Former White House special counsel during the first Trump administration Ty Cobb told MS Now that the way the Attorney General and U.S. attorney have handled their prosecution of James Comey is the “height of ineptitude and misconduct.”
Ty Cobb’s comments come on the heels of Judge William Fitzpatrick blasting Halligan for her botched handling of the indictment of Comey with a grand jury. “However, the record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding,” he added.”
Cobb did not hold back in his assessment of the incompetence shown in the Comey case.
COBB: It’s shocking.
You couldn’t find a high school stock boy at Home Depot who could have handled this more ineptly than Lindsay Halligan did, you know, taking an indictment that the grand jury never saw, having the foreman sign it and then presenting it to a judge.
That’s the height of ineptitude and misconduct.
Cobb then discussed the issue at hand that resulted in the judge’s rebuke.
COBB: If only the foreman and, you know, some grand juror who was hanging out in the courtroom saw it.
That’s two. A quorum is 12. You need a quorum to return an indictment.
