California Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the indictment against former FBI Director James Comey for spelling the number 86-47 in seashells and posting a picture is definitively frivolous. “A skilled prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich,” Schiff said about the Comey indictment. “You know, the grand jury doesn’t get to see exculpatory evidence, doesn’t have independent legal experts to talk about how frivolous this case is. I’m sure none of that was done here.” “I was a prosecutor for almost six years. I never saw such a weak case.” “In the future, in the Department of Justice, if anyone ever suggests bringing a case this weak, there’ll be a new name for it. They’ll be called “seashells” cases. You know, ‘Tell me we should bring another seashells case.’ I think this case is likely to be thrown out even before it goes to a jury. It will absolutely be thrown out by the jury.” “But the fact that we’re spending time on a seashells case and the top leadership of the Justice Department is so focused on it means they’re not focused on violent crime cases. They’re not focused on rape cases and child trafficking. They’re focused now on James Comey and seashells. And it’s the American public that suffers,” he said. “I’m not concerned in the sense that if they bring a case against me, it’ll suffer the same fate as this one is likely to suffer,” Schiff said. “But what I am concerned about is, you know, all that is lost in the justice department, a department that, you know, I loved and venerated my time there.” “These kinds of abuses mean that the department isn’t going after oil companies that price gouging. It’s not going after companies that are abusing consumers. It’s not protecting us from monopolistic conduct in the market. It is instead focused on the president’s agenda of retribution. And that’s a terrible use of resources and a terrible precedent to set.”
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