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CNN says Michael Flynn's family deleted potential evidence, asks for 'forensic search' of phones [1]

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Date: 2023-02-21  

He liked power and gold.

Back on July 4, 2020, the family of disgraced and subsequently pardoned former national security adviser Michael Flynn took a video during their Independence Day festivities. The video came into the public sphere because Michael Flynn posted it to his Twitter account, adding the hashtag #TakeTheOath. In the video, Flynn and his family are seen recording themselves chanting, “Where we go one, we go all.” The phrase had become well-known as one of the catchphrases of conspiracy theorists in the QAnon world.

CNN reported this. Michael Flynn quickly took down the post and said his family was simply reciting their oath to themselves. Yeah. It sounded just as true then as it sounds now. Any the ways! Flynn’s brother and sister-in-law decided to sue CNN for defamation. A judge allowed the lawsuit to continue, even though CNN pointed out how many times the Flynns supported QAnon hokum on social media. However, the problem with suing for defamation is that it gave CNN and its lawyers the right to ask for a review of responsive evidence, including text messages and emails from the phones of Flynn family members.

Since that time, CNN has tried unsuccessfully to get that information. Flynn family attorneys have claimed that the evidence sought is “highly confidential” and/or nonexistent. As CNN attorneys wrote last September, “CNN is not merely speculating that additional responsive documents exist that have not been produced; rather, CNN actually knows this to be true. For example, on September 15, 2022, nearly two months after the first meet and confer, Plaintiffs’ counsel produced a single text message conversation between Leslie Flynn and Valerie Flynn discussing the CNN Report at-issue.”

Having f’ed around, the Flynn family is now about to find out, as CNN lawyers are turning up the heat.

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