Posted on 10/14/2017 6:42:25 PM PDT by markomalley
Government lawyers asked a judge Friday to deny CNN's request to force the FBI to publicly disclose former FBI Director James Comey's memos documenting his interactions with President Trump about the Russia investigation.
The news network made the case in a lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June that there was high public interest in Comey's memos and that the notes were not classified, as insisted by Comey himself in testimony. CNN, along with other outlets and watchdog groups, had requested the memos under the Freedom of Information Act.
However, a report from CNN on Saturday explained that parts of Comey's memos were determined to be classified and the government argued that to make them public would "reveal the scope and focus of the investigation and thereby harm the investigation" and possible prosecutions.
The government is also requesting that an unnamed "FBI employee" make the government's case in secret.
Comey, fired by Trump in May, had given the memos to a friend, Columbia University professor Daniel Richman, who then at the request of Comey revealed the details of the notes to the New York Times. Richman also said he believed there was no classified information in those memos.
The memos contained notes on Comey's discussions with Trump while serving as FBI director, including one about a meeting between the two in which Trump allegedly asked Comey to let the investigation into former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn go.
Flynn was fired in February after it was revealed he misled the Trump administration about his communications with Russian officials.
Comey said Richman's copy of the memos were returned to the FBI and that special prosecutor Robert Mueller has possession his copies of the memos as part of his investigation of Russia and the 2016 election, possible ties between the Trump campaign, and reportedly potential obstruction of justice by the president.
They don’t want to reveal the names of all them grandchildren.
If the memos were classified and Come gave them to someone else, he broke the law.
They don’t want to let the cat of the bag when Comey claimed that he and the FBI were not Weasels
More D.C. Bulls**t...Unless it threatens the U.S. national security, and they don’t, print them...And then take off all the doors to their GD offices and video them the entire time their at work on our tax dime, monitor/record all calls from their offices and no more closed door meeting unless they’re involved in national security issues.
Exactly.
Comey seems screwed here.
Either the stuff is not classified — so tell the world all about it (which they obviously do not want to do).
Or the stuff is classified, and Comey is just handing that secret stuff to his acquaintances (big No-No).
“”You can call us wrong, but don’t call us weasels. We are not weasels,” Comey declared “
What a tangled web they weaved, whey they practiced to deceive. Hope Comey and the rest hang from their own webs of deceit. It could happen. They’re in deep.
CNN hasn’t cared to ask why the Iran deal was only viewable
by select Senators and Congress critters behind closed doors and never made public.
The Comey memos are interesting to them because they are still hoping to create doubt in the public mind over President Trump’s motivations.
So Comey illegally passed this to the New York Times. Well Mueller finally has some criminality to pursue.
I’d bet they want to know if it’s possible Comey implicated others and if so, it’s probably people they have colluded with.
ping
Deep State Sleight of hand.
Not classified when Comey or his leak had them.
Magically classified when they want to keep them from the public.
The law doesn’t apply to “People Like Comey” because ... well, just because...
Weasels can also be wrong.
Yep. Especially when they claim to not be Weasels...
Now we should provide follow along notes during the course of an active investigation?
Even if this “Independent Counsel” investigation is completely bogus, I think that the “active” investigation should trump CNN’s request.
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