surprised if other campaign officials don't have this same problem.

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Link?

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Either the guy that invented Dilbert or the Publix cashier

Maybe even CptBungle or jjbot

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Pleading the 5th avoids criminal liability but the investigators are likely to start looking for your crimes.

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Pleading the fifth is really not advisable for a gov't official. However, it is always acceptable to say I would like counsel present.

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Don't do the crime if you can't pay the dime

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He didn’t commit a crime. He got caught up in a process crime, the goal of a witch hunt.

Let the FBI come to House Terry and ask all the questions they want and let’s see if you are less than truthful about anything

That is pretty much it. But in times like this I like to reference the god emperor.

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He didn’t commit a crime

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Yes, we know. Poor Michael just couldn't afford to tell a judge he didn't do anything.

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Let the FBI come to House Terry and ask all the questions they want and let’s see if you are less than truthful about anything

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I am the FBI