Posted on 01/04/2018 9:27:27 AM PST by mojito
Dear Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein:
This Committee has previously written to the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the memoranda that former Director Comey created purportedly memorializing his interactions with President Trump.1 My staff has since reviewed these memoranda in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at the FBI, and I reviewed them in a SCIF at the Office of Senate Security. The FBI insisted that these reviews take place in a SCIF because the majority of the memos are classified. Of the seven memos, four are marked classified at the “SECRET” or “CONFIDENTIAL” levels. Only three did not contain classified information. FBI personnel refused to answer factual questions during the document reviews, including questions about the chain of custody of the documents I was reviewing, the date that they were marked classified, and who marked them as classified.
According to press reports, Professor Daniel Richman of Columbia Law School stated that Mr. Comey provided him four of the seven memoranda and encouraged him to “detail [Comey’s] memos to the press.” If it’s true that Professor Richman had four of the seven memos, then in light of the fact that four of the seven memos the Committee reviewed are classified, it would appear that at least one memo the former FBI director gave Professor Richman contained classified information. Professor Richman later read a portion of one of the memos to a New York Times reporter.
When the Committee contacted Professor Richman seeking copies of the memos Mr. Comey had provided him, he refused to provide them, did not say how many he had received from Mr. Comey, and refused to say whether he retained copies.
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Finally!!!
Rosenstein is corrupt.
Right. This and other misconduct by Comey is why in his Jan. 12 authorization letter, the Inspector General specifically stated that he would be looking at:
“Allegations that Department or FBI policies or procedures were not followed in connection
with, or in actions leading up to or related to, the FBI Director’s public announcement on
July 5, 2016, and the Director’s letters to Congress on October 28 and November 6, 2016,
and that certain underlying investigative decisions were based on improper considerations;”
Rest assured, now that the OIG report may be imminent that Jim Comey may be talking big in public but he’s not sleeping all that well at night.
One step at a time, laying the groundwork. I’d like a shorter deadline, but it appears a ten business day deadline is more than enough time to label any non-compliance obstructive, imo.
Your opinion. Just show one solid piece of evidence that proves it. Not something some “source” said or that has been pieced-together by internet gurus.
WTF is going on here? You don’t need a SCIF for a Secret document. SCIF is for classifications above Top Secret.
“Your opinion. Just show one solid piece of evidence that proves it.”
Isn’t Rosenstein an Obunghole partisan?
There’s your proof. Ironclad, irrefutable, take it to the bank and cash it, end of story.
What if there is no reply?
Agree, though I thought the SCIF was required for TS and above. I had Secret stuff on my desk regularly and our office was cleared for open stored Secret. Maybe they don’t have any facility cleared for open stored Secret and the SCIF is the next option??
Probably, at least he knew what was going on.
The point is that it doesn't matter now. There are too many unanswered questions. There are too many people asking those questions. The plot has spun out of control.
If Rosenstein is smart, and I think he is, he knows that continuing to try and cover this up is a losing proposition, even if he is implicated. Continuing to provide cover could land him in jail for obstruction.
Rosenstein and Wray visited Ryan last night after Jim Jordan posted 18 questions on Twitter. Subsequent to the visit Jordan announced the FBI and DOJ have agreed to provide all the documents and witnesses Congress is seeking.
The handwriting is on the wall and the plotters are finished. Their best move at this point is to lawyer up and run to the DOJ to try and make a deal. First one to flip on the others, and this is a very flippable group, gets a sentencing deal.
Hearings and trials to follow.
He won’t comply either. Whats the worst that could happen to him? Contempt of Congress? That POS Eric Holder never served a day in the clink.
Is this why Comey’s been quoting all this scripture lately?
Even storage of Secrets documents and data processing equipment is supposed to be in a facility that meets requirements for Secrets level stuff. That SCIF may be the only place in that building which meets those requirements.
Can’t Trump just order the FBI to release these documents?
Rosenstein is corrupt bc he appointed a close friend and mentor—some say the BEST friend—of Comey to investigate Comey. This is not an opinion. The very close friendship between Comey and Mueller is a matter of record. The DOJ also ***refuses*** to say why Mueller was given a conflict of interest waiver in order to qualify for the job. Anyone who can’t see the corruption isn’t looking.
So far two associates of Trump have been destroyed and no one connected to Hillary has been touched. That is a fact.
Rosenstein has also enforced ***NO*** limitations on Mueller’s witch hunt. Mueller is supposed to be investigating Russian collusion (which isn’t a crime) but Rosenstein has allowed Mueller to spread out and investigate anything under the sun. Rosenstein has also given Mueller an unlimited budget. Whatever it takes to ruin anyone who dared to associate with Trump, Mueller gets it.
The single most corrupt thing Rosenstein did was appoint a Hillary fixer to ***FIND*** a crime. Rosenstein has never, even once, specified what crime Mueller is supposedly investigating. He simply turned a pitbull lose on Trump with orders to find *something,* *anything.*
Rosenstein is corrupt to the core. No, no one expects you to see it. But it’s not for lack of evidence. It’s bc your presuppositions blind you to the facts. Too bad. But that’s on you, not on Rosenstein’s critics.
So a bathroom closet in suburban New York isn’t sufficient?
True, but they probably have SCIF facilities for other reasons and its a ‘safe’ place for keeping all classified materials.
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