If that were true - which it isn’t - not only “should” the DOJ have prosecuted Flynn for those FARA allegations, they were *obligated* to prosecute them by the DOJ’s own rules that say the most serious, readily provable offense should be charged by prosecutors
Also, Van Grack essentially admitted in Flynn’s statement of the offense that he did not have all of the elements to prove any FARA violation - namely that Flynn filed a false FARA declaration willingly and knowingly, which is why he left those terms out of the doc
Also Flynn did register under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) instead of FARA originally, in Sep 2016. And FARA prosecutions are so rare that had he been prosecuted, he might have been the first ever LDA registrant hit for not filing under FARA instead
soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?even…
soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?even…
And the DOJ *did* prosecute Flynn’s business partner under FARA, and even had Flynn’s initial “full cooperation” on that case, and the Judge completely threw it out
On that record no DOJ except Obama’s would ever think they could get beyond a reasonable doubt on Flynn himself
On that record no DOJ except Obama’s would ever think they could get beyond a reasonable doubt on Flynn himself
