CNN Goes to Court to Get the FBI's Comey Memos

Thinking Comey needed time to type them up were my thoughts exactly. He never made notes of any other conversations with a President.

Also, I read on FR that he had deleted his notes. If they had existed at all, wouldn’t that have been a crime to delete notes related to an investigation?

Could someone comment on this entire concept of *memos*? I’m not LEO or a lawyer, have never worked in government or corporations. Is it standard to write *memos*, essentially notes to oneself that are not verified or documented and do they have standing, even within the hierarchy?

The best explanation I saw was that Comey gave his friend a group of memos that contained outright lies and misrepresentations. After Trump sent his Twitter message warning Comey (and the whole world) that the conversations may have been taped, Comey prepared different memos that reflected the actual conversations much more accurately. Since nobody in the media ever actually saw the original ones, nobody would be able to verify if the content was altered in any way.
This would explain why fake media outlets like the New York Times originally ran stories about these memos that were later contradicted by Comey himself — who allegedly prepared them in the first place.

This would also explain why Comey’s testimony before the Senate last week contained nothing that was damaging to Trump other than Comey’s own fabricated ideas about what Trump wanted him to do.

A forensic study of the contents of the computers in Comey’s office when he was fired might be interesting.

Perhaps that was the reason he was fired when out giving a speech?

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