Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey Explains Why James Comey Has No Excuse of Leaking Classified Information

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James Comey needs to be careful.

Last week we learned that the Justice Department is investigating whether or not the disgraced FBI Director broke the law by leaking classified information to a friend outside the government.

We know Comey did, in fact, leak classified information in the memos he distributed to a friend. Now we have to wait to see if the Justice Department will recommend criminal charges.

There was some question as to whether or not the memos Comey leaked were actually classified at the time of disclosure. Philip Bump of The Washington Post initially tried to imply that, at the time they were written and released, two Comey memos didn’t contain classified information. But a subsequent report from the Wall Street Journal revealed that Comey is actually guilty of leaking classified information.

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey joined Laura Ingraham on Fox News to discuss Comey’s transgressions, and what it means for his future.

Check out the interview below:

Here are the key excerpts from Mukasey’s remarks:

I think we ought to put to rest something one of your guests said in the last segment about how well the memos weren’t marked classified at the time.

I had an experience when I started as AG of taking notes at a meeting at a top secret procedure. And when I got up to leave the meeting my then chief of staff leaned over and wrote in big block letters at the top TS/SCI meaning ‘top secret, secured compartmentalized information.’

In other words, those weren’t my notes, those were the government’s notes. And those weren’t Mr. Comey’s memos, those were the government’s memos.

We now know that Comey is guilty of leaking classified information. As the Conservative Tribune points out, former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was found guilty of leaking classified info to a reporter and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in 2015.

Will Comey meet the same fate?

What do you think? Should Comey go to jail for leaking classified information? Tell us your thoughts below!

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