The government's sentencing of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn on his guilty plea to a Robert Mueller-orchestrated charge in 2017 of lying to investigators about conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in 2016 has been indefinitely postponed.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Monday canceled a sentencing hearing that was planned for Feb. 27 "until further order of the court."
In the process of withdrawing his guilty plea, Flynn has accused federal prosecutors of "egregious government misconduct."
Already, prosecutors have been waffling on whether they want probation or jail for him.
The government has asked for an extension of time to consider Flynn's motion to withdraw his plea, but Flynn's lawyer, Sidney Powell, said the Department of Justice should agree to the withdrawal.
"Accordingly we oppose any further extension of the briefing schedule," she said.
Politico reported the move indefinitely postponed the scheduled hearing.
The Gateway Pundit said the "Obama Deep State" has spied on Flynn since 2015 because he turned against President Obama and spoke honestly about his failed strategy that caused the rise of ISIS in Iraq.
"So the Obama, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Brennan, Clapper Deep State set him up and ambushed him during the Trump transition by leaking his calls to then-Russian Ambassador Kislyak to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius."
Flynn's counsel has accused the government of "bad faith, vindictiveness and breach of the plea deal."
"The prosecution has shown abject bad faith in pure retaliation against Mr. Flynn since he retained new counsel," Flynn's attorneys wrote earlier. "This can only be because with new, unconflicted counsel, Mr. Flynn refused to lie for the prosecution.
"Justice is not a game, and there should be no room for such gamesmanship in the Department of Justice," they wrote.
Flynn hired Powell in 2019, a former federal prosecutor, who filed a motion for dismissal in October. The motion alleged the Justice Department manipulated Flynn's FBI interview transcript, known as a 302, to charge him with lying and was withholding exculpatory evidence.
Powell presented evidence former FBI lawyer Lisa Page edited Flynn's 302 report then lied to the Justice Department about the edits.
Powell contended the case should be thrown out "for outrageous government misconduct."
In November, a federal judge granted Flynn's request to delay his criminal sentencing until after the release of the Justice Department inspector general's report on alleged government surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign in 2016.
But on Dec. 18, D.C. federal court Judge Emmet Sullivan rejected Flynn's claim that he was pressured to plead guilty.