cause that RAT**** knows where the bodies are buried, literally
Posted on 02/24/2018 8:59:34 AM PST by jazusamo
What is the FBI Hiding in its War to Protect Comey?
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The coup attempt against President Trump is rapidly collapsing, but the deep state is still in cover-up mode. In an article for The Hill I discussed the FBI’s continuing protection of former Director James Comey and Judicial Watch’s efforts to penetrate the truth.
As the James Comey saga continues to unfold, the James Comey legend continues to unravel.
The more we learn about his involvement in the deep state’s illicit targeting of President Trump , the more reason the American people have to question both his motives and his management as director of the FBI, the now-disgraced agency he headed before Trump fired him. Comey has left a trail of suspicious activities in his wake.
Comey now looms large over a burgeoning constitutional crisis that could soon overshadow Watergate at its worst. To deepen the crisis even further, it now appears some of Comey’s former FBI and Justice Department colleagues continue to protect him from accountability.
Three suspicious activities stand out, all intertwined: the so-called Comey Memos, Comey’s controversial testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Comey’s book deal.
After Comey was fired by President Trump on May 9, 2017, he arranged to give The New York Times a Feb. 14, 2017, memorandum he had written about a one-on-one conversation with Trump regarding former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The New York Times published a report about the memo on May 16, 2017. Special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed the following day.
On June 8, 2017, Comey testified under oath before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where he stated he authored as many as nine such memos. Regarding the Flynn memo, Comey admitted : “I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter [for The New York Times]. I didn’t do it myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.”
Comey also testified about Trump’s firing of him, and he detailed multiple conversations with Trump, during which Comey confirmed he told Trump three times that he was not a target of investigation. Judicial Watch is pursuing numerous FOIA lawsuits relating to Comey’s memoranda and FBI exit records as well as a lawsuit for Justice Department communications about Comey’s Senate testimony. The American people deserve to know what, if any, complicity his former colleagues had in drafting that testimony and/or in engineering the appointment of Mueller.
The day before Comey’s testimony, Fox News reported : “A source close to James Comey tells Fox News the former FBI director’s Senate testimony has been ‘closely coordinated’ with Robert Mueller.” Comey may have violated the law in leaking his official FBI memos to the media, and it would be a scandal if Comey coordinated his Senate testimony with Mueller’s special counsel office.
That we have had to sue in federal court to discover the truth speaks volumes. The FBI has built a protective stonewall around Comey by refusing to release the Comey memos and refusing to disclose records of communications between the FBI and Comey prior to and regarding Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Since his forced departure from the FBI, Comey signed a book deal in August, set for publication in April, for which he reportedly received an advance in excess of $2 million. Given the fact that the FBI appears to be letting Comey get away with stealing and leaking official government documents and colluding with the special counsel to get Trump, even a trusting person must be suspicious about his book deal.
The FBI has fanned those suspicions by, you guessed it, adding a new layer to the protective stonewall around Comey. Again, Judicial Watch has been forced to sue a recalcitrant FBI for records, including but not limited to forms Comey was required to complete relating to prepublication review of the book by the FBI. Did Comey’s cronies give the fired FBI director a pass on this long-standing requirement? Is that why they are stonewalling the Judicial Watch FOIA request?
Based upon Comey’s performance to date, this book likely will be an elaborate exercise in self-apotheosis. That’s why the American public deserves to know if Comey’s former colleagues – many of whom we now know aided in his exoneration of Hillary Clinton and have participated in the contrived investigation of Donald Trump — scrutinized his literary claims or simply green-lighted his every word.
There is no doubt that the deep state is in deep cover-up mode. The FBI, Justice Department and the special counsel all are stonewalling our requests for Comey documents. The more they stonewall, the deeper the suspicions grow about Comey’s complicity in the entire attempt to use the bogus Trump dossier to prevent the election of Donald Trump, and then use it to undermine his presidency once he was elected to office. In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.
Meantime, the FBI has agreed to review 16,750 pages of records in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking the Comey records that were archived after he was dismissed.
We came to this agreement with the FBI shortly after we a filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to obtain the Comey records ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00262)).
We discovered the cache of Comey records as a result of disclosures by the Justice Department in separate Judicial Watch litigation ( here and here ) to obtain the controversial “Comey memos” that allegedly memorialize conversations that Comey had with President Trump.
Obviously, there is significant public interest in Comey’s conduct and the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email and Russia collusion investigations and targeting of President (and candidate) Trump.
The FBI has a terrible record of playing shell games with records – whether it be texts or memos by its disgraced former director. Our lawsuit, we hope, will force the FBI to expedite the review and the release of the 16,750 pages of Comey documents. It’s time to open the files.
As we persist in pulling back the curtains, the sunlight is breaking through.
Because the FBI/DOJ corruption goes DEEP?
Simple. They want to protect themselves and their Deep State buddies from exposure to who they really are, and removal.
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
Made Guy Member of the Gang
Because at the same time they are protecting themselves.................
Bump!
Blackmail, he knows where the bodies are buried.
FBI is no different than any other government outfit. It is a CLUB. Members protect each other because that is the best way to milk high salaries for doing their political agenda. In FBI that all started when Mueller was director. He promoted all his similar thinking country club republicans like Comey.
I have been asking this question for almost a year now and would add to it why are Republicans sucking up to Mueller and protecting him?
Hannity says over and over ad nauseam, that there are really great people at the FBI and I say so where are they?
I firmly believe that the FBI is in cahoots with Mueller and they are collectively trying to destroy Trump. But as they say, “he who laughs last, laughs best,” and I think Trump will have “the last laugh” here. I can’t clearly see his game plan at the moment, because he’s not taking aggressive actions against the FBI and the DOJ, but I am willing to watchfully wait for the end game to materialize.
cause that RAT**** knows where the bodies are buried, literally
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At the lower levels there isn't active subversion, so much as they all owe loyalty to the democratic party and are certainly ept at foot-dragging.
Because thats what the underworld does.
“Hannity says over and over ad nauseam, that there are really great people at the FBI and I say so where are they?”
Its like an aged rotting steak...scrape off the outer few millimeters of pus and the inside is excellent. Apparently Faye Wray isn’t up to the scraping...going after NCAA.
You can scrape the rot from a steak, but I don’t see the rot coming off the FBI any time soon.
Love the analogy, BTW!
If they are protecting Comey then, the biggest thing that it proves, is that those in charge are still from the Dirty Pool.
They have to protect Comey...otherwise, all of their heads may be on the line as well. FBI needs to be disbanded and start over, making agents swear to the constitution and not a political party.
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