FLYNN WIN IS VICTORY FOR FAIRNESS

It is true that “Justice delayed is justice denied.” For proof, see Gen. Michael Flynn.

Freedom, but not justice, finally landed on his doorstep Tuesday, ending nearly four years of personal hell. Flynn’s honor and fortune were stolen by corrupt FBI agents and prosecutors, including Robert Mueller, in a bid to get President Trump.

The general, who had served the United States with distinction in combat and public service, was reduced to being a political pawn.

Most of those involved in making the charge that he lied to the FBI never believed he meant to lie or actually did. They simply used him as a way to target a president they loathed.

Flynn is a free man because Trump pardoned him, a fact that angered federal judge Emmet Sullivan. After the Justice Department moved to drop all charges, saying that the FBI never had reason to interview Flynn in the first place, Sullivan resisted and acted as if he were the prosecutor.

That led to Trump’s unconditional pardon, which forced Sullivan to close the case as “moot,” even as he continues to make clear he thinks Flynn is guilty and should be punished. “President Trump’s decision to pardon Mr. Flynn is a political decision, not a legal one,” he wrote in a 43-page statement that reeked of his own political bias and sour grapes.

In many ways, the Flynn case bookends the Trump era and highlights the power of the Washington swamp. The attempts to entrap Flynn in the early days of the administration revealed that the leadership of the FBI would stop at nothing to undermine the new president, just as the necessity of a pardon revealed that some in the federal courts, especially Sullivan, remain willing to abuse their power to achieve partisan ends.