Senators Silent After Meeting With FBI Director Comey

rollcall.com ^ | 2/17/17 | Niels Lesniewski/Bridget Bowman

[ColdOne]

Not much can get between senators and a recess. Except, perhaps, FBI Director James B. Comey.

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, along with ex-officio member and Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, huddled for a total of more than two hours on Friday with Comey.

The FBI director’s visit was not announced publicly, and it’s possible members of the Capitol Hill press corps only found out because he was spotted in the hallways and entered a secure room used for intelligence briefings.

But leaving that secure room in the Capitol Visitor Center, senators declined to even confirm the presence of the FBI director, much less the substance of the meeting. Those who did talk generally only gave “no comments” or referred questions to Intelligence Chairman Richard M. Burr and ranking member Mark Warner.

[Grampa Dave]

Love your sense of humor - “vice” vs “vise” - reminds me of me and the guy I got my sense of humor from....

Our adult sons and one grandson have the same sense of humor.

One granddaughter shows signs. She is so competitive, her humor gets shunted aside sometimes. My wife has told her, to learn when and where to use it, not to lose it.

I inherited mine from my maternal Grandfather. Out of a flock of his grandsons, only two of us got that sense of humor.

It has to be a life saver, that cousin and I are the only males not to have an early to later on heart attack. The others survived and developed a sense of humor post MI’s.

[WildHighlander57]

Thank you for the link! Here's the whole thing copied n pasted from the link https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/832726071938162688 Marco Rubio‏ @marcorubio I am now very confident Senate Intel Comm I serve on will conduct thorough bipartisan investigation of #Putin interference and influence. 4:59 PM · Feb 17, 2017 OK now I will look for the announcement of the intel committee meeting... will be later on; church is starting in a few minutes .

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Yes, the time stamp you see is based on YOUR settings. I had a west coast setting, but just changed it to east coast where I live. No change in the time stamp on Marco’s Tweet. Perhaps it doesn’t change past Tweets. That said, I would bet Marco is set to EST and 2:59 is probably when he sent the Tweet. I can’t find a way to verify Marco’s time zone settings. If we can do that, we will know for sure when the Tweet was sent vs when the meeting took place.

If anyone figures out when the Tweet vs the meeting took place, please ping me.

[trebb]

My Dad gave me his sense of humor in my genes. He also believed that if you couldn’t laugh at yourself, you had no concept of what life was all about - he used to tell over-serious folks that if they didn’t know how to laugh at themselves he would laugh at them until they learned.

[Grampa Dave]

“My Dad gave me his sense of humor in my genes. He also believed that if you couldn’t laugh at yourself, you had no concept of what life was all about - he used to tell over-serious folks that if they didn’t know how to laugh at themselves he would laugh at them until they learned.”

Sounds like my grandfather, my sons, a grandson, my one cousin, hopefully a grand daughter and myself.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, I put it on my to buy Kindle list. I have 5 new books to finish including LS’s new one.

[The Westerner]

Maggie, that was my first reaction. Then read Rubio’s tweet which could mean nothing. Hope Mr. Sessions is now firmly in charge of Mr. Comey.

[bert]

My memory dredged up the Freeper name non sequitur who made the original recommendation for Shattered Sword.

I'll contribute some more. Back before Christmas on a similar thread, a freeper I don't remember recommended two similar books of recent publication that use lots of references not available to some of the older authors

These are by James D Hornfischer and relate in great detail the US Navy in the Solomons and Later in 1944 and 45 with special attention to the marines on the Marianas. It also includes a great discussion of Paul Tibbets and the inside story on his role leading the B29 squadron that dropped thew A bombs. There is also a great deal of discussion on the Japanese total unwillingness to do anything but die.

For those of us that are frugal, these books are available used on amazon for cheap.

[tiki]

I found a story that led me to this.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cyber-idUSKBN15X0OE

That previous story also said that Rubio tweeted after the meeting.

[poconopundit]

Much obliged for the referral.

I did the “Look Inside” on Amazon and found a book that is spectacularly well written.

I just might buy that book as you suggest.

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Thanks for the link. I also read a CNN article that said Rubio Tweeted after the meeting. I don't like what I am reading. Rubio would love for Trump to go down. I also don't understand where Comey is coming from. His actions relative to Clinton's on again, off again, on again investigation made no sense. Not sure if he is a good guy or bad guy. I hope this turns out well.

[poconopundit]

Thanks, LS. The book sounds intriguing. And it’s great knowing we have a published historian in the FR community.

[poconopundit]

Another sea story for you, Dave.

My Dad told a few interesting stories.  He was a 1st Class gunner's mate aboard LST 520, one of the hundreds of transport ships that land on the shore and carry tanks, trucks, and other heavy equipment.

Now gunner's mate was a more hazardous occupation than you might think.  For during a battle, it was necessary to keep the guns operating without fail.

And occasionally the guns would jam and because the barrels were hot you could have a "cook off" situation where the round explodes and destroys the gun and kills everybody near it.

So it was the gunner's mates' job to clear the gun and throw the round overboard before it blew up.

Well one time, he told us kids, he got the round unjammed and then threw it over the side and it exploded before it hit the water... so poconopundit was almost never born :- )

Now fortunately, World War II had its light moments, too.  And my Dad was what you'd call an "operator".  He had a money making business on the side, which I might add, was deeply appreciated by the crew and even officers (though they might not admit it because it was black market stuff.)

So somehow he got himself assigned to be one of the ship's two postmasters.  And that was really useful because it meant he could go ashore in London (waiting for D-Day) even as everyone else was restricted to their ships.

Now sometimes he and the other postmaster would go out and get drunk.  But the real mission was get the mail and also go shopping for things like booze, cigarettes -- and surprisingly, bananas were very popular.

Now all this contraband was delivered clandestinely, wrapped in big tarpolin and carefully hoisted aboard ship and sold to the crew.

But one time the crew didn't like the idea of my Dad making money off them, so they decided to boycott his banana supply.

And as you can imagine, bananas being perishable, he was worried that he might lose a lot of money.

But what he did was have a talk with the chief cook in the galley.  And sure enough, the next day for breakfast, there was only one meal on the menu. It was corn flakes with cold milk. And alongside the cold milk sat a huge pile of bananas selling at 10 cents a piece.

Well, the bananas completely sold out: the officers even arrived from the wardroom to buy some. So my Dad made a nice profit on that boycott.

So maybe this story is why I trusted that Art of the Deal guy early on :- )

[EDINVA]

A little covered/discussed threat comes from the 3 (or 4?) Muslims the Dems hired to support IT for their House members. They accessed secure information they were not authorized to access. That could/should be a BIG problem for Shumer, Pelosi & Co.

[Yaelle]

Smiling big. LOVE that story!

[af_vet_1981]

Still no leaks ...

[The Westerner]

Reassuring, Was reviewing the report Comey dumped on 10/31/16 about Hilary's flagrant and reckless breach of national security. That document is very, very serious. I believe the Russia misdirection is all about this FBI investigation. Naturally, Obama/Lynch spiked it. The ball is in Trump/Session's court. Comey will follow instructions as he usually does!

[Godebert]

"Yep, Florida is purple at this point. People streaming down here off I75, Florida is a awful place to live plz do not move here!!!! It is hot,humid full of mosquitoes and large snakes. there are even bears here!"

You forgot about the sharks. Lots of sharks that like to taste Yankee flesh. Not to mention all those purple Man-O-War jellyfish. Oh, the huge Manatee!

[trebb]

A little covered/discussed threat comes from the 3 (or 4?) Muslims the Dems hired to support IT for their House members. They accessed secure information they were not authorized to access. That could/should be a BIG problem for Shumer, Pelosi & Co.

Yep - hopefully we haven't heard the last of it - the fact we haven't heard much tells me that maybe Trump/Sessions are taking it seriously and will not leak info as things get sifted through.

[tiki]

I was just reading this and wondering if the meeting had anything to do with Russia at all and may have been a Red Herring put out there by Rubio. This seems like it could be the story especially since it shut the Dims up.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3527476/posts