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James Comey Just Explained How Establishment Media Legally Creates Fake News
dcwhispers.com ^ | March 20, 2017

Posted on 03/20/2017 12:57:22 PM PDT by Helicondelta

Check out this quote from FBI Director James Comey’s testimony to Congress today:

“…It’s perfectly legal for someone attending a classified briefing to LIE TO THE PRESS about what they heard in that meeting. The FBI cannot go out and correct the record because then they’d be “commenting on Classified information…”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comey; comeyfakenews; dncstrategy; fakenews; fbi; msm; tabloidtv; ttv
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To: Delta 21

It certainly can be illegal to lie; depending on circumstance, who is doing it, and probably other details. And as you noted.


21 posted on 03/20/2017 1:21:14 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: All
COLLUSION OR DECEPTION WONT BE TOLERATED.
HIS IMPEACHMENT WILL BE THE 2ND INDEPENDANCE DAY!
#TrumpRussia #TrumpRussiaCollusion #TrumpRussia


Trump is encircled by Russian puppets and will likely soon be exposed as the main marionette. Kremlin noose tightening.

#ImpeachTrump #Dems




22 posted on 03/20/2017 1:21:32 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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To: onyx







DEMONIC-RATS ALWAYS OVER-REACH!
LAURENCE TRIBE PISSED ABOUT SCALIA'S SEAT!
TOO DAMN BAD, SORE LOSER!
FOAD

23 posted on 03/20/2017 1:27:13 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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To: Bigtigermike

“Slandering Obama!”


24 posted on 03/20/2017 1:28:30 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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To: little jeremiah

It’s legal to lie to the press. Always has been...............


25 posted on 03/20/2017 1:32:53 PM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: little jeremiah

I think I read something frm Victor David Hanson re an enemy that doesn’t know it is defeated is more dangerous. The Dems don’t acknowledge that they lost which means their craziness is, in their twisted minds, warranted because of their fictional story that the election was “stolen.” This isn’t new for them, they always claim victimhood in order to justify unethical/illegal “redress.”

I think they are trying “death by 1000 paper cuts.” Today the Dummicratic Underground website features a breathless story saying republicans (e.g., republican strategist) close to Trump says he’s delusional and paranoid. The article carefully notes that there is no provision in the constitution AT THIS TIME that allows a president to be removed for mental health reasons. I think they will now agitate for legislation to fill that hole. I imagine that effort will be more subtle (Not “Trump is crazy! We need this legislation STAT!” but “Should a prudent nation address an oversight known to exist in the constitution to protect the office of the president for generations to come? Isn’t it more like we’d need a greater reason NOT to enact this critical new amendment). They will work on frightening people to the point of “vote of no confidence” AND they will agitate for legislation to create the terms they “need” to topple a president they don’t like.

For the life of me, I don’t know why Comey is still there. Is it that he is left in place so he can’t attribute his failures to anyone who takes over for him. Like cashiers at grocery stores who pick up the till tray full of money and take it to the office when they end their shift because they are going to be held responsible for the contents? Once you pull Comey out, then everything that has gone on will be falsely attributed to “lies and damned lies” by the new administration? Freak claims of fabrications etc.? I dunno....


26 posted on 03/20/2017 1:33:35 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: Helicondelta

This is what got Hillary off the hook for Benghazi.


27 posted on 03/20/2017 1:34:03 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Helicondelta

Perfect cover.


28 posted on 03/20/2017 1:39:21 PM PDT by griswold3
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To: ZULU

“Trump has to fire this mental case and subversive.”

Trump can’t fire him, he has a 10-year-term and doesn’t “serve at the pleasure of the President.”


29 posted on 03/20/2017 1:46:56 PM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: ransomnote

“It’s perfectly legal for someone attending a classified briefing to LIE TO THE PRESS”
So could you assume that whatever someone says happened in that meeting did not happen?
If so, aren’t they conveying information(and thus breaking the law)? Might you now know what definitely did not happen?
My head hurts.


30 posted on 03/20/2017 1:48:15 PM PDT by conejo99
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To: onyx

I’ve been reading the Twitter pages of a couple of lawyers I know who are retweeting rather famous liberal lawyers and they’re in the midst of planning “impeachment.”


On the basis of what? That Hillary “should” have won? Give it a rest.


31 posted on 03/20/2017 1:49:00 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Depth charge the Deep State)
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To: Helicondelta

Any presidential appointee can be fired by the president and that includes Comey and his 10 yr appointment.


32 posted on 03/20/2017 1:52:36 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: little jeremiah

Your comment about the civil war is probably the most likely description of the Dem plan to regain power.

I do think all of Washington republicans have been blackmailed into silence - hence the kitten like behavior while Obama trashed our country. The massive programs to collect information on everybody would certainly support that. Sad to say that all could be blackmailed - but maybe one or two were “clean” but were presented with Deep State fabricated fake evidence and were thus neutered?

Is it hearts-and-minds approach that leaves Comey in place? Or blackmail? Does Trump want the trash to float to the surface while Comey is on watch so that once fired, Comey’s words are more accurately understood to be sour grapes because otherwise, if let go now, the public would see Obama’s administration saying “A” and then being replaced and Trump’s administration picks saying “B” and the public may conclude that the victor creates the fake reality (one is not more truthful than the other). With Comey in place when the wheels come off, might the public conclude the truth surfaced and on Comey’s watch in spite of his efforts to conceal? I know, lame idea but I really can’t figure this one out with any sort of confidence so I’m going for straws now.

Dems want Comey to stay there to protect them so he can’t flee even thought he really can’t expect to survive politically for the next four years. Wouldn’t Comey want out? But he’s left with his finger in the dam?


33 posted on 03/20/2017 1:57:58 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: RummyChick

I think it is #2 as Trump gave that big hug right after the ignaugration. Why is another question. Comey was not a hell today. Need them to bury the Russian story once and for all and then the wire tap thing can fade and maybe we can get some work done


34 posted on 03/20/2017 1:58:40 PM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: Helicondelta

Why would anyone be allowed to comment on anything “classified”?


35 posted on 03/20/2017 1:59:29 PM PDT by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
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To: onyx

They left off Ivanka, on their Russiawiki graphic.....she had a salad with Russian dressing, last year. Oh noes!

I am NOT mocking YOU/YOUR POST, dear onyx...I am just fed up with this nonstop, leftist drivel.

Where is the Team Trump PR team....fighting these smears? Where is the “You’re FIRED!”, to Comey????


36 posted on 03/20/2017 2:01:38 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Helicondelta

Why the freaking he## is it LEGAL for “someone attending a classified briefing to LIE TO THE PRESS about what they heard in that meeting”??????? WHY????

That’s not even a leak.....it’s just a fake statement....with ZERO repercussions!!!


37 posted on 03/20/2017 2:03:28 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Comey could end all this Russia crap with a single statement that the Russians did not interfere with elections but he won’t, it’s keeping his job by letting this bs continue because both parties hate him.


38 posted on 03/20/2017 2:10:41 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: Helicondelta

NSA Documents Prove Surveillance of Donald Trump & His Family
Bombshell discovery shows targets of NSA’s “Project Dragnet”
Jerome Corsi | Infowars.com - March 20, 2017

https://www.infowars.com/nsa-documents-prove-surveillance-on-donald-trump-and-alex-jones/


39 posted on 03/20/2017 2:18:20 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Helicondelta

Whatever happened to “Can neither confirm or deny”?


40 posted on 03/20/2017 2:26:23 PM PDT by murron
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