(05-11-2020, 12:47 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Obama last week:

“The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed — about the Justice Department dropping charges against Michael Flynn,” Obama said. “And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free".

Jan 17, 2017:

Obama Pardons James Cartwright, General Who Lied to F.B.I. in Leak Case

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/po...-case.html

I guess Obama is misspeaking in the quote.
Yes, you could say that both general Flynn and general Cartwright got off Scott free.
But how they got away with it is very different. Presidents have been pardoning people since the beginning of this country. Sometimes they pardon people for personal or political reasons. It's always been that way.
Sometimes people are wrongfully convicted of stuff. Sometimes pardons fix that. Sometimes the governor or the President says, "he was wrongfully convicted, so I'm fixing that." But usually it's the previous set of prosecutors who made the mistake.  For the President to pardon Flynn, when his own prosecutors convicted him, would be unprecedented.  For the President to step in and say, "actually, don't prosecute that guy anymore... is beyond unprecedented.

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