90 Miles From Tyranny : Report: DOJ IG Referred James Comey For Criminal Prosecution For Leaking Classified Information

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Friday, August 2, 2019

Report: DOJ IG Referred James Comey For Criminal Prosecution For Leaking Classified Information

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General Michael Horowitz is preparing a report recommending a criminal referral for FBI Director James Comey, concluding that he leaked classified memos and showed a lack of candor with investigators, according to a new report from The Hill.

Attorney General William Barr and DOJ prosecutors have reportedly found the IG report compelling but declined to follow through with charges because of a lack certainty surrounding Comey’s intent to break the law.

Investigative journalist John Solomon reported that the DOJ did not want to “make its first case against the Russia investigators with such thin margins and look petty and vindictive.”

The report shows that Comey transmitted classified information via an insecure email account and gave memos, some of which were classified up to the “secret” level, to his private lawyers.

One memo in question includes classified information Comey leaked to a friend, with the intention that it would be leaked to the media. Indeed, the New York Times reported information from the “confidential” memo, which said President Trump asked Comey to drop an investigation into then-national security adviser Michael Flynn.

On Wednesday, the transparency group Judicial Watch published FBI records obtained via Freedom of Information Act request that showed special agents arrived at Comey’s house in June 2017 to retrieve his memos “as evidence.” The notes show Comey handed over four of them to the FBI agents, and he said two of them, which he wrote after having...

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4 comments:

nonncom said...

So, since they used this for hillery, and now comey, can we all use it in our defense?....

GenX Crit said...

No, Barr, et al, is not taking this little toe nail as bait. They will wait to indict the whole little toe and the big toes as well. The Greatest Troll On Earth likes toes, the bigger, the better.

Bill Chunko said...

Will they have time to prosecute him? Will he demand immunity in exchange for testifying against his boss? Or will he die under questionable circumstances?

Doug said...

None of these people will ever see handcuffs, courtrooms or jail. In the end I believe they will all skate away clean.