Posted on 05/19/2017 4:23:30 PM PDT by Hojczyk
...... Will be interesting to see how Comey handles the accusations against Trump since he has already sworn under oath that he was never was asked to halt the FBI investigations.
I thought it might be something like that, but I don’t know enough to say so
That’s one of the caveats of Trump’s devil-may-caredness. I’ve never seen anyone at that level hand deliver ammunition to his assassins...repeatedly.
After all this investigative time and the prevalent witch hunt fever, if there'd been any concrete Trump/Russia collusion, some desperate wouldn't have been able to help themselves and leaked by now.
That said, Trump may've unwittingly incriminated himself if the 'I hope you go easy on Flynn' or Oval Office recordings are verified, but as neither is the outright treason his opposition has been alleging for months, it would indeed reveal their ploy.
I'm with the public: Get it investigated and get on with it. Something tells me the Trumphunters don't want that though.
Big whoop!
Comey SHOULD have been subpoenaed for a CLOSED hearing, if the Committee wanted to get past Comey’s selective “can’t testify here” reasons to NOT tell the truth...
But committee members just gotta have that free “TV time” donchaknow...
Expect to hear this answer a lot. I cannot answer that question in an open hearing.
After the House was briefed, Darrel Issa made sure and expound on the truthfulness of lawyers notes, as pure as dying declarations.
I have heard they now have coloring books in the Senate desks.
Tom Cotton and James Lankford better be lifting their weights and studying up - they’re the only hope to deal with this on behalf of the #MAGA crowd.
In the Nixon Model they had to get the VP first unless of course the goal is to elevate Ryan.
If Lankford is representative of the whole crew it will be a(nother) GOPe whitewash.
As the whitewash happens he'll look the other way, guaranteed.
We’ll all soon see and hear for ourselves exactly what questions he asks Comey and what his attitude is.
Going on voting record alone, Lankford is the 11th most conservative Senator.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/report-cards/2015/senate/ideology
I served on the Board of Directors of a high tech company in downtown DC for about three years. The company was doing something innovative with satellites and all of the big satellite companies filed lawsuits from the first day of the first FCC application.
The CEO was a PhD in physics and thought his IQ allowed him to be a lawyer, accountant, litigator, lobbyist, etc. This CEO learned early in the process about the value of contemporaneous notes during litigation. The key legal term was “estoppel”.
He soon began sending two-page letters to the Board after every meeting (formal or informal) that were quite different from the official Board minutes. They were the most fanciful pack of lies I have every read and they kept coming, one after another. They always made everyone out to be a crook and a slimeball and the CEO was a Saint. It was a real fairy tale, chapter by chapter.
My attorney advised me to answer each one as quickly as I could with a complete denial of the fact set and the conclusions. I was not required to state my opinion or my interpretation of the facts — just destroy his position with my contemporaneous rejection of his fairy tale. I also accused him in each note of writing a distorted view of the events with the explicit purpose of distorting the record in his favor.
Eventually, we had a lawsuit between two shareholders over their contribution and thus ownership to the project. It was a Federal case.
The CEO produced his notes and the discovery request compelled the company to include my rejections. The Judge tossed all of his notes and all of my notes, but put me on the stand, where I testified as to what happened.
There was a settlement, but the good guys won. The legal fees topped $1.4 million.
Comey could have been writing his “revenge book” and not taking accurate notes.
That needs to be brought up in questioning, especially after the monster book deals the Clinton’s and the Obama’s received.
..........you beat me to it! Your spot on! He will just say to ever question “I can’t answer that in this forum?”
Is the Comey memo logged into a computer with a time date stamp?
Is the Comey memo on a piece of paper pinned to a bulletin board?
One time, a Lawyer failed to perform work as instructed. I felt confident I would prevail in court. After all, I was part of a three person meeting and I watched that Lawyer make his notes.
Fast forward 14 months. I confirmed to MY Lawyer a confidence I would prevail in Court. My Lawyer reminded me a Lawyer is an officer of the Court and starts with more credibility.
Second, which notes do you expect him to bring to Court? The notes from 14 months ago that prove his malpractice, or the notes that Lawyer drafted the morning of the Court case????
If Comey did not post his notes to a secure FBI site, they are worthless
Wrong. Comey can make journal entries at home or via a mobile and they will get a lot of traction. In fact people’s recollections — having written absolutely nothing down — can get a lot of traction.
Thanks for your input.
I’ll go with advice and counsel from a Lexpert ranked Lawyer who looks after my interest.
The political stage is not exactly the same as a courtroom my FRiend. I’ll bet Oliver North did not have computer timestamped notes when he testified in the 80s. :-).
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