From what I've read about this, it didn't turn as well as the dems hoped for, neither did it for the Trumptards. That said, it merely proved Trump is a liar.
Actually, no. Did you get a chance to watch it? There are tons of videos of it on YouTube.
From what I've read about this, it didn't turn as well as the dems hoped for, neither did it for the Trumptards. That said, it merely proved Trump is a liar.
Actually, no. Did you get a chance to watch it? There are tons of videos of it on YouTube.
It turned out horribly for Comey.
"Contrary to Kasowitz’s suggestion, there was nothing illegal about Comey’s decision to tell a reporter—directly or indirectly—about the contents of the memos he’d written after his meetings with the president. Furthermore, the notion that the conversations described in those memos were “privileged” is nonsensical. As University of Texas School of Law professor Stephen Vladeck explained to me in an email, that’s not how privilege works:
The President can claim privilege over whatever he wants to, but it’s irrelevant here; privilege is a defense against an effort to compel disclosure (for example, against a subpoena or a warrant). It’s a shield, not a sword. Here, where a former government employee is voluntarily testifying / acting, there just aren’t any criminal consequences for violating even a valid claim of privilege.
The only way there could ever be a criminal case against Comey for leaking his memos, Vladeck told me, is if they contain classified national security information (in that case, a leak could be a violation of the Espionage Act) or information “that has pecuniary value to the United States” (which could be a violation of the federal conversion-of-property statute). Would it be possible to make the argument that the memo Comey leaked did contain that kind of information? “If all he did was memorialize the contents of a conversation with the president the contents of which were not themselves classified, no,” Vladeck says.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ests_james_comey_broke_the_law_he_didn_t.html
He's facing serious legal trouble.