How Comey set a trap for prosecutors when leaking his memos

[mystery-ak]

August 4, 2019
How Comey set a trap for prosecutors when leaking his memos
By Thomas Lifson

Had the Department of Justice acted on the criminal referral that Inspector Horowitz reportedly issued regarding James Comey’s leak of memos, it would have fallen into a trap. Credit Comey with the legal sophistication you’d expect from a head of the FBI, but also credit the team assembled by Attorney General Barr for avoiding the trap.

Yesterday, I offered a non-lawyer’s analysis of Why you shouldn’t worry about the DOJ not prosecuting Comey on leaked memos and described the downside of a prosecution when the case is weak:

    … 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. It is important that the first case taken to a jury be rock-solid and serious.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/how_comey_set_a_trap_for_prosecutors_when_leaking_his_memos.html

[kidd]

Comey is too stupid to set a trap.

He was simply leaking at the very edge of what was legal...as far as his lawyers would allow.

[dfwgator]

Comey is too stupid to set a trap.

He was simply leaking at the very edge of what was legal...as far as his lawyers would allow.

He's not in jail, is he?  He must have done something right.