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Don't be ridiculous. In this case, everybody ever prosecuted by the government pleads guilty, right? Nope. Wrong.
And the problem with his son, that's because the son is another crook.
He didnt have an attorny present and simply misremembered exactly what all was said in a matter in which he had the full right and capacity to say, as incoming national security advisor, what was necessary in the matter. Most certainly nothing of grave national jeopardy.
Soley, as judge TS Ellis properly framed it in the Manafort case, to put the squeeze on him, to get him to not just sing, but to get him to compose, to frame an apparently squeaky clean President Donald J Trump.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05...-flynn-prepared-testify-appeared-forthcoming/
Pientka, who has never spoken to a journalist, according to several sources with knowledge, is expected to speak to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee if subpoenaed to discuss the circumstances regarding his role in the investigation into Flynn and the interview that he was a part of at the White House. Highly classified information regarding Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak was leaked to columnist David Ignatius of the Washington Post in January, 2017 which spurred the controversy around Flynn and eventually led to his firing in February, 2017.
It’s this reporters understanding that Pientka will account for what Flynn said in the interview and will give context to the FBI’s accusation that he lied during the interview. If asked, Pientka will also give his personal opinion as to whether or not that was actually the case. He will also discuss how forthcoming Flynn was about very specific sensitive information that Flynn could not have possibly known the investigators already knew, which may give additional insight into Flynn’s veracity and willingness to tell the truth.
there’s an ongoing disagreement between congressional Republicans and former FBI Director James Comey over what Comey told Members of Congress about that FBI interview with Flynn. The House Intelligence Committee says Comey told the House in a briefing last year “the agents…discerned no physical indications of deception. They didn’t see any change in posture, in tone, in inflection, in eye contact. They saw nothing that indicated to them that he knew he was lying to them.” That comes from a transcript of the briefing. Earlier this month, Sen. Grassley sent a letter which said Comey told Senators the same thing at a separate briefing. The Senate briefing was not transcribed but there was a law enforcement officer there taking notes. His notes indicated that Comey said the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn, “saw nothing that led them to believe [he was] lying.”