Breitbart: Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a distinguished public servant, was briefly national security advisor to President Trump until allegations surfaced in the Washington Post that he had been in communication with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak.
Flynn’s lawyers alleged in a November 1, 2019, court filing that James Baker, the Pentagon’s Director of the Office of Net Assessment, “is believed to be the person who illegally leaked” the transcript of Flynn’s December 29, 2016, telephone calls with the ambassador to David Ignatius, a Washington Post reporter.
We went to court to uncover the details, and we now have received 143 pages of records from the Department of Defense that reveal extensive communications between Baker and Ignatius.
The Washington Post published Ignatius’ account of the calls on January 12, 2017, setting in motion a chain of events that led to Flynn’s February 13, 2017, firing as national security advisor, and subsequent prosecution for making false statements to the FBI about the calls.U.S. Attorney John Durham is reportedly investigating the leak of information targeting Flynn.
Citing “the government’s bad faith, vindictiveness and breach of the plea agreement,” Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, moved in January 2020 to withdraw Flynn’s 2017 guilty plea during the Mueller investigation. Flynn claims he felt forced to plead guilty “when his son was threatened with prosecution and he exhausted his financial resources.” Last week, prosecutors provided Flynn’s defense team with documentation of this threat, according to additional papers Flynn’s lawyers filed on April 24, 2020, in support of the motion to withdraw.
We obtained the records in our November 2019 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the DOD failed to respond to a September 2019 request (Judicial Watch v. Department of Defense (No. 1:19-cv-03564)). We were seeking:
- All calendar entries of Director James Baker of the Office of Net Assessment.
- All records of communications between ONA Director James Baker and reporter David Ignatius.
The communications we requested occurred May 2015 through September 25, 2019. more
When this is finished, General Flynn will be rich and own the WashPostHole.
Extirpated: I would rather see them out of business. It is not as though they are protecting the public welfare with their actions.
The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos and I suspect that he wouldn’t have enough of a firewall between him and the Post to survive litigation against his newspaper by Flynn. Why go for a few million when you can take aim at hundreds of millions or dare I say it, a billion or two.
Oh, and it looks like Baker is still at the Pentagon even though this has been under investigation for months now.
Link to the Deepsters?? Hell, it’s one of the main engines.
(Oh Yeah, and support Judicial Watch.)
Why is a private org having to do this? Where the hell is Barr-Sessions??
Anything ‘bezos’ should be excluded from doing business with the military. He can’t be trusted.
When Gen. Flynn has successfully sued for enough to make him whole, I would like to see him buy the WaPo just to burn it to the ground!