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.
Shut up and leave, Trey, you pecker head.
It’s not an excuse it is WHY he is retiring. He cannot prosecute and the DOinJ is just that.
Comey doesn’t get to set the standard.
The standard is justice. The system must meet it.
And for the system to produce justice Comey must go to jail, along with the rest of the conspiracy.
“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.”
Gowdy is worthless as tits on a boar.
Any competent prosecutor could win a conviction based on the law as written.
Gross Negligence is the standard.
But Comey went beyond that and INTENTIONALLY disclosed Secret/NoForn information.
That’s an easy conviction.
No joke. Comey does not have the authority to make law or reach an interpretation of the law inserting an element that DOES NOT EXIST. Furthermore, a potential defendant does not get to make the law.
The FBI, the agency responsible for protecting classified information, must be fuming because using this standard just about ANY prosecution for mishandling classified information could not be charged.
Bizarro world.
Exactly! The guy is useless!
Gowdy argues like a defense attorney, even worse, a public defender. This guy that so many of us respected, including me, deserves none. Gowdy is a crook.
Gowdy is an absolute moron. Comey violates the law to cover up for Hillary. And now Gowdy claims that this is the new legal standard that protects Comey.
Laughable.
Hillary has not been charged or tried.
Just because one policeman (Comey) is crooked and ignores the law, does not mean that the next policeman in line should not arrest and charge.
I can only hope Gowdy is being sarcastic.
The only precedent Comey set was that FBI Directors get fired for illegally usurping DoJ authority regarding prosecutorial decisions.
Comey sent his classified memos to a co-conspirator with a plan to leak them covertly, with the stated intention of causing appointment of a Special Counsel. A smarter woman than Comey, HRC presented herself as ignorant of all technical knowledge north of flushing a toilet (though she had people for that), creating reasonable doubt that she had any idea what she was doing. (Portraying yourself as too stupid to form criminal intent might have been an unwise choice for a Presidential candidate, but she was very credible as a drooling idiot). Comey the egoist made his intentions clear as a bell.
Gowdy: “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.”
I guess I don’t understand what Gowdy is saying here. Is he implying that Comey establishes the intent of the law?
Folks have started do notice, which is why he's history.
Oops, now I read the thread and it seems I’m not alone in my problem with Gowdy’s statement.
I’m not sure but I think that was Trey’s lame attempt at sarcasm.
James Comey’s interpretation of his evidence is not the law. Statutes mean something. And knock it off with the blasphemy Gowdy.
^5
“Gowdy is “controlled opposition” just like Darryl Issa and Jason Chaffetz.”
The law firm, academic institution, consulting firm, or lobby organization Gowdy joins when he leaves office will give us a clue as to who Gowdy’s controller is today.
Yes. Who proclaimed Cardinal Comey the arbiter of all standards?
Gowdy sickens me more and more. At least he admitted his seven years were wasted.
Thanks!
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