Michael Flynn's Sentencing Memo and Addendum.



There were two parts to the Flynn documents released on December 4, 2018- a Sentencing Memo, and an Addendum. Sentencing Memo here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5425861-Flynn-filing.html#document/p1 The sentencing memo charges Flynn with one count of lying to the FBI. He has pleaded "guilty". The Mueller investigation has been very kind to him and only charged him with one count due to his "substantial assistance" in cooperating with the investigation(s), and has also recommened a very light prison sentence of "0-6 months" in prison. Flynn has been proven to have made "multiple false statements, to multiple Department of Justice (“DOJ”) entities" about two issues: the Russian interference in our election, and about Flynn's role as a paid representative of Turkey (including the possibility of kidnapping Muhammed Fethullah Gülen from Pensylvania and retruning him to Turkey). Both of these issues mean that Flynn was "compomised" and open to blackmail by both Russia and Turkey (and anyone else who knew about him being compromised). One would rightly expect US elected officials and representatives (especially our top National Security Advisor) to maintain American interests as a first priority. Flynn did not. The Addendum here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5425863-46-1.html#document/p1 The Addendum is heavily redacted and "(b)ecause the Addendum includes sensitive information about ongoing investigations, the government is seeking to partially seal the Addendum, and has filed publicly a redacted version of the document that excludes the sensitive information." (This quote is from the sentencing memo.) From an unredacted part of the Addendum: “[Flynn] has also assisted the SCO investigation concerning links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign . . . on a range of issues including interactions between individuals of the Presidential Transition Team and Russia.” It looks as though Flynn did assist with and is still assisting with at least two, possibly three, and possibly even more, ongoing investigations- one is a criminal investigation of some kind, the second is Russian focused, and the possible third is completely redacted so we have not clue about its topic(s). Something to think about regarding the unknowns in the Addendum: pay attention to the investigators who co-signed these documents. Brandon L. Van Grack's specialty areas include national security matters including cybersecurity, export controls, economic sanctions, CFIUS (meaning foreign investment transactions, AKA money laundering), theft of trade secrets, and espionage. https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-l-van-grack-7b5984118/ Zainab N. Ahmed's specialty is terrorism/counterterrorism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainab_Ahmad

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