he has been a fixture at that courthouse and others. but what he said today, his degree of anger to general flynn about what flynn did as national security adviser sitting in the west wing, that close to the president when your decisions are made for us on our behalf, that was kind of a normalizing argument. some found it refreshing to hear as told by a federal judge. whenever your sentencing judge points to the flag and says defendant, you have undermined that, that s not a good day for you. judge sullivan was not only offended by the conduct with respect to the government of turkey, but i think there s that lingering question which is why did flynn lie? what conduct about the president elect was he covering up? why did he get his marching orders from a transitional officials at mar-a-lago? those are still questions, brian, that i don t think we
agent of turkey after the inauguration when he was sworn in as national security adviser. prosecutors said in court today that flynn stopped doing that work right after the election in mid-november, 2016. and that is in fact when flynn filed paperwork with the government saying that his contract with turkey ended. but, you know what? it s possible that the judge was right the first time before he walked that back, at least if some nbc news reporting on this subject is accurate. in november, 2017, nbc news reported on something that happened in the trump administration while flynn was still national security adviser before he was forced out, before he retroactively registered for having been a paid agent of that foreign government. and in terms of their reporting, we know that what flynn had been paid to do secretly for the government of turkey was try to get this guy gulen, who the turkish government wanted extradited back to their
foreign government. and in terms of their reporting, we know that what flynn had been paid to do secretly for the government of turkey was try to get this guy gulen, who the turkish government wanted extradited back to their country, the turkish government was paying to get the u.s. government to extradite him. and that s what flynn was working on when he was a paid agent of turkey. well, according to nbc s reporting from november 2017, quote, former senior law enforcement official said that in the weeks after trump s inauguration, the fbi was in fact asked to conduct a new review of turkey s request to extradite gulen. the fbi pushed back on the request because they provided no new information. it s unclear whether the request to investigate gulen came from mike flynn or typical channels at the state department. so just think about that for a
filing, hey, go ahead and that that fbi made me lie defense. we like that. was there something going on like that? judge certainly didn t like that. jeremy bash, this judge has been on the bench for a long time, nominated for three separate judgeships by reagan, bush 41, and bill clinton. he has been a fixture at that courthouse and others. but what he said today, his degree of anger to general flynn about what flynn did as national security adviser sitting in the west wing, that close to the president when your decisions are made for us on our behalf, that was kind of a normalizing argument. some found it refreshing to hear as told by a federal judge. whenever your sentencing judge points to the flag and says defendant, you have undermined that, that s not a good day for you. judge sullivan was not only offended by the conduct with
this country as paid foreign agents of the government of turkey without ever disclosing it. so prosecutors from mueller s office bring that up to the judge today as if that should help flynn even more. look, he helped us get that indictment too. he s been super helpful. he is a great cooperator. but the judge immediately boomerangs that back at them by saying, basically, yeah, i see how he helped you get that indictment filed, but flynn participated in the crime that is laid out in that indictment too. i mean, the judge says looking at the evidence of what flynn himself did in that alleged crime, you could have charged him for that. you could have locked him up for that too, right? here s how it goes. prosecutor brandon van grack, quote, we d like to bring to the court aye s attention that we just had an indictment unsealed charges bijan kian and ekim alptekin. in obtaining that charging document. the judge, all right.