PLAMEGATE REDUX: James Comey’s Pursuit Of Crimeless Cases Against Trump Is Eerily Familiar | HOT NE

PLAMEGATE REDUX: James Comey’s Pursuit Of Crimeless Cases Against Trump Is Eerily Familiar | HOT NEWS SUBSCRIBE CHANNEL: https://goo.gl/d9nVGS HOT NEWS channel is update news about: hot news,breaking news,daily news,world news,top news,us news,uk news,donald trump The recent kerfuffle over the dueling Steele dossier memos revealed a significant lacuna in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russiagate investigation: There appears to have been no probable crime causing conflict of interest, the prerequisite for his appointment. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed James Comey’s career as of late. It was Comey who, in 2004, as the Deputy Attorney General (Attorney General John Ashcroft had recused himself) appointed Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate the crime of publicly identifying, or “outing,” CIA Agent Valerie Plame, seemingly a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA) (U.S.C. §793). The statute makes it a crime to reveal the identity of any intelligence agent who has acted under cover in a foreign land in the preceding five years. The subsequent “Plamegate” indictment caused a rush of excitement as untold scores of anti-Bush scribes wrote about the trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a top a...