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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2018
Judge tells Flynn he can’t ‘hide my disgust’
Sentencing
postponed
By ERIC TUCKER
and CHAD DAY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A fed-
eral judge abruptly postponed
the sentencing hearing today
for Michael Flynn, President
Donald Trump’s fi rst national
security adviser, after a stun-
ning hearing in which the
judge accused Flynn of sell-
ing out his country.
The delay allows Flynn
to continue cooperating with
the special counsel’s Rus-
sia probe and get credit for
it in his punishment. Flynn
pleaded guilty last year to
lying to the FBI about his
Russia contacts, just days
after Trump was inaugurated.
“Arguably you sold your
country out,” U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Emmet Sullivan
told Flynn in a tongue-lash-
ing that raised the prospect
that the judge could send the
retired Army lieutenant gen-
eral to prison, even though
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Michael Flynn arrives at federal court.
prosecutors have recom-
mended against prison time,
citing his cooperation in the
Russia probe.
Sullivan told Flynn “I
can’t hide my disgust, my
disdain” at the crime.
After a prosecutor raised
the prospect of Flynn’s con-
tinued cooperation with other
investigations in the future,
Sullivan warned Flynn that
he might not get the full
credit for his assistance to the
government if he were sen-
tenced as scheduled today.
Typically, judges like to sen-
tence cooperating defendants
after their cooperation is
done so they can fully eval-
uate the help they gave to the
government.
He gave Flynn a chance to
talk it over with his lawyers,
and the court went into a brief
recess.
When they returned,
Flynn lawyer Rob Kelner
defended Flynn’s coopera-
tion — but requested a post-
ponement to allow for him to
keep cooperating.
Flynn, who served as
national security adviser for
only a few weeks, was to be
the fi rst White House offi cial
sentenced in special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investiga-
tion into possible coordina-
tion between Russia and the
Trump campaign. The hear-
ing took place amid esca-
lating legal peril for Trump,
who was implicated by fed-
eral prosecutors in New York
this month in hush-money
payments to cover up extra-
marital affairs. Nearly a
half-dozen former aides and
advisers — including Flynn
— have pleaded guilty or
agreed to cooperate with
prosecutors.
Trump
signaled
his
intense interest in the case
by tweeting “good luck” to
Flynn hours before the sen-
tencing hearing. He added:
“Will be interesting to see
what he has to say, despite
tremendous pressure being
put on him, about Russian
Collusion in our great and,
obviously, highly success-
ful political campaign. There
was no Collusion!”
At the hearing, Sullivan
told Flynn that he would
take into account his exten-
sive cooperation with the
government, which includes
19 meetings with investi-
gators as well as a 33-year
military career that included
service in Iraq and Afghani-
stan. But he also said he was
forced to weigh other fac-
tors, too, including Flynn’s
decision as national secu-
rity adviser to lie to the FBI
on the premises of the White
House about contacts he had
with the Russian ambassador
to the United States.
Earlier in the hearing, Sul-
livan asked Flynn a series of
questions to make sure he
wanted to move forward with
his sentencing in light of a
memo his attorneys submit-
ted last week that took aim
at the FBI’s conduct during
agents’ January 2017 inter-
view of Flynn. Flynn said
that memo notwithstanding,
he was ready to proceed with
sentencing.
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
White House pulls back from
shutdown threat over wall funds
WASHINGTON — The White House today appeared
to inch away from forcing a partial government shutdown
over funding for a southern border wall, with Press Secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying there are “other ways” to
secure the $5 billion in funding that President Donald Trump
wants.
It was the fi rst sign of a potential White House counter
offer as the clock ticks down toward Friday’s midnight dead-
line to fund the government.
“At the end of the day, we don’t want to shut down the
government,” Sanders said on Fox News. “We want to shut
down the border from illegal immigration.”
Trump’s $5 billion is far more than the $1.3 billion Dem-
ocrats have offered, which is not for Trump’s promised wall
along the southern border with Mexico, but fencing and
other security measures.
Sanders pointed to one bill, likely referring to the Sen-
ate’s bipartisan appropriation measure for the Department of
Homeland Security, which provides $26 billion, including
$1.6 billion for fencing and other barriers. It was approved
by the committee in summer on a bipartisan vote.
A partial shutdown risks disrupting government opera-
tions and leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employ-
ees furloughed or working without pay over the holiday sea-
son. Costs would be likely in the billions of dollars.
Trump signs order to
create US Space Command
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump launched
the Pentagon’s new Space Command today, an effort to bet-
ter organize and advance the military’s vast operations in
space that could cost as much as $800 million over the next
fi ve years.
Trump signed a one-page memorandum authorizing the
Defense Department to create the new command. Speak-
ing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Vice President
Mike Pence said, “a new era of American national security
in space begins today.”
The goal is to set up a command to oversee and orga-
nize space operations, accelerate technical advances and
fi nd more effective ways to defend U.S. assets in space,
including the vast constellations of satellites that American
forces rely on for navigation, communications and surveil-
lance. The move comes amid growing concerns that China
and Russia are working on ways to disrupt, disable or even
destroy U.S. satellites.
The new order is separate from the president’s much
touted goal of creating a “Space Force” as an independent
armed service branch, but is considered a fi rst step in that
direction. The memo provides little detail on what will be
a long and complicated process as the Defense Depart-
ment begins to pull together various space units from across
the military services into a more coordinated, independent
organization.
According to one U.S. offi cial, the command would pull
about 600 staff from existing military space offi ces, and
then add at least another 1,000 over the coming years. The
roughly $800 million would mainly cover the additional
staff. The costs for the existing staff would just transfer to the
new command, but that total was not immediately available.
Trump administration
moves to ban bump stocks
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration moved
today to offi cially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-au-
tomatic weapons to fi re rapidly like automatic fi rearms, and
has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March.
The devices will be banned under a federal law that pro-
hibits machine guns, according to a senior Justice Depart-
ment offi cial.
Bump stocks became a focal point of the national gun
control debate after they were used in October 2017 when
a man opened fi red from his Las Vegas hotel suite into a
crowd at a country music concert below, killing 58 people
and injuring hundreds more in the deadliest mass shooting
in modern U.S. history.
The regulation, which was signed by Acting Attorney
General Matthew Whitaker on Tuesday morning, will go
into effect 90 days after it is formally published in the Fed-
eral Register, which is expected to happen on Friday, the Jus-
tice Department offi cial said.
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WASHINGTON — The government’s top doctor is tak-
ing aim at the best-selling electronic cigarette brand in the
U.S., urging swift action to prevent Juul and similar vaping
brands from addicting millions of teenagers.
In an advisory today, Surgeon General Jerome Adams
said parents, teachers, health professionals and government
offi cials must take “aggressive steps” to keep children from
using e-cigarettes. Federal law bars the sale of e-cigarettes
to those under 18.
For young people, “nicotine is dangerous and it can have
negative health effects,” Adams said in an interview. “It can
impact learning, attention and memory, and it can prime the
youth brain for addiction.”
Federal offi cials are scrambling to reverse a recent explo-
sion in teen vaping that public health offi cials fear could
undermine decades of declines in tobacco use. An estimated
3.6 million U.S. teens are now using e-cigarettes, represent-
ing 1 in 5 high school students and 1 in 20 middle schoolers,
according to the latest federal fi gures.
Separate survey results released Monday showed twice as
many high school students used e-cigarettes this year com-
pared to last year.
AB7044
NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION
Pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes 305.583 (9) and (10),
notice is hereby given that on December 12, 2018, Clatsop
County, Oregon (the “County”) adopted a resolution (a) clas-
sifying the tax levy to be imposed to pay the principal of, pre-
mium, if any, and interest on the County’s proposed issuance
of general obligation bonds in the aggregate principal amount
not to exceed $20,000,000 as not being subject to the limits
of section 11 or 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution,
and (b) specifying the authorized uses of the proceeds of
the general obligation bonds. Any individual may contact the
Director of Budget and Finance of the County at 800 Ex-
change Street, Suite 410, Astoria, Oregon 97103, telephone
(503) 325-1000, to obtain a copy of the resolution. Judicial
review of the classification of the taxes or the specification of
authorized uses may be sought within 60 days of the date of
the resolution.
CLATSOP COUNTY, OREGON
Contact: John Anderson • 360-269-2500
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