Ok. I'm 100% with you there.
But Flynn made a plea deal to a single charge- lying to the FBI about a telephone conversation. That's it. All of the documents and information that have been released showed the FBI entrapped him. It was some really sneaky BS and abuse of FBI power. It absolutely, 100% should've been dismissed and I am glad that it was.
If they want to throw a charge at him for violation of the FARA act for not registering as a foreign agent that was lobbying on behalf of a foreign government and for trying to register it after the fact- go ahead be my guest. All signs point to him being guilty as sin there. But I'm guessing that is a whole can of worms the elite in DC do not want to open. My guess is a lot of them are guilty as sin in this regard.
Yeah, Flynn pled guilty to the least of his crimes and the feds dropped the more serious stuff. Now he wants to retract his guilty plea. I have little sympathy for the guy.
However, I'll always believe that if I as an Army officer had disclosed the classified information that Hillary did before, during, and after her tenure as Secretary of State I would have been court-martialed, convicted, and sent to Leavenworth for the Long Tour. I was in three different assignments that required me to have a TS-plus clearance, so I've had some experience dealing with classified material. As we operated when I was an air cavalry squadron S-2 (intelligence and security officer), my team would not disclose information from open sources if we knew that it was classified. So, even if TIME magazine had a story that included information in it that we knew to be classified, we would not use that information in a non-classified briefing. Hillary, at the opposite end of the carefulness spectrum, figured that if she just deleted the classification markings from a document, it was OK to deal with it as if it came out of TIME magazine.
I saw an analysis of what the FBI did and it did not meet the definition of entrapment. Entrapment is when you trick the other party into committing a crime, not when you trick him into admitting that he committed it.
I don't think the FBI has clean hands in all its dealings with Trump associates, subordinates, and hangers-on, but that doesn't mean that Flynn should not suffer punishment for his crimes.