On Oct. 28, 2013, President Barack Obama and James Comey participate in the installation ceremony for Mr. Comey as FBI director at the bureau's Washington headquarters.
Multiple sources have indicated that, although DOJ prosecutors believed the evidence was compelling, they didn't consider it sufficient to prove that Comey "Intentionally" violated the law.
One of the memos Comey gave to his lawyer/friend to leak to the NY Times was classified retroactively, and even then, only at the lowest level of classification which is "Confidential."
Why did they decide to open an investigation into Trump campaign members? Why would they use a dossier they knew to be unverified and unverifiable to substantiate an application to the FISA court? Comey signed off on an application to the FISA Court in October 2016 claiming that the dossier was "VERIFIED." Three months later, Comey presented a two-page summary of the dossier to then President-elect Trump in January 2017 and told him it was "Unverified" and "Salacious."
Some of the Comey memos were classified up to the "Secret" level, but the FBI has not disclosed whether those were shared with his lawyers like the classified confidential memo was.
The memos, which mostly recount Comey's interactions with Trump in the Russia case and include information about foreign leaders, were sensitive enough to require government officials to send a professional "Scrub team" to a Comey lawyer's office to ensure all classified information was deleted, sources previously told me.
The IG is likely to find that Comey engaged in a lack of candor when FBI agents came to retrieve the classified memos in his possession, failing to tell the interviewing agent that he had forwarded some of the sensitive memos by email, according to sources familiar with the probe.
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/08/01/heres-doj-declined-charge-james-comey-leaking-classified-information/
Multiple sources have indicated that, although DOJ prosecutors believed the evidence was compelling, they didn't consider it sufficient to prove that Comey "Intentionally" violated the law.
One of the memos Comey gave to his lawyer/friend to leak to the NY Times was classified retroactively, and even then, only at the lowest level of classification which is "Confidential."
Why did they decide to open an investigation into Trump campaign members? Why would they use a dossier they knew to be unverified and unverifiable to substantiate an application to the FISA court? Comey signed off on an application to the FISA Court in October 2016 claiming that the dossier was "VERIFIED." Three months later, Comey presented a two-page summary of the dossier to then President-elect Trump in January 2017 and told him it was "Unverified" and "Salacious."
Some of the Comey memos were classified up to the "Secret" level, but the FBI has not disclosed whether those were shared with his lawyers like the classified confidential memo was.
The memos, which mostly recount Comey's interactions with Trump in the Russia case and include information about foreign leaders, were sensitive enough to require government officials to send a professional "Scrub team" to a Comey lawyer's office to ensure all classified information was deleted, sources previously told me.
The IG is likely to find that Comey engaged in a lack of candor when FBI agents came to retrieve the classified memos in his possession, failing to tell the interviewing agent that he had forwarded some of the sensitive memos by email, according to sources familiar with the probe.
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/08/01/heres-doj-declined-charge-james-comey-leaking-classified-information/
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