Posted on 02/02/2018 7:54:45 PM PST by familyop
Former FBI Director James Comey torched Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee over the release of a memo alleging the Department of Justice abused a surveillance program on Friday, tweeting, “That’s it?”
“Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what?” Comey tweeted Friday.
“DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs,” he added.
That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.
— James Comey (@Comey) February 2, 2018
The House Intelligence Committee released the memo Friday, shortly after President Trump approved the document’s release. The document was complied by the office of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and alleges that the Justice Department abused a surveillance program.
The memo claims that the department used information gained from the so-called Steele dossier — which was partially funded by the Democratic National Committee — to obtain surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The FBI made a rare public statement expressing concerns about the release of the memo, saying it leaves out important context. Comey praised the FBI for "speaking up" on Thursday.
All should appreciate the FBI speaking up. I wish more of our leaders would. But take heart: American history shows that, in the long run, weasels and liars never hold the field, so long as good people stand up. Not a lot of schools or streets named for Joe McCarthy.
— James Comey (@Comey) February 1, 2018 Democrats slammed the release of the memo. The Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee said House Republicans were "complicit in efforts to obstruct justice" by releasing the memo.
I agree with you about the lack of discernment by the masses of the American people. Stalin or Khrushchev may have understood the American people better than they do themselves.
The trouble is that judgment never seems to come to the left.
James Kallstrom should be FBI Director, seriously.
James Kallstrom belongs nowhere near the FBI.
He was in charge of the FBI investigation of TWA-800 in 1996.
First night-”it was a missile”. That was based on early eye witness accounts.
The next morning—”no missile—center fuel tank explosion”.
Over 150 eyewitnesses that saw something go up to the plane were all told they had incomplete recollections—that what they saw was the opposite.
Then the lie was bolstered by the CIA animation which showed the plane behaving in a physically impossible manner after break-up.
The 24 year old plane without any record of maintenance issues just blew-up, The cause was overheating due to being on the hot tarmac at JFK airport.
Funny how no other 747 has ever done that in over 47 years of service, considering that the tarmac temperatures in places like Saudi Arabia are much higher.
When the FBI investigation wrapped up a year or so later, Mr. Kallstrom announced his retirement from the FBI.
After 35 years as a gumshoe, he was going to a new job—as an investment banker. Really, who knew he was some kind of financial wizard?
Can you say “payoff”?
I find it odd that now he resurfaces as a so-called conservative commentator on Fox News.
He is not to be trusted.
The TWA-800 shootdown could not be revealed as the obvious terrorist incident it was as Clinton was up for re-election in 3.5 months.
I don’t want to hear about the BS TWA 800 crap. You can review my postings. I researched it thoroughly just like I researched Donald Trump in August 2015 and said he should be the next President only to find a lot of brainless FR cretins shout me down that Trump was a close friend of Hillary.
Kallstrom had hundreds of agents investigate TWA 800 leaving no stone unturned. He conducted the investigation impartially and with integrity.
Of course, he heard about the allegations of a missile attack! But he couldn’t get the hard proof of it even though he had his agents look hard at it.
When you prosecute a criminal and you don’t have the hard evidence, the criminal walks, and you can’t call him/her a criminal because you haven’t yet convicted him/her.
What you’ve done is convict Kallstrom without hard evidence. You’re a lynch loafer, nothing more.
Of course if Kallstrom had hard evidence of a missile attack he would have churned out indictments!
But there was no HARD EVIDENCE! There were only allegations.
Someone heard ‘exit82xxx’ is a democrat troll. Therefore, exit82xxx should be zotted and not be allowed to post on FR. That’s all Lynch Loafers need to make up their shallow minds.
Kallstrom is dirty.
You keep your torch lit for him.
I will not.
As for me being a Dem troll, I must be a good one to keep everyone fooled here or over 19 years.
Damn, I’m good!
Newbie.
lock him up
Kallstrom dirty eh?
And he was forced out because he wanted to prosecute the Clintons and their foundation. And so he’s dirty?
Only a Dem troll or an ignoramus would push such a narrative.
Kallstrom retired from the FBI in 1998.
He was not pushed out because of investigating the Clinton Foundation, as the Foundation did not start until 2001.
Ignoramus much?
James Comey, master of logic: FISA memo is nothing -- and also the destroyer of worlds. https://t.co/RIqTGpUwk2— Julian Assange ⌛ (@JulianAssange) February 2, 2018
He was pushed out by the Clintons and their corruption. S
Clinton corruption didn’t start with their foundation. It continued into their foundation.
Since he was forced out, he has kept up his attacks on the Clintons and their corruption including their foundation.
Kallstrom has been a strong loyal supporter of Donald Trump as Candidate, Nominee, and as President.
Kallstrom knows exactly what's going down in the Swamp:
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/former-fbi-assistant-director-says-anti-trump-cabal-more-evident
"Americans are going to recoil the more they learn about how then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-FBI Director James Comey and others arranged for the surveillance of Trump associates during the campaign.
"We're going to see the whole breadth and scope of this cabal that, unfortunately, involves the leadership of the FBI, leadership over the Justice Department," he said. "I'm sure that we're going to see John Brennan and his wacky ways … It's not gonna be a pretty picture, but it's the kind of thing that we have to look at, and we have to straighten out."
Kallstrom said he hopes the result is indictments of former officials who abused their power."
We’ve yet to find out, though, whether or not Mueller will abide by one DoJ rule. Will he try to have the President indicted? Does he have a desire for awards and recognition that go so far? Stay tuned. If so, Rosenstein will likely stop that move (in my Mr. Nobody, non-lawyer opinion) because of...yes, a rule!
We’ll see!
Some of the people involved have done wrong. Others are really trying to do their duties by the book. My other guess is that the investigation will be done before summer. Otherwise, it will get far too close to the 2018 elections. Already too close, IMO. And then there’s the presidency. Who chooses our presidents: us or the lawyers or their friends in other nations?
74 is the new 64, seriously. People are living longer and are sharper than ever.
At 74, he’s only +4 to Trump.
At 74, he can get in the Director’s slot and clean out the rot in about one year, then establish reforms over the next two years that will be enduring. Then he can groom a new cadre of leaders.
Kallstrom is eminently qualified and has the right stuff to recover the reputation of the Bureau.
If he wants to do it, that would be good.
And what I wrote about the integrity of others? Those were only guesses based on what I’ve read from their biographies. I don’t know them. We’ll see what happens.
You are conflating two things.
One, he retired at age 55 to take a much more lucrative job, a job not offered to just any former FBI gumshoe.
The investment banker job and its big bucks was a reward for his role in the TWA-800 coverup.
So, in 1998, he is not “fighting Clinton corruption”—he was a beneficiary of it.
Then, fast forward three years to 2001. Clinton starts the Foundation, and Kallstrom takes a job as public safety director in NYC following 9/11/01 events.
By 2016, he comes out as a Trump supporter.
So what?
You know who else is a Trump supporter but is on my “s” list also:
Alan Dershowitz.
Of he makes the right noises on Fox News, which is amazing since he spent a lifetime as a crazed liberal bashing conservatives.
But he was on the manifest of at least one flight to Epstein’s Lolita Island.
Maybe Epstein needed some legal advice.
First he ridicules the memo as being nothing, then he says the memo has destroyed the FBI and DOJ.
Which one is it, Comey, you dirty cop POS?
You can’t keep your lies straight, can you?
Idiot.
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