James Comey Speaks Out About the Mueller Report

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Other than Special Counsel Robert Mueller, himself, there is probably no one person more familiar with the rationale for charging the president with obstruction of justice than former FBI director James Comey, whose firing directly preceded Mueller’s appointment. It was with some interest then that observers noted Comey’s tweet on Sunday, the day Attorney General William Barr released a four-page letter effectively clearing the president in the nearly two-year Russia probe. It featured the kind of photo that might appear in a calendar of motivational quotes: a lone figure (Comey) staring up staring up at a canopy of Redwood trees. “So many questions,” the tweet read.

Link to tweet

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At a previously-scheduled appearance in North Carolina on Tuesday, Comey elaborated.

“I can’t quite understand what’s going on with the obstruction stuff,” Comey told the Queens University of Charlotte audience. “I have great faith in Bob Mueller, but I just can’t tell from the letter why didn’t he decide these questions when the entire rationale for a special counsel is to make sure the politicals aren’t making the key charging decisions.”

Comey seemed to question Barr’s decision to clear Trump after the special counsel, somewhat pointedly, said his evidence did not to exonerate the president. “The notion that obstruction cases are somehow undermined by the absence of proof of an underlying crime — that is not my experience in 40 years of doing this, nor is it the Department of Justice’s tradition. Obstruction crimes matter without regard to what you prove about the underlying crime,” Comey said.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/comey-mueller-report-814112/

[Maven]

1. You know, it's amazing that someone who fucked things up so royally

thinks he still has the right to publicly opine about the mess we're in, which he was instrumental in bringing about.

The lack of shame and self-awareness never ceases to amaze me. Then again, he is a Republican.

[lunamagica]

2. WORD