The Justice Department issued a statement rebuking James Comey's testimony

Circa News ^ | June 8, 2017 | Staff

[bobsunshine]

The Justice Department released a statement on James Comey's testimony on Thursday that attempts to set the record straight on some of the former FBI director's remarks.

The statement focuses on a piece of Comey's testimony in which he claimed he was not aware of any memo saying that Attorney General Jeff Sessions would be recusing himself from any investigations into alleged links between the Trump campaign (of which he was a part) and Russian officials.

.."In his testimony, Mr. Comey stated that he was 'not *** aware of' 'any kind of memorandum issued from the Attorney General or the Department of Justice to the FBI outlining the parameters of [the Attorney General’s] recusal.," read the statement.

However, on March 2, 2017, the Attorney General’s Chief of Staff sent the attached email specifically informing Mr. Comey and other relevant Department officials of the recusal and its parameters, and advising that each of them instruct their staff “not to brief the Attorney General *** about, or otherwise involve the Attorney General *** in, any such matters described,” read the statement.

[Karl Spooner]

It probably doesn’t make much difference what the committee said. There is probably enough hanky panky going on to get a FISA warrant for past conversations as it would fall under the umbrella of national security. I liked the tone of this today:

Kasowitz added: “We will leave it the appropriate authorities to determine whether this leak should be investigated along with all those others being investigated.”

[Cboldt]

-- I interpret the plural 'campaigns' as meaning Trump's GOP primary campaign and the general election campaign. It would not make sense for JS to recuse himself from investigating the Hildebeast's campaigns. --

I'm with you on that, for the same reason. He shouldn't be trusted to investigate the campaign that he was invested in.

The opponent's campaign is protected against shenanigans by due process, presumption of innocence, burden of production, and burden of proof - as well as prosecutorial discretion.

[Cboldt]

What sunk Libby was that he claimed he didn't know Plame worked at the CIA, in the relevant timeframe. That was not credible, given that he personally inquired of the CIA of that exact question, and he knew she worked there.

Any confusion between what he told to who was smoke.

Libby was a leaker, but not the only one. The leaks were not illegal. The lack of underlying crime causes many (maybe most) people to say that makes is impossible to mislead an investigator about a material fact. The case law says otherwise, and I think prudence indicates that it is unwise to allow people to mislead investigators on the chance the investigators are working a blind alley.

I blame Bush for much of this. He could have said "no crime, Plame is not NOC" but he was covering for his friends in deep state CIA.

The reason Libby's action was taking heat off Bush, is that Bush tacitly admitted the fiction that the leak was a risk to the CIA, and ought to be investigated.

Libby served no time. Cheney was pissed that Bush commuted the sentence rather than issue a pardon.

[Cboldt]

-- It probably doesn't make much difference what the committee said. --

Not for legal process, no. I agree.

I find it troubling because the committee is lauding a guy who is a liar and a snake. None of them expressed the least bit of "taint" to him leaking, or to him back-stabbing the president, e.g., not confronting him with his belief to have been asked to obstruct justice - he was so rattled he NEVER took it up with anybody who could get back to Trump.

Some of them were troubled by what Trump was alleged to have done, but NONE of them was troubled by Comey. That speaks to their personal integrity, their tolerance of perfidy, their own inability to stand up for the truth, and other issues that are wholly political.

Our government is nearly totally corrupt, so I suppose it makes sense none of them have trouble with corruption, until it stinks so bad they have to distance themselves from that little tainted spot.

[txhurl]

Comey’s got a large immediate and extended family. I’d think he and McCabe would be jumping at a WPP opportunity.

[Karl Spooner]

I believe Comey chose that committee to testify because it was known that it would be rigged. I doubt that he will testify in the House Oversight Committee when given the opportunity.

[TBP]

Unless it fits the narrative.

[DesertRhino]

So Sessions left the room because he had recused himself. Comey lied!

[blueplum]

Comey said he was aware two weeks beforehand that Sessions would have to recuse because ‘senior people’ in the FBI were discussing that, so they intentionally withheld information from Sessions.

[lepton]

“...Trump wasn’t wrong about Comey being a showboat and a whack job.....”...

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yep

[Robert357]

Bump for reference.

[Liz]

The buzz is Sessions may be a good man, but seems to be totally ineffective.....he has done anything to address the Seth Rich murder, the Clinton Foundation criminality, the Wasserman Schultz security breach......and so on.

I agree. All of that needs immediate prosecutions. But we need to bear in mind that Sessions may have bigger fish to fry. Read on.

FBI, DOJ Raid Huma Abedin Brother and Sisters Home
Jody Rossell ^ | 06/03/17 / FR Posted by Enlightened1

On June 1, 2017 a raid took place in a home in the 7200 Block of Jonathon Street in Dearborn, Michigan which is owned by a “shell company,” turns out it’s actually owned by Huma Abedin’s brother and sister. This shell company is the Journal of Muslim Affairs. Important to note, Huma worked as an Assistant Editor for this company at one time.

Several FBI and DOJ officers left Washington enroute to Dearborn……convoys of cars descended on the home located at 7246 Jonathon Street, assisted by other law enforcement officers from neighboring locals.

During the Clinton campaign last summer, if you recall, we didn’t see Huma Abedin for awhile, she had apparently made a trip to Dearborn, Michigan. A few months before she left to visit her brother, Hassan Abedin’s home in Dearborn, she was interviewed by the FBI about Hillary Clinton’s lost emails. Upon Abedin’s testimony to the FBI, it is reported that a laptop containing an archived copy, along with a thumb drive, were lost in the mail.

Apparently after it was reported that Huma and Anthony Weiner would be getting a divorce shortly after Weiner was convicted in May, the story takes a different turn, they moved back into their home in New York City. Hmmm, this begs the question, is Weiner still going to prison?

Only 24 hours after the Weiner’s moved back into their home the Raid in Dearborn took place. It is assumed that when Huma left during Hillary’s campaign last summer, she made that secret trip to Dearborn to hide the archived copies of the missing emails. Events now are falling into place.

More at FR.

[lonevoice]

Yes! The DOJ has dug an even deeper hole to bury Comey in. Lock him up!

[Liz]

I'm betting this is also on Sessions' list of THINGS TO DO RIGHT NOW.

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As you may have read---the divorce is off and Anthony's moving back in. I guess Huma needs to keep Anthony close-by to keep his mouth zipped (not his pants).

Anthony might spill the beans about Huma's endless line of cousins dipping into Hillary's State Dept 's numerous slush funds...... the cousins becoming millionaires sucking up our tax dollars.

Also has A LOT to do w/ Huma's having the wherewithal to pay a pricey 12,000 monthly rental.....w/ her cut of the cousins' millions.

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REFERENCE----This'll give you nightmares, people.....counting up the endless line of Huma's cousins w/ their greedy Muslim hands in the State Dept cookie jar.

UNDER HOUSE ARREST---This smirking creep is Huma's first cousin AKA a serial swindler
He subsidized businesses w/ our tax dollars looted from Hillary's State Dept. He made six million dollars vanish.

EXCERPT--“Thanks for getting in touch. Would love to arrange a meeting,” Huma Abedin replied in a June 23, 2009, email to her cousin Omar Amanat and Shamil Idriss, who heads New York-based Soliya Inc.

In May 2010, then-Secy Clinton helped Soliya get access to U.N. funding by making the U.S. a participant in a U.N. high-tech media initiative called the Alliance of Civilizations. Then in October 2010, the State Department directly awarded Soliya $1.25 million for a media technology project. “Huma helped Omar make KIT appear more valuable because of its association with the Alliance of Civilizations, which was approved by Hillary and funded in part by U.S. grants (tax dollars),” said an attorney familiar with the case.

“This helped Omar raise money for KIT, which he and his brother misappropriated for other purposes. Approximately $6 million has vanished.”

Amanat took KIT Digital public in August 2009. At the time, Amanat, known as a “serial swindler,” was in personal bankruptcy and being sued by other investors. Despite his reputation, he still managed to gain special access to US government tax dollars thanks to his ties to his well-positioned cousin and the Clinton Foundation.

THE MONEY LAUNDRY Records show that Omar Amanat and several other Abedin family members and related charities have together donated as much as $1.2 million to the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, as well as the Clinton Health Access Initiative.

Omar Amanat, Abedin's cousin, who personally contributed as much as $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation, was appointed to the Council on Foreign Relations during the time that Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of state.

While the FBI has apparently closed its espionage investigation into Clinton’s unsecured private email server (the House has reopened it), its public corruption investigation into the Clinton Foundation remains open.

It’s not clear if this still-active probe overlaps with the Amanat fraud investigation. However, investigators reportedly continue to look into alleged “pay-for-play” schemes involving the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation and its wealthy donors, as well as entities that paid the Clintons millions of dollars in speaking fees.

Judicial Watch and other government watchdog groups have charged that the Clinton Foundation was a pay-for-play operation that rewarded its benefactors with State Department favors.

And tax dollars....all the tax dollars you could possible want.

[palmer]

That’s why every other sentence he said was “I could be wrong” or “as far as I can remember”

[bitt]

Feh. I’m going back to the Seth Rich murder and the Montgomery tapes and hard drives to get this shite..

[stockpirate]

By leaking this memos to the press he violated his oath to uphold the conversations with the President private. Lied several times under oath.

[IncPen]

Comedy merely forgot to write memo about reading doj memo.

Come(D)y

[ConservativeMind]

That, my friends, tells us Mr. Comey is going to prison for a long time.