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Posted on 03/05/2017 1:50:03 PM PST by MadIsh32
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected, they said, but the department has not released any such statement.
Mr. Comey made the request on Saturday after Mr. Trump leveled his allegation on Twitter. Mr. Comey has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down Mr. Trump’s claim because there is no evidence to support it and it insinuates that the F.B.I. broke the law, the officials said.
A spokesman for the F.B.I. declined to comment. Sarah Isgur Flores, the spokeswoman for the Justice Department, also declined to comment.
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Maybe so. Maybe it ties in with Comey meeting with senators behind closed doors.
Comey and NYT share the same level of integrity.
How about turn about the headlines when Trump asked the Justice Department to refute “false stories”?
Obamas FBI Director today goes rogue and calls the sitting President a liar.
Obama ordered ..... or maybe he knew about it. Maybe Valerie pushed for it. I don’t believe the court just decided to do it on their own.
This POS Comey is only there because he’s got skeletons on Hitlery, and Trump knows it. Time to lay down the hammer on this asshole and fire him.
Comey should have been gone one day one. He’s always trying to play both sides of the street.
After Trump saved his job.
Comey must have some serious shizzle to hide.
Well that is unless this is a rope-a-dope...
Has any American president been treated like this in our history?!?
Bout to lose my mind.
I am hoping we see a new FBI director soon.
It may be.
I think I jumped the gun on this considering the stupid source of the NY Times. It is legal stuff which is over my head. Comey is probably doing the right thing. I would not know for sure.
I am just ticked and it was a knee-jerk reaction.
Use barbed wire.
Looks like the NY Times is again trying to create hype that may very well not be there at all.
Comey’s on a leash.....he’s not going to buck that.
New York Slimes at the ‘very fake news’ again...
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You have a problem with the way we work at the FBI...?
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Perhaps you WISH TO FILE A COMPLAINT..?! .
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Atlanta Olympics, 1996:
An overweight security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb in a crowded Atlanta park, an act of terror. He alerts the cops, but the bomb goes off and a desperate Bill Clinton facing a reelection bid ORDERS the FBI to simplify things by making Richard Jewell the perp.
Knowing Richard Jewell revers “real cops” the FBI brings him in for questioning, finally pretending to relent and accept his story of innocence. They then flattered him and lowered his guard by chatting him up in grand style like A Law Enforcement Colleague.
The FBI then claimed to Jewell that they were making a Training Videotape simulation in which a perp under questioning breaks down and confresses to a bombing, “Ah shucks, our actor crapped out, got sick, say Richard, would ya help us FBI guys out..?”
A micrometer away from consenting to help them with their “training video”, Jewell suddenly realizes if he cooperated with “his friends”, they might turn around use the tape against him in the world famous bombing that just transpired.
He calls his ex-roomate, a lawyer, who admonishes Jewell that he’s in very grave danger. He leaves the FBI questioning and AVOIDS LIFE IN PRISON BY A WHISKER.
YOUR FBI IS **FINE** ACTING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLITICAL TERROR.
It started at least 20 years ago.
They are trying to be sneaky
Levin says 5 agencies including the FBI were involved.
For some reason the President is keeping Comey. Where the bodies are buried, or something else, he didn’t fire Comey the first thing.
Methinks it’s time to go to war. Politically of course.
Never rule out unintended consequences, and escalation.
5.56mm
It is his DOJ. If malfeasance occurred he should not escape.
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