(04-05-2018, 10:46 AM)MalabarJag Wrote: Yeppers.

No one should voluntarily talk with a policeman or prosecutor until forced by law to do so, and then only with a lawyer present. People have been charged with lying in these cases and fined or jailed in spite of have committing no other crime. Flynn is the latest, but also Scooter Libby, Martha Stewart, and Ray Lewis committed no other crime than lying, and even that is questionable in the cases of Libby and Stewart, both of who got jail time. And those are only the ones we read about, there are probably thousands more who didn't make the national news.

I wouldn't say never but I suppose it's a good rule of thumb. As much as Mueller would suggest otherwise, proportion to the amount the police are lied to, the police don't often make arrests based on inconsistent testimony. Inconsistent testimony isn't the same as lying. The Feds make these case because the subjects are sworn in and they're usually parts of bigger cases. I've actually had many situations where someone didn't want to talk initially, and there was enough evidence to charge them. But after they talked about what happened, they actually helped themselves. 

Mueller, however, has made a career on questionable tactics. If Trump talks to Mueller, this will be General Flynn all over again. If Comey and McCabe don't think Flynn lied to them, but Mueller was willing to charge him anyway, it should show you the depth he's willing to go to make a case. Mueller isn't the stand-up guy the media would have everyone believe. 

He's the same guy that wiretapped someone and sent him into a defendant's attorney's office to intentionally provide misleading information on the stand, so that the attorney would be tempted to conspire to perjure. That kind of thinking is only present in dirty cops. So, no, I'm with you... he shouldn't talk to Mueller.

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