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发帖数: 1032 | 1 口蜜这枪是个哑炮，没子弹。左臂都洗洗睡吧。
James Comey was lying in wait.
His gun was cocked, he took aim and fired. But his weapon was empty.
Three months ago, the then-FBI Director met with President Trump. Following
their private conversation, Comey did what he always does –he wrote a
memorandum to himself memorializing the conversation. Good lawyers do that
routinely.
Now, only after Comey was fired, the memo magically surfaces in an
inflammatory New York Times report which alleges that Mr. Trump asked Comey
to end the Michael Flynn investigation.
Those who don’t know the first thing about the law immediately began
hurling words like “obstruction of justice”, “high crimes and
misdemeanors” and “impeachment“. Typically, these people don’t know
what they don’t know.
Here is what we do know.
Under the law, Comey is required to immediately inform the Department of
Justice of any attempt to obstruct justice by any person, even the President
of the United States. Failure to do so would result in criminal charges
against Comey. (18 USC 4 and 28 USC 1361) He would also, upon sufficient
proof, lose his license to practice law.
So, if Comey believed Trump attempted to obstruct justice, did he comply
with the law by reporting it to the DOJ? If not, it calls into question
whether the events occurred as the Times reported it.
Obstruction requires what’s called “specific intent” to interfere with a
criminal case. If Comey concluded, however, that Trump’s language was
vague, ambiguous or elliptical, then he has no duty under the law to report
it because it does not rise to the level of specific intent. Thus, no crime
.
There is no evidence Comey ever alerted officials at the Justice Department,
as he is duty-bound to do. Surely if he had, that incriminating
information would have made its way to the public either by an indictment or
, more likely, an investigation that could hardly be kept confidential in
the intervening months.
Comey’s memo is being treated as a “smoking gun” only because the media
and Democrats, likely prompted by Comey himself, are now peddling it that
way.
Comey will soon testify before Congress about this and other matters. His
memo will likely be produced pursuant to a subpoena. The words and the
context will matter.
But by writing a memo, Comey has put himself in a box. If he now accuses
the President of obstruction, he places himself in legal jeopardy for
failing to promptly and properly report it. If he says it was merely an
uncomfortable conversation, he clears the president of wrongdoing and
sullies his own image as a guy who attempted to smear the man who fired him.
Either way, James Comey comes out a loser. No matter. The media will hail
him a hero.
After all, he gave them a good story that was better than the truth.
Gregg Jarrett is a Fox News Anchor and former defense attorney. | c*********e
发帖数: 168 | | G*******h
发帖数: 4091 | 3 口糜要是真有料，那就应该去国会作证说，现在拒绝去国会作证，却借他人之口弄个不
明不白的memo出来，稻草人唬麻雀呢。 | t******r
发帖数: 8600 | 4 Under the law, Comey is required to immediately inform the Department of
Justice of any attempt to obstruct justice by any person, even the President
of the United States. Failure to do so would result in criminal charges
against Comey. (18 USC 4 and 28 USC 1361) He would also, upon sufficient
proof, lose his license to practice law. | T******g
发帖数: 21328 | 5 作弊没道理讲就开始骂人造谣了
【在 c*********e 的大作中提到】
: 狐狸台就是傻逼台+性变态台+菲克新闻台！
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发帖数: 23666 | 6 这马甲是老大爷。
【在 T******g 的大作中提到】
: 作弊没道理讲就开始骂人造谣了
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