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Comey expected to work for 'President-elect Clinton,' knew top aide was talking to media: emails
Just the News ^ | 11/3/25 | John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy

Posted on 11/03/2025 4:29:02 PM PST by CFW

Comey expected to work for 'President-elect Clinton,' knew top aide was talking to media: emails

Emails referenced in a bombshell court filing by acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in which the government rejected Comey's argument that he was being maliciously prosecuted for providing false statements and obstructing Congress about actions he took as FBI director.

Federal prosecutors revealed Monday they have unearthed a trove of personal emails showing then-FBI Director James Comey openly talked in the days before the 2016 election that he expected to be working soon for President-elect Hillary Clinton and was being kept apprised by a top FBI aide on efforts to anonymously provide information to the news media.

"Well done my friend. Who knew this would. E [sic] so uh fun," Comey wrote in an early November 2016 email after then-FBI special government employee Dan Richman briefed the FBI director on Richman's efforts to provide information and guidance to The New York Times on an article involving Clinton's email scandal.

The emails were referenced in a bombshell court filing by acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and her deputy, Tyler Lemmons in which the government rejected Comey's argument that he was being maliciously prosecuted for misleading Congress about actions he took as FBI director.

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The crooks really thought the documents put in the burn bags had been destroyed. I wonder who is responsible for those documents still being intact? Or was it pure incompetence and laziness that prevented the evidence of being destroyed?
1 posted on 11/03/2025 4:29:02 PM PST by CFW
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The FBI traitors were overconfident and sloppy.

Nowhere is it written that criminals must be smart.


2 posted on 11/03/2025 4:33:33 PM PST by cgbg ("The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.")
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“”Some day they will figure it out. And as [Individual 1 and Individual 2] point out, my decision will be one a president-elect Clinton will be very grateful for (although that wasn’t why I did it),” Comey wrote Richman in one such email in late October 2016.”


3 posted on 11/03/2025 4:35:25 PM PST by CFW
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“”The discovery of the handwritten notes is relevant considering the defendant’s prior testimony on September 30, 2020. Of note, during that hearing, the defendant was questioned by Senator Graham of South Carolina and Senator Hawley of Missouri,” the filing noted. “The questions focused on whether the defendant remembered ‘being taught’ of ‘U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.’

“The defendant responded by stating that ‘it doesn’t ring any bells with me’ and ‘I don’t know what that refers to’ and ‘I don’t remember receiving anything that is described in that letter,’” the filing added. “Despite this testimony, the defendant’s handwritten notes dated September 26, 2016, read: ‘HRC plan to tie Trump.’””


4 posted on 11/03/2025 4:36:50 PM PST by CFW
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““Make sure you keep your eyes shut. The country can’t seem to handle your finding stuff,” Richman wrote to Comey on Oct. 29, 2016. Comey replied: “Thanks for the battling you have done against unreason. This is a strange time. B[u]t we press on.”

The next day, Richman sent Comey an email about an opinion piece he had been asked to write for The New York Times about Comey’s letter to Congress. Richman stated that he was “not inclined” to “write something” but that he would “do it” if Comey thought it would “help things to explain that [Comey] owed [C]ong[ress] absolute candor” and that Comey’s “credibility w[ith] [C]ong[ress] w[ould] be particularly important in the coming years of threatened [C]ong[ress] investigations.””


5 posted on 11/03/2025 4:39:06 PM PST by CFW
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Hillary bought Comeys loyalty with those 935 FIB files she stole for blackmail in the 90s


6 posted on 11/03/2025 4:39:57 PM PST by digger48
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James Comey is a rat 🐀🐀🐀

James Comey is a Democrat rat 🐀🐀🐀

Pretending to be a Republican

Oh now “Independent”


7 posted on 11/03/2025 4:42:26 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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I was never entirely sure what the Deep State was, but here it is.


8 posted on 11/03/2025 4:43:20 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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What kind of dumbass would want to work for Hilary?


9 posted on 11/03/2025 4:45:48 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump )
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Bkmk


10 posted on 11/03/2025 4:46:57 PM PST by sauropod
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I was never entirely sure what the Deep State was, but here it is.


Yep. This is a great example of the deep state and we all have to wonder what other “stories” and “scandals” were sold to the voters over the past 50 or so years.

The more I read of the article at the link, the more pissed off I became.


11 posted on 11/03/2025 4:47:04 PM PST by CFW
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Thanks for posting. Enemies domestic. The methods of conspiring TRAITORS in positions of power .


12 posted on 11/03/2025 4:47:59 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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>> special government employee Dan Richman

What the heck is a “special government employee”??!?


13 posted on 11/03/2025 4:52:13 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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Equally scandalous is the complete lack of curiosity in this by the media.


14 posted on 11/03/2025 4:56:16 PM PST by nwrep
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Comey claimed under oath that he didn't authorize anyone to leak to the press. That claim was specifically in relation to his Professor friend leaking his memos, and giving copies of those same memos to his attorneys. Never mind that he'd already been fired at the time, but kept FBI property afterward.

And now this confirms that a top Comey aide was leaking to the press, and that he was aware of it, while he was still Director.

15 posted on 11/03/2025 4:57:17 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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"What the heck is a “special government employee”??!?"

He is Plausible Deniability for Illegal Activity. Period.

16 posted on 11/03/2025 5:03:26 PM PST by Bryan24
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> Comey expected to work for 'President-elect Clinton,' … <

Maybe he still can work for Hillary. After all, she’ll need someone to refill her wine glass. And Bill is rarely available. He’s out doing other things.


17 posted on 11/03/2025 5:05:27 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: HIDEK6

MY GUESS IS THAT SEX WOULD NOT BE THE “REWARD”.


18 posted on 11/03/2025 5:07:33 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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A hanging on the USS CONSTITUTION would be a good start.


19 posted on 11/03/2025 5:09:14 PM PST by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: waterhill

Is it not still commissioned?


20 posted on 11/03/2025 5:11:00 PM PST by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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