Saturday, July 17, 2021

U.S. Department of Injustice

Recommendable! Bizarre and akin to a banana republic!

"While the Michael Flynn prosecution is currently imploding, no matter how it ends, the key lesson is clear: The nakedly coercive tactics routinely used by federal prosecutors to obtain admissions of guilt render those admissions utterly unreliable — not just in Flynn’s case, but in every case. Congress should act immediately to restore public confidence in the integrity of our criminal justice system by reforming this fundamentally lawless and un‐​American practice. And the Flynn case shows why that reform should be a top legislative priority. ...
And that’s where things get murky. We don’t know precisely what was said during the interview due to the FBI’s archaic and palpably self‐​serving policy of not recording interviews electronically but instead having agents take notes, which are then typed up into a formal memorandum of interview called a Form 302. Notably, the original 302 of Flynn’s interview has never been produced; instead, the DOJ produced to Flynn’s attorneys a version of the form that had been substantially edited by Strzok, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, and perhaps others not present at the interview, rendering its accuracy open to question. ..."

Department of Injustice | Cato Institute The nakedly coercive tactics routinely used by federal prosecutors to obtain admissions of guilt render those admissions utterly unreliable — not just in Michael Flynn’s case, but in every case.

No comments: