In his prepared statement, notice my emphasis of "unclassified."
I immediately prepared an unclassified memo of the conversation about Flynn and discussed the matter with FBI senior leadership.
This was the conversation that rattled him so much, he saw fit to NOT communicate back to ANYBODY in the chain of command. Not Sessions, not WH counsel, and not Trump, that ordering cessation of an investigation is improper.
Notice too, Comey is not bashful about countering the president. He did so at a (improper) request that the FBI investigate Trump. Improper becuse it is stepping on FBI independence.
He said he was considering ordering me to investigate the alleged incident to prove it didn't happen. I replied that he should give that careful thought because it might create a narrative that we were investigating him personally, which we weren't, and because it was very difficult to prove a negative. He said he would think about it and asked me to think about it.Comey is a DEM operative, hence the ball of contradictions.
Thanks for that very readable and informative presentation. It does give the appearance that Comey went out of his way to harm Trump while not incriminating himself. He’s a conniving guy, for sure.
I totally, completely agree with you that he’s a Democrat operative. And elsewhere it looks like his ‘mass of contradictions,’ caught up with him. He outright lied to his motivation for leaking the memo. He said it happened as a direct result of Trump’s comment about the tape recordings...a comment Trump made three days AFTER Comey leaked the memo.
Mr. I’ll-smear-Trump-without-incriminating-myseld didn’t do so well. His fat’s in the fire. The next few days should be very interesting.