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“SYDNEY POWELL: AMERICAN LEGAL HERO” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E454-E455 on May 15, 2020.
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SYDNEY POWELL: AMERICAN LEGAL HERO
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HON. JOE WILSON
of south carolina
in the house of representatives
Friday, May 15, 2020
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, Americans are grateful for the persistence, competence, and professionalism of Sydney Powell Esq., attorney for General Michael Flynn. As more information emerges about the outrageous General Flynn case, it is increasingly obvious that Flynn, a decorated general and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was the victim of rogue FBI entrapment on entirely illegal and unconstitutional grounds. Confirming the worst of the Deep State.
Sydney Powell deserves highest accolades for fighting for General Flynn in the face of a deliberate criminal conspiracy by rogue leadership at the FBI to incriminate both General Flynn and the Trump Administration under the fake pretense of ``Russian collusion.'' The entire investigation began and continues to be a partisan witch hunt which must be uncovered for the sake of the American Republic. If this can happen to someone like General Flynn, indeed it can happen to any law-abiding citizen of this country. In persistently fighting against this madness, Sydney Powell and the rest of General Flynn's capable legal team also fight for the rights of all Americans to defend themselves against illegal conspiracies of the highest degree by a Deep State.
As a proud attorney myself and being the grateful father of S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson, I am especially shocked at the rogue FBI and Department of Justice abuses of the profession.
From the outset, there was absolutely no criminal predicate before the election for investigation into General Flynn. Previously undisclosed FBI documents from 2016 make the intentions of federal investigators crystal clear. One note from these documents written by the former head of FBI counterintelligence reads, ``What is our goal? Truth and admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?'' These documents also reveal discussions regarding how the Justice Department could get Flynn to admit to breaking the Logan Act, even though this law has never been used to convict an American citizen and questions abound as to its legality since its enactment in 1799.
But when General Flynn was blackmailed into pleading guilty, none of these documents were made available to him or his legal team. And while federal investigators did not believe that General Flynn had lied intentionally during the investigation, the disgraced Special Counsel Mueller and his team disregarded this and moved ahead with the dubious charges, ratcheting up the pressure by even threatening to charge General Flynn's son, aided and abetted by the shamefully biased U.S. District Judge Sullivan.
What emerges from the evidence at hand is a shameful and chilling account of attempted entrapment by the federal government against an innocent man with a long history of serving his country. I commend Sydney Powell for her fortitude and determination against these seemingly insurmountable odds. America is grateful for leaders like General Michael Flynn and for strong advocates of the law like Attorney Sydney Powell.
It is sad that many Democrats and their brazen mainstream media allies have become afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome leading to any nefarious illegality to establish the ends justify the means of the destruction of the Trump Presidency.
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