Posted on 06/08/2017 5:20:39 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former FBI Director James Comey asserted Thursday that President Donald Trump fired him to interfere with his investigation of Russia's ties to the Trump campaign....
It's my judgment that I was fired because of the Russia investigation," Comey said toward the end of more than two hours of testimony before the Senate intelligence committee. "I was fired in some way to change, or the endeavor was to change, the way the Russia investigation was being conducted....
Asked whether that February Oval Office discussion amounted to obstruction of justice, Comey said he expected that to be a matter for Mueller, the former FBI director who has taken over the Justice Department's investigation.
"I'm sure the special counsel will work towards, to try and understand what the intention was there, and whether that's an offense," he said.
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HOW ON EARTH IT IS ETHICAL FOR MUELLER TO INVESTIGATE A MATTER INVOLVING HIS GOOD FRIEND COMEY?
Comey is a material witness of fact and, given the possibility that Comey himself has committed crimes in his retaining FBI memos and leaking them to the media, contradicting himself in sworn testimony, etc., it may be that Comey himself ought to be a target of the investigation.
Mueller needs to resign his position or recuse himself from any matters in which Comey was personally involved.
He won’t. This looks like a bag job.
When the off switch for mouths were handed out, Comey was definitely off getting some ice cream.
And what is his evidence?
Precisely
Comey leaked a secret memo to get his buddy Muellar hired. It stinks.
Weasel Comey’s diary.
Comey is one lying sack of crap.
Comey should have been let go the first day.
Did Comey and Muellar collude to have special council appointed? Did Muellar tell Comey he was being considered for the position if one were to he created?
The Trump Administration’s Justice Department, specifically Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hired Robert Mueller.
On May 23 the Department of Justice’s ethics experts announced they had declared Mueller ethically able to function as special counsel
I have a feeling Trump’s lawyer is all over this. Not going to end well for Comey. Stay tuned.
Trump: “Do I have your honest loyalty?”
Comey: “Yes. Now please excuse me so I can go secretly leak my memo against you to the New York Times so they can push for a special prosecutor to take you down.”
If the parties were reversed, and it was the Obama administration that was being Special Prosecutorized, the personal connection between Muller and Comey would be mentioned constantly and incessantly by every Democrat who was interviewed on camera, and by every left-wing commentator.
There would be calls to end the Special Counsel, to zero out his budget, to dismiss him, to replace him, to investigate him, and to prosecute him. These calls would be repeated dozens of times every single night during the course of the news broadcasts and talking-heads shows.
Dealing with a new Sheriff
You don’t hire someone if you don’t know whether he wants to be hired and you don’t create a job and offer the job to someone and get the job accepted and background check done in one day.
“Comey should have been let go the first day.”
Agreed. The biggest error of his presidency. Who didn’t see this bad move a mile away?
This whole thing ( coup ) was in the panning, from Nov. 9th.
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