Oh, don’t be naive. We all know it’s the unaccountable, unelected, liberal, evil media that runs things in this country. All the government has is the armed forces, federal police agencies, federal prosecutors, the ability to pass laws, and a $3.8 trillion budget. How do you expect Trump to stand up to Dan Rather with that?
Seems like there’s something everyone in this thread is missing so far:
Immunity from prosecution is a different thing than immunity before a Congressional inquiry.
Flynn is asking for Congressional immunity, to tell Congress his story. If granted, then any testimony he gives will be immunized, meaning it cannot be used later in any prosecution against him. It does NOT protect him from prosecution. If the Justice Dept. sees fit to charge him, they must then do so exclusively with whatever dirt they can find on him from other source. And they cannot use derivative evidence. That is, if his testimony before Congress leads prosecutors to find other evidence, that is immunized too.
The same information he gives to Congress, as well as any derivative evidence, can be used in a prosecution, provided that the prosecutor is able to obtain that from other sources, independently of whatever Flynn has said in Congress.
This can get murky. Oliver North was granted immunity to testify before Congress, did so, and was then prosecuted, tried, and convicted of various shit. But he was able to appeal, claiming that the immunized testimony had somehow (however vaguely) led prosecutors down the path of finding usable evidence, which was then therefore tainted. The court agreed and overturned North’s convictions.
Thus, one speculation not mentioned so far in this thread, is this: Flynn’s attorney is making a play to have the same thing happen here. Get Flynn to offer immunized testimony before Congress. Then, if he is prosecuted, they have the tools to challenge the prosecution’s evidence as being tainted by his immunized testimony.
Philip Bump of The Washington Post discusses various speculations on why Flynn is asking for immunity, including this idea, in Why Michael Flynn may be seeking immunity, March 31, 2017.