although we should note, today was the flynn sentencing memo. and there was no there was no promise or tipoff from them about what would be in it. other than parts of it would be public. they did a rare on the record statement from the spokesperson for that office. friday s filing, which is about paul manafort, they have said we will lay out the lies and crimes of paul manafort in that document. what do we make given what we have here and the redactions we have here and the sort of keeping things in the black box, what do we make? here s the thing about that. if paul manafort s crimes and lies pertain to the really interesting parts of the investigation, then we learn a lot. if it was about interactions with donald trump and collusion with russia, but what if it was about he stashed money abroad or lied about interactions with constantin, it might not be can you imagine how much of that memo is redacted as well.
combat leader, this is his personality is to do it by the book, as you would expect. although we should note, today was the flynn sentencing memo. and there was no there was no promise or tipoff from them about what would be in it. other than parts of it would be public. they did a rare on the record statement from the spokesperson for that office. friday s filing, which is about paul manafort, they have said we will lay out the lies and crimes of paul manafort in that document. what do we make given what we have here and the redactions we have here and the sort of keeping things in the black box, what do we make? here s the thing about that. if paul manafort s crimes and lies pertain to the really interesting parts of the investigation, then we learn a lot. if it was about interactions with donald trump and collusion with russia, but what if it was about he stashed money abroad or lied about interactions with constantin, it might not be
takeaways from the flynn sentencing memo. the first is i believe robert mueller is signaling to other defendants or potential defendants that if you cooperate with the special counsel s office they will work with you and they will be lenient. in this case, recommending no prison time is extremely lenient. second, i believe robert mueller feels his job is secure. otherwise, i think he would have laid out a lot more. i believe that he believes that his job is secure. that s why he s not detailing very much information. and now when you turn to roger stone wait, stop right there, elaborate on that, to dan s point about needing to essentially publicly justify the continued inquiry? that s correct. if robert mueller thought that he was going to get fired i think he would have laid out a very lengthy sentencing memo detailing the several ongoing investigations and what michael flynn may have said about those investigations. he didn t do that. he largely blacked out most of the informat
essentially lobbying for turkey without registering va lobbyist which special counsel charged paul manafort with. he got charged with that? he absolutely got charged with it. there are a couple of unusual things about this michael flynn sentencing memo, and his sentencing in general. ordinarily cooperating witnesses are sentenced after the case is done, after the investigation is done for two reasons. one is that you want them to be on the hook as cooperators in case they need to provide more information or testify. that latter part particularly crucial. you want to make sure if you go trial that s right. and the second thing you don t want to be in a position where you run risk of revealing information about an investigation that you don t want to reveal. now, michael flynn is being sentenced now, before the investigation has concluded.
there are a couple of unusual things about this michael flynn sentencing memo, and his sentencing in general. ordinarily cooperating witnesses are sentenced after the case is done, after the investigation is done for two reasons. one is that you want them to be on the hook as cooperators in case they need to provide more information or testify. that latter part particularly crucial. you want to make sure if you go trial that s right. and the second thing you don t want to be in a position where you run risk of revealing information about an investigation that you don t want to reveal. now, michael flynn is being sentenced now, before the investigation has concluded. so we re in a bit of an unusual territory here and it s hard to read the tea leaves to figure out exactly why. i would expect the other thing, just to sort of frame it,