Posted on 04/29/2018 2:31:13 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former FBI Director James Comey said on Sunday that he did not believe President Trump was aware of the explosive allegations made against him in the "Steele dossier."
Comey briefed Trump on the unverified document, compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, last year.
"When you told him the contents of the Steele dossier, did you get the impression it was the first time he'd ever heard those allegations?" NBC's Chuck Todd asked Comey on "Meet the Press."
"Yes," Comey said, "And I didn't give him the briefing on the whole Steele dossier. My assignment was to brief him on a small part of it that was salacious and personal. And my sense was, I didn't get a sense that he knew about those," he continued.
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Comey assumed Trump was a better liar then Comey.
The idea that he might be innocent of the charges doesn't seem to have occurred to Comey.
His "assignment?" Who gives assignments to an FBI Director?
Such a feely, feely person....He pulls the same cr** in his memos
The Director of the FBI has only two bosses. The AG and the POTUS.
Unless he’s working with others in an unofficial capacity on some unauthorized off the books mission.
Well, we know he was working with “The Professor”....who is now one of his attorneys.
>>He was the head of the FBI....He had no boss.
No so. Per this org chart:
https://www.justice.gov/file/1047436/download
the head of FBI reports to the Deputy AG, who reports to the AG, who reports to the President.
The Deputy AG was/is Rosenstein.
And it would seem from reports and his own words that Clapper and Brennan were directing his actions as well. Two totally inappropriate relationships in that regard.
More galling is Comey’s statement that he pleaded to keep his job by telling President Donald Trump he would never lie or doing anything weaselly to him. I bet Trump saw through him clear as glass.
Yup. Us ing the phrase "my assignment" is a big fat tell. Someone else directed him.
‘My assignment’...I want to know exactly WHO gave him that assignment.
Keep in mind that these three men have stayed in touch with each other, Comey said he had dinner with Brennan and Clapper last week.
Thank you for posting that chart. I left out the Dep. AG when describing the FBI Director’s superiors. Neither the CIA (Brennan) nor the DNI (Clapper) are located anywhere in that chart of DoJ subordinates and neither do either of those offices/agencies have any authority over the DoJ.
Who gave Comey this “assignment?”
My problem is Clapper appears to have been giving Comey orders.
Is that a fact!? Comey’s big mouth is going to sink their ship.
Presuming that there is someone in the DoJ with the integrity to pursue them.
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Rosenstein assumed office as the Dep. AG on April 26th 2017 so he was not the Dep. AG when Comey briefed Trump at Trump Towers Dana Boente was.
Yeah exactly. Who gave him said assignment?
Ah, thanks for the correction.
Not a problem. We’ve got dozens of shady characters to keep track of in this saga.
His assignment?
From whom?
He was the head of the FBI answerable to the Attorney General and the President himself.
So who was giving him "assignments"?
Loretta Lynch?
Hillary Clinton?
James Clapper?
Barack Obama?
Valerie Jarrett?
Andy McCabe?
John Brennan?
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