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A Reprimand For Comey That Doesn't Vindicate Trump (Opinion)

The theory I've heard is that they'd never find a jury in DC that would
convict Comey, even though what he did certainly rises to the level of
criminal conduct.

It's not just his leaking stuff through an academic back in 2017.
There's far more serious stuff related to the Trump FISA / wiretap stuff
during 2016.

There's also the decision not to charge Hillary for the purposefull
redirection of gov't business and classified communications through an
unsecure "personal" mail server.

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07/31/19

But Comey and others inside the FBI and the DOJ during his tenure still
face legal jeopardy in ongoing probes by the IG and Barr-appointed
special prosecutor John Durham. The worst is still to come for Jim
Comey James Comey's next reckoning is imminent — this time for leaking
House Republicans claim victory after Mueller hearings. Those
investigations are focused on the origins of the Russia investigation
that included a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant
targeting the Trump campaign at the end of the 2016 election, the source
said.

“There are significant issues emerging with how the FISA was handled and
other conduct in the investigation, and everyone involved remains under
scrutiny,” a second source said.

The IG concluded in prior investigations that Comey’s firing was not
driven by Trump’s fears about the Russia investigation ruining his
presidency but, rather, by DOJ concerns about Comey’s performance in the
Hillary Clinton email probe. Horowitz concluded that Comey wrongly
“usurped” the authority of the attorney general when, on July 5, 2016,
he announced he would not seek criminal charges against Clinton for
transmitting classified information — some of it top secret — on her
insecure private email server.

That IG report also chided Comey for criticizing Clinton’s email
practices as reckless without filing charges and for improperly
announcing the reopening of the email probe in late October 2016, just a
few weeks before Election Day when Clinton and Trump were locked in a
tight race.

Ironically, Comey’s decision not to charge Clinton for violating the
Espionage Act for mishandling classified information on her email server
mirrors the same rationale that Barr’s DOJ applied in declining
prosecution of him: a lack of evidence of intent.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciar...me-for-leaking

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When you are the secretary of state, and you set up an information
side-channel, you do so to avoid scrutiny and the formal documentary
process that all gov't communications must go through. These
communications are the property of the US gov't and it's people and it's
press. The evidence of intent - to avoid these communications from
becoming public at a future date, is clear.


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2017-06-09

Jail Time? While No One Noticed, James Comey Broke An Obscure Law
Yesterday


Former FBI Director James Comey is a liar. He finally admitted that he
leaked information on President Trump to the media.

Not only did he leak classified information, he also violated the law.
Comey violated Nondisclosure Agreements. Under federal law that means
jail time.

President Trump’s personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz told reporters:

“Although Mr. Comey testified he only leaked the memos in response
to a tweet, the public record reveals that the New York Times was
quoting from these memos the day before the referenced tweet, which
belies Mr. Comey’s excuse for this unauthorized disclosure of privileged
information and appears to entirely retaliatory,” Kasowitz said.

Leaking this information is a blatant violation of federal statute.

Comey created memos on a federal government computer. Confidential. He
then leaked said confidential memos and broke Nondisclosures. Illegal.

That is some hot water he has got himself into, as well as possible jail
time:

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley stated on
his website that although the memos were created by Comey, the former
FBI director would likely have to follow federal non-disclosure laws of
classified and unclassified information.

Turley writes, “Besides being subject to Nondisclosure Agreements,
Comey falls under federal laws governing the disclosure of classified
and non-classified information. Assuming that the memos were not
classified (though it seems odd that it would not be classified even on
the confidential level), there is 18 U.S.C. § 641 which makes it a crime
to steal, sell, or convey ‘any record, voucher, money, or thing of value
of the United States or of any department or agency thereof.’”

https://dcstatesman.com/jail-time-no...law-yesterday/