Posted on 04/12/2018 8:24:07 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
Defending his July 2016 public statement about the Hillary Clinton email case, then-FBI Director James Comey told senior agents later that year he worried the Justice Department would "screw around" with a decision on whether to prosecute her, and he said that regardless of what happened, "we knew it was going to suck in a huge way," according to an FBI transcript reviewed by Fox News.
In October 2016, Michael Kortan, who was serving as the FBI's public affairs chief but has since retired, shared the transcript of Comey's comments on the Clinton case delivered behind closed doors to special agents in charge.
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"The decision that there wasn't a prosecutable case here was not a hard one. The hard one, as I've told you, was how do we communicate about it. I decided to do something unprecedented that I was very nervous about at the time, and I've asked myself a thousand times since, was it the right decision. I still believe it was."
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Comey also relayed to agents a conversation he said he had with Lynch before the July 2016 announcement. "'Madam Attorney General, I'm about to do a press conference, and I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to say.' She asked some question. I don't remember what it was, and I said, 'I'm sorry. I'm not going to answer approximately (sic) questions. I hope someday you'll understand why, but I think it's very, very important that I do this independently.'"
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In a portion of the transcript, which was redacted, Comey spoke of the challenge in "trying to get a lawyer to give you their laptop that you use for all of their legal work. Huge concerns there about attorney-client privilege, attorney work product. He had a few options there."
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There are so many crimes here: setting up a secret government database; running national secrets through it; destroying evidence under investigation; making false statements to FBI agents; and on and on.
The claim by Comey that Lynch had no idea of what he was going to say is absurd. Comey had been circulating his proposed exoneration statement for weeks, and folks like Strzok were freely making changes in it. The FBI team was fully embedded with the DOJ lawyers working on the case and it defies belief that the FBI team to whom Comey circulated his draft exoneration statement did not share those drafts with DOJ lawyers as it was circulated.
Attorney-client privilege? What rank hypocrites, liars and corrupt scumbags.
That’s right. He didn’t.
30,000 emails destroyed. Government cell phones destroyed. Etc
Nothing to prosecute?
You were afraid, Comey. Afraid of what the Clinton Crime Family would do to you.
I have a strange feeling this book is going to backfire on the author, big time. The book just came out, and people are picking up on several contradictions, several veiled references describing himself as witness to questionable and unsavory methods.
What’s the old saying?
“Hoisted by his own petard!”
We shall see.
James Comey is a corrupt FIXER for Hillary!
Comey, the Elite’s Fixer, “Busted”, Recieved Millions from Clintons
I don't know. I think he's just a tall p**sy who has delusions of grandeur, and like all ‘Swamp’ creatures, was proud to be a ‘card carrying member’ of the ‘exclusive’ Swamp country club. Bill and Hillary are pathetic swamp creatures, dedicated their lives to becoming members, and eventually became directors of the Swamp country club (although they've now been moved on and given 'emeritus' titles). Comey wants desperately to move up the Swamp country club hierarchy, and his actions are guided in part by his desire to ingratiate himself with the ‘made’ Swamp elite.
Huge concerns there about attorney-client privilege, attorney work product.
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You have to be sh*ting me. F*ck the FBI.
So he chose to 'screw around' with it on his own.
Those that predicted that he would only screw himself over and make him look more a fool and liar with his book and book selling tour were right.
Perhaps it should be deciphered before it is declared to be important?
Not Q. Stop spreading this.
Only if you re-write the law in question to require intent. Only if you ignore rampant lying to the FBI. Only if you ignore rampant destruction of subpeonaed evidence. Only if you are a partisan hack.
I think it’s hilarious. Who in their right mind wouldn’t know immediately that it’s a spoof?
No, Comey didn’t screw around. He let Hillary completely off the hook. He was apparently worried that Lynch couldn’t be trusted to let Hillary skate.
That does not sound like Q. That sounds like a troll.
If the Hildebeast had won, he probably would have committed Arkancide.
“The decision that there wasn’t a prosecutable case here was not a hard one.”
Yep. MONEY TALKS.
It was not his role to give that press conference, he’s a totally self impressed individual. I think more and more people are acknowledging that.
Comedy’s public statement about not charging her was, I believe, meant to be a band aid on his reputation many years from now. “He knew she was going to be the President,” he maybe imagined future historians saying, “and nothing was going to stop it, so he took the only option really open to him.”
Of course Trump won even with Hillary cheating to the nines, even though her operatives she and the DNC illegally colluded with were fearless and brash enough to admit that they were in collusion and admit that they were gonna bus voters in just as they had for the last 50 years.
When dealing with so-called “progressives” I have noticed that there is a tendency for them to treat the lack of convictions as the proof that there were no crimes committed. Bill Clinton colluding with the ChiComs and engaging in pay for play? No convictions so it didn’t happen. Algore taking money funneled through others? No convictions so it must not have been wrong. All the things Comey said Hillary had done? Ditto.
Progressives essentially disallow all evidence that can be given, or indeed can be had at all, with such a stance. Only when there’s a conviction will they begrudgingly allow wrongdoing and even then they compartmentalize everything from everything else so there is no sense with them that there could ever be anything like a long train of abuses that indicate a deeper and more profound corruption. This is why you cannot convince them: their defenses are perfect. The proverbial wagons circle themselves.
The see nothing. Their mascot should be Sgt. Shultz.
But if you are outside their “we”, if you are the “they” beyond their ranks, then every whiff of allegation is serious enough to demand investigation and they will in fact go after the rest of us when no underlying crime has been committed.
You see, Trump is guilty of a very serious crime in that in defeating Hillary he committed Obstruction of Just-Us ... with “Us” obviously being the progressives. For that not only must he pay and pay dearly but everyone who helped him must be made to pay and everyone he ever had business dealings with, even his family, must be made to pay.
People, don’t question why the gutless wonders in the RNC are against Trump! They know the DNC, that they are out for blood, even literal blood, and they maybe just don’t want to go to bed with their pillows on the wrong side of their faces so tightly that they cannot even push them away ... as happened to Scalia.
We have to defeat the Democrats. They may manage on account of a coming shit-storm of depredations to start a civil war even if they win in November, but if they lose they may just start it anyway. But the second option is way better than the first no matter how you cut it.
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