Posted on 04/26/2018 6:51:21 PM PDT by Magnatron
Former FBI Director James Comey, in a wide-ranging interview with Fox News on Thursday, defended sharing his memos about conversations with President Trump with multiple people, while denying it was a “leak.”
“That memo was unclassified then,” Comey told anchor Bret Baier during an appearance on “Special Report.” “It's still unclassified. It's in my book. The FBI cleared that book before it could be published.”
Comey acknowledged giving the memos to at least three people including his friend, Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman. He said he sent Richman a copy of the two-page unclassified memo and “asked him to get the substance of it out to the media.”
“The reason I'm smiling, Bret,” Comey said. “I don't consider what I shared Mr. Richman a leak.”
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What a dickhead.
A it depends on what the meaning of “is” is defense?
Doesn’t matter what HE considers it... What does the sleepy attorney General think it is?
He thought it was alright to disclose the information surreptitiously.
He will need to get an extra tall orange jumpsuit.
Simpson testified that a Republican donor hired GPS in Sept or Oct 2015 to do opposition research in connection with the primaries. However he never said it had anything to do with the Trump dossier. That was an invention of the media and the Democrats who were anxious to deflect attention from themselves. In fact if you actually read the GPS dossier you realize that it cannot possibly have had anything to do with GOP oppo research during the primaries. Each entry is dated and refers back to conversations that Steele supposedly had with Russians just days earlier. The first entry is dated at the end of June 2016. Thus the GPS dossier does not even begin until the primaries were over 8 or 9 months after the GOP donor supposedly hired them to do oppo research for the primaries.
Trump was correct. Comey is a liar.
Of course the corrupt prick would say that. He’s already trying to set up a “no intent” defense.
“Hey, if I didn’t know it was leaking, how could I have an intent to leak?”
Comey is playing to a future jury pool.
So giving it is not leaking it. What the meaning of is is.
As strange as it sounds, this actually came up early in 2017 when the new Trump administration was dealing with all kinds of leaks to the media. A lawyer on a news show -- maybe on Fox News -- was asked what legal jeopardy someone would be in for leaking the contents of conversations in the White House to reporters. His answer caught me by surprise but it seems obvious when you think about it. He said something to this effect: "There's no legal basis to charge someone for leaking allegedly classified information if the information they 'leak' is not true."
“When I use the word leak,” Comey said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”
>> Doesn’t matter what HE considers it...
HE is incredibly immature.
Here's my take on it -- FWIW.
Of course, Comey's memo was "unclassified". It was unclassified because decided not to classify it; and he didn't show it to anyone else, who could have classified it, before he leaked it.
However, this isn't about the memo per se. It's about the contents of that memo, not the artifact called "the memo". Comey divulged the substance (he asserts) of private conversation with the President. By default, shouldn't one assume that all such conversations are "classified", unless deemed otherwise by the POTUS?
Comey should have checked, in advance, whether the President considered the substance of the conversation to be classified information. His failure to do so, does not make it right -- even if there isn't a classification stamp in the corner of the memo somewhere.
“When I use the word leak,” Comey said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”
when I use the words lying corrupt $cumbag traitor they mean what I choose them to mean
“When I use the word leak,” Comey said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”
when I use the words lying corrupt $cumbag traitor they mean what I choose them to mean
Has anybody asked Comey if there was nothing untoward in “leaking” this, why didn’t he just write an op-ed or let some reporter have it first-hand, instead of sneaking it through a friend who only gave the reporter a verbal accounting?
They weren’t your memos to begin with. You might have written them, but you wrote them in your official capacity as Director, and the memos were regarding official duties you carried out. Once you put them down on paper as Director of the FBI, they became the property of the FBI. And since you included classified information in some of those memos, your sharing it with individuals outside of the FBI was illegal. I hope you hang for the scumbag that you are.
I watched the Comey “interview” on Fox today.
I am certain the only reason he agreed to go on Fox is that Fox agreed to give him the questions in advance. Bret Baier rattled off questions, and Comey fired back pre-rehearsed weasel-worded answers, too quickly to believe he didn’t know what was going to be asked. He even jumped the gun and started answering a question before Baier asked it. Comey also looked down at notes very quickly, like they had been scrolled to the precise spot on his monitor.
Fox also had taped highlights cued up at the proper times, and Comey was immediately familiar with the clips, and yes, quickly fired back answers that sounded like they were written by his lawyer. He used lots of “to my recollection” caveats, and vague date ranges to muddy the waters.
Baier also held up Comey’s book up twice while announcing its title, and used the same phrase to describe the book as a huge success, like he was given the line to parrot as another condition of the interview.
Even with all that help, Comey still came off as an arrogant prick that was lying his ass off to save his own skin.
I saw an interview with him where he calls himself a leaker, and seemed proud of it. I guess his legal team told him to deny being a leaker.
Right, like he considered Hillary's email scandal not to be a prosecutable offense, despite the fact that he's not the Attorney General or a Federal Prosecutor. One of the reasons he was fired was because he usurped the power of the Attorney General in making that decision. I guess he didn't learn anything from his termination, since he's still trying to do the Attorney General's job. What a putz.
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