"I don't do sneaky things, I don't leak, I don't do weasel moves. I was not on anybody's side politically... The FBI leaks far less than people say.
...
JBC"

who then leaked classified information to foment the creation of the Special Counsel

Comey's released memos were 15 pages

page 1 redacted SECRET intel activities, sources or methods

page 2 redacted SECRET intel activities, sources or methods

page 5 redacted CONF Foreign relations or foreign activities of the U.S., incl confidential sources

page 6 redacted CONF Foreign relations or foreign activities of the U.S., incl confidential sources

page 7 redacted SECRET intel activities, sources or methods

page 8 redacted SECRET intel activities, sources or methods

page 9 redacted SECRET intel activities, sources or methods

page 15 redacted CONF Foreign relations or foreign activities of the U.S., incl confidential sources

Gowdy commented the other day that the memos would be defense exhibit A in a obstruction of justice charge against Trump. Of course Gowdy had already read the memos and knew what was in them. Or more importantly what wasn't in them.

Even though Gowdy is a Mueller fan boy I find it hard to dislike him I wish he was staying in congress.

This is how it will unravel: McCabe says that Comey is not telling the truth. It all collapses for them when the criminals turn on one another, as they almost always do.

https://www.washingtonexaminer...ot-telling-the-truth

https://intelligence.house.gov....aspx?DocumentID=879

Press Releases
Nunes, Gowdy, Goodlatte Statement on Comey Memos

Washington, D.C. – Today House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Ca.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) issued the following statement:

"We have long argued former Director Comey's self-styled memos should be in the public domain, subject to any classification redactions. These memos are significant for both what is in them and what is not.

Former Director Comey's memos show the President made clear he wanted allegations of collusion, coordination, and conspiracy between his campaign and Russia fully investigated. The memos also made clear the ‘cloud’ President Trump wanted lifted was not the Russian interference in the 2016 election cloud, rather it was the salacious, unsubstantiated allegations related to personal conduct leveled in the dossier.

The memos also show former Director Comey never wrote that he felt obstructed or threatened. While former Director Comey went to great lengths to set dining room scenes, discuss height requirements, describe the multiple times he felt complimented, and myriad other extraneous facts, he never once mentioned the most relevant fact of all, which was whether he felt obstructed in his investigation.

The memos also make certain what has become increasingly clear of late: former Director Comey has at least two different standards in his interactions with others. He chose not to memorialize conversations with President Obama, Attorney General Lynch, Secretary Clinton, Andrew McCabe or others, but he immediately began to memorialize conversations with President Trump. It is significant former Director Comey made no effort to memorialize conversations with former Attorney General Lynch despite concerns apparently significant enough to warrant his unprecedented appropriation of the charging decision away from her and the Department of Justice in July of 2016.

These memos also lay bare the notion that former Director Comey is not motivated by animus. He was willing to work for someone he deemed morally unsuited for office, capable of lying, requiring of personal loyalty, worthy of impeachment, and sharing the traits of a mob boss. Former Director Comey was willing to overlook all of the aforementioned characteristics in order to keep his job. In his eyes, the real crime was his own firing.

The memos show Comey was blind to biases within the FBI and had terrible judgment with respect to his deputy Andrew McCabe. On multiple occasions he, in his own words, defended the character of McCabe after President Trump questioned McCabe.

Finally, former Director Comey leaked at least one of these memos for the stated purpose of spurring the appointment of Special Counsel, yet he took no steps to spur the appointment of Special Counsel when he had significant concerns about the objectivity of the Department of Justice under Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

As we have consistently said, rather than making a criminal case for obstruction or interference with an ongoing investigation, these memos would be Defense Exhibit A should such a charge be made."

So, it's getting to be time to wrap up this witch hunt. Anyone who is paying attention to all of this should now be able to see that there is no need for an investiagtion into President Trump. As a matter of fact, he seems to be about the only person involved with this idiocy that doesn't need to be investigated.

But, Mueller doesn't want to conclude the investigation because when he does so, he'll have to issue his report which exonerates the President, and we just can't have that, can we? No, we cannot.

There is a horde of "impeachment crusaders" who have been attacking President Trump from every direction for over a year. These crusaders include all DEMs and some REPs.

They incl most MSM, such as NYT, WaPo, NBC, MSNBC, ...

They are ex-Obama administration people. And Obama admin holdovers. They incl powerful people (past & present) from CIA, DoJ, FBI, DNI


President Trump has been severely hampered by a general lack of quality people volunteering to help him during the transition and even now when he is President. Some of the ragtag campaign team he put together caused huge problems by their stupid and self gratifying actions.

Even today President Trump has had trouble hiring the best defense lawyers. Many of them refused to work for him.

And through it all President Trump has soldiered on fulfilling campaign promises, doing good for the country, and bringing "common sense / logic / fair play" back to the White House.

He is a remarkable individual.

We are fortunate that some influential people have started to fight for justice. True justice. Honest justice.

Good examples are the congressional oversight committee leaders: Nunes, Goodlatte, Gowdy, Grassley

Finding the truth and getting it to the American people have always been the best defenses against the conspirators and power manipulators.

What else has Congress requested/demanded of DOJ/FBI?

Let’s get that settled, so we can get on with the criminal referrals. AG Sessions can be free of his recusal. Trump can be free of “the cloud.”

Grand juries are going to be a problem. Residents of DC voted >90% for Felonia Milhous Von Pantsuit.

How many can be meeting at one time? Do they have enough facilities at enough courthouses?

Mueller doesn't want to let this go because its a paycheck for him and his cronies

he needs to be looking out for his peeps

Mueller is everything that defines the worst segments of America

yeah, it needed to be wrapped up 18 months ago

Rudy to the rescue? Giuliani vows to wrap up Mueller probe


Guiliani is claiming it will only take a couple of weeks. Hope he's right.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...p-mueller-probe.html

quote:

Originally posted by nhtagmember:
Mueller doesn't want to let this go because its a paycheck for him and his cronies

he needs to be looking out for his peeps

Mueller is everything that defines the worst segments of America

yeah, it needed to be wrapped up 18 months ago

Don’t be silly again, G.

Those guys made ten times what they are being paid on this gig, and will go back to their lucrative partnerships the day after the lock the doors and close down.

Comey’s Memos Indicate Dossier Briefing Of Trump Was A Setup

Molly Hemingway
Federalist

Newly released memos from former FBI director James Comey indicate that an early 2017 briefing for Trump on the contents of an unverified dossier were part of a setup to enable media to report on the the most salacious details of the dossier.

Newly released memos written by former FBI director James Comey indicate that an early 2017 briefing for then-President-elect Donald Trump about the contents of an infamous dossier was held so it could be leaked to media outlets eager to report on the dossier’s allegations. In multiple memos, Comey specifically mentioned that CNN had the dossier and wanted a “news hook” that would enable the network to report on its most salacious allegations even though they had not been verified.

“I said the Russians allegedly had tapes involving him and prostitutes at the Presidential Suite at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow from about 2013,” Comey wrote of his conversation with Trump in a classified memo that was released in redacted form late Thursday. “I said I wasn’t saying this was true, only that I wanted him to know both that it had been reported and that the reports were in many hands.”

No media organizations had reported the allegations at the time Comey briefed Trump.

“I said media like CNN had them and were looking for a news hook,” Comey added in his memo about the briefing with Trump on January 6, 2017.

In another classified memo written on January 28, 2017, Comey wrote that in a separate meeting Trump mentioned the allegation about the alleged tape of prostitutes at a hotel and called it “fake news.”

“I explained again why I had thought it important that he know about it,” Comey wrote. “I also explained that one of the reasons we told him was that the media, CNN in particular, was telling us they were about to run with it.”

Of the many thousands of articles promoting a still-unproven theory of treasonous collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia, few were as significant as CNN’s January 10 story “Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him.” Extremely well-placed sources told CNN that the Obama administration’s top intelligence appointees had briefed Obama, Biden, and Trump all about a dossier they took incredibly seriously and considered credible. And it sounded really bad, as the headline indicated.

“Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump,” CNN declared. BuzzFeed published the actual dossier within minutes of CNN’s story going live, showing the world that the dossier was riddled with salacious gossip that lacked even a possibility of corroboration.

Keep in mind that nothing we now know about the dossier had been reported at the time. It wasn’t yet reported that it was used by the FBI to provide a substantial basis to wiretap at least one Trump affiliate despite the fact it was unverified. It wasn’t yet reported that the product was bought and paid for as a Hillary Clinton campaign operation, or that it was secretly funded by the DNC using a law firm as a pass-through to hide its provenance in federal campaign filings. It wasn’t yet reported that its author’s working relationship with the FBI was terminated because he had lied to the agency about how he wouldn’t talk to the media.

After nearly a year of wrangling, the seven memos written by Comey were finally handed over on Thursday to Congress, which oversees the operation and funding of the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ). The memos purport to show Comey’s version of his interactions with the president before Comey was fired last May. According to Daniel Richman, the original recipient of Comey’s leaks who now claims to be his personal attorney, Comey gave him four memos. Four of the seven memos are classified, meaning that at least one of the memos he leaked was classified. By his own account, Comey orchestrated these leaks to the media in order to launch an aggressive special counsel to avenge his firing by Trump in May 2017. The memos given to Congress on Thursday were quickly leaked to the media.

The first memo was sent on January 7, 2017, to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, General Counsel James Baker, and James Rybicki, Comey’s chief of staff. McCabe has since been fired from the FBI and referred to DOJ for criminal prosecution for repeatedly lying under oath about leaking. Baker was reassigned. And Rybicki was replaced in January of 2018.

There are two things in the memo that are worth highlighting as relate to that blockbuster CNN story from January 10, 2017.

First, Comey claims that briefing the president-elect was the brainchild of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

“I said there was something that Clapper wanted me to speak to the [president-elect] about alone or in a very small group,” Comey wrote. More on that in a bit.

“I then executed the session exactly as I had planned,” Comey noted before going into details of what he claimed he told the president-elect. He wrote that he told him about the now-infamous prostitute pee-pee videotape claims contained in the dossier. Then he wrote:

“I said I wasn’t saying this was true, only that I wanted him to know both that it had been reported and that the reports were in many hands. I said media like CNN had them and were looking for a news hook. I said it was important that we not give them the excuses to write that the FBI has the material or [REDACTED] and that we were keeping it very close-hold. He said he couldn’t believe they hadn’t gone with it. I said it was inflammatory stuff that they would get killed for reporting straight up from the source reports.

Such a close-hold that someone at a very high level in the Obama administration gave the information to CNN almost immediately. CNN broke the news of the dossier and Comey’s briefing of the president just four days later.

With Comey claiming that Clapper wanted him to brief POTUS, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence final report on Russia has something of interest. The report, which was downplayed and panned by CNN, included a finding of interest related to discussions of the dossier with the media:

Finding #44: Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, now a CNN national security analyst, provided inconsistent testimony to the Committee about his contacts with the media, including CNN.”

So Comey, at Clapper’s expressed behest, told Trump that CNN was “looking for a news hook” to publish dossier allegations. He said this in the briefing of Trump that almost immediately leaked to CNN, which provided them the very news hook they sought and needed.

This briefing, and the leaking of it, legitimized the dossier, which touched off the Russia hysteria. That hysteria led to a full-fledged media freakout. During the freakout, Comey deliberately refused to say in public what he acknowledged repeatedly in private — that the President of the United States was not under investigation. He even noted in his memos that he told the president at least three times that he was not under investigation. Comey’s refusal to admit publicly what he kept telling people privately led to his firing.

That led to Comey leaking multiple memos in order to get a special counsel appointed out of revenge. That special counsel has utterly distracted multiple agencies and embroiled all three branches of government at the highest levels. All over a document that was secretly funded by Hillary Clinton and the DNC, contracted by a Democrat research firm with ties to the Kremlin, and authored by a shady foreign spy whose relationship with the FBI was terminated because he lied to them.

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Whether or not Giuliani can deliver, it is apparent that the momentum is now with the Trump camp. It may not be two weeks but it does appear that we're getting to it.

The Democrat Party can see the writing on the wall and are so desperate for this to continue they filled a lawsuit. They are out of their minds and voters are going to get tired of this. I can't believe they still want this to be an issue in November, but it will be fun watching it pull them down.

We still have the IG report supposedly coming out in the near future.

I agree, Trump has the momentum.
The truth will out.
The Dems and the Left are looking at their palms saying out out damned spot.

I hope the Dems keep at it. I encourage their shenanigans every chance I get. “Go get him! You’re almost there!” As they walk off the cliff.

quote:

Originally posted by lbj:
The Dems and the Left are looking at their palms saying out out damned spot.

what?? Now the dems are picking on puppies!!

quote:

Originally posted by Ackks:
The Democrat Party can see the writing on the wall and are so desperate for this to continue they filled a lawsuit. They are out of their minds and voters are going to get tired of this. I can't believe they still want this to be an issue in November, but it will be fun watching it pull them down.

An expert forensic exam of their server, as part of discovery, could be fascinating.

yes, the DNC has filed suit.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/2...election-report.html

The Democratic Party on Friday sued President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the Russian government and the Wikileaks group, claiming a broad illegal conspiracy to help Trump win the 2016 election.

The named defendants in the lawsuit include Trump's son Donald Trump Jr., his son-in-law Jared Kushner, former campaign chief Paul Manafort and campaign official Richard Gates, and Trump ally Roger Stone.

Also named is the Russian Federation, the general staff of the Russian armed force, a Russian intelligence services hacker known as Guccifer 2.0., Wikileaks and its leader Julian Assange, and 10 unidentified people.


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So will we have the DNC funding from their side, while the individuals have to pay for their own legal defense ?

This was a trick used by Mueller - overwhelm individuals w massive amounts of charges and court related items. Mueller hit Manafort w 590,000 items of discovery, and that was before more charges were piled on.