Comey is a Big Fat Liar.
<Could not recall...” ain’t a denial - Comey trying to save his neck by throwing an underling who did his bidding under the bus....Priceless!......and Pathetic.
Using the Hillarty “I can’t recall” defense?
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
In before the Sessions bashing.
Methinks they (all of them) are having difficulty keeping their stories straight.
5.56mm
Laying this all on Andrew “ Speedbump” McCabe.
If you read McCabe’s statement, he supposedly has co-workers that will support his having spoken to Comey about Pess contact, and Comey’s agreeing to it.
Interesting how suddenly there’s a leak as to what the IG has found, no?
My guess is that it’s not a leak from within, but from without, and is just a way for Comey and McCabe to get their respective (and contradictory) stories sorted out using a public forum so they don’t have to raise eyebrows by trying to meet privately.
McCabe: “Sorry I incriminated you in my letter by claiming we’d discussed the leaking privately.”
Comey: “I recall no such discussion.”
McCabe: “Got it, you’ve already denied it, so you just say you don’t recall, and I’ll keep saying I informed you, so I can stick to my story.”
Comey: “It would have been better if you hadn’t opened your yap, but I guess this will have to do. Now stick to the script from here on out.”
McCabe: “Will do. You too.”
This is ‘white privilege’ in real time.
The OPR Report about McCabe says that McCabe first lied and said he had nothing to do with the leak in question, then later remembered that oh yeah, he had, and he’d told Comey about it in advance. But reportedly Comey had convened a staff meeting to crack down on leaking and asked who done it, whereupon McCabe denied being the leaker. “Staff meeting”, implies multiple witnesses who were all interviewed by the IG.
What I’d love to know is what law allows the top dogs to leak to the media if they themselves have approved it. McCabe’s 3rd line of defense seems to be that his self-serving leak scheme was ok because he told Comey and Comey hadn’t objected.