LANKFORD: OK. That's fair enough. If -- if the president wanted to stop an investigation, how would he do that? Knowing it's an ongoing criminal investigation or counterintelligence investigation. ...COMEY: Again, I'm not a legal scholar. So smarter people answer this better, but I think as a legal matter, president is the head of the executive branch and could direct, in theory, we have important norms against this, but direct that anybody be investigated or anybody not be investigated.
I think he has the legal authority because all of us ultimately report in the executive branch up to the president.
LANKFORD: OK. Would that be to you, would that be the attorney general? Would that be to who that would do that?
COMEY: Suppose he could do it to -- if he wanted to issue a direct order, could do it in any way, could do it through the attorney general or issue it directly to me.
So, Comey simultaneously suggests that President Trump maybe is obstrucing justice (but of course, Comey doesn't assume the role of reasonable prosecutor for this), and that President Trump has the absolute legal authority to stop any investigation by ordering Comey to stop it.
On top of that, Comey got what Comey says is a direct order from President Bush, and Comey not only refused to obey the order, he took pais to make sure that President Trump would not become aware of his insubordination.
Offerd becuase Lankford will be on teevee today, praising Comey for his service and integrity.
Jeff Sessions testifies on Tuesday before the Senate Intel Committee. No doubt, he will be addressing the Comey testimony and actions.
Here is a problem we are sure to face as the Mueller investigation begins to unwind.
This from a friend of mine over at AM.thinker
von mises jr. hes abrillinat guy and ace historian.
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“As every position in DC has been occupied by a Political Fixer at least since Reagan, many also seem to discount Robert Mueller being Appointed IC. Mueller was Director of the FBI from September 4, 2001 to September 4, 2013. This included the failure of the response to 911, Abuses of the
Patriot Act, Boehner and others conducting Insider trading around the TARP Bailouts, Solyndra and the malfeasance of the theft of the Obama Stimulus Funds to the cover-up of Benghazi. It is not simply that Mueller is friends with Comey and should never be his Judge, but that Mueller is as Dirty a Cop as Comey. This is their last big hope in that the Deep State has organized their COUP with Progressive, criminal insiders, but as they fail to grasp reality, they may soon find them as the targets by the non-Ruling Class person of Donald J. Trump”