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Former FBI Director James Comey acted on key information created by Russian intelligence in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails that he knew to be fake, CNN reported Friday. Unidentified officials told CNN that Comey feared that if the information became public it would undermine the investigation as well as the Justice Department itself. The false information reportedly spurred the then-FBI chief to publicly declare last summer that the investigation into Clinton’s emails was over. Meanwhile, Comey also said that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information.

The Department of Justice issued a prompt response to CNN’s Wednesday accusation of impropriety against Attorney General Jeff Sessions. CNN used the two already reported meetings between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyac as the basis for a news story on the Attorney General. Sessions did not mention the meetings, which took place as part of Sessions’ official duties as a United States Senator, on his SF-86, the disclosure form for those applying for “top secret” clearance. This fact was, by CNN’s own account, freely volunteered by the Justice Department. DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told CNN that Sessions did...

In the midst of the 2016 presidential primary season, the FBI received a purported Russian intelligence document describing a tacit understanding between the campaign of Hillary Clinton and the Justice Department over the inquiry into whether she intentionally revealed classified information through her use of a private email server. The Russian document mentioned a supposed email describing how then-Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch had privately assured someone in the Clinton campaign that the email investigation would not push too deeply into the matter

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) suggested that former F.B.I. Director Jim Comey's decision to hold a news conference last July surrounding the investigation into Hillary Clinton was in response to the meeting between former President Bill Clinton and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Gowdy made his comments during a discussion with Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Tuesday night. "I think when history knows the full fact pattern that led Director Comey to have that July news conference – I mean, I think what your viewers know is a meeting on the tarmac between the spouse of the target of...

This was flagged in the Chaffetz post but it deserves its own thread, as Comey’s destined to be grilled about if/when he testifies before Congress. And today it really is more of an “if” than a “when.” Now that there’s a special counsel working on Russiagate for the DOJ, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees might back off on their own investigations. It may be a long time before we get clarity on whether that phantom Comey memo accusing Trump of leaning on him over Mike Flynn exists or not.Key question: Is Comey claiming here that he’s never experienced...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News on Thursday that Congress should abandon their own investigations and go back to focusing on Hillary Clinton’s emails. Senator Graham also said he has reason to believe that there are emails between Clinton campaign officials, democratic operatives to the Department of Justice regarding the Clinton email investigation

President Trump drops another Mother Of All Bombs, this time in a twitter version directly targeted at a corrupted and politicized James Comey Dept. of Justice. And what’s more stunning in the aftershock is the media’s incapacity to take the new Trump/Comey timeline information and add it to the existing Sally Yates timeline. Then again, to do so would be to expose another level of FBI/DOJ politicization that remains hidden from public consumption. Another political operative, Asst. Director of Counter Intelligence, Bill Priestap, who accompanied acting AG Sally Yates to the meeting with White House Counsel Don McGahn, is a...

FBI agents angered at FBI director's lenient handling of email probe! The surprise firing of James Comey was triggered by the ousted FBI director's recent comments on why he chose not to seek the prosecution of Hillary Clinton for using an unsecure email server, according to White House and Trump administration officials. President Trump was angered by Comey's assertion that Clinton had no criminal intent when she mishandled highly classified information on her private server, said officials familiar with the president's thinking. .. "Federal law is clear regarding classified materials: intent is not relevant [to mishandling classified information]," the White...

Former Attorney General Eric Holder slammed the current leader of the Justice Department’s decision to roll back policies he had implemented as part of a broader effort to reform the criminal justice system. Calling Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ new sentencing and charging memo “unwise” and “ill-informed,” Mr. Holder said the change in policy “is not tough on crime. It is dumb on crime.” In a statement on the new policy, announced Friday, Mr. Holder said the decision “ignores a rare bipartisan political consensus that has formed around sentencing reform effort and will take this nation back to a discredited past.”

Katie listed ten Democrats who have done a 180-degree turn on former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by President Trump earlier this week. Now, itÂ’s a scandal. ItÂ’s Watergate (except that itÂ’s not). ItÂ’s a constitutional crisis (also wrong). And something about Russia is the latest string of rants from Democrats. Remember after Mr. Comey informed Congress that he would be reviewing new emails relating to the FBIÂ’s investigation into Hillary ClintonÂ’s email usage 11 days before the election, Democrats torched the now ex-director. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) openly admitted that back then, many in his party were...

A Russian man wanted by the Justice Department on charges connected to hacking U.S. companies now claims the FBI offered him immunity in exchange for accepting responsibility for cyberattacks targeting former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Yevgeny Nikulin, the alleged hacker, laid the claim to Russian media Thursday in a letter sent from a Czech Republic prison cell amid an international extradition battle currently underway between Washington and Moscow. FBI agents promised Mr. Nikulin money, American citizenship and a free apartment for taking the fall over hacking Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, he alleged in a letter published Thursday by Nastoyashchoe Vremya, a...

Attention Americans: when you’re not being manipulated you’re being gaslighted.Butt that’s okay, the looney left is so conditioned to watch and listen for the Pavlovian signals to indicate which way to the feed bag that they’d starve without proper direction from the media mavens.Unfortunately they sometimes  get their signals crossed, as they did at the Colbert show the other night. CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert (of ‘cock holster’ infamy) informed his audience Tuesday evening at the taping of the Late Show of the then-breaking news that FBI Director James Comey had just been fired by President Donald Trump. Colbert’s...

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RUSH: Hi, friends. This is great. I have been laughing all morning long. I have been laughing starting with last night. Can we agree that Donald Trump is probably enjoying this more than anybody wants to admit or that anybody knows? So he fires Comey yesterday. Who’s he meeting with today? (laughing) He’s meeting with the Soviet, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov! I mean, what an epic troll this is. The Democrat Party is going bananas — completely, totally unhinged — on the road to literal insanity.

President Donald J. Trump fired now-former FBI Director James Comey to send a message to Senator John McCain, sources close to the White House confirm. Earlier this year, McCain went after Trump with widely discredited opposition research that he immediately shared with Comey, his longtime friend. Comey worked with McCain to go after businessman Jack Abramoff after Abramoff stopped McCain from winning the Republican Primary in 2000. McCain has since been working with FBI Director Comey to help undermine President Trump since Trump was elected. The FBI firing move, which did not leak, was carried out by White House counsel...

From the New York Times, a headline that President Trump would presumably prefer not to read: “Days Before Firing, Comey Asked for More Resources for Russia Inquiry.” The DOJ flatly denies this: Justice Department spokesperson Sarah Flores denies Comey asked Rosenstein for more resources. She called reporting to the contrary “100% false,” and told reporters she spoke directly with Rosenstein about the reports.

Last week, then-FBI Director James B. Comey requested more resources from the Justice Department for his bureau’s investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, according to two officials with knowledge of the discussion.

Days before he was fired, Comey asked for money for Russia investigation Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former FBI director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election, three officials with knowledge of his request told the New York Times. Comey asked for the resources during a meeting last week with Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who wrote the Justice Department’s memo that was used to justify the firing of the FBI director this week. Read the full story...

Tweet with many of the clips edited together: https://twitter.com/Black_Pilled/status/862180584092647424Schumer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa_If1qrxIw&spfreload=10This is MSNBC upset about it 10 days before the election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk_pQQ0ggucBernie Says he should step down: https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/820634450459402241Democrats lash out at Comey from Fox News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeTkBNkYsoEHarry Reid saying Comey should be investigated: https://twitter.com/LawyerRogelio/status/807630990206078976James Carville saying Comey worked for the republicans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhWTdnjAxEUTim Kaine compares Comey to Hoover taping MLK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhGVeflk1lw&feature=youtu.be&t=1m35sFOX, Dems change tune on Comey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1-x0NLV110MAXINE WATERS: https://twitter.com/kwilli1046/status/862106201663918084OBAMA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV1ejxlbwrMBARBARA BOXER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rincM6Vv3YM