Posted on 04/26/2018 5:16:17 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Guess whose fault that is? – Self-styled media “watchdog” organization Reporters Without Borders says that hostility towards journalists is rising across the globe. The liberal “watchdog” naturally attempts to lay the blame for this trend – if indeed it is a trend – at the feet of U.S. President Donald Trump, who it claims has incited the public against the dead journalistic profession, and restricted reporters’ access to his administration.
This of course is the very same Donald Trump who has held more face-to-face press availabilities during his first 16 months in office than his predecessor did in 8 years, the same Donald Trump who has taken the unprecedented step of allowing the press to remain in the White House conference room to witness the entirety of bi-partisan negotiating sessions on crucial issues, the same Donald Trump who interacts personally with the White House press corps on almost a daily basis. That Donald Trump.
Reporters Without Borders claims that “many democratically elected leaders ‘no longer see the media as part of democracy’s essential underpinning,'” and that that is leading common citizens to take the same view. The group, made up of the same sort of fake journalists who infest the national news media here in America, naturally never takes a second to reflect on the much more likely notion that all the fake and biased “news” tossed into the public domain by all their fake reporter colleagues might have something to do with the public’s declining esteem for their dead profession.
No surprise here.
This just keeps getting uglier and uglier. – Teenage Drama Queen ex-FBI Director James Comey was twisting himself up into one of those tiny pretzels you get on a United Airlines flight on CNN last night, desperately trying to explain to a suddenly semi-journalistic Anderson Cooper why his leaking of classified information wasn’t really a “leak.” If the film of Comey’s clips from last night were viewed by every American, every American would view him as the slimey, dissembling creep he really is. Unfortunately, more people watch Sponge Bob Squarepants every night than Anderson Cooper, so it will remain a closely guarded secret over in the CNN vault.
Meanwhile, Fox News – which has a real audience – was reporting that Comey’s classified-information-filled memos weren’t just shared with Comey’s “friend”, Columbia Law Professor Andrew Richman. They were also shared with others, including…wait for it…oh, you gotta wait for this one…Patrick Fitzgerald!
Yes, I kid you not and swear on a stack of bibles I do not make this stuff up, the self-same Patrick Fitzgerald who we talked about in yesterday’s Campaign Update, the same Patrick Fitzgerald who was the special counsel who tossed Scooter Libby in jail on a trumped-up process charge, the same Patrick Fitzgerald who is the godfather to Comey’s children, the same Patrick Fitzgerald who we found out yesterday has been retained by Comey as part of his criminal defense team. That Patrick Fitzgerald.
So think this all through in light of this new information. Comey knows he is now under investigation by the DOJ Inspector General, and also most likely by Salt Lake City U.S. Attorney John Huber. He knows he is in grave danger of serving time in prison for his illegal leaks and multiple perjuries before congress.
Comey also knows that both Richman and Fitzgerald, as the guys to whom he handed copies of his memos – which were the property of the FBI and contained gobs of classified information – are two of the main witnesses to his crimes. Further, he knows that by sharing those memos with Richman and Fitzgerald, he has placed both of those men in potential criminal jeopardy as well.
Richman has even more of a problem than Fitzgerald, given that he was at the time of his leaking on behalf of Comey an actual employee of the FBI, complete with badge and security clearance and access card to get into and out of the FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC.
So what does Comey do? Why, he hires both men as his personal lawyers, possibly because they’re both fine lawyers, but also most likely because that gives all three men the opportunity to try to hide behind what used to be the shield of attorney/client privilege.
See how this works?
Of course, the fly in that particular ointment is that current special counsel – and also good buddy to Comey and Fitzgerald – Robert Mueller just crashed the whole notion of attorney/client privilege by staging his jack-booted raid on the home, office and hotel room of President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen. If Mueller, working in concert with the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, can stage such a raid and willy-nilly confiscate every document he finds pertaining to every one of Cohen’s clients, and then start selectively leaking them to the fake news media, then what is left of any such “privilege?”
Comey, Richman and Fitzgerald can play hide ‘n seek all they want, but they’re all in deep doo-doo right now, and their good buddy Mueller isn’t helping their situation. And all of that just could not happen to a nicer bunch of guys.
Just another day in you couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried America.
That is all.
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I don't see how attorney/client privilege protects Richman. Passing classified info to an unauthorized third party is clearly a crime in itself.
If we had a real attorney general who respected and enforced our laws Richman would already have been charged with a crime.
That doesn't mean that Mueller will trash anyone else's attorney/client privilege. Despite Q's apparent faith in Mueller, it still seems likely to me that he's got an anti-Trump, pro-Deep State bias. Time will tell.
I would love to be a fly on the wall as Comey’s lawyers advise him on today’s interview with Brett. It is already out that he may cancel his book tour in an attempt to “get his mug out of the news.” It will be a big deal to cancel this interview and Fox knows it so they are publicizing the hell out of it.
And think about it. Comey’s entire reason for hiring Fitzgerald was to cover both their asses but Mueller’s “jack booted raid” on Cohen blows this shyster maneuver out of the water.
Let’s hope Bret doesn’t wuss out on his questions and follow-ups.
I would love to be a fly on the wall as Comey’s lawyers advise him on today’s interview with Brett. It is already out that he may cancel his book tour in an attempt to “get his mug out of the news.” It will be a big deal to cancel this interview and Fox knows it so they are publicizing the hell out of it.
Comey would be a damn fool to go ahead with this interview. So I’m assuming he will go ahead with this interview. :)
Comey’s entire reason for hiring Fitzgerald was to cover both their asses but Mueller’s “jack booted raid” on Cohen blows this shyster maneuver out of the water.
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No doubt Comey hired Fitzgerald and Richman to protect himself, he also knows that they both have plenty of reason to fight against the charge since they too are both guilty.
The client privilege thing won’t work because the crimes happened before they were retained by Comey. Richman and Fitzgerald will both eventually turn on Comey because it is in their best interest to cooperate with the prosecution for their own good. The hope by Comey in all this is that since Fitzgerald works for Comey he won’t be able to testify against him because of privilege but that only works for knowledge he gained after retention, I don’t think that will help him. There will be fireworks in the courtroom when the prosecution tries to invalidate Fitzgerald’s privilege. If the prosecution wins the privilege argument Comey will be in very deep dodo.
My hope is that Trump gets Sessions to hire Scooter Libby to prosecute Fitzgerald or at least puts him on the team, and that Fitzgerald gets at least as much time behind bars as Libby got, oh how much pleasure that would give me. After all Libby was just a process crime, Fitzgerald’s is a much higher crime with a great potential of long time and fine.
Fitzgerald is a true A-Hole, he is very much like Mueller, they have both ruined the lives of innocent people by their prosecutions, I really want Fitzgerald behind bars.
LOL. It is going to be PRECIOUS!
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