James Comey Accuses Trump of Political Weaponization. Then the US Attorney Prosecuting His Case Presented His Emails, Showing His Intention to Please

[Edgetho]

Hit Tip to Ace of Spades HQ

We, Patriotic Americans, must use sources outside the LSM. They'll say they reported it, but they seldom cover anything that doesn't please their -- Masters??

I don't believe the LSM has 'masters'. I believe they ARE the democrat party. Anybody that disagrees with that can point out a major policy the 'democrat' party and the LSM disagree on.

While we're focusing on the kids in the playground (New Yawk) the real action is going on here --

Comey expected to work for 'President-elect Clinton,' knew top aide was talking to media: emails

Emails referenced in a bombshell court filing by acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in which the government rejected Comey's argument that he was being maliciously prosecuted for providing false statements and obstructing Congress about actions he took as FBI director.

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Federal prosecutors revealed Monday they have unearthed a trove of personal emails showing then-FBI Director James Comey openly talked in the days before the 2016 election that he expected to be working soon for President-elect Hillary Clinton and was being kept apprised by a top FBI aide on efforts to anonymously provide information to the news media.

"Well done my friend. Who knew this would. E [sic] so uh fun," Comey wrote in an early November 2016 email after then-FBI special government employee Dan Richman briefed the FBI director on Richman's efforts to provide information and guidance to The New York Times on an article involving Clinton's email scandal.

The emails were referenced in a bombshell court filing by acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and her deputy, Tyler Lemmons in which the government rejected Comey's argument that he was being maliciously prosecuted for misleading Congress about actions he took as FBI director.

Halligan cited and attached to the filing numerous emails in which Comey was clearly aware that Richman was working to provide information anonymously to news outlets about the Clinton email case and that he expected those outreach efforts would end with Clinton defeating Donald Trump in the November 2016 election.

"Some day they will figure it out. And as [Individual 1 and Individual 2] point out, my decision will be one a president-elect Clinton will be very grateful for (although that wasn't why I did it)," Comey wrote Richman in one such email in late October 2016.

Halligan's filing said the emails showed Comey was aware of and encouraging Richman's contacts with the media, contrary to his claims to Congress.

"Consistent with the above-described correspondence, Richman corresponded extensively with members of the media regarding or on behalf of the defendant, including in an anonymous capacity," the DOJ court filing argued.

Comey has also lied and maintained that he never knew -- nay, never suspected! -- that the "intelligence" he based opening cases on Trump and his associates on was simply some oppo-research garbage paid for by Hillary Clinton. He has also denied knowing that Hillary Clinton cooked up the plan to claim that Trump was a "RUSSIAN AGENT."

Some handwritten notes may prove that Comey has repeatedly committed perjury in claiming that.

"The discovery of the handwritten notes is relevant considering the defendant's prior testimony on September 30, 2020. Of note, during that hearing, the defendant was questioned by Senator Graham of South Carolina and Senator Hawley of Missouri," the filing noted. "The questions focused on whether the defendant remembered 'being taught' of 'U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan concerning U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.'
"The defendant responded by stating that 'it doesn't ring any bells with me' and 'I don't know what that refers to' and 'I don't remember receiving anything that is described in that letter,'" the filing added. "Despite this testimony, the defendant's handwritten notes dated September 26, 2016, read: 'HRC plan to tie Trump.'"

As you may know, Comey hired his pal Daniel Richman and gave him a top secret security clearance for the express purpose of making it legal to leak top secret documents to Richman, with Richman then instructed to leak that information to friendly Regime Media.

"After the defendant sent the October 2016 letter the defendant emailed extensively with Daniel Richman," the DOJ said in its Monday court filing. "Much of the correspondence occurred via the defendant's use of a personal email account and Mr. Richman's use of an email account associated with Columbia University."
"Make sure you keep your eyes shut. The country can't seem to handle your finding stuff," Richman wrote to Comey on Oct. 29, 2016. Comey replied: "Thanks for the battling you have done against unreason. This is a strange time. Bt we press on."

More detail in the actual article, showing Comey plainly discussing the fact that Richman's role was to serve as a cut-out for illegal leaks from Comey to Regime Media allies, such as Michael Schmitt of the NYT.

Below, Comey openly discusses uses this cut-out scheme to violate the DOJ's strict rules about not releasing information about investigations close to an election day, if that information could influence the election.

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"Let's imagine the Times had a policy against writing new articles close to elections if the articles might influence the election. Consistent with that policy they would avoid writing this week if sources told them that the FBI was looking at Huma Abedin's emails. But let's imagine that they wrote a very high profile piece in July that sources lead them to now conclude was materially inaccurate. Would they correct it or stay silent because they have a policy to avoid action near elections? I suspect they would quickly conclude that either course is an 'action' and the choices are either reporting or concealing but there is no longer a 'neutral' option because of the reporting in July. I also suspect they would resolve very quickly to choose the action of disclosing because to remain silent is to actively mislead, which has a wide range of very bad consequences."

Comey added: "Why is this so hard for them to grasp? All the stuff about how we were allegedly careful not to take actions on cases involving other allegations about which we have never spoken is irrelevant. I love our practice of being inactive near elections. But inactivity was not an option here. The choices were act to reveal or act to conceal."

What he's talking about there is disclosures that additional classified emails had been found on Huma Abedin's computer, after Comey had already "exonerated" Clinton all wrongdoing. Comey really wants Regime Media to put out the word that those new, never-before-analyzed classified emails being shared among unauthroized persons on an unsecure toilet-stall server would not change his analysis and should not tarnish the sterling reputation for candor and transparency enjoyed by one Hillary Rodham Clinton.

So he justified releasing classified information close to an election by saying, If I don't reveal this information, people might think Hillary Clinton is crooked and did something wrong in sharing classified information with unauthorized persons on a toilet-stall server, so I'm going to leak information to my friend to in turn use to write an op-ed in the NYT assuring the public that it's all a-ok and approved by James Comey as No Big Deal.

And he's claiming this workaround doesn't violate the silence-before-elections rule, because without him speaking up -- through his puppet Richman -- people might get the idea that Hillary Clinton did something wrong.

More from JusttheNews. Prosecutors amply rebutted the claim that Everybody Does It and that Comey is only being "selectively prosecuted" because Trump is "vindictive."

"A large majority of the documents were on the floor in five burn bags. Room 9582 was then subject to an inventory for the documents that were located inside. Investigators located hundreds of pages relating to Crossfire Hurricane ... and the then-classified appendix to the 2016 Durham Special Counsel Report (now partially declassified)," the DOJ said. "Additionally, inside a locked safe within Room 9582, investigators located copies of handwritten notes of the defendant when he was the Director of the FBI."
The DOJ said that Comey's handwritten notes "were not known to any prior investigative teams."

The DOJ lawyers insisted in their Monday court filing that "there is a history of prosecuting high-level Executive Branch officials who have lied to Congress about their official actions" and that "it is hardly surprising that the Executive would prioritize the prosecution of high-level agency officials who have lied to Congressional investigators about their official actions."

"The societal interests in this prosecution are readily apparent and overwhelming," the DOJ added of its charges against Comey. "The defendant is a former FBI Director who lied to Congress about his conduct while at the helm of the Nation's primary federal law-enforcement agency. His prosecution implicates societal interests of the highest order."

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[TroglocratsRdumb]

Comey complaining that Trump has weaponized the DOJ is incalculable irony.

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

Hit Tip to Ace of Spades HQ

We, Patriotic Americans, must use sources outside the LSM. They'll say they reported it, but they seldom cover anything that doesn't please their -- Masters??

I don't believe the LSM has 'masters'. I believe they ARE the democrat party. Anybody that disagrees with that can point out a major policy the 'democrat' party and the LSM disagree on.

While we're focusing on the kids in the playground (New Yawk) the real action is going on here --

Comey expected to work for 'President-elect Clinton,' knew top aide was talking to media: emails

Emails referenced in a bombshell court filing by acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in which the government rejected Comey's argument that he was being maliciously prosecuted for providing false statements and obstructing Congress about actions he took as FBI director.

justthenews.com

Comey has also lied and maintained that he never knew -- nay, never suspected! -- that the "intelligence" he based opening cases on Trump and his associates on was simply some oppo-research garbage paid for by Hillary Clinton. He has also denied knowing that Hillary Clinton cooked up the plan to claim that Trump was a "RUSSIAN AGENT."

Some handwritten notes may prove that Comey has repeatedly committed perjury in claiming that.




As you may know, Comey hired his pal Daniel Richman and gave him a top secret security clearance for the express purpose of making it legal to leak top secret documents to Richman, with Richman then instructed to leak that information to friendly Regime Media.





More detail in the actual article, showing Comey plainly discussing the fact that Richman's role was to serve as a cut-out for illegal leaks from Comey to Regime Media allies, such as Michael Schmitt of the NYT.

Below, Comey openly discusses uses this cut-out scheme to violate the DOJ's strict rules about not releasing information about investigations close to an election day, if that information could influence the election.




What he's talking about there is disclosures that additional classified emails had been found on Huma Abedin's computer, after Comey had already "exonerated" Clinton all wrongdoing. Comey really wants Regime Media to put out the word that those new, never-before-analyzed classified emails being shared among unauthroized persons on an unsecure toilet-stall server would not change his analysis and should not tarnish the sterling reputation for candor and transparency enjoyed by one Hillary Rodham Clinton.

So he justified releasing classified information close to an election by saying, If I don't reveal this information, people might think Hillary Clinton is crooked and did something wrong in sharing classified information with unauthorized persons on a toilet-stall server, so I'm going to leak information to my friend to in turn use to write an op-ed in the NYT assuring the public that it's all a-ok and approved by James Comey as No Big Deal.

And he's claiming this workaround doesn't violate the silence-before-elections rule, because without him speaking up -- through his puppet Richman -- people might get the idea that Hillary Clinton did something wrong.

More from JusttheNews. Prosecutors amply rebutted the claim that Everybody Does It and that Comey is only being "selectively prosecuted" because Trump is "vindictive."





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Those are very obscure sources you have there

 

[Failzero]

If he gets 18 months in Prison it will be good for the Country 27 Months would be a miracle

 

[Edgetho]

Those are very obscure sources you have there

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

If he gets 18 months in Prison it will be good for the Country 27 Months would be a miracle

If he gets 18 months in Prison it will be good for the Country 27 Months would be a miracle

Comey is getting zero days in prison.

 

[Failzero]

Why did Roger Stone and 4 + other Trump Orbit Folks get real Prison time then

 

[the watcher]

Peek behind how things really are done in our so-called system. Will it effect changes? Very likely not, it seems people really can't understand what the charges are and can't actually believe that our government acts like this. If nothing else, please learn how the fisa court has been harmful to the US and how it can be abused so easily.

 

[Care4all]

If he gets 18 months in Prison it will be good for the Country 27 Months would be a miracle

The case is going to be dropped, imo. Comey goes free.

Perjury takes a direct question with a direct untruthful answer, under oath. There was no direct question Comey lied about...the questioning was in bombastic circles bringing all kinds of other characters in, like Andrew McCabe....

 

[toobfreak]

Comey complaining that Trump has weaponized the DOJ is incalculable irony.

The entire democrat party is one big incalculable irony.

 

[struth]

The case is going to be dropped, imo. Comey goes free.

Perjury takes a direct question with a direct untruthful answer, under oath. There was no direct question Comey lied about...the questioning was in bombastic circles bringing all kinds of other characters in, like Andrew McCabe....

He’s not charged with perjury

 

[the watcher]

The case is going to be dropped, imo. Comey goes free.

Perjury takes a direct question with a direct untruthful answer, under oath. There was no direct question Comey lied about...the questioning was in bombastic circles bringing all kinds of other characters in, like Andrew McCabe....

If history is any indication, I think you are right. The value of any "investigation" is to the opposing powers involved, leverage to their agendas, back door understandings, and not intended to be shared with the raggedy ass people. You will get the "report".

 

[Care4all]

If history is any indication, I think you are right. The value of any "investigation" is to the opposing powers involved, leverage to their agendas, back door understandings, and not intended to be shared with the raggedy ass people. You will get the "report".

If history is the standards always required to prosecute and convict for perjury, then the prosecution better meet those minimum standard of a direct question and direct untruthful answer, under oath....and so far....that doesn't appear to be the case.

 

[Care4all]

He’s not charged with perjury

What is he charged with?

 

[struth]

What is he charged with?

Obstruction of justice and making false statements to the federal govt. it’s much broader then perjury

You should really at least know what the charges are before you come here trying to give an opinion on the case

 

[Care4all]

Obstruction of justice and making false statements to the federal govt. it’s much broader then perjury

You should really at least know what the charges are before you come here trying to give an opinion on the case

Lying to Congress still takes a direct question with a direct untruthful answer.


Fitzpatrick raised his own concerns, telling lawyers on Wednesday, "The procedural posture of this case is highly unusual." He said it appeared to him that the Justice Department had decided to "indict first" and investigate later.

Comey's defense lawyers had already asked for a transcript of grand jury proceedings, citing irregularities in the process and potential legal and factual errors that they said could result in the dismissal of the case.
Fitzpatrick on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to produce grand jury materials and also directed them to give defense lawyers evidence seized through search warrants in 2019 and 2020 from Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law professor and close friend of Comey.

Richman factors into the case because prosecutors say Comey had encouraged him to engage with reporters about matters related to the FBI and say Comey therefore lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee five years ago when he denied having authorized media leaks. Comey's lawyers deny that he made a false statement and say the question he responded to, from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, was vague and confusing and appeared to be centered not on Richman but rather a different individual, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

Comey's lawyers told the judge they had not been shown by the government the materials taken from Richman, who had earlier served as a lawyer for Comey, and thus could not know what information was privileged and may have been improperly used as evidence.

 

[konradv]

Hit Tip to Ace of Spades HQ

We, Patriotic Americans, must use sources outside the LSM. They'll say they reported it, but they seldom cover anything that doesn't please their -- Masters??

I don't believe the LSM has 'masters'. I believe they ARE the democrat party. Anybody that disagrees with that can point out a major policy the 'democrat' party and the LSM disagree on.

While we're focusing on the kids in the playground (New Yawk) the real action is going on here --

Comey expected to work for 'President-elect Clinton,' knew top aide was talking to media: emails

Emails referenced in a bombshell court filing by acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in which the government rejected Comey's argument that he was being maliciously prosecuted for providing false statements and obstructing Congress about actions he took as FBI director.

justthenews.com

Comey has also lied and maintained that he never knew -- nay, never suspected! -- that the "intelligence" he based opening cases on Trump and his associates on was simply some oppo-research garbage paid for by Hillary Clinton. He has also denied knowing that Hillary Clinton cooked up the plan to claim that Trump was a "RUSSIAN AGENT."

Some handwritten notes may prove that Comey has repeatedly committed perjury in claiming that.




As you may know, Comey hired his pal Daniel Richman and gave him a top secret security clearance for the express purpose of making it legal to leak top secret documents to Richman, with Richman then instructed to leak that information to friendly Regime Media.





More detail in the actual article, showing Comey plainly discussing the fact that Richman's role was to serve as a cut-out for illegal leaks from Comey to Regime Media allies, such as Michael Schmitt of the NYT.

Below, Comey openly discusses uses this cut-out scheme to violate the DOJ's strict rules about not releasing information about investigations close to an election day, if that information could influence the election.




What he's talking about there is disclosures that additional classified emails had been found on Huma Abedin's computer, after Comey had already "exonerated" Clinton all wrongdoing. Comey really wants Regime Media to put out the word that those new, never-before-analyzed classified emails being shared among unauthroized persons on an unsecure toilet-stall server would not change his analysis and should not tarnish the sterling reputation for candor and transparency enjoyed by one Hillary Rodham Clinton.

So he justified releasing classified information close to an election by saying, If I don't reveal this information, people might think Hillary Clinton is crooked and did something wrong in sharing classified information with unauthorized persons on a toilet-stall server, so I'm going to leak information to my friend to in turn use to write an op-ed in the NYT assuring the public that it's all a-ok and approved by James Comey as No Big Deal.

And he's claiming this workaround doesn't violate the silence-before-elections rule, because without him speaking up -- through his puppet Richman -- people might get the idea that Hillary Clinton did something wrong.
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More from JusttheNews. Prosecutors amply rebutted the claim that Everybody Does It and that Comey is only being "selectively prosecuted" because Trump is "vindictive."





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Comey says he doesn’t remember. Trump says it all the time. Selective “evidence”!

 

[SeaMajor7]

What these freaking power mad FREAKS put this country through with their RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA BULLSHIT FAIRY TALE about Trump being an asset of Putin was the biggest REAL conspiracy of our current lifetimes.

There BETTER be REAL CONSEQUENCES for this treasonous treachery foisted upon We the People, and President Trump.

These SCUMBAGS have gotten away with so much for so long, all so ******* OBVIOUS to everyone with a working brain. This bullshit cannot happen again, so the precedent must be made......

FAFO BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!

 

[struth]

Lying to Congress still takes a direct question with a direct untruthful answer.


Fitzpatrick raised his own concerns, telling lawyers on Wednesday, "The procedural posture of this case is highly unusual." He said it appeared to him that the Justice Department had decided to "indict first" and investigate later.

Comey's defense lawyers had already asked for a transcript of grand jury proceedings, citing irregularities in the process and potential legal and factual errors that they said could result in the dismissal of the case.
Fitzpatrick on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to produce grand jury materials and also directed them to give defense lawyers evidence seized through search warrants in 2019 and 2020 from Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law professor and close friend of Comey.

Richman factors into the case because prosecutors say Comey had encouraged him to engage with reporters about matters related to the FBI and say Comey therefore lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee five years ago when he denied having authorized media leaks. Comey's lawyers deny that he made a false statement and say the question he responded to, from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, was vague and confusing and appeared to be centered not on Richman but rather a different individual, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

Comey's lawyers told the judge they had not been shown by the government the materials taken from Richman, who had earlier served as a lawyer for Comey, and thus could not know what information was privileged and may have been improperly used as evidence.

Not sure what any of your quote has to do with your point

The direct question was from Congress.

But as far as your quote, yes the govt has to turn over discovery, nothing new there

 

[Billiejeens]

Those are very obscure sources you have there

The source is the documents.