The FBI Director that wouldn’t put ‘loyality’ above the law and got fired for it maybe in the crosshairs of the Barr led Justice Department ?
Comey HAS admired that he had made some ‘mistakes’ during his watch….
It has just been reported that the Justice Department is done with a Hillary Clinton investigation by the Barr led Justice Department…
Oh, and there was a riding down of another probe on ex-FBI boss McCabe….
The prosecutors have begun asking questions about news reporting in 2017 about a classified document — thought to be a Russian intelligence product — that described how then-Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch had purportedly assured someone in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign that the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state would not push too deep, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
The document was determined to be bad intelligence — possibly a fake meant to dupe the FBI — and those mentioned in it said they do not know each other and did not have any talks like those described. Both The Washington Post and the New York Times reported on the document.
Comey told the Justice Department inspector general he relied in part on the document when he elected in July 2016 not to tell Lynch that he was recommending the Clinton email case be closed without charges before announcing his decision publicly. He reasoned that if the classified material leaked, it could raise concerns about Lynch’s credibility, according to an inspector general report on the matter released in 2018.
Some former law enforcement officials say they worry Trump or officials at his Justice Department might be ginning up the investigation now because of the president’s hatred of the media — or of Comey. The probe was first reported by the New York Times….
image…washingtonian.com
Hmmmm?
Jonathan Chait: “In May of 2016, shortly after Donald Trump had wrapped up his party’s nomination, but when the notion he might win the presidency seemed remote at best, Benjamin Wittes wrote one of the very early essays attempting to analyze how an obviously authoritarian president might abuse his powers. ‘The soft spot, the least tyrant-proof part of the government, is the U.S. Department of Justice,’ he argued, laying out how prosecutorial discretion could allow a president to harass his domestic enemies.”
“Yesterday’s news that the Department of Justice is exploring yet another probe of James Comey, the former FBI director turned Trump antagonist, would seem to confirm those fears have been borne out.”
Politicalwire…
(BTW?….Trump loses?..The incoming AG will have a field day publishing internal DOJ memo’s I’d think)