On CNN, Cuomo pressed an often evasive Byrne to make clear what he was alleging.
“Just to be clear Patrick, so people understand what’s going on here, the FBI wanted to you continue your association to get information,” Cuomo said. “They never told you you needed to have romantic relationship with somebody?”
“Well eventually, yes they did,” Byrne said.
“They told you you needed to have romantic relationship with somebody!?” Cuomo exclaimed.
“That’s what I’m getting to,” Byrne confirmed, saying the order came from FBI officials he identified as “X, Y, Z.” Later in the CNN interview, he identified “Z” as Comey.
Byrne went on to explain, after some coaxing from Cuomo, that the FBI approached him in July 2016 regarding their Russia investigation.
“The Men in Black,” Byrne said, told him: “This never happens in the United States. We’re the good guys. We don’t work like the bad guys. But we need to ask to you rekindle a romantic relationship with Maria Butina.”
“Members of the FBI, that you’re sure were members of the FBI, asked you to do this? And you know their names?” Cuomo asked. “You believe that Jim Comey knew that you were being asked to do these things in the name of the United States government?”
“Not only knew,” Byrne said, adding he was “specifically told” by a federal agent that “this request is coming from Jim Comey.”
“And James Comey knew?” Cuomo asked later in the interview.
“100 percent,” Byrne replied.
Another “bombshell” for Hannity..... just don’t tell the twit Linda.
Either a great story or the guy is bonkers. Which is it?
‘“Not only knew,” Byrne said, adding he was “specifically told” by a federal agent that “this request is coming from Jim Comey.”’
That right there is enough to indict Comey for abuse of power and obstruction.
Comey has not right to use the powers of his office to direct an American to enter inter a romantic relationship.
We are free people and it is not the place of the government to arrange our intimate relationships.
If he gets “Epstein-ed” we will know he was legit. Seems kind of flaky to me.
I don’t think I could have sex with a Russian spy, no matter how attractive she was, knowing that James Comey and Andrew McCabe were watching....
Reminds me of the scene from the film, Constantine, where a demon breaks an individual simply by whispering in his ear.
Yes, it sounds crazy-koo koo-bananas, but yes it is credible. When it comes to the FBI and the CIA they believe end justifies means. They have Black(virtually unlimited) Budgets.
This is the impression that I have had for years. Not just now, since Obama politicized many agencies. I think these top spy agencies have always been this way.
I used to hear about LSD experiments with unsuspecting people done in the 1960’s.
Similar experiments, again on unsuspecting innocent Americans but this time, with Gonorrhea given to a group of black men.
counter-counter intel? Too many layers...
That is credible that he did something to only escort his girlfriend around for six months without any favors in return.
Buffett—the Omaha sage who delivered the monkey-with-dartboard speech in Hillary’s presence to describe Trump’s business acumen—is credible too.
Are the monkeys moving the target boards now too?
"The apparatus of Washington is going to grind me into the dust." - Overstock.com CEO, Patrick Byrne
So what possible connection is Byrne’s “romance” with Maria Butina supposed to have with Spygate?
Byrne is claiming that he was in a room with Strzok and McCabe when they were discussing their plot to spy on Hillary Clinton, something absolutely no one else has charged, including Hillary.
It’s ridiculous that they would spy on Hillary considering that she paid for the Steele Dossier is smack in the middle of the plot to spy on Trump.
And it’s equally ridiculous that a couple of coup plotters would openly discuss what they are doing in front of someone with no need to know.
Byrne sounds like a loon at best.
Ping overstock
The Federal government seems to me to be jumping several sharks lately.
Padded room, thorazine cocktail and tight fitting jacket time...
Couldn’t he have just said no?
He named Strzok and Comey