Posted on 06/08/2017 4:48:19 PM PDT by 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.
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He said he hoped the release of the memo would cause a Special Council to be appointed. How would that not be material? It shows he planned to interfere.
The lie about "the tweet gave me confidence my story could be corroborated" is immaterial, because whther true or not, Comey admitted exactly what you say. The reason he leaked was to cause a special counsel. If special counsel amounts to interference, then he leaked in order to cause interference. He admits it. Lying about getting confidence on account of a tweet doesn;t change the fact that he leaked with the purpose of triggering the appointment of a special counsel.
The plan to trigger the appointment doesn't IN FACT rise or fall on the tweet. It's a totally superfluous ornament on his story.
He should have written himself a memo regarding his own emails.
Anybody know if time zones could explain the difference? Comey was at one point in CA while Trump was tweeting from the east coast.
I guess this would maybe change some of his supposed motivation for breaking the laws he did - in the name of “doing the right thing”...
Here’s how I KNOW Comey is CORRUPT.....he was HIRED by Obama!!! Obama hired NO ONE THAT WAS NOT CORRUPT!!! Neither has the Clintons!
yeah, kind-of destroys all the kerfuffle about trump saying iraq instead of syria is sooooooo incredibly bad he needs to be impeached.
“So YOU think that Trumop shouldn’t have fired that POS Comey...ever?”
I think that the “he” referred to is Comey:
Firing Comey set a trap and he walked right in.
After what was learned yesterday we know Comey was a Traitor, Liar, and Perjured himself. Yes Trump was right to fire him.
I agree. I was trying to clarify another’s post that appeared to have been taken the wrong way by the poster to whom I responded.
There was no "trap" set.
Apologies, I think we’re misunderstanding each other, or I misunderstood the original poster.
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