Posted on 04/23/2018 10:58:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
According to the Department of Justice Inspector General, fired FBI Director James Comey is under investigation after leaking classified information to a friend last year, who then passed it along to a reporter. The information was contained in a series of memos written by Comey after meetings and phone calls with President Donald Trump.
But despite what the law says about disseminating classified information, Comey may not face conseqences. According to House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, Comey may have saved himself thanks to the exoneration of Hillary Clinton.
"Not by the standard he set in the summer of 2016. God knows how hard it would be to win that case," Gowdy said in response to a question about whether Comey broke the law. "Remember, he ignored the statute that says 'grossly negligent.' He now has a requirement that it has to be intentional and you have to do it to harm the United States. So under the standard that he set in summer 2016 with Secretary Clinton, I don't think Jesus could win that case."
Rep. Trey Gowdy on fallout from release of Comey memos
The release of the memos last week came after Gowdy and a number of leading Republicans threatened the FBI with a subpoena for failing to turn them over by an earlier deadline.
"We have long argued former Director Comey's self-styled memos should be in the public domain, subject to any classification redactions. These memos are significant for both what is in them and what is not," Gowdy released in a joint statement with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes. "Former Director Comey leaked at least one of these memos for the stated purpose of spurring the appointment of Special Counsel, yet he took no steps to spur the appointment of Special Counsel when he had significant concerns about the objectivity of the Department of Justice under Attorney General Loretta Lynch."
An inspector general report about how the FBI and Obama DOJ handled the Clinton email scandal is due to be release any day.
You are not Howdy Gowdy.
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Dowdy Gowdy.
What a sorry joke he has been!
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Gowdy, making payment to his masters the swamp. Gowdy was all talk even before Benghazi, the swamp owns him, but his way of helping them was always subtle; talk tough but never do anything. My opinion, Gowdy is leaving because he long ago became compromised and he got a ‘go quietly’ deal. I think those deals are a mistake, but those who are not blind know the dossier-clinton-dws-lynch-comey-clapper-brennan-obama is about sedition and treason - Gowdy the enabler is being pushed out of the way.
What kind a legal jibber jabber is this?
Apparently TG puts out the soundbites after they’ve been approved by management.
TG.
Thank Goodness.
Of course he was.
I can't figure out what people expected Gowdy to do. He's a Congressman, not a prosecutor. He doesn't work for the Department of Justice. He has no access to a Grand Jury.
The only power he has is to call witnesses and question them, and then only when a majority of his committee agrees to do so.
Those who criticize Gowdy should explain just which witnesses he should have called and what questions should have been asked. We know a lot about various federal government scandals because of the work of people like Gowdy who at every turn would be opposed by people like Schiff.
Gowdy's statement regarding the difficulty of prosecuting based on "Comey's rules" is Gowdy's attempt to show the unreasonableness of Comey's actions which would result in interpreting the law such that the law would be useless. Gowdy knows that the problem is not the law, but rather was Comey's fake interpretation of it.
If Sessions does his job, we WILL see the law enforced against Comey. Whether Hillary escapes prosecution is another issue. She committed her crimes under Obama and may be able to run out the clock.
Gowdy’s a eunuch.
Comeystain intentionally leaked the documents to his friend and he did it to spite the election loss by his wicked bitch friend.
Intentional and against the US.
Serve the papers to this lying dirty cop already.
Yes-— this is the “intellectual judiciary candidate” at work.... the “theoretics” of .... the “law”. Admirably honoring the Constitution, but lacking the ability for other than “court based” real world criminality.
As in— there are LOTs of judges available to deliver punishment. Some sit on a bench and interpret the law, for good or bad with their prejudices. Others... are “informally employed”.
Gowdy is to “loving” of his former fbi investigators from his prosecutor days (with its incumbent sense of satisfaction of proper penalizing justice meted out) is mouthy— speaks well but too much and is an amateur when it comes to diplomatic speech. The release of classified information— not once but at least three times by the TOP federal LEO in charge of domestic intelligence and counterintelligence surveillance-— THAT should mean 20 years in federal pen, zero parole. Why? Because we ARE at war against the worldwide islamofascist brotherhood and their various “partners” (like the russians and iranians).
Comey jeopardized the national security of this country, not as much as the wrongly pardoned queer Manning, but higher up. If nothing else to say to any underlings— do this and you are freaking toast.
The Statute says NOTHING about “intent”... it is the simple doing of the transfer of classified info that is a CRIME. Intent has nothing to do with it.
Gowdy is giving the sheriff’s line in “Unforgiven” movie to Mr. Comey to recite (as cover and also.. re-writing the f’n law for some reason): “I don’t deserve this... I was building a house”... to which Clint Eastwood’s character, Mr. Money says “ Deserve’s got NOTHING to do with it” and fires a Spencer carbine round into the sheriff’s face.
Gowdy is an amateur— and that is why he is leaving, and also why he continues to run his mouth to feather his nest for when he goes back to Anderson, SC for his sinecure there most likely with some greasy boss Hog machine pol in SC.
If there's ever anything Republicans can be counted on, it's that they'll disappoint those who support them.
BINGO! TEN YEARS. Mr. Sessions to the white courtesy phone.
From CNN, July 2016...
His first run-in came in the mid-1990s, when he joined the Senate Whitewater Committee as a deputy special counsel. There he dug into allegations that the Clintons took part in a fraud connected to a Arkansas real estate venture gone bust. No charges were ever brought against either Clinton..."
"In 2002, Comey, then a federal prosecutor, took over an investigation into President Bill Clinton's 2001 pardon of financier Marc Rich, who had been indicted on a laundry list of charges before fleeing the country . ..."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/politics/who-is-james-comey-fbi-director-things-to-know/index.html
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"The Whitewater controversy (also known as the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s."
Whitewater Convictions
Jim Guy Tucker: Governor of Arkansas at the time, removed from office (fraud, 3 counts)
John Haley: attorney for Jim Guy Tucker (tax evasion)
William J. Marks, Sr.: Jim Guy Tucker's business partner (conspiracy)
Stephen Smith: former Governor Clinton aide (conspiracy to misapply funds). Bill Clinton pardoned.
Webster Hubbell: Clinton political supporter; Rose Law Firm partner (embezzlement, fraud)
Jim McDougal: banker, Clinton political supporter: (18 felonies, varied)
Susan McDougal: Clinton political supporter (multiple fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.
David Hale: banker, self-proclaimed Clinton political supporter: (conspiracy, fraud)
Neal Ainley: Perry County Bank president (embezzled bank funds for Clinton campaign)
Chris Wade: Whitewater real estate broker (multiple loan fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.
Larry Kuca: Madison real estate agent (multiple loan fraud)
Robert W. Palmer: Madison appraiser (conspiracy). Bill Clinton pardoned.
John Latham: Madison Bank CEO (bank fraud)
Eugene Fitzhugh: Whitewater defendant (multiple bribery)
Charles Matthews: Whitewater defendant (bribery)
Ultimately the Clintons were never charged, but 15 other persons were convicted of more than 40 crimes, including Bill Clinton's successor as Governor, who was removed from office.[40]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29#Convictions
or,
https://web.archive.org/web/20090326122112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29
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From CNBC.com, July 7, 2016...
A House panel grilled FBI Director James Comey two days after he recommended against prosecuting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for an email server scandal. In the hearing, South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy questioned Comey on the definition of intent and how Clinton could possibly evade punishment. ..."
Here’s a full transcript of the exchange:
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Gowdy: Good morning, Director Comey.
Secretary Clinton said she never sent or received any classified information over her private e-mail, was that true?
Comey: Our investigation found that there was classified information sent.
Gowdy: It was not true?
Comey: That’s what I said.
Gowdy: OK. Well, I’m looking for a shorter answer so you and I are not here quite as long. Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her e-mails sent or received. Was that true?
Comey: That’s not true. There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said “I did not e-mail any classified information to anyone on my e-mail there was no classified material.” That is true?
Comey: There was classified information emailed.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton used one device, was that true?
Comey: She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as Secretary of State.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said all work related emails were returned to the State Department. Was that true?
Comey: No. We found work related email, thousands, that were not returned.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said neither she or anyone else deleted work related emails from her personal account.
Comey: That’s a harder one to answer. We found traces of work related emails in — on devices or in space. Whether they were deleted or when a server was changed out something happened to them, there’s no doubt that the work related emails that were removed electronically from the email system.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails and were overly inclusive. Did her lawyers read the email content individually?
Comey: No.
Gowdy: Well, in the interest of time and because I have a plane to catch tomorrow afternoon, I’m not going to go through any more of the false statements but I am going to ask you to put on your old hat. Faults exculpatory statements are used for what?
Comey: Well, either for a substantive prosecution or evidence of intent in a criminal prosecution.
Gowdy: Exactly. Intent and consciousness of guilt, right?
Comey: That is right[]
Gowdy: Consciousness of guilt and intent?
In your old job you would prove intent as you referenced by showing the jury evidence of a complex scheme that was designed for the very purpose of concealing the public record and you would be arguing in addition to concealment the destruction that you and i just talked about or certainly the failure to preserve.
You would argue all of that under the heading of content. You would also — intent. You would also be arguing the pervasiveness of the scheme when it started, when it ended and the number of emails whether
They were originally classified or of classified under the heading of intent. You would also, probably, under common scheme or plan, argue the burn bags of daily calendar entries or the missing daily calendar entries as a common scheme or plan to conceal.
Two days ago, Director, you said a reasonable person in her position should have known a private email was no place to send and receive classified information. You’re right. An average person does know not to do that.
This is no average person. This is a former First Lady, a former United States senator, and a former Secretary of State that the president now contends is the most competent, qualified person to be president since Jefferson. He didn’t say that in ‘08 but says it now.
She affirmatively rejected efforts to give her a state.gov account, kept the private emails for almost two years and only turned them over to Congress because we found out she had a private email account.
So you have a rogue email system set up before she took the oath of office, thousands of what we now know to be classified emails, some of which were classified at the time. One of her more frequent email comrades was hacked and you don’t know whether or not she was.
And this scheme took place over a long period of time and resulted in the destruction of public records and yet you say there is insufficient evidence of intent. You say she was extremely careless, but not intentionally so.
You and I both know intent is really difficult to prove. Very rarely do defendants announce ‘On this date I intend to break this criminal code section. Just to put everyone on notice, I am going to break the law on this date.’
It never happens that way. You have to do it with circumstantial evidence or if you’re Congress and you realize how difficult it is prove, specific intent, you will form lathe a statute that allows for gross negligence.
My time is out but this is really important. You mentioned there’s no precedent for criminal prosecution. My fear is there still isn’t. There’s nothing to keep a future Secretary of State or President from this exact same email scheme or their staff.
And my real fear is this, what the chairman touched upon, this double track justice system that is rightly or wrongly perceived in this country. That if you are a private in the Army and email yourself classified information you will be kicked out.
But if you are Hillary Clinton, and you seek a promotion to Commander in Chief, you will not be. So what I hope you can do today is help the average person, the reasonable person you made reference to, the reasonable person understand why she appears to be treated differently than the rest of us would be. With that I would yield back.
(the source of this transcript is closed captioning)
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Isn’t that the truth? I am seeing and saying things that I never thought I would. I fully despise the Bush family, Sessions, Gowdy, Romney, Ryan, and the list keeps growing.
Obama would easily hang Gowdy by the balls on false charges, but Trey cannot find anything to go after Comey?
What a effing moron
And cue the watergate lawyer seeking to prosecute Hannity
The Obama purge can go on, Trey has nothing to say about it
You are correct. It was dripping sarcasm.
Never has one man talked so harshly and accomplished so little.
Captain Nothingburger with more pearls of wisdom for us rubes.
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