Posted on 11/04/2025 12:18:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
New director Patel brings the receipt as the DOJ pushes back on claims that it selectively or vindictively charged James Comey.
James Comey played the victim card in fighting his indictment on charges of misleading Congress, but that strategy boomeranged when prosecutors and his old agency released an avalanche of new evidence showing the ex-FBI director hoped to please Hillary Clinton, cheered on media leaks he claimed he did not sanction, and wrote emails and notes that directly conflict with his past congressional testimony.
Part of that unflattering portrait of Comey, prosecutors revealed Monday, came from long-hidden files that the new FBI Director Kash Patel found in burn bags and secret storage rooms at the bureau's headquarters.
The evidence included proof that Comey used a private email account to conduct FBI matters -- including media strategy with a top lieutenant -- at the same time his agency probed Clinton for improperly using her own private email for government business.
"Perhaps you can make him smarter,” Comey wrote in one such email to FBI special government employee Daniel Richman in which the two discussed trying to influence a New York Times reporter about his coverage of the Clinton email scandal.
Prosecutors made clear such evidence will be used to try to show at trial that Comey misled Congress when he denied authorizing staff to anonymously leak or talk to reporters.
"Consistent with the above-described correspondence, Richman corresponded extensively with members of the media regarding or on behalf of the defendant, including in an anonymous capacity," the Justice Department filing argued.
The cache of documents also includes September 2016 handwritten notes in which Comey appears to address U.S. intelligence intercepts about Clinton planning to manufacture a Russia scandal against Trump, something he told senators he didn't recall knowing.
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“Burn bags” that weren’t burned? What is the point of a “burn bag,” then?
And they were stored in a “secret room”. WTF?
Comey’s FBI sounds like the keystone cops
GITMO the bunch of them
Do they want ropes or bullets?
Clearly Comey made someone mad.
Probably rude to a secretary or something, so she stuck it in a closet.
He strikes me as the type that would be rude to “the little people”.
I have been hard on Patel over the months but I give credit where it is deserved.
Well done Kash.
Best headline ever!
He’ll get a fine and walk.
Comey’s been to The Beach again?
Would offer Reinhold a light, 3-yr, serve-all sentence plea deal at a Club Fed on Congressional perjury change, in return for flipping state’s evidence — with very limited immunity — against Obama, Clinton, Biden, Brennan, Clapper, The White Hut, The White Hospice, Soros, Pelosi, Karamela, Schumer, Schift, Jack Smith, Garland, Gruesome, AOC, the Squat, the Black Caucus, Mamdani, and, yeah, that’s about it.
Sounds like someone saved them from being burned. We should be thanking them.
Electric chair the guy.
He strikes me as the type that would be rude to “the little people”."
Could see this, more as him failing to follow-up on designated disposal crew, that would be more in line with his scatter-brained squirrel-distracted shortcomings, which are patently obvious to me.
Look at his note-taking, it's not structured, no outline, no pattern whatsoever, handwriting is uneven and atrocious, and there are random, undisciplined margin notes, line-drawings and even doodling.
Agree about Comey’s handwriting and notes. A child could’ve written it.
I think he was overconfident-thought he was untouchable, no matter how careless he was in his dealings. I love that he got busted for being careless...
Sounds more like an Enemy Combatant to me, Club GITMO for the whole bunch.
maybe a white hat left them there to be discovered by the incoming haed
“Sounds like someone saved them from being burned. We should be thanking them.”
That’s what I was thinking.
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