“The full extent of the charges being prepared against Comey is unclear, but the sources believe that at least one element of the indictment — if it goes forward – will accuse him of lying to Congress during his testimony on September 30, 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of information,” Dilanian tweeted.
The reporter noted that the five-year statute of limitations on that charge would lapse next Tuesday.
lol
What a disgusting joke this administration has made everything.
I know these particular charges are probably bullshit, but I don’t think there should be a statute of limitations for lying to Congress.
Five years seems to be plenty of time to fact-check someone’s testimony. Anything longer than that, and most people simply won’t recall their own words well enough to hold them accountable for them anymore.
The problem is that the DOJ isn’t as independent as people would like it to be, so you basically need a change in administration to hold someone to account, which could take longer than 5 years.
You can still run investigations in the meantime, though. Republicans are notorious for that. Even when they have no real power to do anything about it, they will investigate all the craziest shit that they can imagine…just to make it look like they’re doing something. Then when they have more control again, they have the option to pull the trigger or not.
Democrats should definitely take something from that playbook, but there’s been many cases of someone lying in front of Congress and not facing consequences. It happened in the leadup of both Iraq wars, and I don’t think people should just be allowed to get away with stuff like that just because the clock ran out.
Obviously part of the problem is that Democrats don’t seem to be interested in prosecuting stuff like that in the name of bipartisanship, but that’s how they got where they got now.
The biggest problem with all this stuff, is trying to prove that the person in question actually “lied” versus “I genuinely believed what I said at the time” versus “Oops, I was obviously mistaken”.
It’s impossible to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind, so unless you have some kind of date-stamped confession, that clearly contradicts their testimony…you’re never going to get a conviction.
Congress has cameras. If you’re lying to Congress about factual things, your memory of the event shouldn’t matter.
They’re bullshit enough that the previous AG refused to prosecute and got fired for it.
He’s really doing a good job of QA testing of USA v1. We’ll know what to patch in v2.
Don’t know about the US, but in most european places the statute of limitations limits when something can start being prosecuted - i.e., if you were indicted a minute before the statute is up, and the process takes years to complete, it doesn’t prevent the process from continuing.
Same here - they just have five days for this new head of the 300-person prosecutor’s office who handles a lot of government cases to create an illegal false prosecution scheme against the former head of the FBI and have their slip-and-fall-lawyer director get it in front of a judge and convince them it’s really important to do this in the equivalent of the next few minutes because Predisent Demented Rapist Babyhands is gonna cry.
Technically possible. Practically - less so.
I really dislike this meme that everything is a distraction from Epstein. Distractions are something you’re supposed to ignore. This is a president engaging in politically-motivated prosecutions of his political rivals. Calling it a distraction is dangerous and unhelpful.
I agree apart from it being something that could absolutely destroy his freedom. This issue is getting buried because it is clearly something they know is a public fulcrum. So while they can and should be doing other things in parallel, this singular thing that they claimed would be a priority upon capturing the presidency obviously threatens the entire administration and beyond. It’s more important than most things the keep throwing out there.
Comey can get fucked, and so can everyone who was involved in pedo island. It’s just a friendly reminder that our commander in chief is doing everything that a guilty person would do in his position.
I thought Grand Jury proceedings were supposed to be secret? Why are they leaking this now?
I bet they are afraid that the Grand Jury will refuse to indict, and they are trying to build up outrage among the MAGAs when that happens
Grand juries are only needed on certain levels of charges, like a felony. Lower-level infractions do not need a grand jury indictment.
Oh boy I’m positive that this will fix the economy and cause the price of groceries, gas, and housing to drop. So much winning!
Ohhhhh yeah. A bunch of people did temporarily believe that shit.
Morans.
Maybe spell the insult correctly the next time you try to insult someone’s intelligence?
Nice work missing the reference, you Moran.
What a maroon!
Oh didn’t you hear? Trump said the price of gas was below $2.00/gal. You should look at the gas pump more closely next time.
I’m sure he’ll bring it down even further, maybe 1200% like drug prices.
“But the sources believe that at least one element of the indictment — if it goes forward — will accuse him of lying to Congress during his testimony on September 30, 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of information,” Dilanian tweeted.
I wonder if there’s evidence Kash Patel lied to congress and if he’ll be charged too
Trumps first AG explicitly lied to Congress and - bupkis.
I’m still more than a little annoyed at Comey for handing Taco a “win” back in 2016, but this is some bullshit here.
It could not have happened to a better person. Comey is a pro-surveillance fascist who is now getting a taste of his own medicine.
I’ve never understood why Trump hates Comey when he owes his presidency to the man.
💯
Because Trump is loyal to no one and never pays his debts.
Worse than a Lannister.
Trumps is a spoiled child with no impulse control, no forethought, and no empathy.
He wants everyone to obey him, right now, with no exception.
Comey must have broke one of those rules.
He resents anyone who’s ever held power over him, even if they did go his way.
so much for helping trump get elected the first time
Everyone Who Supports Trump Will Be Shit On.
No Exceptions
Orange Jesus needs to conduct some good ol’ struggle sessions in which people deemed insufficiently “maga” (nonsense baby-talk word meaning: properly sucking up to this demented old geezer) need to really sit and reflect - with lots of Party apparatchiks castigating them - on just why they are not sufficiently “maga”.
I mean, hell, Taco has already appropriated many of the shittiest of ideas from craptacular regimes like USSR…he’s got his own Lysenkoists like RFK junior…
Comey is the guy that helped get Trump in office
Comey deserves the hassle. He helped put Trump in the WH. Reap what you sow.
There was a really interesting part of that story where supposedly Rudy Giuliani who was all buddy buddy with the SDNY FBI office somehow “leaked” that they were going to announce the Clinton email case would be reopened when in fact they weren’t because they knew there was no reason to, and Comey decided he couldn’t be upstaged by SDNY so he did it first.
True? Dunno. Plausible? yeah.
Is the office someone called “trumpland”?
Bet a Grand Jury won’t let this through. Fuck Trump and his cronies. Anyone who gets selected for an indictment panel should automatically shoot it down if it’s coming from these clowns.
“Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe’s statements are irreconcilably contradictory,” Cruz wrote. “Mr. McCabe says that he told Mr. Comey of the leak and that Mr. Comey approved — effectively authorizing the leak after the fact."
This statement itself is “irreconcilably contradictory”. Did he “authorize” the leak before or after it occurred? Cruz seems to be implying that he found out after, but approved. Which means he didn’t know before hand, and therefore couldn’t have actually authorized it.
“effectively authorizing the leak after the fact” They mean he made no effort to punish the leak.
That’s a whole different set of words, that don’t mean the same thing as what he’s being accused of, though.
They’re claiming that he authorized the leak…which means he either did or he didn’t…and it would have had to have happened before the leak occurred in order for it to be true. So, “after the fact” is not how that would have to have happened.
If all they were concerned with was why he didn’t punish the guy, then that is a completely different accusation than him authorizing it.
