If you're under prosecution, it's generally best to shut up. But there was no official gag order.
Mr. Jekielek: With respect to General Flynn, he’s been very, very quiet over quite a number of years. Recently, there were a few short interviews.
Ms. Powell: Yeah, they weren’t really interviews. He called into a few radio shows, before everything got turned upside down with Judge Sullivan not signing the order, just to say thank you to the American public and the radio hosts in particular, who have been so supportive of him and helped raise money for the defense fund. We’ve been operating off the generosity of the American people. A lot of the donations have been what I would call the widow’s mite [small but powerful].
Mr. Jekielek: Fascinating, and so is he under a gag order?
Ms. Powell: No, there’s no real gag order. But discretion being the better part of valor, he is full of valor; he has chosen to try to let the system work its way out. That’s what I’ve been determined to see happen to make the justice system itself work, and to pound on the Department of Justice to do the right thing here and restore its own reputation by moving to dismiss and acknowledge the wrong conduct of its agents and attorneys.
Flynn can talk now.
Was he still gagged and does that now change?
If you're under prosecution, it's generally best to shut up. But there was no official gag order.
Mr. Jekielek: With respect to General Flynn, he’s been very, very quiet over quite a number of years. Recently, there were a few short interviews.
Ms. Powell: Yeah, they weren’t really interviews. He called into a few radio shows, before everything got turned upside down with Judge Sullivan not signing the order, just to say thank you to the American public and the radio hosts in particular, who have been so supportive of him and helped raise money for the defense fund. We’ve been operating off the generosity of the American people. A lot of the donations have been what I would call the widow’s mite [small but powerful].
Mr. Jekielek: Fascinating, and so is he under a gag order?
Ms. Powell: No, there’s no real gag order. But discretion being the better part of valor, he is full of valor; he has chosen to try to let the system work its way out. That’s what I’ve been determined to see happen to make the justice system itself work, and to pound on the Department of Justice to do the right thing here and restore its own reputation by moving to dismiss and acknowledge the wrong conduct of its agents and attorneys.