Rick HasenVerified account

Calling Comey's disclosure cryptic elides fact that it was avoidably misleading in its manifest incompleteness

if he felt like he couldn’t sit on it, then he needed to make a specific, detailed statement or have a presser.

@tribelaw Why not wait 24-48 hours so he could have been more precise?

@tribelaw Possible he was worried of leaks if he sat on it. Investigators leaked to Fox News constantly while ongoing.

Real problem was starting this w/ inappropriate July news conference. There's a reason for that FBI protocol. This is Exhibit A.

@KatMcKinley @tribelaw Haden right. Tribe wrong (and he knows it).

@tribelaw should have followed DOJ rules and consulted with DOJ/OPI. Chose not to per WSJ

@tribelaw FBI protocol is noninterference. If Comey needs to take lumps later so be it. But where was AG here? Still compromised?

.@rickhasen @tribelaw agreed. That letter should have been far more substantive.

@tribelaw It's a big problem.

Yeah. Who doesn't know that Comey is in the tank for Trump?

I don't recall Tribe or the Clintons complaining when Lawrence Walsh indicted Weinberger just 4 days b4 92 election

@tribelaw it's either abuse of power or ineptitude.

WRONG. You do not tell people exactly what evidence you have in a criminal investigation. EVER.

@tribelaw you don't know - and he likely doesn't know - whether he is actually sitting on any material information whatsoever.

@tribelawhttps://twitter.com/JeremyDDickey/status/792127429250867200 …

If by "cryptic" you mean "implying accusation," we are in at least partial agreement.

@tribelaw Yes.