Absolutely guilty. His confession to leaking to NYT is admission.
I think it’s very clear that he did with the leaking to the press to pressure the DOJ into the appointment of a special counsel.
By meeting with mueller to pep his testimony, is Mueller now guilty, as well?
Consider this. What if:
1. Sessions and Trump (and Rosenstein and Mueller) have completely infused the justice department with a serious-as-a-heart-attack “no leaks” policy, with the threat of certain and immediate prison time. It hangs over everyone there. Everyone affected know they will set an example when it finally happens. That includes the entire Congress, and their aids, secretaries, janitors, etc., every last one of them. Even good guy reporters. The fear of God has been put into everyone, therefore, they are not leaking about it, and will not.
2. Comey and his sycophants are (still) planting “anonymous” stories, from outside the justice department, and the msm still eats it up. Podesta, Sid Vicious, Lynch, Comey, Brennan, any and all. Backed by their entire army of flying monkeys. MSM calls some of them “officials” but they no longer are. But they are all coming from outside the Department of Justice!
3. The email stating Lynch made assurances she would shut down the Hillary investigation is real, and Sessions has it. There is another one planted as a diversion that is BS, that has been debunked, but even Comey said recently the real one exists. The fake one is a diversion to prevent keep people away from looking behind that curtain.
4. Comey is under investigation for both leaking and obstruction of justice. He may have been given partial immunity already in exchange for spilling the beans on Lynch. Hence his incriminating-but-not-incriminating remarks recently about Lynch—queasy feeling...not leaking, but showing he has flipped sides—publicly. He will take the 5th if questioned (again) by Congress.
5. Rosenstein, Mueller, Sessions, are conducting a tightly held top secret investigation. Perhaps assembling a topgun team of handpicked leak-proof patriots. Many may be democrats. So when charges come, nobody can point to a stacked deck.
What would all that look like to us mere mortals outside the loop? What would it look like if such an investigation was already underway?
EXACTLY what it looks like right now. Complete Silence. No leaks about it. Trump out of the loop.
If it were already underway, the only hope of the criminal cabal being investigated (and all that it implies and leads to) is that it somehow gets shut down. Primary: Get rid of Meuller, Rosenstein, and Sessions, in that order.
Secondary: NO LEAKS about it! That's right, the evil doers would be even more afraid of leaks than the good guys. If word got out, we would be cheering, and Mueller, Rosenstein and Sessions would become fire proof.
Third: Keep sowing more fake news to stoke doubts about Mueller, Rosenstein, and Sessions, so calls come out from the Republicans to fire them all. Blow massive amounts of smoke day and night to inflame and confuse in a fake grass roots effort to get everyone to say with the same voice, “Shut it down!”
It would all look to us EXACTLY like what is happening right now.
IMHO.
The source and authors are NOT on my list of conservative writers.
Even the left-of-center legal scholars know that Comey’s claims and testimony have problems.
Obstruction of justice. Get the rope.
Interesting user comment at the end of the article which cites the statute on the special investigator avoiding conflict of interest.
“28 CFR 600.7. prohibits a Special Consel from serving is he has a conflict of interest. The rule has been interpreted to mean that even the appearance of a conflict of interest is sufficient for disqualification.”
It is time to turn the tables and ask Mueller how his past association with Comey is *not* a conflict of interest.
Newsweek? Ya gotta be kidding...
He is absolutely guilty.
Reminds me a lot of Sundance’s article from the other day where Rosen stein is saying beware of fake news...Comey is a snake caught in his own web..