Judge Sullivan: Damned if you do and damned if you don't General Flynn

We now know that the FBI knew that Flynn hadn't lied to them.  He said he didn't remember talking about sanctions with the Russian Ambassador but he could have. Flynn never categorically denied talking to the Russian about sanctions.

But Flynn pled guilty after the government, with its unlimited funding, drove him to the verge of bankruptcy to pay his legal expenses and more importantly threaten to pursue bogus charges against his son.

Essentially the FBI blackmailed Flynn into pleading guilty to something he didn't do.

They got away with it because the DOJ conspired to deliberately conceal the evidence that showed that Flynn was innocent and because the DOJ hid from the court the threat against Flynn's son.

But now that the truth has come out Judge Sullivan is saying that perhaps Flynn should be charged with perjury for lying to the court about being guilty.

As liberal law professor Jonathan Turley points out this is a clear problem for defendants who have suffered from prosecutorial misconduct.

If a defendant pleads guilty as part of a plea bargain to a crime he didn't commit because the evidence that would show his innocence has been deliberately concealed by the prosecution he must have the right to change his plea based on the new information.

To do otherwise is nothing less than endorsing prosecutorial misconduct.

Given that Sullivan suggested to prosecutors that Flynn be charged with treason it's fairly clear that Sullivan is only concerned with punishing those whose political ideology he doesn't share and not with justice.

What's even more amazing is that despite now knowing that the prosecutors deliberately lied to him about exculpatory evidence Sullivan isn't talking about charging them with perjury or contempt of court.