Theres no indication Comey violated the law. Trump may be about to.

[fleur-de-lisa]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/09/theres-no-indication-comey-violated-the-law-trump-may-be-about-to/?utm_term=.79fc5082d42a

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As the news broke, I was on the phone with Stephen Kohn, partner at a law firm focused on whistleblower protection. We’d been talking about where the boundaries lay for Comey in what he could and couldn’t do with the information about his conversations with the president. Kohn’s response to the story about Kasowitz, though, was visceral.

“Here is my position on that: Frivolous grandstanding,” he said. “First of all, I don’t believe the inspector general would have jurisdiction over Comey any more, because he’s no longer a federal employee.” The inspector general’s job is to investigate wrongdoing by employees of the Justice Department, of which Comey is no longer, thanks to Trump.

“But, second,” he continued, “initiating an investigation because you don’t like somebody’s testimony could be considered obstruction. And in the whistleblower context, it’s both evidence of retaliation and, under some laws, could be an adverse retaliatory act itself.”

In other words, Comey, here, is an employee who is blowing the whistle, to use the idiom, on his former boss. That boss wants to punish him for doing so. That’s problematic — especially if there’s no evidence that Comey actually violated any law that would trigger punishment.

[procon]

1. "Everyone else is playing chess, the American president is playing checkers.

Brian Williams described Trump perfectly. It's an important insight into this president's intelligence and mental ability. Trump seems unable to think about more than one thing at a time. He lives in the moment, he lacks the necessary skillsets to even consider the possible consequences of his decisions.

So let him follow his rabbit trails off into the weeds in search of validation and self esteem, he will have earned the resulting fallout that adds to his woes.

[Gothmog]

2. There were no illegal leaks

[L. Coyote]

5. There are inflammatory leaks.

Link to tweet

[L. Coyote]

3. K & R

[herding cats]

4. Kick and Rec!