Saturday, April 21, 2018

Ex-FBI Chief Did Not Feel Threatened Or Obstructed, But This Aspect Is Odd

Last night, the 15 pages of documents that then-FBI Director James Comey had in meetings with President Trump in the final months of his tenure at the FBI. These documents were critical in the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to takeover the ongoing Russia investigation at the DOJ/FBI; the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into Russian collusion and the Trump campaign began in July of 2016.

"After asking Comey to get out that Trump was not under investigation, he followed up with a phone call, per the memos:"I said that...he should have the White House Counsel call the Acting Attorney General and make the request.

Comey told Trump during the dinner: "[H]e could count on me to always tell him the truth.

Trump told Comey that the salacious allegations of him being in the company of prostitutes were total nonsense, though he said that Putin told him his country had "The most beautiful hookers." On the other hand, there's an excerpt where Comey throws some shade on his boss Loretta Lynch.

It's odd because while Comey said that he had to act outside of protocol in some aspects of the Clinton email investigation due to then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch's credibility problem, like for example, meeting former President Bill Clinton alone on a plane on the tarmac in Phoenix, where they supposedly only talked about golf and grandkids for nearly 30 minutes days prior to the announcement that the FBI would not press criminal charges against Hillary for her unsecure and unauthorized email server.

Sharyl Attkisson April 20, 2018 4-"The memos also show former Director Comey never wrote that he felt obstructed or threatened... he never once mentioned the most relevant fact of all, which was whether he felt obstructed in his investigation."

Sharyl Attkisson April 20, 2018 7-"It is significant former Director Comey made no effort to memorialize conversations w/ former Attorney General Lynch despite concerns apparently significant enough to warrant his unprecedented appropriation of the charging decision away from her and the ".

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/04/20/comey-memos-n2472774 

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