Trump spokeswoman's claims about Comey don't make legal sense.

[L. Coyote]

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The Hapless Smear Campaign Against Jim Comey
The White House is making legal arguments about the former FBI director that barely pass the laugh test.
By BRADLEY P. MOSS -- September 13, 2017
From the moment Steve Bannon stated in his 60 Minutes interview that President Donald Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey was the biggest political mistake in modern presidential history, there simply was no chance that this week would proceed without a fair amount of political insanity. The fact that the president’s former chief strategist would publicly and brazenly disparage that decision was bound to result in a fierce White House pushback. And so it has. But over the past three days, the White House has repeatedly advanced flawed and in some instances preposterous legal arguments that don’t stand up to informed scrutiny.

The hijinks began on Monday, when White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that information divulged after Comey was fired served as retroactive justification for the president’s decision. She alleged, among other things, that Comey had given “false testimony” and leaked “privileged information to journalists.” On Tuesday, Sanders did not repeat the “false testimony” claim, but she did reiterate the assertion that Comey had “leaked privileged government information” and speculated that his actions “could have been illegal.”

In Wednesday’s news briefing, reading from what appeared to be prepared notes, Sanders explained what she meant by “illegal”:

“The memos that Comey leaked were created on an FBI computer while he was the director,” she said. “He claims they were private property, but they clearly followed the protocol of an official FBI document, leaking FBI memos on a sensitive case regardless of classification violates federal laws including the Privacy Act, standard FBI employment agreement and nondisclosure agreement all personnel must sign.”

These talking points were presumably provided to Sanders by the White House Counsel’s Office, but ..............

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a fucking liar.

Which is why she was hired.

[Angry Dragon]

3. The truth bit her on the butt and did not know what it was

[underpants]

2. It's simply for talk radio and Fox News purposes

They know it's not going anywhere so they repeat it so it can be repeated. RW'ers will KNOW it to be true and then feel like victims when it goes bust.