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FBI Chief Comey Misled Congress’s 'Gang of 8' Over Russiagate, Lisa Page Memo Reveals
Real Clear Investigations ^ | June 9,2022 | Paul Sperry

Posted on 06/09/2022 7:40:08 AM PDT by Quilla

The FBI deceived the House, Senate and the Justice Department about the substance and strength of evidence undergirding its counterintelligence investigation of President Trump, according to a recently declassified document and other material.

A seven-page internal FBI memo dated March 8, 2017, shows that "talking points" prepared for then-FBI Director James Comey for his meeting the next day with the congressional leadership were riddled with half-truths, outright falsehoods, and critical omissions. Both the Senate and the House opened investigations and held hearings based in part on the misrepresentations made in those FBI briefings, one of which was held in the Senate that morning and the other in the House later that afternoon. RealClearInvestigations reached out to every member of the leadership, sometimes known as the "Gang of Eight." Some declined to comment, while others did not respond to queries.

The talking points were prepared by Lisa Page, a senior FBI lawyer who later resigned from the bureau amid accusations of anti-Trump bias, and were used by Comey in his meeting with Hill leaders. They described reports the FBI received in 2016 from "a former FBI CHS," or confidential human source, about former Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Carter Page (no relation to Lisa Page) allegedly conspiring with the Kremlin to hack the election.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comey; corruptfbi; fbi; hangemhigh; jamescomey; lisapage; neocons4biden; peterstrzok; russia; russiagate; snake; treason
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Mislead, please!
1 posted on 06/09/2022 7:40:08 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Quilla

Isn’t perjury a crime? Oh yeah, it’s not a crime when they do it. It’s never a crime when they do it.


2 posted on 06/09/2022 7:42:31 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Quilla

What is it called when the state’s security apparatus undermines its election processes?

Is there a name for that?


3 posted on 06/09/2022 7:44:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Quilla

The FBI is just the US version of the old Soviet KGB, design to keep the establishment regime (in our case the swamp) in power all all cost.


4 posted on 06/09/2022 7:46:22 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

How do you drain the swamp when the drain is clogged with this crap?


5 posted on 06/09/2022 7:48:15 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: Quilla

Comey and the gang of 8 play on the same team.


6 posted on 06/09/2022 7:48:55 AM PDT by Swanks
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To: Quilla

I believe Comey was the King Pin in the entire “get Trump” and the Russian matter and he showed his hand when he ran to his car after meeting with President Trump and started typing what he would “recall” as grounds for impeachment....and other fake charges.


7 posted on 06/09/2022 7:49:03 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: BenLurkin
Is there a name for that?

Praetorian Guard
8 posted on 06/09/2022 7:58:04 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Quilla

Look these CONS won’t even protect the SCOTUS with the laws on the Books today. Don’t expect anything more than MEH!!!


9 posted on 06/09/2022 7:58:11 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: griswold3

The rampant, blatant impunity can be quite discouraging. They throw it right in your face.


10 posted on 06/09/2022 7:58:57 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Quilla

Since we know nothing will ever happen to hold Comey, etc., to account, I no longer care about these revelations.


11 posted on 06/09/2022 8:02:27 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Sacajaweau

I believe Comey was in line for Attorney General under President Hildebeast. It was quid pro quo all the way. Trump scotched the deal.


12 posted on 06/09/2022 8:02:31 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: Quilla

So what? Big deal. All these scum are vaccinated against responsibility for their actions.


13 posted on 06/09/2022 8:07:39 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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Page’s attorney in that case is the judge’s Wife in the Sussman trial.

Durham has acted like he has no interest in Comey from the beginning. Barr decided not to try Comey on some charges already, too.


14 posted on 06/09/2022 8:08:34 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: coloradan

Exactly.
It’s only a crime if someone under them does it and it’s not in step with what they want.

For example, if you check data bases on a potential maid, that’s a policy violation and could get you fired! BUT, if you’re on board with them and do an illegal FISA on a Presidential candidate, that’s totally OK.

If you leak classified information to the press, but it’s in step with what the folks at the top want, that’s totally OK. In fact, that can be done CONCURRENTLY as the FBI is prosecuting a junior enlisted guy because he took pictures of where he works and lives on a nuclear sub (illegal, but he had no malicious intent).

The FBI as a “zero tolerance” policy on nearly everything, except it if’s shady but what those at the top want. Then (only if caught and in the public spot light) no one ever gets in trouble, you just get another policy statement, more mandatory training (virtual) and a speech. That “shows action” and fulfills the requirement of taking action after something wrong was done...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-14/us-to-restore-full-pension-of-fbi-official-fired-under-trump No big deal.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/01/sailor-faces-charges-submarine-photos-cellphone/31005689/ NAIL HIM TO THE WALL!!! (he had no malicious intent - it was for himself)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/department-justice-declines-prosecute-comey-over-leaked-memos-n1047706 No big deal. He just leaked classified information to the press with the intent to damage the sitting President.

https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1 Nail them to the wall!

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-elections-james-comey-politics-bdd3b6078e9efadcfcd0be4b65f2362e No big deal, just misunderstood.

See a pattern here?

The FBI is political. They are partisan. They are NOT neutral nor do they enforce the law or even their own policies consistantly.


15 posted on 06/09/2022 8:10:09 AM PDT by Red6
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To: AnthonySoprano

Barr is dirty..............


16 posted on 06/09/2022 8:10:33 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Quilla

Trump is the most persecuted person in history, I do believe. Multiple antagonists from multiple directions. Few could stand up to such an onslaught as he has done. What a remarkable man is Donald Trump.


17 posted on 06/09/2022 8:10:38 AM PDT by elpadre (W)
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To: jimwatx
The FBI is just the US version of the old Soviet KGB, design to keep the establishment regime (in our case the swamp) in power all all cost.

Unfortunately, this might not be an overstatement. It wasn't that long ago that I thought of the FBI and CIA as those organizations that would keep foreign and domestic enemies from destroying our nation.

18 posted on 06/09/2022 8:11:03 AM PDT by neverevergiveup (()))
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To: Quilla

Comey is a pig. A lying pig.


19 posted on 06/09/2022 8:12:09 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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To: Quilla

20 posted on 06/09/2022 8:13:25 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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