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Yates: Comey went 'rogue' with Flynn interview
Fox News ^ | 8-5-20 | Ronn Blitzer

Posted on 08/05/2020 11:22:21 AM PDT by SJackson

Yates defended the investigation, but took issue with how Comey handled it

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that when the FBI interviewed then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn in January 2017, it was done without her authorization, and that she was upset when she found out about it.

Committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., asked Yates about the circumstances surrounding the interview, particularly the actions of then-FBI Director James Comey.

"I was upset that Director Comey didn't coordinate that with us and acted unilaterally," Yates said.

"Did Comey go rogue?" Graham asked.

"You could use that term, yes," Yates agreed.

Yates said she also took issue with Comey for not telling her that Flynn's communications with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were being investigated and that she first learned about this from President Barack Obama during an Oval Office meeting. Yates said she was "irritated" with Comey for not telling her about this earlier.

That meeting, which took place on Jan. 5, 2017, was of great interest to Graham, who wanted to know why Obama knew about Flynn's conversations before she did. Graham and other Republicans have speculated that Obama wanted Flynn investigated for nefarious purposes. Yates claimed that this was not the case, and explained why Obama was aware of the calls at the time.

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KEYWORDS: jamescomey; michaelflynn; mikeflynn; sallyyates; spygate
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To: NEMDF

Quite the opposite... Yates was letting Comey dangle out there the way I read it.


21 posted on 08/05/2020 11:50:43 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: lodi90

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Yates Lies!

She told Congress (in the past) that there was no surveillance of the Trump Campaign, and mocked Trump for saying it, and she signed the FISA!

Like Comey, they believed this info would remain Classified for 15 years.

Yates should be charged.


22 posted on 08/05/2020 12:03:33 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: glorgau

I think most of these snakes are united and it will be against Comey.


23 posted on 08/05/2020 12:06:07 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: SJackson
Yates said that after Obama placed sanctions on Russia, the Kremlin vowed to take retaliatory action, only to suddenly change course. She said Obama wanted to find out why, which led to the Justice Department discovering Flynn's talks with Kislyak.

There's a million lies in this whole affair but to me this is the most ridiculous.

Obama (according to Yates): "The Russian's aren't retaliating against us hard enough. We need to get to the bottom of this. Someone must be undermining American foreign policy by encouraging our enemies not to retaliate when we sanction them."

It takes a media that is totally in the tank for these fools to print that with a straight face.

On the other hand, the good news here is that these snakes never attack each other until they are pretty sure that someone is going to get stomped on. So this backbiting is a great sign.

24 posted on 08/05/2020 12:06:54 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: SJackson

She sounds like a good candidate for flipping. Offer her 6 months house arrest for cooperation....6 years in West Virginia for silence.


25 posted on 08/05/2020 12:07:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: montag813

“Don’t be fooled. This is all to protect Obama.”

That’s a fact.


26 posted on 08/05/2020 12:09:43 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ping jockey
She just took credit for lying to the FISA court. Get her in front of a grand jury. <<<

No..shed be under oath then!!...... the Kabuki Clubs job is to make you think they are investigating.....was anyone surprised that Lindseed vouched for her “Honor” time after time and just wants to get to the bottom of what happened so they can say...Mistakes were made...but all in good faith...

No crimes here Your Honor...now move along...

27 posted on 08/05/2020 12:12:36 PM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: brownsfan

Except, she didn’t do anything about it, and supported the whole proscecution based on it, and sat there in a meeting where they brainstormed how to charge Flynn and concluded this was about something else entirely. She is lying like a dog to save her ass and create a new narrative at the same time.


28 posted on 08/05/2020 12:13:29 PM PDT by dalight
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To: SJackson

Skippy 0bama and ValJar micro manged EVERYTHING


29 posted on 08/05/2020 12:18:53 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: SJackson

This was already known. Maybe surprised her, but not others.


30 posted on 08/05/2020 12:20:02 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: SJackson

Wait, didn’t he run the “no lawyer needed” thing by McCabe?
What does McCabe say?


31 posted on 08/05/2020 12:31:24 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When we look to government to solve our problems, our "rights" become reduced to "privileges".)
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To: ought-six

At LEAST we are finally at the point where they think it necessary to protect Obama. It took forever to get even there.


32 posted on 08/05/2020 12:37:57 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: SJackson

bmp


33 posted on 08/05/2020 12:51:56 PM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Grimmy

That might not be all bad depending on what she turned over to get the back door out.


34 posted on 08/05/2020 1:03:40 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: gattaca

I knew he would be the fall guy when he reopened the Clinton email thing so close to the 2016 election. NEVER piss off Hillary or you can kiss any future goodbye. Not that Comey doesn’t deserve it....


35 posted on 08/05/2020 1:03:42 PM PDT by princess leah (Princess Leahz)
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To: brownsfan

Surprisingly, I think Graham did a pretty good job forcing Yates to admit, under oath, what actually happened.


36 posted on 08/05/2020 1:28:17 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: SJackson

“Yates said that after Obama placed sanctions on Russia, the Kremlin vowed to take retaliatory action, only to suddenly change course. She said Obama wanted to find out why, which led to the Justice Department discovering Flynn’s talks with Kislyak.”

The only logical conclusion is that Obama WANTED Russia to take retaliatory action AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, triggering multiple cycles of retaliation, thus to dig a very deep foreign relations hole for the incoming Trump administration. Flynn defused the bomb Obama had thrown.
Obama’s reaction was to withhold information from the incoming administration so that they could not potentially defuse any more bombs before detonation. What a guy.

OBAMA is the one who “went rogue”.


37 posted on 08/05/2020 1:37:46 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: lodi90

“And that will be it. He’s not drilling down at all and shining a light on the coupist conspiracy.”

Lindsay will write them a tersely worded letter and then hold a press scrum in which he can play the drama queen


38 posted on 08/05/2020 2:14:13 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: Chewbarkah

The only logical conclusion is that Obama WANTED Russia to take retaliatory action AGAINST THE UNITED STATES


Only AFTER Trump won, though. Obama took a much weaker position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine than many. Rejected strong banking sanctions, arming the Ukrainians, etc. It was suspected Obama did not hit Russia with more sanctions because the Dems wanted another “reset” with Russia after Hillary won.


39 posted on 08/05/2020 3:41:33 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: SJackson

She’s trying to protect Soebarkah.


40 posted on 08/05/2020 4:03:13 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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