Posted on 08/01/2019 4:54:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
Former FBI Director James Comey may have escaped charges for leaking classified information to the public, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be torched by the pending inspector general report from the Department of Justice. It once again shoots a hole right through the Democrats’ ongoing Trump impeachment narrative that is rapidly falling apart. Russian collusion was outright killed by the report filed by ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller, as it debunked the already unverified Trump dossier compiled by ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele. Fusion GPS hired him. And they were contracted by the Hillary Clinton campaign to get dirt of Trump. This document is the epicenter of the Trump-Russia collusion myth. Still, this report tried very hard to prove Russian collusion, but there is simply zero evidence to prove it. Period.
The flip side is the so-called obstruction of justice that occurred, with Comey’s firing in2017 being a major date in the minds of liberals. Despite repeated examples that Comey was fired for cause, the Left continues to push this impeachment nonsense. Where things get dicey for liberals is how the Obama DOJ used the Steele dossier to reportedly secure a FISA spy warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. John Solomon at The Hill has more:
Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz’s team referred Comey for possible prosecution under the classified information protection laws, but Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors working for Attorney General William Barr reportedly have decided to decline prosecution — a decision that’s likely to upset Comey's conservative critics.
Prosecutors found the IG’s findings compelling but decided not to bring charges because they did not believe they had enough evidence of Comey’s intent to violate the law, according to multiple sources.
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Although a technical violation, the DOJ did not want to “make its first case against the Russia investigators with such thin margins and look petty and vindictive,” a source told me, explaining the DOJ’s rationale.
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. 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.
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The lack of prosecution is certain to demoralize some conservatives, who long have called for Comey’s head. But the IG report, set to be released within the next few weeks, likely will provide significant condemnations of Comey’s conduct, sources tell me.
While they cautioned that the IG’s final report won’t be complete until it gets feedback from Comey’s lawyers in the next few days, it is expected to conclude that the former FBI director improperly took with him memos that were FBI property when he was fired, transmitted classified information via an insecure email account, and shared some of the memos with his private lawyers. Some of the Comey memos were classified up to the “secret” level, but the FBI has not disclosed whether those were shared with his lawyers like the classified confidential memo was.
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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.
And Comey is just the first of many DOJ officials who have been accused of shady deeds. Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe are also involved in the Obama DOJ’s alleged meddling antics during the 2016 election. It spreads into the State Department, who knew the Steele (aka Trump) dossier was politically biased, and possibly the CIA. George Papadopoulos, a Trump official who was approached by an alleged honeypot, Azra Turk, asking about Trump’s connections to Russia, was first reported as an FBI asset. Papadopoulos said she might have been CIA. This is all part of another offshoot of this reported deep state activity: that the Obama DOJ was spying on the Trump campaign. Well, they sort of were, but not with Papadopoulos. Comey allegedly had an agent inside the Trump White House
Hmmmm. A torch. That’s a good start.
“Torched In The Department Of Justice’s IG Report On Obama-Era FISA Abuses’
So what? Not arrested. No problem.
Wait. This guy’s read the report? If not its just conjecture to get hits.
Torched maybe but no charges. A fat pension, getting rich for appearances and speaking fees all while trashing our President.
[A torch.]
There you will meet a man called “The Torch”.
Considering the great men who have died for this republic, jimmiecommie deserves worse than torching.
Lock him up!
"INTENT" is IRRELEVANT and NOT in the law!
It is absolutely disgustingly obscene. Rule of law is dead.
Here's that word again, 'intent.'
I'm not aware of any statute in the USA, especially those regarding national security, that requires a test for 'intent.'
Didn’t they say in stories in various places “IG report coming any day now” in Jan-April. Then by June. Now supposedly September. We should ask “of what year?”
The good old days of FR in the 1990s had “Explosive new report on Clintons will land them both in jail within two weeks....” “Arkansas State Troopers bombshell revelations coming soon....” “Clinton insider will tell all....”
I used to read those with increasing anticipation.
It’s a joke. The IG can puff and snort and pound his chest, but can’t prosecute anybody. Barr had a written recommendation to do it, but finnessed his way out of it. I’ve given up on equal justice before the law. The “lawmen” themselves have made it a joke. How do they look at their eyes in the mirror?
More of a tick...tick...tick. Will the mainspring have any spring in it when the alarm goes off.
Release by the Deep State of the report against the Deep State as close to the election as possible in order to give the appearance of POLITICAL MOTIVATION BY TRUMP is 100% SABOTAGE OF TRUMP BY THE DEEP STATE.
Wake UP, Trump. You are being PLAYED and you MUST order release of the report in the SHORT TERM or you will be SCREWED POLITICALLY.
No jail? Meaningless.
Big deal.......not. Comey will laugh it off and so will the left (my opinion). He should lose his pension at least
I’m sure he’s losing a lot of sleep over it.
Torched?
Yet another dopey Townhall article.
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