Mike Flynn is innocent OK!

Lieutenant-General Mike Flynn, briefly Donald Trump's first national security adviser, admitted he lied to the FBI when they asked hin whether he had had any contacts with Russian officials in 2016 before Trump became president. He HAD talked to Russians, notably the Russian ambassador in Washington when he was a leading light in the Trump campagn team. Lying to the FBI is a federal offence and he was charged and he pleaded guilty. That now seems a long time ago, a different world. Flynn never served a day in prison. He subsequently reversed his guilty plea, causing the Justice Deparment to relook at the whole case. William Barr, attorney general appointed a fancy lawyer to investigate and he came up with the conclusion that there wasn't really a case against Flynn because the FBI has mishandled the case and the material against Flynn wasn't right, or wasn't right at the time or wasn't material that should have been material when the FBI first asked their questions or......you get my drift. The fact is that at some point Flynn under questioning admitted he had lied to the FBI and announced that in return for some deal, presumably to do with prison time, he would be pleading guilty. Of course this was all part of the Russian-interference investigation by Robert Mueller, special counsel. Flynn was one of his big-name arrests. Today, as a result of the legal inestigation, Barr has decided there is no case and the charge has been dropped. Trump who has been vociferously fighting for his old mate Flynn and has been accusing everyone involved - not Flynn - of treason and treachery and corruption, insists Flynn is a fine gentleman and that it was outrageous that he was ever charged with anything. Barr says Trump's opinion was not part of the decision he made about dropping the charges. It was based on a legal process and had nothing to do with politics. Well it is a truism that in the end everything is to do with politics but Flynn is free and the Justice Department says justice has been done. The man currently with a smile on his bewildered face must surely be Sergey Kislyak, then the Russian ambassador in DC and now back in Moscow. He knows whom he met and no doubt remembers everything he and Flynn spoke about in December, before Trump officially took over as president the following month. Lifting sanctions against Russia was whispered? Or was that at some other meeting? It's difficult to remember so much time has passed. Oh and by the way there was someone else at that December meeting. Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law. It's all wonderful stuff really.