thefederalist | Earlier this week, Michael Flynn’s star attorney, Sidney Powell,
filed under seal a brief in reply to federal prosecutors’ claims that
they have already given Flynn’s defense team all the evidence they are
required by law to provide. A minimally redacted copy of the reply brief has just been made public, and with it shocking details of the deep state’s plot to destroy Flynn.
While the briefing at issue concerns Powell’s motion to compel the government to hand over evidence required by Brady and
presiding Judge Emmett Sullivan’s standing order, Powell’s 37-page
brief pivots between showcasing the prosecution’s penchant for
withholding evidence and exposing significant new evidence the defense
team uncovered that establishes a concerted effort to entrap Flynn.
Along the way, Powell drops half-a-dozen problems with Flynn’s plea and
an equal number of justifications for outright dismissal of the criminal
charges against Flynn.
What is most striking, though, is the timeline Powell pieced together
from publicly reported text messages withheld from the defense team and
excerpts from documents still sealed from public view. The sequence
Powell lays out shows that a team of “high-ranking FBI officials
orchestrated an ambush-interview of the new president’s National
Security Advisor, not for the purpose of discovering any evidence of
criminal activity—they already had tapes of all the relevant
conversations about which they questioned Mr. Flynn—but for the purpose
of trapping him into making statements they could allege as false.”
