Posted on 08/01/2019 4:54:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
So what? Comey “torched” Hillary in July of 2016. She is still operating, she is still winning, still making money, still the media darling and the Democrats martyr. Now it’s Comeys turn to be “torched”. LOL.
Probably true. But there is also a principle that 2 or more pieces of unclassified material, when taken together, might be considered classified. So the four memos, combined, might be reasonably considered classified. It's an obscurity in the regulations - but that would just make the case even more difficult.
I would also think it's breaking executive privilege, and certainly unethical to leak conversations with the POTUS.
A sub-mariner went to prison for six keepsake photographs.
Paul Manafort is now crippled in solitary confinement.
Trust Sessions... I mean, Barr. Trust the Plan...
... The Plan that has allowed anyone prominent who helped Donald Trump become elected has had his life disrupted, damaged, or destroyed.
Some Plan.
(Where can I sign up for the 2020 shindig, so that I can be personally and professionally ruined by The Plan?)
Barr is ex-CIA. He was chosen as AG by ex-CIA Bush 41. He was dirty in Iran-Contra (a.k.a. Robert Johnson) and Ruby Ridge (defended Lon Horiuchi pro bono).
He is a career-long unelected apparatchik, a card-carrying member of the Swamp who believes that Federal animals are more equal than other animals. That is why the UniParty confirmed him.
If you want to ignore his actual Federal history, and blindly trust him, that is your choice. I have been watching the Swamp for decades, and refuse to do so.
Yes. Thank you. We must remember such people who truly serve - whether they have a momentary lapse or not.
It breaks my heart to see what these seditionists are allowed to do - with literal, open impunity.
We’ll see...I’m basing things on what I see now - but I do hear you. Time will tell.
Deep state plan: make the entire thing all about just one solitary guy, then exonerate him. Problem solved, no deep staters harmed and it’s back to behind the scenes skullduggery.
Yeah, revealing those conversations, privileged or not, is pretty weak.
No justice- no peace
I thought that Comey admitted that he leaked the memos in order to have them published and create a demand for a Special Counsel. If that is the case, then Comey’s INTENTION to leak the material is proven.
A sub-mariner went to prison for six keepsake photographs.
Paul Manafort is now crippled in solitary confinement.
Trust Sessions... I mean, Barr. Trust the Plan...
... The Plan that has allowed anyone prominent who helped Donald Trump become elected has had his life disrupted, damaged, or destroyed.
Papadop’s wife miscarried after a brutal day long interrogation by Mueller’s FBI goons. Sans legal counsel, nat. Mueller’s FBI sent more boots to get Roger Stone than the Navy sent SEALs to get OBL. Etc., etc.
None of this happens without top cover from the GOP.
We live in a post constitutional police state. It couldn’t be more clear.
Imagine the fun if a conspiracy involving high level government officials, who were spread throughout our law enforcement and intelligence services, was discovered and a key cooperating witness turns out to be the former head of the FBI. Think of the heads Comey could deliver. Perhaps Comey kept contemporaneous memos of the actions of all the conspirators similar to the memos he created after his conversations with Trump.
It may not be time to pop the popcorn but I would encourage everybody to have some on hand.
Do you think Comey shares some of the traits of John Dean?
Barr is not recused from anything so it is very likely that he knows what is coming as some have stated so they may believe a much stronger case will be made.
I was willing to give Barr the benefit of the doubt until the fall.
But the new months long delays in the IG report are the last strawf or me. It’s blindingly obvious the administrative investigation is being slow walked directly into 2020 election season. There is simply no valid reason for the IG to be allowed to work bankers hours after delaying his report so many times. It can only be a deliberate stalling tactic at this point.
Someone in the know is pissed at bagpipe Bob.
More likely the Barr DOJ just want to get the bad news out an opportune time. This sure smells like a news dump. Everybody is leaving the beltway for summer vacation. Nobody will face any pressure to address the matter and more importantly support POTUS. The useless GOP controlled Senate in particular.
I’m ok with holding off and I’m happy with what I see here. First that Huber didn’t pull any punches with Comey, and second is that I’m convinced that Barr is on our side - or he wouldn’t have done what he did (appoint Bull Durham and flat out say that Trump was spied on).
Watch what these guys do. Not just what they say. It’s all beltway theater at this point. The GOP is trying to manipulate GOP voters into thinking they strongly support POTUS so if he loses in 2020 they won’t get hammered by the base for not supporting him enough. Graham’s new verbal support of POTUS in particular is obvious campaign season gaslighting.
I get why they deferred charging Comey for the small stuff, but I don't get why they're sticking with this excuse.
Comey's intent was clear from his words and actions: he took the documents in order to leak them to a friend to funnel them to the media to retaliate against being fired by Trump. Comey said he wanted the leaked documents to be the fuel for a special counsel investigation.
That's their story and they're sticking to it, but it hokum to me.
-PJ
I hope the next time I get pulled over for speeding, I get torched by a police report instead of getting an expensive ticket and having my insurance costs go up.
It is worthless to call someone out for a crime and then not prosecute him. There is no deterrent in that. This is bullcrap.
You can be convicted for stupidity or an intentional act but usually there's difference in severity of punishment. Not always.
Statutes and the common law vary widely but you'll notice a difference between crimes of negligence and say murder in the first degree which generally requires malice aforethought (mens rea), criminal intent.
Importantly and separately, the notion of strict liability changes things. Things Comey gave a pass on to Cankles and her crew and for which he may be liable for - like you say, matters regarding national security, for instance. No intent/mens rea required, only the act.
Lock these traitors up.
Pop quiz on Monday. ;-)
all these people have ever done is get paid to find excuses for each other and laugh about it at the “Holiday” party.
It’s just more proof that it’s a club and we’re not members.
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