[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 92 (Friday, May 15, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E454-E455]
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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

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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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