Why you shouldn’t worry about the DOJ not prosecuting Comey on leaked memos

American Thinker ^ | 08/03/2019 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

Lots of conservatives are understandably upset that the IG Horowitz’s criminal referral of James Comey for leaking classified memos memorializing his conversations with President Trump is not being prosecuted by the Department of Justice. It eerily reminds us of James Comey exonerating Hillary Clinton for her prima facie violations of the Espionage Act because he could perceive no criminal intent (which is unnecessary for gross negligence to apply).

We’ve been suckered before, so cynicism is warranted. Tucker Carlson opened his show last night making this point:

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But there is more – much more – to the story this time. The case against Comey for leaking is weaker and less serious than his signing of the FISA warrant applications that corruptly cited the Steele Dossier, even though it was known to be unverified. IG Horowitz has a separate report coming on that, and US Attorney John Durham is reportedly working on prosecuting that.

Watch two very distinguished, high profile attorneys – Joe di Genova and Alan Dershowitz -- discuss this with Laura Ingraham. And as you do, imagine to potential consequences of taking as the first case against Comey a prosecution that could well be lost. Once a prosecution fails, the calls to drop the “political motivated persecution” would be legion. I is important that the first case taken to a jury be rock-solid and serious.

[lodi90]

I’m going to wait until the dust is settled before I make any postmortems on this.

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That’s exactly what the slow walking Deep Staters want. They are running out the clock and pushing the so-called “investigation” smack into 2020 election season. Then any prosecution would be immediately attacked as political. And with no judicial resolution before the election that gaslighting might just harm POTUS.

[discostu]

People are entitled to their own opinion. But they’re not entitled to their own facts. When people can’t be bothered to notice how this exact same situation plays out over and over and over again in this country (and all the others honestly) they’re playing a game called wilful ignorance.

[old curmudgeon]

You overlook several things.

#1 We have an entirely different president. No president in the history of this country has accomplished as much in so short a time.

#2 We now have many new judges who believe in our Constitution, selected by our new President. Convictions are much more likely as a result.

#3 We now have a very large number of voters who have decided enough is enough.

It probably will take a year or more to see the results, but some changes are already obvious.

For instance in previous administrations the public never would have learned what we have learned and that is always the beginning of change.

[xenia]

Exactly.

[Tucker39]

After reading all the complaints and predictions below, and posting some myself on other threads, I feel I should share this: Prophecies say that ALL the Biggie’s are going down, including up to 5 Supremes. When U.S. Marshals start making arrests, the leftist wackos will want to riot. Martial Law will probably be declared. Timing is everything. It prolly won’t start to go down until after Nov. 2020. Keep your powder dry.

[lodi90]

#2 We now have many new judges who believe in our Constitution, selected by our new President. Convictions are much more likely as a result.

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I wouldn’t count those Trump judge chickens after seeing the Senate GOP block his Fed and DNI picks.

[gaijin]

[discostu]

#1 doesn’t matter. He doesn’t prosecute people.
#2 also doesn’t matter. They don’t prosecute people either
#3 doesn’t matter. They don’t prosecute people

It’s been close to 5 years we’ve known Comey was crooked. With 2 different president and 5 sittings AGs (one of whom did stuff he should have gone down for). He ain’t been charged yet. And actually a lot of this Comey stuff we knew before the election.

[SaxxonWoods]

Horse. Manure.

Dems can throw every charge in the world against Trump but we have to treat criminals with kid gloves.

We’re being played.

[amihow]

I agree with you and Barr. The FISA abuse threatens the basis of our Constitutional right to being secure in our person. The warrant procedure must be pursued within the Constitutional protections or the abuser(s) severely sanctioned.

In addition, every conviction which occurs from FISA abuse should be overturned as poison fruit.

[semantic]

So now that you've figured it out, what are you going to do about it? Continue to whine & complain, and/or present yourself as the smart guy on every thread who happens to speak the truth?

I guess you could reverse the question and ask it of myself. However, you/others may have noted I never go on carping about reality. Rather, I'm more interested in observing, analyzing & forecasting not only where events are leading, but what the expected timeline may be. Finally, I think FR provides a great platform to both share information, as well as record contemporaneous events for reference by future generations interested in who, what, why things turned out the way they did.

Once you move beyond the 5 stages, then you're free from any lingering emotional attachment. It is what it is; certain mistakes (or intentional treason) were made long ago. We just happen to be the ones present at the time when many sub-currents converged to swamp the ship of state.

So, the question I pose to you and other astute, calculating contributors is: when does the complaining stop and the sober, rationale assessment begin?

[lodi90]

We’re being “played” because if the GOP’s role in the coup every became common knowledge Trump voter turnout would crater and the Dems would win a landslide in 2020.

[sport]

I remember reading more than one post on here stating.”Comey is straight arrow. Comey is a straight shooter. Comey was revered by many here. And those who spoke amiss of Comey. Well, they were referred to as cop haters. Among other things.

[seowulf]

The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who don’t have it.

-—George Bernard Shaw

[old curmudgeon]

None of that matters?

Then none of the Clinton, Bush and obummer years matters either because all of those people are impotent.

Sorry, but they do matter.

If you can’t see the difference in Barr’s investigative technique compared to Holder, Mueller, etc., your are missing the big picture.

[discostu]

That was when folks thought the Hillary “investigation” was something other than a farce. I called that one too.

[xenia]

“How many of the people you were sure were going down in the last 25 years or so have? Probably 0. Cause that’s how things work.”
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I agree with all your posts. You look at reality, not emotion, or wishful thinking. I’ve noticed that thru all of the revelations on the dossier etc., Hillary has shown no signs of worry.... nothing. She knows she is and has always been protected.

[semantic]

So what is the point of electing Trump? (Yes, I know better than the alternative.) And yet, without due process and equal treatment of law, what purpose exactly does the federal government serve? And if it's not serving the body politic as a representative republic, then isn't it actually tyranny.

When you see the flag, hear the anthem, see a fly over, what/who exactly is the military defending? The status quo ie an occupation government?

So what is Trump other than a titular figurehead? Is that why all the rallies are focused on the election, rather than real, current threats to liberty?

[Rainwave]

It should go to the top, but even if it were shown that Obama was deep into orchestrating all this does anyone really think he’d be held accountable like the left say Trump should be? Comey will get his though, it’s coming. Barr and Horowitz and others are probably putting together lock tight cases so that there WILL be some kind of closure to all this knowing the need for the public’s trust to be restored in the higher departments of government. It seems to me that 3 people have to worry the most. Comey, Clapper and Brennan. Though I wish all of these other people also will be wearing orange jumpsuits someday. Hillary Clinton,Uma Abedin,Susan Rice,Eric Holder,Loretta lynch,Peter Struck,Lisa Page,Sally Yates,Bruce Ohr,Nellie Ohr,Glenn Simpson, Andrew McCabe,Sydney Blumenthal,Anthony Weiner,Victoria Newland, Joseph Pientka,Tashina Gauhar,and about 20 others from the State Dept. And Intel communities. It would be nice also if Rachell Madow,David Corn,Robert Muller,George Soros,Joe Biden,Adam Schiff,Jim Messina, Joseph Mifsud,Robert Hannigan, Stephan Halper,Christopher Steele, Robert Goldstone, could be their cellmates

[TalBlack]

The article seems correct in all essentials but the basis of doubt about future prosecutions is that there is no visible reason that, post Sessions, they haven’t begun to drop already. Meaning no exaggeration or hyperbole, if the parties were reversed, wouldn’t the Dems have perp-walked someone by now?