https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/trump-ally-sidney-powell-others-face-misconduct-case-michigan-2023-05-08/

May 8 (Reuters) - Donald Trump ally Sidney Powell and several other lawyers have been hit with a complaint by a Michigan attorney regulations agency that accuses them of professional misconduct over their failed bid to challenge the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Michigan's Attorney Grievance Commission filed the case on Friday, marking the second time a state bar disciplinary wing has brought allegations that Powell, a longtime attorney and former federal prosecutor, violated lawyers' ethics rules.

The complaint focused on a lawsuit that Powell and the other lawyers, including conservative attorney Lin Wood, filed in Detroit federal court in late November 2020 that claimed widespread voter fraud undermined the legitimacy of President Joe Biden's win over former president Trump.

The grievance filing said the plaintiffs' lawyers brought a frivolous lawsuit and engaged "in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice."

Powell and Wood did not immediately respond to messages on Monday seeking comment.

Michael Goetz, the attorney grievance administrator in Michigan, did not immediately respond to a similar request.

An initial hearing in the case is set for June 29.

The complaint against Powell adds to cases that state bar disciplinary offices have brought against some lawyers in Trump's orbit for election-related litigation.

Among them, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is fighting attorney misconduct claims in Washington, D.C., and New York, and law professor John Eastman has disputed an ethics case brought by California's attorney discipline arm. Wood has fought Georgia bar regulators.

Powell defeated a Texas state bar ethics case in February, and a state judge last week rejected the disciplinary office's bid to revive its attorney misconduct claims. Texas disciplinary officials alleged Powell had "no reasonable basis" to contest the outcome of the election.

A Texas bar spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Michigan's case pointed to a U.S. district judge's sanctions order against Powell and the other lawyers for their work on the case in Detroit. In that case, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker called the lawsuit a "historic and profound abuse of the judicial process."

Powell's appeal of the sanctions order is pending in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Powell separately has asked the 7th Circuit to block the state of Wisconsin from reviving a sanctions bid against her over an election case there. The trial court in that case declined to impose sanctions.

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https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/jnpwyrlgrpw/Michigan%20-%20Sidney%20Powell%20complaint%20-%202023-05.pdf

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McChrystal and Flynn Irish Mafia of fort Bragg!

Stanley McChrystal, Flynn’s mentor, had tapped him for the job. They were both part of the self-described “Irish mafia” of officers at the Fort Bragg Army base, in North Carolina. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Flynn ordered jsoc commandos to collect and catalogue data from interrogations, captured electronic equipment, pocket trash—anything that could yield useful information. By analyzing these disparate scraps of intelligence, they were able to discover that Al Qaeda was not a hierarchical group after all but a dynamic network of cells and relationships. As I learned while doing research for my book “Top Secret America,” Flynn and McChrystal dramatically increased the pace of jsoc attacks on enemy hideouts by devising a system in which commandos on missions transferred promising data—cell-phone numbers, meeting locations—to analysts, who could then quickly point them to additional targets to hit. Multiple raids a night became common.

McChrystal, who was appointed to run jsoc in 2003, brought Flynn in as his intelligence chief to help him shake up the organization. Flynn was one of the few high-ranking officers who disdained the Army’s culture of conformity. But McChrystal also knew he had to protect Flynn from that same culture. He “boxed him in,” someone who had worked with both men told me last week, by encouraging Flynn to keep his outbursts in check and surrounding him with subordinates who would challenge the unsubstantiated theories he tended to indulge.

In mid-2007, Flynn returned home with three years of jsoc secrets in his head. He had witnessed close-quarters combat and killings. He had helped load the bodies of dead and wounded Seal Team 6 and Delta Force warriors into evacuation helicopters. Like his comrades, he had spent twenty hours a day, seven days a week, focussed on killing the enemy. Sometimes women and children were killed, too. He wouldn’t even take a break to attend his son’s wedding, a moment of personal sacrifice he mentions often when reflecting on those days.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-disruptive-career-of-trumps-national-security-adviser

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Warmongers

Military industrial complex

Flynn & McChrystal always talk WAR!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/11/12/mass-grave-yazidis-iraq-tells-horror-story/75640706/

On Thursday, Kurdish fighters backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes launched a ground offensive to recapture the nearby Iraqi town of Sinjar, which became a symbol of Islamic State brutality when the Islamic extremists began murdering the Yazidis 15 months ago.

Kurds sever critical Islamic State supply line in northern Iraq

The grave here was first discovered in February by a Kurdish sheep herder. Among the 37 skeletal remains were women and children, some who appeared to be toddlers. The victims had been herded together and beheaded or shot.

During a recent visit here, dirt could still be seen piled high from the tractor that Islamic State forces used to dig the 7-foot-deep grave. About 30 feet away, two concrete chicken coops stood where the militants held the victims before they were taken to the grave and killed, Kurdish soldiers said.