Former White House ethics lawyer: FBI Director Comey broke the law

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Former White House ethics lawyer Richard W. Painter contended in a New York Times opinion piece published Sunday that the FBI director broke the law with his letter to congress announcing the FBI was examining new emails related to its probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

Painter argued that FBI Director James Comey violated the Hatch Act, which ensures "that federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan fashion," by making "highly unusual public statements about an FBI investigation concerning a candidate in the election."

Painter said he brought those concerns to the Office of Special Counsel and the Office of Government Ethics with a a complaint against the FBI.

"The letter was sent in violation of a longstanding Justice Department policy of not discussing specifics about pending investigations with others, including members of Congress," wrote Painter.

He also referred to such a disclosure on the eve of a general election as an "abuse of power."

Painter served as an ethics lawyer for George W. Bush's administration from 2005-2007. In the piece Painter discloses that he supported GOP candidates during the primaries, but eventually pivoted to Hillary Clinton.

http://www.aol.com/article/news/201...wyer-fbi-director-comey-broke-the-l/21594936/
 
FBI Director Comey broke the law when he failed to indite Clinton for having and using a


private email server to handle State Dept. business,
gross negligence in mishandling classified material,
destroying material under subpoena
allowing staff without clearances access to her server
etc
etc
etc.
There is NO DOUBT she is guilty of all the above and the excuse of "lack of intent" is absurd on its face....

SHE is unfit to hold any public off and certainly not one that requires a top secret clearance to hold...
 
Speaking of GW Bush.......what goes around comes around

from Washington examiner 10/30/16

Whispers of "payback" are being directed at Hillary Clinton after she decried as "unprecedented" the surprise FBI revival of its probe of her email scandal.

That's because 24 years ago, as former President George H.W. Bush was surging back against challenger Bill Clinton, a special prosecutor raised new charges against Bush in the Iran-Contra probe, prompting Clinton to claim he was running against a "culture of corruption."

Many Republicans claimed that the indictment made by special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh against former Reagan-era Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger the weekend before the 1992 election cost Bush a second term. The indictment, later thrown out, challenged Bush's claim that he did not know about a controversial arms-for-hostages deal that dogged the Reagan-Bush administration.

When it came, Clinton seized on it, saying for example, "Secretary Weinberger's note clearly shows that President Bush has not been telling the truth when he says he was out of the loop." Clinton added, "It demonstrates that President Bush knew and approved of President Reagan's secret deal to swap arms for hostages."

Powerline blogger Paul Mirengoff wrote, "What goes around comes around."

He concluded:

The Clintons seized on the new indictment, howling about a "culture of corruption" that supposedly pervaded the administration. Bush's poll numbers declined and Bill Clinton won the election.

Shortly after the election, a federal judge threw out the new indictment because it violated the five-year statute of limitations and improperly broadened the original charges. President Bush then pardoned Weinberger.

Keep this history in mind during the coming days when you hear Democratic hacks talking about how awful it is for law enforcement officials and/or prosecutors to "interfere" in the presidential election process.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner
 
christiefan915 said:
Former White House ethics lawyer Richard W. Painter contended in a New York Times opinion piece published Sunday that the FBI director broke the law with his letter to congress announcing the FBI was examining new emails related to its probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

Painter argued that FBI Director James Comey violated the Hatch Act, which ensures "that federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan fashion," by making "highly unusual public statements about an FBI investigation concerning a candidate in the election."

Painter said he brought those concerns to the Office of Special Counsel and the Office of Government Ethics with a a complaint against the FBI.

"The letter was sent in violation of a longstanding Justice Department policy of not discussing specifics about pending investigations with others, including members of Congress," wrote Painter.

He also referred to such a disclosure on the eve of a general election as an "abuse of power."

Painter served as an ethics lawyer for George W. Bush's administration from 2005-2007. In the piece Painter discloses that he supported GOP candidates during the primaries, but eventually pivoted to Hillary Clinton.

http://www.aol.com/article/news/201...wyer-fbi-director-comey-broke-the-l/21594936/
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Justice Department policy of not discussing specifics about pending investigations with others, including members of Congress

Policy is not law....even pinheads should know that.....so Mr. Painter is full of shit.
 
NOVA said:
Justice Department policy of not discussing specifics about pending investigations with others, including members of Congress

Policy is not law....even pinheads should know that.....so Mr. Painter is full of shit.
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The JD doesn't even know the specifics dummy, because they haven't yet read the emails. And if this is an indictment of Hillary she has the right to know what they found ASAP.
 
NOVA said:
Justice Department policy of not discussing specifics about pending investigations with others, including members of Congress

Policy is not law....even pinheads should know that.....so Mr. Painter is full of shit.
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Mr. Painter was the White House Ethics specialist.
What are you?
Oh that's right, nothing.
Shut your drooling pie hole old fool.
 
Seems Democrats only have an issue because it was bad news for Hillary. When the news was good for her, Comey of course should inform Congress.
 
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