CNN's Toobin Has Sad News for James Comey on Leaked Memos

Newsbusters ^ | April 24, 2018 | P.J. Gladnick

[Paladin2]

Comey appointed Special Persecutor Fitzgerald.

Coincidence?

[Paladin2]

It was the “high sign” to RosenWeasel to kick-off the preplanned events.

[1Old Pro]

I’m still amazed that Comey admittedly leaked classified material to his friend so that his friend would leak them to deep state media in order to facilitate the appointment of a gumshoe like Mueller to unconstitutionally try to hound a duly elected chief executive from office.

I'm still amazed that he used a fake Dossier from Hillary to spy illegally on Trump.....and got away with it.

[Boogieman]

Comey alleged in the memos that he felt pressured by Trump to drop the investigation into Flynn. The media used this to accuse Trump of “obstruction” into the Flynn investigation, and question the independence of the investigation, calling for the special counsel. Sessions had already recused himself from this matter, so Rat Rosenstein had all the excuse he needed to appoint Mueller.

[Fido969]

But Trey Gowdy says that there’s no way he will be committed of any crime...

Supposedly because Comey made law when he refused to recommend charges against Clinton.

[nikos1121]

I KNOW, Isn’t that total BS? Total BS.

Maybe you can’t go after him for that, but how about leaking to the media etc etc.

While we’re on the subject of spineless GOPers, why the heck doesn’t McConnell go nuclear on everything. This is ridiculous.

[robel]

Give Comey a break, he’s used to operating with no accountability. This is new territory for him. He needs to spend some time in a more structured enviroment. Like prison.

[Bruce Kurtz]

“Yeah I know he said it - i just wonder why leaking them would ever lead to a SC? What’s in the memo(s) that did that?”

I would guess it was all part of the plan to take down Trump. Comeys’ memos were reported by the NYT on 16 May 17. The next day Rosentstein appointed Mueller. Have you ever known the Justice Dept to react this fast in the past. They had it down by the numbers, clearly orchestrated.

[Principled]

Thank you Boogieman. Everyone says it’s out there but nobody except you was able to respond with any info.

so the memo contained comey’s recollections of being pressured to drop the Flynn investigation.

... and supposedly that kicked it off. IMO they would have used anything to kick it off.

[logi_cal869]

I researched and wrote a 30k+ word paper on this just to understand it for myself.

That part is easy: The media hyped Trump influencing Comey re the Flynn investigation as a result of the memos. The Tweet-storm was mere theater which fed the frenzy (ala “tapes”).

After the dossier, that was stage 2 of the Op, but once again Trump didn’t back down, forcing the media and other players to circle the wagons.

They then went all-in on “Russian collusion” and, in the wake of the renewed IG office’s powers at DOJ, we’ve been learning the truth ever since.

That’s the short answer; it’s a LOT deeper that that with over 100x more details.