Trump in deep doo doo
Comey to confirm Trump pressured him on Flynn investigation: report
THOMSON REUTERS
May 31st 2017 2:20PM
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI Director James Comey plans to confirm reports that President Donald Trump pressured him to drop an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn's ties to Russia in congressional testimony, CNN said on Wednesday, citing an unidentified source close to the issue.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee said on May 19 that Comey, who was fired by Trump 10 days earlier, would testify before the panel publicly at some point after Monday's Memorial Day holiday. CNN said the testimony could come as early as next week.
Representatives of the committee would not comment on the report..
Click through reaction to when Trump fired James Comey:
JFC!!!!!!!!
Knock it off!!!!!!
NO MORE OF THIS SH*T!!!!!!!\
STOP SPREADING RUMORS AND WAIT FOR THE MAN TO SPEAK.
Comey lied his ass off the last time he testified before Congress so why would anyone take his word for anything this time? Especially since the FBI is refusing to allow anyone to see the allegedly contemporaneous memo he claims he wrote at the time?
What did he lie about? You mean when he said he wasn't aware of any attempts to stop or obstruct the investigation? I don't take that as a lie. I don't take what Trump said as an obstruction of justice. I take it as a sleazy attempt to control something that is ethically not within his control. Man's as much of a sleaze bucket about governmental stuff as he is about women.
Responding to Democrats demanding an explanation for the late letter to Congress:
In an effort to defend his handling of the Hillary Clinton email scandal in the closing days of the 2016 campaign,
FBI Director James Comey gave some eyebrow-raising testimony to a Senate committee last week.
Comey claimed that Clinton aide Huma Abedin appeared "to have had a regular practice of forwarding emails" to her husband, Anthony Weiner, "for him I think to print out to her." He added that she "forwarded hundreds and thousands of emails, some of which contain classified information." This, Comey suggested, explained why the late discovery of emails on Weiner’s laptop was serious enough to justify
his extraordinary October 28 letter to Congress announcing that he was reviewing new emails.
According to two new reports, this testimony wasn’t actually true.
ProPublica’s Peter Elkind reported Monday night that "according to two sources familiar with the matter," Abedin in fact only forwarded a handful of Clinton emails for printing and does not at all seem to have made "a regular practice" of it. Elkind added that the FBI was currently "undecided about what to do" to correct the record, and that "it could not be learned how the mistake occurred." (The bulk of the emails, Elkind continues, appear to have landed on Weiner’s computer because Abedin backed up her BlackBerry there, not because of constant forwarding.)
The
Washington Post’s Devlin Barrett confirmed this account, citing "people close to the investigation." None of the emails Abedin forwarded were marked classified, Barrett writes, but "a small number" had "information that was later judged to contain classified information."
It’s the latest Clinton email-related embarrassment for the FBI director, who has faced harsh criticism for his handling of the matter and particularly for that late-October letter to Congress.
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver has argued at lengththat, according to his interpretation of polling data, Comey’s letter and the ensuing media coverage of it "probably cost Clinton the election." (The Upshot’s Nate Cohn, in contrast,
isn’t as sure.) The late email discovery, of course, turned out to have no significant new information, as Comey clarified in another letter the weekend before the election.
Reports: FBI Director Comey gave false testimony about Huma Abedin’s emails
Clearly, your, and other Democrat's, hatred of the President has damaged your cognitive function so that a man you hated yesterday becomes your hero today because the President fired him.
