(05-11-2020, 11:07 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(05-11-2020, 10:44 PM)mikesez Wrote: 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.

Tell me you don't know that they were career prosecutors? A president doesn't just come in and replace every single bureaucrat. Calling them "his own prosecutors" is a flat out lie. But then you've been know to do that lots of times on this board.

Setting the perjury trap on Flynn was done by the FBI under Obama's orders. This was carried out by FBI agents and Justice Department people who were there before Trump took office. Yes it's unprecedented. It's unprecedented that the previous administration would use the FBI to propagate false charges in an attempt to oust the duly elected President.