Comey's Announcement Remains a Puzzle.
The FBI confirms that Comey wrote his memo exonerating Hillary months before he had his infamous presser laying out the case against her but then exonerating her.
If he was going to help the cover-up, why didn't he go all in and simply cherry-pick the investigation or just lie and say there was nothing there.
Perhaps Comey was just a prisoner of his own self-image of being an honest man. He knew he was going to participate in a corrupt deal but he wanted enough wiggle room to be able to look at his critics and say that he told the truth.
As far as I know, no one has ever explained that bizarre press conference adequately.
Comey certainly lacks the Clinton talent to "die with the lie."
Showing posts with label James Comey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Comey. Show all posts
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Saturday, June 10, 2017
But laws are for the little people!
This is the guy who determined that Hillary's knowing and willful decision to place confidential national security information on an unsecured server did not violate the law because he knew - just knew - that she couldn't have had criminal intent.
A decision he made after knuckling under to political pressure to lie to the American people as FBI Director.
Jonathan Turley explains why Comey's leak was a breach of ethics/law:
//Many in the media have tried to spin this as not a “leak” because leaks by definition only involve classified information. That is entirely untrue as shown by history. Leaks involve the release of unauthorized information — not only classified information. Many of the most important leaks historically have involved pictures and facts not classified but embarrassing to a government. More importantly, federal regulations refer to unauthorized disclosures not just classified information.
Comey’s position would effectively gut a host of federal rules and regulations. He is suggesting that any federal employee effectively owns documents created during federal employment in relation to an ongoing investigation so long as they address the information to themselves. FBI agents routinely write such memos in investigations. They are called 302s to memorialize field interviews or fact acquisitions. They are treated as FBI information.
The Justice Department routinely claims such memos as privileged and covered by the deliberative process privilege and other privileges. Indeed, if this information were sought under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) it would likely have been denied. Among other things, the Justice Department and FBI routinely claim privilege “inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency.”//
This is the guy who determined that Hillary's knowing and willful decision to place confidential national security information on an unsecured server did not violate the law because he knew - just knew - that she couldn't have had criminal intent.
A decision he made after knuckling under to political pressure to lie to the American people as FBI Director.
Jonathan Turley explains why Comey's leak was a breach of ethics/law:
//Many in the media have tried to spin this as not a “leak” because leaks by definition only involve classified information. That is entirely untrue as shown by history. Leaks involve the release of unauthorized information — not only classified information. Many of the most important leaks historically have involved pictures and facts not classified but embarrassing to a government. More importantly, federal regulations refer to unauthorized disclosures not just classified information.
Comey’s position would effectively gut a host of federal rules and regulations. He is suggesting that any federal employee effectively owns documents created during federal employment in relation to an ongoing investigation so long as they address the information to themselves. FBI agents routinely write such memos in investigations. They are called 302s to memorialize field interviews or fact acquisitions. They are treated as FBI information.
The Justice Department routinely claims such memos as privileged and covered by the deliberative process privilege and other privileges. Indeed, if this information were sought under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) it would likely have been denied. Among other things, the Justice Department and FBI routinely claim privilege “inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency.”//
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