Posted on 07/09/2017 6:36:25 PM PDT by springwater13
More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information, according to interviews with officials familiar with the documents.
This revelation raises the possibility that Comey broke his own agency’s rules and ignored the same security protocol that he publicly criticized Hillary Clinton for in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election.
Comey testified last month he considered the memos to be personal documents and that he shared at least one of them with a Columbia University lawyer friend. He asked that lawyer to leak information from one memo to the news media in hopes of increasing pressure to get a special prosecutor named in the Russia case after Comey was fired as FBI director.
“So you didn’t consider your memo or your sense of that conversation to be a government document?,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) asked Comey on June 8. “You considered it to be, somehow, your own personal document that you could share to the media as you wanted through a friend?”
“Correct,” Comey answered. “I understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president. As a private citizen, I thought it important to get it out.”
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That’s prosecutable. Squeeze him until he squeals.
Uh oh! Comey thought he was being smart by keeping secret memos and leaking them to the press via a friend.
A prison cell just came open due to Mr. Obama commuting Private Bradley Manning’s sentence.
Not Fox News.
The Hill
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/341225-comeys-private-memos-on-trump-conversations-contained-classified?rnd=1499645596
Sessions was low on my personal list for AG, I favored: Gowdy, Cruz or Adams. Sessions star is not rising, it is sinking.
He will need the 5X orange jumpsuit but that will not happen unless they grow some nuts!
Excellent article, was going to post this but you posted first.
It’s pretty clear that James Comey is a lying conniver and political hack, he deserves to be charged and prosecuted.
He will need the 5X orange jumpsuit but that will not happen unless they grow some nuts!
Apparently the ONLY reason Comey lasted as long as he did had something to do with the crowd he was in.
well, we knew combey was a clown, playing FBI. now we know it.
Sessions will be all over it. / s
Comey is kinda mental. Too clever by half. He needs a special prosecutor going after his sorry a$$. Trump should order his Justice Department to appoint one.
The duplicitous lies and contrived games these people play strains credibility.
The criticism of sessions is senseless.
Comey is a villain. The sooner people realize the better. The man admitted he leaked something after he got fired in order to work revenge against the president. Case closed.
He was the Top Man in Trump's Ban which went before the Supreme Court....and we won....
He may say if Hillary can get away with her classified mails,he can do it too.
Sessions needs to hire a PR firm.
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