Posted on 08/30/2019 1:10:39 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
James Comey hatched plan to leak memos earlier than he claimed
James Comey was already plotting to share memos summarizing his conversations with President Trump with a pal who later leaked the info to the media before his supposed middle-of-the night epiphany about the president’s claim that he had “tapes” of their conversations.
The discrepancies in his timeline, outlined in the Justice Department’s watchdog’s scathing, 83-page report on his behavior, create more uncertainty about Comey’s version of events.
Comey told investigators that Trump’s tweet about supposed Oval Office “tapes” caused him to snap awake “in the middle of the night” and conclude he needed to share the records.
Horowitz’s report said that on Sunday, May 14, 2017 — the day before he said the midnight lightning bolt struck — Comey had already sent four of the memos to Patrick Fitzgerald, one of his lawyers, “with instructions to share the email and PDF attachment with [lawyer David] Kelley and professor [Daniel] Richman.”
Richman, a longtime Comey pal and professor at Columbia Law School, leaked the memos to the NY Times, which published a story about Comey’s allegation that the president asked him to go easy on Michael Flynn.
Comey had also testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in June 2017 that the late-night awakening had happened after Trump’s tweet.
Fitzgerald forwarded Comey’s documents to Kelley at 7:35 a.m. May 17, and to Richman at 10:13 a.m. May 17.
Comey himself sent a digital photograph of one of his memos to Richman on Tuesday, May 16 — the day after the supposed epiphany — and told him to share the contents with the Times.
Horowitz’s damning report concluded that Comey breached bureau policy by stashing and leaking the memos of private conversations.
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I freakin love the NY Post. lol
“Comey had already sent four of the memos to Patrick Fitzgerald”
Ah, Patrick Fitzgerald, the guy who took down Scooter Libby for “leaking”, even though he wasn’t the source of the leak. You can’t make this stuff up.
His friends call him Jim but you can call him (fill in the blank).
Made up headlines often result in threads getting pulled.
Did you do this on purpose?
bmp
I now have a wild theory that Comey was immune from prosecution in this matter because he has an airtight defense: The memos he leaked are 100% bullshit and therefore can’t be considered “classified” in a court of law.
Post pics all you want.
But the headline of the article you linked to is....
James Comey hatched plan to leak memos earlier than he claimed
I agree...... and, there are additional fish to FRY
Just how tall is this freak of nature, Comey?!? All the photos I see have him TOWERING over everyone else, like he’s
8 ft. tall!
Maybe it’s widespread knowledge, but I just learned that Comey’s daughter was one of three lead prosecutor’s in the Federal case against Epstein.
Small world, what!
This is what I do not understand. Comey wrote these memos after a private conversation with Trump and the memos allege that Trump wanted to obstruct justice in some way.
No one seems to ask: “Did Comey manufacture those supposed comments by Trump?”
Since Comey has been shown to be a liar, then why should anyone believe anything that Comey wrote about what Trump said?
The Left will make that some kind of threat with the holes in him.
Isn’t he SES?
Comey is really dirty! How can a man stand there and say that he saw no intent in Hillary Clinton who hired a company to bleach her hard drives and she destroyed her cell phones? He is about as dirty as a man can be.
Thanks Marv.
The next time you pull this, you can count on suspension.
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