Flynn's choice of lawyers has been interesting. His first choice sought the acknowledge the exposure, admit wrongdoing and cooperate out of a prison sentence. Pretty standard in federal court where there is no discovery and the government can compel any witness to testify or offer any co conspirator plea deals to testify. But then he changed his mind. He started to see how life as a disgraced convicted felon might not be the retirement he had in mind. He fired his lawyers, hired a former federal prosecutor fox pundit with a failed book about prosecutorial over reach and went on scorched earth tour ending with a request to vacate his guilty plea. He paid his savings and retirement to failed writer who recently reinvented herself as a deep state conspiracy theorist who had proof from the inside. She used Flynn to raise her profile and now he will go to prison because she wanted to fight the case in the court of public opinion instead of the court room.

http://www.politico.com/news/m...-legal-strategy-098712

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