Trump's complaint about Comey's "leak" could be obstruction of justice - here's why [View all]

[Miles Archer]

Trump’s complaint about Comey’s ‘leak’ could be obstruction of justice — here’s why



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/trumps-complaint-about-comeys-leak-could-be-obstruction-of-justice-heres-why/

President Donald Trump’s attorney intends to file a complaint with the Justice Department against former FBI director James Comey for his “leak” of a personal memo to a friend who then passed along the document to reporters.

That complaint, and the president’s Friday morning tweet griping about Comey’s action, could be considered obstruction of justice, according to a legal expert who spoke to the Washington Post.

Stephen Kohn, a lawyer who specializes in whistleblower protection, dismissed the pending complaint by Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz as “frivolous grandstanding” because the Justice Department’s inspector general no longer had any authority over Comey as a private citizen.

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“Initiating an investigation because you don’t like somebody’s testimony could be considered obstruction,” Kohn told the newspaper, “and in the whistleblower context, it’s both evidence of retaliation and, under some laws, could be an adverse retaliatory act itself.”