Posted on 05/10/2018 7:39:42 PM PDT by bitt
A new report indicates that fired FBI director James Comey was advised by members of the FBI to talk to special counsel Robert Mueller before testifying to Congress last year.
Judicial Watch reports that even after Comey was fired, the FBI was working to help craft his testimony.
In one email exchange, then-FBI chief of staff James Rybicki wrote to Andrew McCabe and other FBI officials with a drafted response to Comey, who had been communicating with FBI officials even in the weeks after his firing.
There are three recommendations for Comey listed in the email, one of which recommends that “counsel consult with Special Counsel Mueller to determine the timing of any such testimony.”
This email was sent on May 19th, 10 days after Comey was dismissed from his position as FBI director.
The full email records from Judicial Watch can be viewed here.
Comey later went on to testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee in June. He used the platform to call President Trump a liar.
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I sure will remember this next time I go to JURY DUTY and the GOVERNMENT asks me to believe them.
People who don’t lie, don’t need to get their stories straight.
We need a second Special Counsel to subpoena and get search and seizure warrants for all the communications of the coup plotters, Comey, Mueller and Rosenstein and others.
Mueller interviewed with Trump for the vacant FBI position the day before he accepted the Special Counsel appointment.
Obviously a Special Counsel appointment is not something that occurs in a matter of a couple of hours. It would have been in the works for days.
What communications and conversations did Comey, Mueller and Rosenstein have in the days leading up to the Special Counsel appointment? Was the interview with Trump done as a pretext for Muller and Comey to try to gather information from Trump?
“Mueller interviewed with Trump for the vacant FBI position the day before he accepted the Special Counsel appointment.”
No, he didn’t. That is what the media reported. By law, the FBI director can serve 1 ten year term. Mueller had served that. Congress had to pass a special law to allow Mueller to stay on for 2 years under Obama.
He was there for another reason, and we don’t know what it is.
The FBI is broken. It needs replaced with something more lawful.
If Trump had actually picked the long-time DC establishment uniparty figure as director, there can be little doubt that Congress have would approved the exception to the term limits.
My own sense is that Mueller was not being honest with Trump, but interviewed Trump on a pretext in order to make a personal evaluation of the man he was considering being a part of taking down before agreeing to be Special Counsel.
From CNBC.com, July 7, 2016...
A House panel grilled FBI Director James Comey two days after he recommended against prosecuting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for an email server scandal. In the hearing, South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy questioned Comey on the definition of intent and how Clinton could possibly evade punishment. ...”
Here’s a full transcript of the exchange:
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Gowdy: Good morning, Director Comey.
Secretary Clinton said she never sent or received any classified information over her private e-mail, was that true?
Comey: Our investigation found that there was classified information sent.
Gowdy: It was not true?
Comey: That’s what I said.
Gowdy: OK. Well, I’m looking for a shorter answer so you and I are not here quite as long. Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her e-mails sent or received. Was that true?
Comey: That’s not true. There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said “I did not e-mail any classified information to anyone on my e-mail there was no classified material.” That is true?
Comey: There was classified information emailed.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton used one device, was that true?
Comey: She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as Secretary of State.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said all work related emails were returned to the State Department. Was that true?
Comey: No. We found work related email, thousands, that were not returned.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said neither she or anyone else deleted work related emails from her personal account.
Comey: That’s a harder one to answer. We found traces of work related emails in — on devices or in space. Whether they were deleted or when a server was changed out something happened to them, there’s no doubt that the work related emails that were removed electronically from the email system.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails and were overly inclusive. Did her lawyers read the email content individually?
Comey: No.
Gowdy: Well, in the interest of time and because I have a plane to catch tomorrow afternoon, I’m not going to go through any more of the false statements but I am going to ask you to put on your old hat. Faults exculpatory statements are used for what?
Comey: Well, either for a substantive prosecution or evidence of intent in a criminal prosecution.
Gowdy: Exactly. Intent and consciousness of guilt, right?
Comey: That is right[]
Gowdy: Consciousness of guilt and intent?
In your old job you would prove intent as you referenced by showing the jury evidence of a complex scheme that was designed for the very purpose of concealing the public record and you would be arguing in addition to concealment the destruction that you and i just talked about or certainly the failure to preserve.
You would argue all of that under the heading of content. You would also — intent. You would also be arguing the pervasiveness of the scheme when it started, when it ended and the number of emails whether
They were originally classified or of classified under the heading of intent. You would also, probably, under common scheme or plan, argue the burn bags of daily calendar entries or the missing daily calendar entries as a common scheme or plan to conceal.
Two days ago, Director, you said a reasonable person in her position should have known a private email was no place to send and receive classified information. You’re right. An average person does know not to do that.
This is no average person. This is a former First Lady, a former United States senator, and a former Secretary of State that the president now contends is the most competent, qualified person to be president since Jefferson. He didn’t say that in ‘08 but says it now.
She affirmatively rejected efforts to give her a state.gov account, kept the private emails for almost two years and only turned them over to Congress because we found out she had a private email account.
So you have a rogue email system set up before she took the oath of office, thousands of what we now know to be classified emails, some of which were classified at the time. One of her more frequent email comrades was hacked and you don’t know whether or not she was.
And this scheme took place over a long period of time and resulted in the destruction of public records and yet you say there is insufficient evidence of intent. You say she was extremely careless, but not intentionally so.
You and I both know intent is really difficult to prove. Very rarely do defendants announce ‘On this date I intend to break this criminal code section. Just to put everyone on notice, I am going to break the law on this date.’
It never happens that way. You have to do it with circumstantial evidence or if you’re Congress and you realize how difficult it is prove, specific intent, you will form lathe a statute that allows for gross negligence.
My time is out but this is really important. You mentioned there’s no precedent for criminal prosecution. My fear is there still isn’t. There’s nothing to keep a future Secretary of State or President from this exact same email scheme or their staff.
And my real fear is this, what the chairman touched upon, this double track justice system that is rightly or wrongly perceived in this country. That if you are a private in the Army and email yourself classified information you will be kicked out.
But if you are Hillary Clinton, and you seek a promotion to Commander in Chief, you will not be. So what I hope you can do today is help the average person, the reasonable person you made reference to, the reasonable person understand why she appears to be treated differently than the rest of us would be. With that I would yield back.
(the source of this transcript is closed captioning)
From CNN, July 2016...
This was not his first time investigating the Clintons [Comey]
Nor his second. The email server probe marked the third time Comey has investigated Bill or Hillary Clinton.
His first run-in came in the mid-1990s, when he joined the Senate Whitewater Committee as a deputy special counsel. There he dug into allegations that the Clintons took part in a fraud connected to a Arkansas real estate venture gone bust. No charges were ever brought against either Clinton...”
“In 2002, Comey, then a federal prosecutor, took over an investigation into President Bill Clinton’s 2001 pardon of financier Marc Rich, who had been indicted on a laundry list of charges before fleeing the country . ...”
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/politics/who-is-james-comey-fbi-director-things-to-know/index.html
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“The Whitewater controversy (also known as the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.”
Whitewater Convictions
Jim Guy Tucker: Governor of Arkansas at the time, removed from office (fraud, 3 counts)
John Haley: attorney for Jim Guy Tucker (tax evasion)
William J. Marks, Sr.: Jim Guy Tucker’s business partner (conspiracy)
Stephen Smith: former Governor Clinton aide (conspiracy to misapply funds). Bill Clinton pardoned.
Webster Hubbell: Clinton political supporter; Rose Law Firm partner (embezzlement, fraud)
Jim McDougal: banker, Clinton political supporter: (18 felonies, varied)
Susan McDougal: Clinton political supporter (multiple fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.
David Hale: banker, self-proclaimed Clinton political supporter: (conspiracy, fraud)
Neal Ainley: Perry County Bank president (embezzled bank funds for Clinton campaign)
Chris Wade: Whitewater real estate broker (multiple loan fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.
Larry Kuca: Madison real estate agent (multiple loan fraud)
Robert W. Palmer: Madison appraiser (conspiracy). Bill Clinton pardoned.
John Latham: Madison Bank CEO (bank fraud)
Eugene Fitzhugh: Whitewater defendant (multiple bribery)
Charles Matthews: Whitewater defendant (bribery)
Ultimately the Clintons were never charged, but 15 other persons were convicted of more than 40 crimes, including Bill Clinton’s successor as Governor, who was removed from office.[40]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29#Convictions
or,
https://web.archive.org/web/20090326122112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29
collusion!!!!!!!!!!! This was subornation of perjury!! Where is sessions?????
Why would Comey need advice to talk to his BFF about how best to GET TRUMP!
Something more law-abiding.
Though Congress are pretty much missing in action when it comes to common sense, comprehensive law making and law maintainence.
Who recommended Weasel Mueller to Trump in the first place?
A lot of people are missing something about Comey’s firing:
1. Rosenstein recommended that Comey be Fired.
2. Trump fired him.
3. Comey then leaks to the press to get a special counsel appointed,
4. Rosenstein appoints Comey’s Mentor Muller as special counsel.
I truly believe that Comey and Rosenstein plotted together to arrange his own firing to set in motion the appointment of Muller.
Weasel Mueller was in on the plan too.
Those three amigos go way back.
I have never understood just how Step #3 works.
Where are the details of that? How did Comey know it would work?
He slipped up when he said how angry he was at Weiner when those other emails surfaced. Their false narrative was exposed.
It was all worked out ahead of time.
Half of Trump’s appointees hate his guts. Trump gets his kicks by appointing his own punching bags. That is the only reason that makes sense for this colossal of a FU’d appointment record.
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