Former AG Issues Massive Comey Announcement… Now Jail Time on the Table
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/author/benjamin-dekraker/?ff_source=push Former FBI Director James Comey may have just been hoisted by his own petard.
It looks increasingly likely that the now-fired director tried to use internal memos of meetings and conversations with Donald Trump to undermine the president, but those very memos are now making Comey look like the guilty one.
That’s certainly the view of former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey. He served in that respected position during the final years of the George W. Bush era, and knows a thing or two about the legality of classified information.
During a Friday appearance on Laura Ingraham’s program, the former attorney general pointed out that by leaking memos during his time in office, Comey may have done something highly illegal: Break the rules regarding classified documents.
https://youtu.be/x7RuGIWpQH4 “I think we ought to put to rest something one of your guests said in the last segment about how well the memos weren’t marked classified at the time,” Mukasey told Ingraham.
“They were classified as soon as he wrote them,” the legal expert explained. In simple terms, it didn’t matter whether or not Comey’s memos were marked as secret; they were classified as such automatically.
Mukasey used an example of his own time as attorney general to illustrate the point....
Former AG Issues Massive Comey Announcement… Now J... (