Key Takeaways From Comey Testimony

[iceberg]

Key Takeaways From James Comey's Testimony Before Congress

this is from sharyl attkisson who doesn't play sides, just presents the facts as they are. they certainly don't look good for comey and company.

some of the highlights:
Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview
Comey said he doesn’t know who drafted the questions for Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview. He says he didn’t read them. The FBI didn’t record the interview. Comey said he also doesn’t remember why Clinton’s interview wasn’t conducted before a grand jury (p. 38).

Comey said he doesn’t know for sure why the witnesses in the Clinton email investigation weren’t subpoenaed and questioned before the grand jury. He says the FBI investigative team deemed it unnecessary (p. 212).

Comey would later tell the DOJ Inspector General that prior to Hillary’s interview he didn’t think there was any “there there.” (Comey says he doesn’t remember saying this to the IG, but agrees he did say it because it’s reflected in a transcript.) (p. 39).

Comey says the fact that he drafted a memo concluding Clinton shouldn’t be prosecuted, two months before her FBI interview, doesn’t indicate that he’d prejudged the case before the facts were in (p. 42).

Comey says he doesn’t know whether anyone at the FBI or DOJ shared the questions for Clinton in advance with her attorney Cheryl Mills or attorney Heather Samuelson (p. 211).
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The Democrats’ Steele ‘dossier’
Comey says he never met Christopher Steele (p. 109, 114).

Note: Steele is the author of the anti-Trump opposition research “dossier” that the FBI presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to obtain wiretaps on Trump associate Carter Page.

Comey says he doesn’t know how long the FBI relied on Steele as a source and doesn’t know the particulars of FBI agreements with sources (p. 109, 114).

Comey says that as FBI Director, he never knew that Steele worked for a political opposition research firm hired by a law firm paid by the Democratic National Committee. Comey believed Republicans had first funded the dossier prior to Democrats (p. 112).

Note: Republicans had begged off on the opposition research project prior to Steele being hired. Steele was hired under the Democrats.

Comey says he doesn’t think Steele had any direct knowledge about collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia (pp. 123-124).

Comey says he’s not sure how Steele’s dossier got to the FBI. Comey says he doesn’t know what steps the FBI took to verify Steele’s information before or after the FBI presented it to the FISA court. He says the FBI was still “evaluating” the information months after using it in court. Comey says the FBI made efforts to identify Steele’s sources, but he doesn’t remember if they were able to (p. 115, 118).

Comey says he reviewed and signed the Oct. 21, 2016, FBI wiretap application against Carter Page. Comey says he didn’t know details, he simply signed off procedurally. He doesn’t remember if the paperwork was entitled “verified application.” Comey remembers the FBI alleged Page was working for or with the Russian government, but Comey doesn’t recall if the application mentioned “probable cause” (pp. 113, 121, 123).

Analysis: The issue of “verification” of the dossier is crucial. Intel sources say presenting a single unverified fact to the FISA court violates the FBI’s strict Woods Procedures installed to prevent the FBI from obtaining wiretaps based on false or questionable information. There seems to be no recognition by Comey or anyone else of these important FBI rules or how the FBI apparently violated them. Comey appears to have taken a surprisingly hands-off approach in terms of oversight when it came to the controversial wiretapping of a political campaign associate in an election year.

When Comey signed off the wiretap, he says the FBI’s corroboration of Steele’s information was “in its infancy” or only “minimally corroborated.” Comey acknowledges he signed off on the wiretap as “verified” even though the information was unverified. He said he did so because the information came from “a reliable source” with “a good track record” (p. 126).
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Comey said the tarmac meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton five days before Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview was problematic and “potentially inappropriate.” Comey acknowledges he didn’t take steps to find out the substance of the conversation (pp. 33-34).

Comey says he also learned of “material” that, if made public, “would be used to cast doubt on whether [Lynch] had acted appropriately” in the Hillary investigation (p. 35). He did not say what the material entailed.

Context: Comey first revealed the existence of the Lynch “material” in his book. According to a report on CNN, the material may refer to discussions between Lynch and Clinton staffer Amanda Renteria or former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. However, Lynch has denied discussing “any aspect of the investigation” with them.

Comey said there was “the appearance of conflict or the appearance that [Lynch] was compromised in some fashion” (p. 48).

Comey also said that Lynch should have recused herself from the Clinton investigation (p. 77).

Comey says he raised his concerns about Lynch’s objectivity with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and that Lynch was subsequently “briefed and interviewed about the nature of that material” by McCabe and others (p. 36).

Note: McCabe was battling his own appearance of bias with his wife, Jill McCabe, a political candidate, receiving a large amount of campaign funds from Clinton connections.

Analysis: Lynch, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were key players in the Clinton email probe who ended up with conflicts of interest or the appearance of bias. Comey expressed no concern over the question of whether Lynch’s tarmac meeting and refusal to recuse may have amounted to obstruction of justice.
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and so much more they all did so wrong.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Comey proved that the FBI is no longer an American institution. It is an arm of the Democrat socialists.

 

[BlackFlag]

Key Takeaways From James Comey's Testimony Before Congress

this is from sharyl attkisson who doesn't play sides, just presents the facts as they are. they certainly don't look good for comey and company.

some of the highlights:
Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview
Comey said he doesn’t know who drafted the questions for Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview. He says he didn’t read them. The FBI didn’t record the interview. Comey said he also doesn’t remember why Clinton’s interview wasn’t conducted before a grand jury (p. 38).

Comey said he doesn’t know for sure why the witnesses in the Clinton email investigation weren’t subpoenaed and questioned before the grand jury. He says the FBI investigative team deemed it unnecessary (p. 212).

Comey would later tell the DOJ Inspector General that prior to Hillary’s interview he didn’t think there was any “there there.” (Comey says he doesn’t remember saying this to the IG, but agrees he did say it because it’s reflected in a transcript.) (p. 39).

Comey says the fact that he drafted a memo concluding Clinton shouldn’t be prosecuted, two months before her FBI interview, doesn’t indicate that he’d prejudged the case before the facts were in (p. 42).

Comey says he doesn’t know whether anyone at the FBI or DOJ shared the questions for Clinton in advance with her attorney Cheryl Mills or attorney Heather Samuelson (p. 211).
-----
The Democrats’ Steele ‘dossier’
Comey says he never met Christopher Steele (p. 109, 114).

Note: Steele is the author of the anti-Trump opposition research “dossier” that the FBI presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to obtain wiretaps on Trump associate Carter Page.

Comey says he doesn’t know how long the FBI relied on Steele as a source and doesn’t know the particulars of FBI agreements with sources (p. 109, 114).

Comey says that as FBI Director, he never knew that Steele worked for a political opposition research firm hired by a law firm paid by the Democratic National Committee. Comey believed Republicans had first funded the dossier prior to Democrats (p. 112).

Note: Republicans had begged off on the opposition research project prior to Steele being hired. Steele was hired under the Democrats.

Comey says he doesn’t think Steele had any direct knowledge about collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia (pp. 123-124).

Comey says he’s not sure how Steele’s dossier got to the FBI. Comey says he doesn’t know what steps the FBI took to verify Steele’s information before or after the FBI presented it to the FISA court. He says the FBI was still “evaluating” the information months after using it in court. Comey says the FBI made efforts to identify Steele’s sources, but he doesn’t remember if they were able to (p. 115, 118).

Comey says he reviewed and signed the Oct. 21, 2016, FBI wiretap application against Carter Page. Comey says he didn’t know details, he simply signed off procedurally. He doesn’t remember if the paperwork was entitled “verified application.” Comey remembers the FBI alleged Page was working for or with the Russian government, but Comey doesn’t recall if the application mentioned “probable cause” (pp. 113, 121, 123).

Analysis: The issue of “verification” of the dossier is crucial. Intel sources say presenting a single unverified fact to the FISA court violates the FBI’s strict Woods Procedures installed to prevent the FBI from obtaining wiretaps based on false or questionable information. There seems to be no recognition by Comey or anyone else of these important FBI rules or how the FBI apparently violated them. Comey appears to have taken a surprisingly hands-off approach in terms of oversight when it came to the controversial wiretapping of a political campaign associate in an election year.

When Comey signed off the wiretap, he says the FBI’s corroboration of Steele’s information was “in its infancy” or only “minimally corroborated.” Comey acknowledges he signed off on the wiretap as “verified” even though the information was unverified. He said he did so because the information came from “a reliable source” with “a good track record” (p. 126).
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Comey said the tarmac meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton five days before Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview was problematic and “potentially inappropriate.” Comey acknowledges he didn’t take steps to find out the substance of the conversation (pp. 33-34).

Comey says he also learned of “material” that, if made public, “would be used to cast doubt on whether [Lynch] had acted appropriately” in the Hillary investigation (p. 35). He did not say what the material entailed.

Context: Comey first revealed the existence of the Lynch “material” in his book. According to a report on CNN, the material may refer to discussions between Lynch and Clinton staffer Amanda Renteria or former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. However, Lynch has denied discussing “any aspect of the investigation” with them.

Comey said there was “the appearance of conflict or the appearance that [Lynch] was compromised in some fashion” (p. 48).

Comey also said that Lynch should have recused herself from the Clinton investigation (p. 77).

Comey says he raised his concerns about Lynch’s objectivity with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and that Lynch was subsequently “briefed and interviewed about the nature of that material” by McCabe and others (p. 36).

Note: McCabe was battling his own appearance of bias with his wife, Jill McCabe, a political candidate, receiving a large amount of campaign funds from Clinton connections.

Analysis: Lynch, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were key players in the Clinton email probe who ended up with conflicts of interest or the appearance of bias. Comey expressed no concern over the question of whether Lynch’s tarmac meeting and refusal to recuse may have amounted to obstruction of justice.
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and so much more they all did so wrong.

Key takeaways from Comeny testimony translated: ALL DA CONSPIRACIES IS TRUE!!! HILLARY'S GOING TO JAIL! ALL THE FBI IS GOING TO JAIL! LORETTA LYNCH IS GOING TO JAIL! MUELLER IS GOING TO JAIL!!!!!!!!! NO MORE DEMOCRAT PARTY!!!

 

[Claudette]

Seems that Comey doesn't remember much of anything.

He also seems to have decided no charges would be brought against Hitlery even before the meetings with her.

Looks like some pretty heavy bias to me. Boy the FBI sure isn't what it used to be.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Comey put out his DOG WHISTLE to anyone else who might be testifying.

That's why he wanted it public.

HE HAS NEVER OPENED A POLICITAL INVESTIGATION.

 

[iceberg]

Key Takeaways From James Comey's Testimony Before Congress

this is from sharyl attkisson who doesn't play sides, just presents the facts as they are. they certainly don't look good for comey and company.

some of the highlights:
Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview
Comey said he doesn’t know who drafted the questions for Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview. He says he didn’t read them. The FBI didn’t record the interview. Comey said he also doesn’t remember why Clinton’s interview wasn’t conducted before a grand jury (p. 38).

Comey said he doesn’t know for sure why the witnesses in the Clinton email investigation weren’t subpoenaed and questioned before the grand jury. He says the FBI investigative team deemed it unnecessary (p. 212).

Comey would later tell the DOJ Inspector General that prior to Hillary’s interview he didn’t think there was any “there there.” (Comey says he doesn’t remember saying this to the IG, but agrees he did say it because it’s reflected in a transcript.) (p. 39).

Comey says the fact that he drafted a memo concluding Clinton shouldn’t be prosecuted, two months before her FBI interview, doesn’t indicate that he’d prejudged the case before the facts were in (p. 42).

Comey says he doesn’t know whether anyone at the FBI or DOJ shared the questions for Clinton in advance with her attorney Cheryl Mills or attorney Heather Samuelson (p. 211).
-----
The Democrats’ Steele ‘dossier’
Comey says he never met Christopher Steele (p. 109, 114).

Note: Steele is the author of the anti-Trump opposition research “dossier” that the FBI presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to obtain wiretaps on Trump associate Carter Page.

Comey says he doesn’t know how long the FBI relied on Steele as a source and doesn’t know the particulars of FBI agreements with sources (p. 109, 114).

Comey says that as FBI Director, he never knew that Steele worked for a political opposition research firm hired by a law firm paid by the Democratic National Committee. Comey believed Republicans had first funded the dossier prior to Democrats (p. 112).

Note: Republicans had begged off on the opposition research project prior to Steele being hired. Steele was hired under the Democrats.

Comey says he doesn’t think Steele had any direct knowledge about collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia (pp. 123-124).

Comey says he’s not sure how Steele’s dossier got to the FBI. Comey says he doesn’t know what steps the FBI took to verify Steele’s information before or after the FBI presented it to the FISA court. He says the FBI was still “evaluating” the information months after using it in court. Comey says the FBI made efforts to identify Steele’s sources, but he doesn’t remember if they were able to (p. 115, 118).

Comey says he reviewed and signed the Oct. 21, 2016, FBI wiretap application against Carter Page. Comey says he didn’t know details, he simply signed off procedurally. He doesn’t remember if the paperwork was entitled “verified application.” Comey remembers the FBI alleged Page was working for or with the Russian government, but Comey doesn’t recall if the application mentioned “probable cause” (pp. 113, 121, 123).

Analysis: The issue of “verification” of the dossier is crucial. Intel sources say presenting a single unverified fact to the FISA court violates the FBI’s strict Woods Procedures installed to prevent the FBI from obtaining wiretaps based on false or questionable information. There seems to be no recognition by Comey or anyone else of these important FBI rules or how the FBI apparently violated them. Comey appears to have taken a surprisingly hands-off approach in terms of oversight when it came to the controversial wiretapping of a political campaign associate in an election year.

When Comey signed off the wiretap, he says the FBI’s corroboration of Steele’s information was “in its infancy” or only “minimally corroborated.” Comey acknowledges he signed off on the wiretap as “verified” even though the information was unverified. He said he did so because the information came from “a reliable source” with “a good track record” (p. 126).
----------
Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Comey said the tarmac meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton five days before Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview was problematic and “potentially inappropriate.” Comey acknowledges he didn’t take steps to find out the substance of the conversation (pp. 33-34).

Comey says he also learned of “material” that, if made public, “would be used to cast doubt on whether [Lynch] had acted appropriately” in the Hillary investigation (p. 35). He did not say what the material entailed.

Context: Comey first revealed the existence of the Lynch “material” in his book. According to a report on CNN, the material may refer to discussions between Lynch and Clinton staffer Amanda Renteria or former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. However, Lynch has denied discussing “any aspect of the investigation” with them.

Comey said there was “the appearance of conflict or the appearance that [Lynch] was compromised in some fashion” (p. 48).

Comey also said that Lynch should have recused herself from the Clinton investigation (p. 77).

Comey says he raised his concerns about Lynch’s objectivity with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and that Lynch was subsequently “briefed and interviewed about the nature of that material” by McCabe and others (p. 36).

Note: McCabe was battling his own appearance of bias with his wife, Jill McCabe, a political candidate, receiving a large amount of campaign funds from Clinton connections.

Analysis: Lynch, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were key players in the Clinton email probe who ended up with conflicts of interest or the appearance of bias. Comey expressed no concern over the question of whether Lynch’s tarmac meeting and refusal to recuse may have amounted to obstruction of justice.
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and so much more they all did so wrong.

Key takeaways from Comeny testimony translated: ALL DA CONSPIRACIES IS TRUE!!! HILLARY'S GOING TO JAIL! ALL THE FBI IS GOING TO JAIL! LORETTA LYNCH IS GOING TO JAIL! MUELLER IS GOING TO JAIL!!!!!!!!! NO MORE DEMOCRAT PARTY!!!

see - you can't have a conversation about what is found because you jump to this extreme fucked up bullshit and act the fool. only for you, it's not an act.

what you are in effect saying is that if we take out hillary and one side of names and put in trump and his side of names, all of these activities are PROPER. is that what you're saying? if trump did all this you'd go "oh hey that's fine and proper. no issues with the man"...

please. tell me you'd say that. i dare you.

 

[BlackFlag]

Key Takeaways From James Comey's Testimony Before Congress

this is from sharyl attkisson who doesn't play sides, just presents the facts as they are. they certainly don't look good for comey and company.

some of the highlights:
Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview
Comey said he doesn’t know who drafted the questions for Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview. He says he didn’t read them. The FBI didn’t record the interview. Comey said he also doesn’t remember why Clinton’s interview wasn’t conducted before a grand jury (p. 38).

Comey said he doesn’t know for sure why the witnesses in the Clinton email investigation weren’t subpoenaed and questioned before the grand jury. He says the FBI investigative team deemed it unnecessary (p. 212).

Comey would later tell the DOJ Inspector General that prior to Hillary’s interview he didn’t think there was any “there there.” (Comey says he doesn’t remember saying this to the IG, but agrees he did say it because it’s reflected in a transcript.) (p. 39).

Comey says the fact that he drafted a memo concluding Clinton shouldn’t be prosecuted, two months before her FBI interview, doesn’t indicate that he’d prejudged the case before the facts were in (p. 42).

Comey says he doesn’t know whether anyone at the FBI or DOJ shared the questions for Clinton in advance with her attorney Cheryl Mills or attorney Heather Samuelson (p. 211).
-----
The Democrats’ Steele ‘dossier’
Comey says he never met Christopher Steele (p. 109, 114).

Note: Steele is the author of the anti-Trump opposition research “dossier” that the FBI presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to obtain wiretaps on Trump associate Carter Page.

Comey says he doesn’t know how long the FBI relied on Steele as a source and doesn’t know the particulars of FBI agreements with sources (p. 109, 114).

Comey says that as FBI Director, he never knew that Steele worked for a political opposition research firm hired by a law firm paid by the Democratic National Committee. Comey believed Republicans had first funded the dossier prior to Democrats (p. 112).

Note: Republicans had begged off on the opposition research project prior to Steele being hired. Steele was hired under the Democrats.

Comey says he doesn’t think Steele had any direct knowledge about collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia (pp. 123-124).

Comey says he’s not sure how Steele’s dossier got to the FBI. Comey says he doesn’t know what steps the FBI took to verify Steele’s information before or after the FBI presented it to the FISA court. He says the FBI was still “evaluating” the information months after using it in court. Comey says the FBI made efforts to identify Steele’s sources, but he doesn’t remember if they were able to (p. 115, 118).

Comey says he reviewed and signed the Oct. 21, 2016, FBI wiretap application against Carter Page. Comey says he didn’t know details, he simply signed off procedurally. He doesn’t remember if the paperwork was entitled “verified application.” Comey remembers the FBI alleged Page was working for or with the Russian government, but Comey doesn’t recall if the application mentioned “probable cause” (pp. 113, 121, 123).

Analysis: The issue of “verification” of the dossier is crucial. Intel sources say presenting a single unverified fact to the FISA court violates the FBI’s strict Woods Procedures installed to prevent the FBI from obtaining wiretaps based on false or questionable information. There seems to be no recognition by Comey or anyone else of these important FBI rules or how the FBI apparently violated them. Comey appears to have taken a surprisingly hands-off approach in terms of oversight when it came to the controversial wiretapping of a political campaign associate in an election year.

When Comey signed off the wiretap, he says the FBI’s corroboration of Steele’s information was “in its infancy” or only “minimally corroborated.” Comey acknowledges he signed off on the wiretap as “verified” even though the information was unverified. He said he did so because the information came from “a reliable source” with “a good track record” (p. 126).
----------
Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Comey said the tarmac meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton five days before Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview was problematic and “potentially inappropriate.” Comey acknowledges he didn’t take steps to find out the substance of the conversation (pp. 33-34).

Comey says he also learned of “material” that, if made public, “would be used to cast doubt on whether [Lynch] had acted appropriately” in the Hillary investigation (p. 35). He did not say what the material entailed.

Context: Comey first revealed the existence of the Lynch “material” in his book. According to a report on CNN, the material may refer to discussions between Lynch and Clinton staffer Amanda Renteria or former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. However, Lynch has denied discussing “any aspect of the investigation” with them.

Comey said there was “the appearance of conflict or the appearance that [Lynch] was compromised in some fashion” (p. 48).

Comey also said that Lynch should have recused herself from the Clinton investigation (p. 77).

Comey says he raised his concerns about Lynch’s objectivity with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and that Lynch was subsequently “briefed and interviewed about the nature of that material” by McCabe and others (p. 36).

Note: McCabe was battling his own appearance of bias with his wife, Jill McCabe, a political candidate, receiving a large amount of campaign funds from Clinton connections.

Analysis: Lynch, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were key players in the Clinton email probe who ended up with conflicts of interest or the appearance of bias. Comey expressed no concern over the question of whether Lynch’s tarmac meeting and refusal to recuse may have amounted to obstruction of justice.
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and so much more they all did so wrong.

Key takeaways from Comeny testimony translated: ALL DA CONSPIRACIES IS TRUE!!! HILLARY'S GOING TO JAIL! ALL THE FBI IS GOING TO JAIL! LORETTA LYNCH IS GOING TO JAIL! MUELLER IS GOING TO JAIL!!!!!!!!! NO MORE DEMOCRAT PARTY!!!

see - you can't have a conversation about what is found because you jump to this extreme fucked up bullshit and act the fool. only for you, it's not an act.

what you are in effect saying is that if we take out hillary and one side of names and put in trump and his side of names, all of these activities are PROPER. is that what you're saying? if trump did all this you'd go "oh hey that's fine and proper. no issues with the man"...

please. tell me you'd say that. i dare you.

Proper? Debatable. Questionable? Certainly. You have to remember that at the time we were coming off of years of multiple conservative hoaxes. Birtherism, Ebola, Jade Helm, Benghazi, private servers, pizzagate, the thing on Hillary's tongue, etc. You have had 2 years of full government control to prove that your accusations aren't just lies turned into something through constant recycling in the right wing echo chamber. Instead, you've launched zero investigations and insist that the Executive branch is above the law.

 

[iceberg]

Key Takeaways From James Comey's Testimony Before Congress

this is from sharyl attkisson who doesn't play sides, just presents the facts as they are. they certainly don't look good for comey and company.

some of the highlights:
Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview
Comey said he doesn’t know who drafted the questions for Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview. He says he didn’t read them. The FBI didn’t record the interview. Comey said he also doesn’t remember why Clinton’s interview wasn’t conducted before a grand jury (p. 38).

Comey said he doesn’t know for sure why the witnesses in the Clinton email investigation weren’t subpoenaed and questioned before the grand jury. He says the FBI investigative team deemed it unnecessary (p. 212).

Comey would later tell the DOJ Inspector General that prior to Hillary’s interview he didn’t think there was any “there there.” (Comey says he doesn’t remember saying this to the IG, but agrees he did say it because it’s reflected in a transcript.) (p. 39).

Comey says the fact that he drafted a memo concluding Clinton shouldn’t be prosecuted, two months before her FBI interview, doesn’t indicate that he’d prejudged the case before the facts were in (p. 42).

Comey says he doesn’t know whether anyone at the FBI or DOJ shared the questions for Clinton in advance with her attorney Cheryl Mills or attorney Heather Samuelson (p. 211).
-----
The Democrats’ Steele ‘dossier’
Comey says he never met Christopher Steele (p. 109, 114).

Note: Steele is the author of the anti-Trump opposition research “dossier” that the FBI presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to obtain wiretaps on Trump associate Carter Page.

Comey says he doesn’t know how long the FBI relied on Steele as a source and doesn’t know the particulars of FBI agreements with sources (p. 109, 114).

Comey says that as FBI Director, he never knew that Steele worked for a political opposition research firm hired by a law firm paid by the Democratic National Committee. Comey believed Republicans had first funded the dossier prior to Democrats (p. 112).

Note: Republicans had begged off on the opposition research project prior to Steele being hired. Steele was hired under the Democrats.

Comey says he doesn’t think Steele had any direct knowledge about collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia (pp. 123-124).

Comey says he’s not sure how Steele’s dossier got to the FBI. Comey says he doesn’t know what steps the FBI took to verify Steele’s information before or after the FBI presented it to the FISA court. He says the FBI was still “evaluating” the information months after using it in court. Comey says the FBI made efforts to identify Steele’s sources, but he doesn’t remember if they were able to (p. 115, 118).

Comey says he reviewed and signed the Oct. 21, 2016, FBI wiretap application against Carter Page. Comey says he didn’t know details, he simply signed off procedurally. He doesn’t remember if the paperwork was entitled “verified application.” Comey remembers the FBI alleged Page was working for or with the Russian government, but Comey doesn’t recall if the application mentioned “probable cause” (pp. 113, 121, 123).

Analysis: The issue of “verification” of the dossier is crucial. Intel sources say presenting a single unverified fact to the FISA court violates the FBI’s strict Woods Procedures installed to prevent the FBI from obtaining wiretaps based on false or questionable information. There seems to be no recognition by Comey or anyone else of these important FBI rules or how the FBI apparently violated them. Comey appears to have taken a surprisingly hands-off approach in terms of oversight when it came to the controversial wiretapping of a political campaign associate in an election year.

When Comey signed off the wiretap, he says the FBI’s corroboration of Steele’s information was “in its infancy” or only “minimally corroborated.” Comey acknowledges he signed off on the wiretap as “verified” even though the information was unverified. He said he did so because the information came from “a reliable source” with “a good track record” (p. 126).
----------
Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Comey said the tarmac meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton five days before Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview was problematic and “potentially inappropriate.” Comey acknowledges he didn’t take steps to find out the substance of the conversation (pp. 33-34).

Comey says he also learned of “material” that, if made public, “would be used to cast doubt on whether [Lynch] had acted appropriately” in the Hillary investigation (p. 35). He did not say what the material entailed.

Context: Comey first revealed the existence of the Lynch “material” in his book. According to a report on CNN, the material may refer to discussions between Lynch and Clinton staffer Amanda Renteria or former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. However, Lynch has denied discussing “any aspect of the investigation” with them.

Comey said there was “the appearance of conflict or the appearance that [Lynch] was compromised in some fashion” (p. 48).

Comey also said that Lynch should have recused herself from the Clinton investigation (p. 77).

Comey says he raised his concerns about Lynch’s objectivity with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and that Lynch was subsequently “briefed and interviewed about the nature of that material” by McCabe and others (p. 36).

Note: McCabe was battling his own appearance of bias with his wife, Jill McCabe, a political candidate, receiving a large amount of campaign funds from Clinton connections.

Analysis: Lynch, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were key players in the Clinton email probe who ended up with conflicts of interest or the appearance of bias. Comey expressed no concern over the question of whether Lynch’s tarmac meeting and refusal to recuse may have amounted to obstruction of justice.
------

and so much more they all did so wrong.

Key takeaways from Comeny testimony translated: ALL DA CONSPIRACIES IS TRUE!!! HILLARY'S GOING TO JAIL! ALL THE FBI IS GOING TO JAIL! LORETTA LYNCH IS GOING TO JAIL! MUELLER IS GOING TO JAIL!!!!!!!!! NO MORE DEMOCRAT PARTY!!!

see - you can't have a conversation about what is found because you jump to this extreme fucked up bullshit and act the fool. only for you, it's not an act.

what you are in effect saying is that if we take out hillary and one side of names and put in trump and his side of names, all of these activities are PROPER. is that what you're saying? if trump did all this you'd go "oh hey that's fine and proper. no issues with the man"...

please. tell me you'd say that. i dare you.

Proper? Debatable. Questionable? Certainly. You have to remember that at the time we were coming off of years of multiple conservative hoaxes. Birtherism, Ebola, Jade Helm, Benghazi, private servers, pizzagate, the thing on Hillary's tongue, etc. You have had 2 years of full government control to prove that your accusations aren't just lies turned into something through constant recycling in the right wing echo chamber. Instead, you've launched zero investigations and insist that the Executive branch is above the law.

did you read through any of this? like comey saying he signed off on the steele dossier as being verified even though he knew it wasn't? are you ok with that lax procedure? i'm not. not for trump, hillary, obama or any of us. we either follow the letter of the law in the same manner and held accountable in the same way, or the laws are pretty useless. to excuse one person for doing something you'd never excuse another for is setting us all up for a pretty huge fight.

you know - like our society is in today.

 

[The Original Tree]

Comey, head of The Federal Bureau of INVESTIGATION literally KNEW NOTHING about The RUSSIAN DOSSIER Clinton Purchased from PUTIN....but used it to file False Affidavits in a FISA Court Anyways.

Some fucking "Investigator"

This guy's answers only tell you one of two things.

Either he was the most INCOMPETENT AND NEGLIGENT FUCK ever to run THE FBI, or he is THE MOST DISHONEST FUCK TO EVER RUN THE FBI.

Either way he needed to be fired.

 

[BlackFlag]

Key Takeaways From James Comey's Testimony Before Congress

this is from sharyl attkisson who doesn't play sides, just presents the facts as they are. they certainly don't look good for comey and company.

some of the highlights:
Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview
Comey said he doesn’t know who drafted the questions for Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview. He says he didn’t read them. The FBI didn’t record the interview. Comey said he also doesn’t remember why Clinton’s interview wasn’t conducted before a grand jury (p. 38).

Comey said he doesn’t know for sure why the witnesses in the Clinton email investigation weren’t subpoenaed and questioned before the grand jury. He says the FBI investigative team deemed it unnecessary (p. 212).

Comey would later tell the DOJ Inspector General that prior to Hillary’s interview he didn’t think there was any “there there.” (Comey says he doesn’t remember saying this to the IG, but agrees he did say it because it’s reflected in a transcript.) (p. 39).

Comey says the fact that he drafted a memo concluding Clinton shouldn’t be prosecuted, two months before her FBI interview, doesn’t indicate that he’d prejudged the case before the facts were in (p. 42).

Comey says he doesn’t know whether anyone at the FBI or DOJ shared the questions for Clinton in advance with her attorney Cheryl Mills or attorney Heather Samuelson (p. 211).
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The Democrats’ Steele ‘dossier’
Comey says he never met Christopher Steele (p. 109, 114).

Note: Steele is the author of the anti-Trump opposition research “dossier” that the FBI presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to obtain wiretaps on Trump associate Carter Page.

Comey says he doesn’t know how long the FBI relied on Steele as a source and doesn’t know the particulars of FBI agreements with sources (p. 109, 114).

Comey says that as FBI Director, he never knew that Steele worked for a political opposition research firm hired by a law firm paid by the Democratic National Committee. Comey believed Republicans had first funded the dossier prior to Democrats (p. 112).

Note: Republicans had begged off on the opposition research project prior to Steele being hired. Steele was hired under the Democrats.

Comey says he doesn’t think Steele had any direct knowledge about collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia (pp. 123-124).

Comey says he’s not sure how Steele’s dossier got to the FBI. Comey says he doesn’t know what steps the FBI took to verify Steele’s information before or after the FBI presented it to the FISA court. He says the FBI was still “evaluating” the information months after using it in court. Comey says the FBI made efforts to identify Steele’s sources, but he doesn’t remember if they were able to (p. 115, 118).

Comey says he reviewed and signed the Oct. 21, 2016, FBI wiretap application against Carter Page. Comey says he didn’t know details, he simply signed off procedurally. He doesn’t remember if the paperwork was entitled “verified application.” Comey remembers the FBI alleged Page was working for or with the Russian government, but Comey doesn’t recall if the application mentioned “probable cause” (pp. 113, 121, 123).

Analysis: The issue of “verification” of the dossier is crucial. Intel sources say presenting a single unverified fact to the FISA court violates the FBI’s strict Woods Procedures installed to prevent the FBI from obtaining wiretaps based on false or questionable information. There seems to be no recognition by Comey or anyone else of these important FBI rules or how the FBI apparently violated them. Comey appears to have taken a surprisingly hands-off approach in terms of oversight when it came to the controversial wiretapping of a political campaign associate in an election year.

When Comey signed off the wiretap, he says the FBI’s corroboration of Steele’s information was “in its infancy” or only “minimally corroborated.” Comey acknowledges he signed off on the wiretap as “verified” even though the information was unverified. He said he did so because the information came from “a reliable source” with “a good track record” (p. 126).
----------
Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Comey said the tarmac meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton five days before Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview was problematic and “potentially inappropriate.” Comey acknowledges he didn’t take steps to find out the substance of the conversation (pp. 33-34).

Comey says he also learned of “material” that, if made public, “would be used to cast doubt on whether [Lynch] had acted appropriately” in the Hillary investigation (p. 35). He did not say what the material entailed.

Context: Comey first revealed the existence of the Lynch “material” in his book. According to a report on CNN, the material may refer to discussions between Lynch and Clinton staffer Amanda Renteria or former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. However, Lynch has denied discussing “any aspect of the investigation” with them.

Comey said there was “the appearance of conflict or the appearance that [Lynch] was compromised in some fashion” (p. 48).

Comey also said that Lynch should have recused herself from the Clinton investigation (p. 77).

Comey says he raised his concerns about Lynch’s objectivity with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and that Lynch was subsequently “briefed and interviewed about the nature of that material” by McCabe and others (p. 36).

Note: McCabe was battling his own appearance of bias with his wife, Jill McCabe, a political candidate, receiving a large amount of campaign funds from Clinton connections.

Analysis: Lynch, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were key players in the Clinton email probe who ended up with conflicts of interest or the appearance of bias. Comey expressed no concern over the question of whether Lynch’s tarmac meeting and refusal to recuse may have amounted to obstruction of justice.
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and so much more they all did so wrong.

Key takeaways from Comeny testimony translated: ALL DA CONSPIRACIES IS TRUE!!! HILLARY'S GOING TO JAIL! ALL THE FBI IS GOING TO JAIL! LORETTA LYNCH IS GOING TO JAIL! MUELLER IS GOING TO JAIL!!!!!!!!! NO MORE DEMOCRAT PARTY!!!

see - you can't have a conversation about what is found because you jump to this extreme fucked up bullshit and act the fool. only for you, it's not an act.

what you are in effect saying is that if we take out hillary and one side of names and put in trump and his side of names, all of these activities are PROPER. is that what you're saying? if trump did all this you'd go "oh hey that's fine and proper. no issues with the man"...

please. tell me you'd say that. i dare you.

Proper? Debatable. Questionable? Certainly. You have to remember that at the time we were coming off of years of multiple conservative hoaxes. Birtherism, Ebola, Jade Helm, Benghazi, private servers, pizzagate, the thing on Hillary's tongue, etc. You have had 2 years of full government control to prove that your accusations aren't just lies turned into something through constant recycling in the right wing echo chamber. Instead, you've launched zero investigations and insist that the Executive branch is above the law.

did you read through any of this? like comey saying he signed off on the steele dossier as being verified even though he knew it wasn't? are you ok with that lax procedure? i'm not. not for trump, hillary, obama or any of us. we either follow the letter of the law in the same manner and held accountable in the same way, or the laws are pretty useless. to excuse one person for doing something you'd never excuse another for is setting us all up for a pretty huge fight.

you know - like our society is in today.

The Steele Dossier did not start this, though much of what's in it has now been verified. You seem to be hoping that Trump and his cabal get away with their crimes.

 

[iceberg]

Key Takeaways From James Comey's Testimony Before Congress

this is from sharyl attkisson who doesn't play sides, just presents the facts as they are. they certainly don't look good for comey and company.

some of the highlights:
Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview
Comey said he doesn’t know who drafted the questions for Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview. He says he didn’t read them. The FBI didn’t record the interview. Comey said he also doesn’t remember why Clinton’s interview wasn’t conducted before a grand jury (p. 38).

Comey said he doesn’t know for sure why the witnesses in the Clinton email investigation weren’t subpoenaed and questioned before the grand jury. He says the FBI investigative team deemed it unnecessary (p. 212).

Comey would later tell the DOJ Inspector General that prior to Hillary’s interview he didn’t think there was any “there there.” (Comey says he doesn’t remember saying this to the IG, but agrees he did say it because it’s reflected in a transcript.) (p. 39).

Comey says the fact that he drafted a memo concluding Clinton shouldn’t be prosecuted, two months before her FBI interview, doesn’t indicate that he’d prejudged the case before the facts were in (p. 42).

Comey says he doesn’t know whether anyone at the FBI or DOJ shared the questions for Clinton in advance with her attorney Cheryl Mills or attorney Heather Samuelson (p. 211).
-----
The Democrats’ Steele ‘dossier’
Comey says he never met Christopher Steele (p. 109, 114).

Note: Steele is the author of the anti-Trump opposition research “dossier” that the FBI presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to obtain wiretaps on Trump associate Carter Page.

Comey says he doesn’t know how long the FBI relied on Steele as a source and doesn’t know the particulars of FBI agreements with sources (p. 109, 114).

Comey says that as FBI Director, he never knew that Steele worked for a political opposition research firm hired by a law firm paid by the Democratic National Committee. Comey believed Republicans had first funded the dossier prior to Democrats (p. 112).

Note: Republicans had begged off on the opposition research project prior to Steele being hired. Steele was hired under the Democrats.

Comey says he doesn’t think Steele had any direct knowledge about collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia (pp. 123-124).

Comey says he’s not sure how Steele’s dossier got to the FBI. Comey says he doesn’t know what steps the FBI took to verify Steele’s information before or after the FBI presented it to the FISA court. He says the FBI was still “evaluating” the information months after using it in court. Comey says the FBI made efforts to identify Steele’s sources, but he doesn’t remember if they were able to (p. 115, 118).

Comey says he reviewed and signed the Oct. 21, 2016, FBI wiretap application against Carter Page. Comey says he didn’t know details, he simply signed off procedurally. He doesn’t remember if the paperwork was entitled “verified application.” Comey remembers the FBI alleged Page was working for or with the Russian government, but Comey doesn’t recall if the application mentioned “probable cause” (pp. 113, 121, 123).

Analysis: The issue of “verification” of the dossier is crucial. Intel sources say presenting a single unverified fact to the FISA court violates the FBI’s strict Woods Procedures installed to prevent the FBI from obtaining wiretaps based on false or questionable information. There seems to be no recognition by Comey or anyone else of these important FBI rules or how the FBI apparently violated them. Comey appears to have taken a surprisingly hands-off approach in terms of oversight when it came to the controversial wiretapping of a political campaign associate in an election year.

When Comey signed off the wiretap, he says the FBI’s corroboration of Steele’s information was “in its infancy” or only “minimally corroborated.” Comey acknowledges he signed off on the wiretap as “verified” even though the information was unverified. He said he did so because the information came from “a reliable source” with “a good track record” (p. 126).
----------
Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Comey said the tarmac meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton five days before Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview was problematic and “potentially inappropriate.” Comey acknowledges he didn’t take steps to find out the substance of the conversation (pp. 33-34).

Comey says he also learned of “material” that, if made public, “would be used to cast doubt on whether [Lynch] had acted appropriately” in the Hillary investigation (p. 35). He did not say what the material entailed.

Context: Comey first revealed the existence of the Lynch “material” in his book. According to a report on CNN, the material may refer to discussions between Lynch and Clinton staffer Amanda Renteria or former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. However, Lynch has denied discussing “any aspect of the investigation” with them.

Comey said there was “the appearance of conflict or the appearance that [Lynch] was compromised in some fashion” (p. 48).

Comey also said that Lynch should have recused herself from the Clinton investigation (p. 77).

Comey says he raised his concerns about Lynch’s objectivity with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and that Lynch was subsequently “briefed and interviewed about the nature of that material” by McCabe and others (p. 36).

Note: McCabe was battling his own appearance of bias with his wife, Jill McCabe, a political candidate, receiving a large amount of campaign funds from Clinton connections.

Analysis: Lynch, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were key players in the Clinton email probe who ended up with conflicts of interest or the appearance of bias. Comey expressed no concern over the question of whether Lynch’s tarmac meeting and refusal to recuse may have amounted to obstruction of justice.
------

and so much more they all did so wrong.

Key takeaways from Comeny testimony translated: ALL DA CONSPIRACIES IS TRUE!!! HILLARY'S GOING TO JAIL! ALL THE FBI IS GOING TO JAIL! LORETTA LYNCH IS GOING TO JAIL! MUELLER IS GOING TO JAIL!!!!!!!!! NO MORE DEMOCRAT PARTY!!!

see - you can't have a conversation about what is found because you jump to this extreme fucked up bullshit and act the fool. only for you, it's not an act.

what you are in effect saying is that if we take out hillary and one side of names and put in trump and his side of names, all of these activities are PROPER. is that what you're saying? if trump did all this you'd go "oh hey that's fine and proper. no issues with the man"...

please. tell me you'd say that. i dare you.

Proper? Debatable. Questionable? Certainly. You have to remember that at the time we were coming off of years of multiple conservative hoaxes. Birtherism, Ebola, Jade Helm, Benghazi, private servers, pizzagate, the thing on Hillary's tongue, etc. You have had 2 years of full government control to prove that your accusations aren't just lies turned into something through constant recycling in the right wing echo chamber. Instead, you've launched zero investigations and insist that the Executive branch is above the law.

did you read through any of this? like comey saying he signed off on the steele dossier as being verified even though he knew it wasn't? are you ok with that lax procedure? i'm not. not for trump, hillary, obama or any of us. we either follow the letter of the law in the same manner and held accountable in the same way, or the laws are pretty useless. to excuse one person for doing something you'd never excuse another for is setting us all up for a pretty huge fight.

you know - like our society is in today.

The Steele Dossier did not start this, though much of what's in it has now been verified. You seem to be hoping that Trump and his cabal get away with their crimes.

great. we now shift the goal posts.

the dossier was used *as verified* to get the FISA warrants. pretty sure that's pretty illegal. also, i would be arguing points of law regardless of who it was for. you see, i am not going to excuse bad behavior cause i either like one side or hate the other.

we've got more than enough people out there doing that now.

 

[BlackFlag]

Key takeaways from Comeny testimony translated: ALL DA CONSPIRACIES IS TRUE!!! HILLARY'S GOING TO JAIL! ALL THE FBI IS GOING TO JAIL! LORETTA LYNCH IS GOING TO JAIL! MUELLER IS GOING TO JAIL!!!!!!!!! NO MORE DEMOCRAT PARTY!!!

see - you can't have a conversation about what is found because you jump to this extreme fucked up bullshit and act the fool. only for you, it's not an act.

what you are in effect saying is that if we take out hillary and one side of names and put in trump and his side of names, all of these activities are PROPER. is that what you're saying? if trump did all this you'd go "oh hey that's fine and proper. no issues with the man"...

please. tell me you'd say that. i dare you.

Proper? Debatable. Questionable? Certainly. You have to remember that at the time we were coming off of years of multiple conservative hoaxes. Birtherism, Ebola, Jade Helm, Benghazi, private servers, pizzagate, the thing on Hillary's tongue, etc. You have had 2 years of full government control to prove that your accusations aren't just lies turned into something through constant recycling in the right wing echo chamber. Instead, you've launched zero investigations and insist that the Executive branch is above the law.

did you read through any of this? like comey saying he signed off on the steele dossier as being verified even though he knew it wasn't? are you ok with that lax procedure? i'm not. not for trump, hillary, obama or any of us. we either follow the letter of the law in the same manner and held accountable in the same way, or the laws are pretty useless. to excuse one person for doing something you'd never excuse another for is setting us all up for a pretty huge fight.

you know - like our society is in today.

The Steele Dossier did not start this, though much of what's in it has now been verified. You seem to be hoping that Trump and his cabal get away with their crimes.

great. we now shift the goal posts.

the dossier was used *as verified* to get the FISA warrants. pretty sure that's pretty illegal. also, i would be arguing points of law regardless of who it was for. you see, i am not going to excuse bad behavior cause i either like one side or hate the other.

we've got more than enough people out there doing that now.

The investigation began before the dossier. If it is illegal to issue a warrant before a trusted source is fully verified, as in your amateur opinion and in that of desperate partisans trying to make a buck off of you, then it will be overturned. Until then, I invite the GOP to launch an investigation into Hillary, which they won't.

 

[iceberg]

see - you can't have a conversation about what is found because you jump to this extreme fucked up bullshit and act the fool. only for you, it's not an act.

what you are in effect saying is that if we take out hillary and one side of names and put in trump and his side of names, all of these activities are PROPER. is that what you're saying? if trump did all this you'd go "oh hey that's fine and proper. no issues with the man"...

please. tell me you'd say that. i dare you.

Proper? Debatable. Questionable? Certainly. You have to remember that at the time we were coming off of years of multiple conservative hoaxes. Birtherism, Ebola, Jade Helm, Benghazi, private servers, pizzagate, the thing on Hillary's tongue, etc. You have had 2 years of full government control to prove that your accusations aren't just lies turned into something through constant recycling in the right wing echo chamber. Instead, you've launched zero investigations and insist that the Executive branch is above the law.

did you read through any of this? like comey saying he signed off on the steele dossier as being verified even though he knew it wasn't? are you ok with that lax procedure? i'm not. not for trump, hillary, obama or any of us. we either follow the letter of the law in the same manner and held accountable in the same way, or the laws are pretty useless. to excuse one person for doing something you'd never excuse another for is setting us all up for a pretty huge fight.

you know - like our society is in today.

The Steele Dossier did not start this, though much of what's in it has now been verified. You seem to be hoping that Trump and his cabal get away with their crimes.

great. we now shift the goal posts.

the dossier was used *as verified* to get the FISA warrants. pretty sure that's pretty illegal. also, i would be arguing points of law regardless of who it was for. you see, i am not going to excuse bad behavior cause i either like one side or hate the other.

we've got more than enough people out there doing that now.

The investigation began before the dossier. If it is illegal to issue a warrant before a trusted source is fully verified, as in your amateur opinion and in that of desperate partisans trying to make a buck off of you, then it will be overturned. Until then, I invite the GOP to launch an investigation into Hillary, which they won't.

fisa said it was illegal.

argue with them n call them names.

 

[BlackFlag]

Proper? Debatable. Questionable? Certainly. You have to remember that at the time we were coming off of years of multiple conservative hoaxes. Birtherism, Ebola, Jade Helm, Benghazi, private servers, pizzagate, the thing on Hillary's tongue, etc. You have had 2 years of full government control to prove that your accusations aren't just lies turned into something through constant recycling in the right wing echo chamber. Instead, you've launched zero investigations and insist that the Executive branch is above the law.

did you read through any of this? like comey saying he signed off on the steele dossier as being verified even though he knew it wasn't? are you ok with that lax procedure? i'm not. not for trump, hillary, obama or any of us. we either follow the letter of the law in the same manner and held accountable in the same way, or the laws are pretty useless. to excuse one person for doing something you'd never excuse another for is setting us all up for a pretty huge fight.

you know - like our society is in today.

The Steele Dossier did not start this, though much of what's in it has now been verified. You seem to be hoping that Trump and his cabal get away with their crimes.

great. we now shift the goal posts.

the dossier was used *as verified* to get the FISA warrants. pretty sure that's pretty illegal. also, i would be arguing points of law regardless of who it was for. you see, i am not going to excuse bad behavior cause i either like one side or hate the other.

we've got more than enough people out there doing that now.

The investigation began before the dossier. If it is illegal to issue a warrant before a trusted source is fully verified, as in your amateur opinion and in that of desperate partisans trying to make a buck off of you, then it will be overturned. Until then, I invite the GOP to launch an investigation into Hillary, which they won't.

fisa said it was illegal.

argue with them n call them names.

Oh I guess the investigation's over WHOOPS

 

[iceberg]

did you read through any of this? like comey saying he signed off on the steele dossier as being verified even though he knew it wasn't? are you ok with that lax procedure? i'm not. not for trump, hillary, obama or any of us. we either follow the letter of the law in the same manner and held accountable in the same way, or the laws are pretty useless. to excuse one person for doing something you'd never excuse another for is setting us all up for a pretty huge fight.

you know - like our society is in today.

The Steele Dossier did not start this, though much of what's in it has now been verified. You seem to be hoping that Trump and his cabal get away with their crimes.

great. we now shift the goal posts.

the dossier was used *as verified* to get the FISA warrants. pretty sure that's pretty illegal. also, i would be arguing points of law regardless of who it was for. you see, i am not going to excuse bad behavior cause i either like one side or hate the other.

we've got more than enough people out there doing that now.

The investigation began before the dossier. If it is illegal to issue a warrant before a trusted source is fully verified, as in your amateur opinion and in that of desperate partisans trying to make a buck off of you, then it will be overturned. Until then, I invite the GOP to launch an investigation into Hillary, which they won't.

fisa said it was illegal.

argue with them n call them names.

Oh I guess the investigation's over WHOOPS

do you ever actually talk over issues or just work to get slams n snarks in?

 

[basquebromance]

The Hillary investigation was a sham, a farce. she could have told Comey: "yeah, i stole everything, i knew what i was doing was wrong"...and they would have said "thanks secretary clinton, have a nice day", and then they would have exonerated her!

 

[Ambivalent1]

Key Takeaways From James Comey's Testimony Before Congress

this is from sharyl attkisson who doesn't play sides, just presents the facts as they are. they certainly don't look good for comey and company.

some of the highlights:
Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview
Comey said he doesn’t know who drafted the questions for Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview. He says he didn’t read them. The FBI didn’t record the interview. Comey said he also doesn’t remember why Clinton’s interview wasn’t conducted before a grand jury (p. 38).

Comey said he doesn’t know for sure why the witnesses in the Clinton email investigation weren’t subpoenaed and questioned before the grand jury. He says the FBI investigative team deemed it unnecessary (p. 212).

Comey would later tell the DOJ Inspector General that prior to Hillary’s interview he didn’t think there was any “there there.” (Comey says he doesn’t remember saying this to the IG, but agrees he did say it because it’s reflected in a transcript.) (p. 39).

Comey says the fact that he drafted a memo concluding Clinton shouldn’t be prosecuted, two months before her FBI interview, doesn’t indicate that he’d prejudged the case before the facts were in (p. 42).

Comey says he doesn’t know whether anyone at the FBI or DOJ shared the questions for Clinton in advance with her attorney Cheryl Mills or attorney Heather Samuelson (p. 211).
-----
The Democrats’ Steele ‘dossier’
Comey says he never met Christopher Steele (p. 109, 114).

Note: Steele is the author of the anti-Trump opposition research “dossier” that the FBI presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to obtain wiretaps on Trump associate Carter Page.

Comey says he doesn’t know how long the FBI relied on Steele as a source and doesn’t know the particulars of FBI agreements with sources (p. 109, 114).

Comey says that as FBI Director, he never knew that Steele worked for a political opposition research firm hired by a law firm paid by the Democratic National Committee. Comey believed Republicans had first funded the dossier prior to Democrats (p. 112).

Note: Republicans had begged off on the opposition research project prior to Steele being hired. Steele was hired under the Democrats.

Comey says he doesn’t think Steele had any direct knowledge about collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia (pp. 123-124).

Comey says he’s not sure how Steele’s dossier got to the FBI. Comey says he doesn’t know what steps the FBI took to verify Steele’s information before or after the FBI presented it to the FISA court. He says the FBI was still “evaluating” the information months after using it in court. Comey says the FBI made efforts to identify Steele’s sources, but he doesn’t remember if they were able to (p. 115, 118).

Comey says he reviewed and signed the Oct. 21, 2016, FBI wiretap application against Carter Page. Comey says he didn’t know details, he simply signed off procedurally. He doesn’t remember if the paperwork was entitled “verified application.” Comey remembers the FBI alleged Page was working for or with the Russian government, but Comey doesn’t recall if the application mentioned “probable cause” (pp. 113, 121, 123).

Analysis: The issue of “verification” of the dossier is crucial. Intel sources say presenting a single unverified fact to the FISA court violates the FBI’s strict Woods Procedures installed to prevent the FBI from obtaining wiretaps based on false or questionable information. There seems to be no recognition by Comey or anyone else of these important FBI rules or how the FBI apparently violated them. Comey appears to have taken a surprisingly hands-off approach in terms of oversight when it came to the controversial wiretapping of a political campaign associate in an election year.

When Comey signed off the wiretap, he says the FBI’s corroboration of Steele’s information was “in its infancy” or only “minimally corroborated.” Comey acknowledges he signed off on the wiretap as “verified” even though the information was unverified. He said he did so because the information came from “a reliable source” with “a good track record” (p. 126).
----------
Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Comey said the tarmac meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton five days before Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview was problematic and “potentially inappropriate.” Comey acknowledges he didn’t take steps to find out the substance of the conversation (pp. 33-34).

Comey says he also learned of “material” that, if made public, “would be used to cast doubt on whether [Lynch] had acted appropriately” in the Hillary investigation (p. 35). He did not say what the material entailed.

Context: Comey first revealed the existence of the Lynch “material” in his book. According to a report on CNN, the material may refer to discussions between Lynch and Clinton staffer Amanda Renteria or former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. However, Lynch has denied discussing “any aspect of the investigation” with them.

Comey said there was “the appearance of conflict or the appearance that [Lynch] was compromised in some fashion” (p. 48).

Comey also said that Lynch should have recused herself from the Clinton investigation (p. 77).

Comey says he raised his concerns about Lynch’s objectivity with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and that Lynch was subsequently “briefed and interviewed about the nature of that material” by McCabe and others (p. 36).

Note: McCabe was battling his own appearance of bias with his wife, Jill McCabe, a political candidate, receiving a large amount of campaign funds from Clinton connections.

Analysis: Lynch, McCabe, Strzok, and Page were key players in the Clinton email probe who ended up with conflicts of interest or the appearance of bias. Comey expressed no concern over the question of whether Lynch’s tarmac meeting and refusal to recuse may have amounted to obstruction of justice.
------

and so much more they all did so wrong.

Key takeaways from Comeny testimony translated: ALL DA CONSPIRACIES IS TRUE!!! HILLARY'S GOING TO JAIL! ALL THE FBI IS GOING TO JAIL! LORETTA LYNCH IS GOING TO JAIL! MUELLER IS GOING TO JAIL!!!!!!!!! NO MORE DEMOCRAT PARTY!!!

see - you can't have a conversation about what is found because you jump to this extreme fucked up bullshit and act the fool. only for you, it's not an act.

what you are in effect saying is that if we take out hillary and one side of names and put in trump and his side of names, all of these activities are PROPER. is that what you're saying? if trump did all this you'd go "oh hey that's fine and proper. no issues with the man"...

please. tell me you'd say that. i dare you.

Proper? Debatable. Questionable? Certainly. You have to remember that at the time we were coming off of years of multiple conservative hoaxes. Birtherism, Ebola, Jade Helm, Benghazi, private servers, pizzagate, the thing on Hillary's tongue, etc. You have had 2 years of full government control to prove that your accusations aren't just lies turned into something through constant recycling in the right wing echo chamber. Instead, you've launched zero investigations and insist that the Executive branch is above the law.

did you read through any of this? like comey saying he signed off on the steele dossier as being verified even though he knew it wasn't? are you ok with that lax procedure? i'm not. not for trump, hillary, obama or any of us. we either follow the letter of the law in the same manner and held accountable in the same way, or the laws are pretty useless. to excuse one person for doing something you'd never excuse another for is setting us all up for a pretty huge fight.

you know - like our society is in today.

The Steele Dossier did not start this, though much of what's in it has now been verified. You seem to be hoping that Trump and his cabal get away with their crimes.

The stupid is strong in this one.

 

[Ambivalent1]

see - you can't have a conversation about what is found because you jump to this extreme fucked up bullshit and act the fool. only for you, it's not an act.

what you are in effect saying is that if we take out hillary and one side of names and put in trump and his side of names, all of these activities are PROPER. is that what you're saying? if trump did all this you'd go "oh hey that's fine and proper. no issues with the man"...

please. tell me you'd say that. i dare you.

Proper? Debatable. Questionable? Certainly. You have to remember that at the time we were coming off of years of multiple conservative hoaxes. Birtherism, Ebola, Jade Helm, Benghazi, private servers, pizzagate, the thing on Hillary's tongue, etc. You have had 2 years of full government control to prove that your accusations aren't just lies turned into something through constant recycling in the right wing echo chamber. Instead, you've launched zero investigations and insist that the Executive branch is above the law.

did you read through any of this? like comey saying he signed off on the steele dossier as being verified even though he knew it wasn't? are you ok with that lax procedure? i'm not. not for trump, hillary, obama or any of us. we either follow the letter of the law in the same manner and held accountable in the same way, or the laws are pretty useless. to excuse one person for doing something you'd never excuse another for is setting us all up for a pretty huge fight.

you know - like our society is in today.

The Steele Dossier did not start this, though much of what's in it has now been verified. You seem to be hoping that Trump and his cabal get away with their crimes.

great. we now shift the goal posts.

the dossier was used *as verified* to get the FISA warrants. pretty sure that's pretty illegal. also, i would be arguing points of law regardless of who it was for. you see, i am not going to excuse bad behavior cause i either like one side or hate the other.

we've got more than enough people out there doing that now.

The investigation began before the dossier. If it is illegal to issue a warrant before a trusted source is fully verified, as in your amateur opinion and in that of desperate partisans trying to make a buck off of you, then it will be overturned. Until then, I invite the GOP to launch an investigation into Hillary, which they won't.

You're wrong of course, there is already an investigation going on into her "foundation".

 

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Proper? Debatable. Questionable? Certainly. You have to remember that at the time we were coming off of years of multiple conservative hoaxes. Birtherism, Ebola, Jade Helm, Benghazi, private servers, pizzagate, the thing on Hillary's tongue, etc. You have had 2 years of full government control to prove that your accusations aren't just lies turned into something through constant recycling in the right wing echo chamber. Instead, you've launched zero investigations and insist that the Executive branch is above the law.

did you read through any of this? like comey saying he signed off on the steele dossier as being verified even though he knew it wasn't? are you ok with that lax procedure? i'm not. not for trump, hillary, obama or any of us. we either follow the letter of the law in the same manner and held accountable in the same way, or the laws are pretty useless. to excuse one person for doing something you'd never excuse another for is setting us all up for a pretty huge fight.

you know - like our society is in today.

The Steele Dossier did not start this, though much of what's in it has now been verified. You seem to be hoping that Trump and his cabal get away with their crimes.

great. we now shift the goal posts.

the dossier was used *as verified* to get the FISA warrants. pretty sure that's pretty illegal. also, i would be arguing points of law regardless of who it was for. you see, i am not going to excuse bad behavior cause i either like one side or hate the other.

we've got more than enough people out there doing that now.

The investigation began before the dossier. If it is illegal to issue a warrant before a trusted source is fully verified, as in your amateur opinion and in that of desperate partisans trying to make a buck off of you, then it will be overturned. Until then, I invite the GOP to launch an investigation into Hillary, which they won't.

You're wrong of course, there is already an investigation going on into her "foundation".

Year 38 of "she's going to jail anytime now." The stupid has consumed you.

 

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did you read through any of this? like comey saying he signed off on the steele dossier as being verified even though he knew it wasn't? are you ok with that lax procedure? i'm not. not for trump, hillary, obama or any of us. we either follow the letter of the law in the same manner and held accountable in the same way, or the laws are pretty useless. to excuse one person for doing something you'd never excuse another for is setting us all up for a pretty huge fight.

you know - like our society is in today.

The Steele Dossier did not start this, though much of what's in it has now been verified. You seem to be hoping that Trump and his cabal get away with their crimes.

great. we now shift the goal posts.

the dossier was used *as verified* to get the FISA warrants. pretty sure that's pretty illegal. also, i would be arguing points of law regardless of who it was for. you see, i am not going to excuse bad behavior cause i either like one side or hate the other.

we've got more than enough people out there doing that now.

The investigation began before the dossier. If it is illegal to issue a warrant before a trusted source is fully verified, as in your amateur opinion and in that of desperate partisans trying to make a buck off of you, then it will be overturned. Until then, I invite the GOP to launch an investigation into Hillary, which they won't.

You're wrong of course, there is already an investigation going on into her "foundation".

Year 38 of "she's going to jail anytime now." The stupid has consumed you.

Deflection again. YOU said that they would NEVER start another investigation. It's been going on for awhile now. Time to grow up little boy.