Posted on 12/08/2018 3:31:10 PM PST by Texas Fossil
House Lawmakers on Saturday released the transcript of former FBI Director James Comey’s closed-door testimony, just 1-day after being questioned about the FBI’s decisions related to Hillary Clinton's email server and the 2016 presidential election.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and House Oversight/Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-SC, published the 235-page transcript as a part of an agreement with Comey.
He initially challenged the subpoena to appear before the committee and instead pressed for a public hearing out of concerns his comments would be selectively leaked and taken out of context.
The details of the transcript revealed that Comey left lawmakers frustrated with his lack of specifics.
READ THE FULL COMEY TRANSCRIPT HERE.
According to a statement from Gowdy’s Office, Comey answered “I don’t remember” 71-times, “I don’t know” 166-times and “I don’t recall” 8-times.
When asked if the FBI had any evidence that anyone in the Trump campaign conspired to hack the DNC server, Comey gave a long-winded answer referring to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as to why he couldn’t answer.
“Did we have evidence in July of (2016) that anyone in the Trump campaign conspired to hack the DNC server?” Comey asked rhetorically. “I don't think that the FBI and special counsel want me answering questions that may relate to their investigation of Russian interference during 2016. And I worry that that would cross that line.”
When pressed further by Gowdy about what “factual predicate” the bureau had to launch a counterintelligence investigation, Comey again claimed that answering that question would be a “slope” that would ask him to reveal what the FBI “did or didn’t know about Russia activity” as it related to the 2016 election.
“You can't tell us, or you won't tell us?” Gowdy asks.
...So it's both a can't and a won't,” Comey replied.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Comey ain't so slick. Even I could run circles around these jackasses.
Aaaarrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!
More Barbara Streisand from Congress.
Question to Comey: Why did you consider it NOT breaking the law when you passed FBI documents to the media, via your former friend but current attorney, that triggered the appointment of Robert “Nifong” Mueller?
all that trump and the ag have to do is take the comment report on diary which outlines her crimes, and have her indicted and imprisoned. This would break up all the BS
Looks like you may be correct....
Thanks a lot to little Jeff Sessions and Pauly Ryan.
I read about this on the NYPOST.
Can someone Puh-Leeeeeze explain to me what Comey’s statement
means in legal eagle?
Where is Comey going with this statement other than his own
personal exoneration?
https://nypost.com/2018/12/08/comey-claimed-ignorance-about-warrant-at-house-hearing/
tyvm
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It's a shame that Papadopoulos, Manafort, Flynn, Cohen and Corsi weren't sharp enough to learn that lesson. It's been working for decades and congress thinks it is a good answer no matter what committee it's given to.
Arkansas Alzheimer’s
Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before Congress said that they didn’t remember, didn’t know, or something similar.
Bill Kennedy 116
Harold Ickes 148
Ricki Seidman 160
Bruce Lindsey 161
Bill Burton 191
Mark Gearan 221
Mack McLarty 233
Neil Egglseston 250
Hillary Clinton 250
John Podesta 264
Jennifer O’Connor 343
Dwight Holton 348
Patsy Thomasson 420
Jeff Eller 697
I tried to convince my friend that you could actually be sent to prison if the jury thought you were guilty -- even if you didn't confess. My friend thought I was an idiot.
But here we are: if you are a big shot, you can just say "I don't remember" hundreds of times, and if you do that, you are untouchable and can never be punished for anything.
Maybe my idiot friend was on to something.
“stomic”
Hood rat spelling ...
Nah dont ya know the drill, if any of those people you mentioned said the EXACT same thing they would be serving a 20 year prison sentence right now
WHOLLY CARP! I’ve never heard (seen) that list before.
Bring out the waterboard.
prorev.com (Progressive Review)
“The Clinton Legacy”
I’d post the link, but for some reason I can’t drag and drop a web address
here’s more....
FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES: In the portions of President Clinton’s Jan. 17 deposition that have been made public in the Paula Jones case, his memory failed him 267 times. This is a list of his answers and how many times he gave each one.
I don’t remember – 71
I don’t know – 62
I’m not sure – 17
I have no idea – 10
I don’t believe so – 9
I don’t recall – 8
I don’t think so – 8
I don’t have any specific recollection – 6
I have no recollection – 4
Not to my knowledge – 4
I just don’t remember – 4
I don’t believe – 4
I have no specific recollection – 3
I might have – 3
I don’t have any recollection of that – 2 I don’t have a specific memory – 2
I don’t have any memory of that – 2
I just can’t say – 2
I have no direct knowledge of that – 2
I don’t have any idea – 2
Not that I recall – 2
I don’t believe I did – 2
I can’t remember – 2
I can’t say – 2
I do not remember doing so – 2
Not that I remember – 2
I’m not aware – 1
I honestly don’t know – 1
I don’t believe that I did – 1
I’m fairly sure – 1
I have no other recollection – 1
I’m not positive – 1
I certainly don’t think so – 1
I don’t really remember – 1
I would have no way of remembering that – 1
That’s what I believe happened – 1
To my knowledge, no – 1
To the best of my knowledge – 1
To the best of my memory – 1
I honestly don’t recall – 1
I honestly don’t remember – 1
That’s all I know – 1
I don’t have an independent recollection of that – 1
I don’t actually have an independent memory of that – 1
As far as I know – 1
I don’t believe I ever did that – 1
That’s all I know about that – 1
I’m just not sure – 1
Nothing that I remember – 1
I simply don’t know – 1
I would have no idea – 1
I don’t know anything about that – 1
I don’t have any direct knowledge of that – 1
I just don’t know – 1
I really don’t know – 1
I can’t deny that, I just — I have no memory of that at all – 1
It sure does. He barely remember anything.
Remove him. He’s lost his marbles and is not fit for any position in government, and remove all the other senile ones!
Wow, did they do one of those for any of Hillary’s performances?
Now? Whatever it takes.
Not that I have found.
These were all just from the 90’s
CRIME STATS
– Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
– Number of these convictions during Clinton’s presidency: 33
– Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
– Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122
RECORDS SET
– The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
– Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
– Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
– Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
– Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
– First president sued for sexual harassment.
– Second president accused of rape**
*****– First first lady to come under criminal investigation*****
– Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
– First president to establish a legal defense fund.
– First president to be held in contempt of court
– Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
– Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
– First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
Special Prosecutors rules are different if you are a Republican.
Will the public ever take a serious court case seriously again?
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