"[DailyCaller] Former FBI director James Comey wrote in his new book that classified information, still unknown to the public, could have "cast serious doubt" on Loretta Lynch’s ability to investigate Hillary Clinton’s email server in 2016.
ABC News reports, "Comey writes that he felt obligated to take more of a personal role as the public face of the investigation rather than deferring to then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch ‐ in part because of something involving Lynch that he cryptically refers to as a ’development still unknown to the American public to this day.'"
The government learned of this information in 2016. The book does not reveal anything about the information.
Comey also wrote that 'the unverified material would undoubtedly have been used by political opponents to cast serious doubt on the attorney general’s independence in connection with the Clinton investigation.'"
So, Former FBI director James Comey wrote in his new book that classified information, still unknown to the public, could have "cast serious doubt" on Loretta Lynch’s ability to investigate Hillary Clinton’s email server in 2016.
ABC News reports, "Comey writes that he felt obligated to take more of a personal role as the public face of the investigation rather than deferring to then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch ‐ in part because of something involving Lynch that he cryptically refers to as a ’development still unknown to the American public to this day.'"
The government learned of this information in 2016. The book does not reveal anything about the information.
Comey also wrote that 'the unverified material would undoubtedly have been used by political opponents to cast serious doubt on the attorney general’s independence in connection with the Clinton investigation.'" In order to believe this dirtsicle dropped by Comey on Lynch, we have to suspend disbelief for the balance of the book. Clever.
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A law is needed. No bureaucrat or appointed official of the federal government are allowed to write a book for 10 years after their official departure, to stop people from writing a book 10 minutes after they are fired.
Nothing lately on the Clinton clandestine servers, Platte River Networks, or the Awan bros. All necessary steps. As you know, the Russians were attempting to monitor.
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Comey also wrote that 'the unverified material would undoubtedly have been used by political opponents to cast serious doubt on the attorney general’s independence in connection with the Clinton investigation.'"
i.e.: Photos of Bill Clinton on her jet at Phoenix
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If Comey is right wouldn't proper legal procedure have been Lynch recusing herself and the official designated by law to replace the AG in case of recusal making the decision?
It looks like Comey just extralegally seized the power to decide this matter because no one objected.
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"A Higher Loyalty", a picaresque novel where the self-styled hero is also the author; where the hero is apotheosized to the level of a deity and a legend in his own mind.
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So I just asked her, there on that airplane, I said 'Darlin', how long has it been since you had a nice long roll in the hay with a guy like me who knows what for?'
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Comey: "Not all heroes wear capes"
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[HotAir] When Mick Mulvaney served in the House, he tried to warn colleagues that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was too independent of Congress. Now that he’s running the CFPB, Mulvaney wants to demonstrate just how correct he was. For the second straight day, the acting director has told a congressional panel that he can just sit in front of them all day and ignore their questions, and there’s nothing they can do about it: Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), told a Senate panel on Thursday that he’s not legally bound to answer lawmakers’ questions, only to appear before them, in comments meant to stress his agency’s independence. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
"While I have to be here by statute, I don’t think I have to answer your questions," Mulvaney told the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. "If you take a look at the actual statute that requires me to be here, it says that I ’shall appear’ before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate. And I’m here and I’m happy to do it." He tried to tell them, but noooo.
Mulvaney delivered the same message to the House yesterday. In testimony before the Financial Services committee, Mulvaney pointed out that the enabling statute for the CFPB only required him to show up when asked. Otherwise, he could just as well twiddle his thumbs or answer e-mails rather than answering any questions from Congress:
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He schooled Maxine "Impeach 45!" Waters but she was too stupid to know it
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[Politico] A day after Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, threatened the impeachment of FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the Justice Department on Wednesday turned over the document that launched the bureau’s Russia investigation in 2016, cooling the latest confrontation between House Republicans and intelligence community leaders. Still some redactions.
Nunes, a California Republican, had demanded an unredacted version of the document by Wednesday afternoon, and the Justice Department provided one with a few redactions that it deemed necessary for national security. Nunes praised the cooperation and said the document would aid his committee’s "ongoing investigation" of the department and the FBI. I want to know who the contact was and what country.
"I’d like to thank Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein for his partial cooperation today," he said.
Partial cooperation.
Nunes had threatened late Tuesday to seek the impeachment of Wray and Rosenstein if they failed to meet his demands, an extraordinary escalation of tensions that underscored eroding relations between the House Intelligence Committee and the Justice Department.
"We’re not going to just hold in contempt," Nunes said on Fox News. "We will have a plan to hold in contempt and impeach." Hold their feet to the fire.
Nunes has been furious with the agencies over attempts to obtain the two-page document that the FBI used to initiate its investigation of the Trump campaign’s Russia contacts. That document, which The New York Times reported on in December, revealed that the inquiry was launched because of an intelligence tip that George Papadopoulos, a campaign foreign policy aide, had revealed to an Australian diplomat indicating that Russia had obtained negative material about Hillary Clinton.
The revelation undercut claims that the investigation had been launched as a result of a disputed so-called dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British spy, whose work was funded indirectly by the Clinton campaign and which President Donald Trump has dismissed as fiction. A formerly classified memo released in February by the House intelligence panel, with Trump’s approval, later confirmed that the FBI began its Russia inquiry because of the information from Papadopoulos.
But Nunes says the FBI had refused to turn over an unredacted version of the Papadopoulos document, despite a subpoena and demands dating back to August. He set a new deadline for Wednesday, and told the Fox News host Laura Ingraham that the decision on contempt and impeachment would depend on whether Wray and Rosenstein met the new deadline.
A Justice Department official said the document it submitted to Congress contained just a handful of redactions intended to mask the name of a foreign country and a foreign agent.
"These words must remain redacted after determining that revealing the words could harm the national security of the American people by undermining the trust we have with this foreign nation," the official said.
The official said that through the document, plus the provision of 1,000 pages of additional classified material, the Justice Department had "substantially satisfied Chairman Nunes’ August subpoena in an appropriate fashion."
In his statement, Nunes noted that that subpoena remained in effect.
A move to impeach two top officials at the Justice Department ‐ both appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate ‐ would have been an extraordinary confrontation between Congress and federal law enforcement. Several of Nunes’ colleagues had endorsed holding Rosenstein and Wray in contempt of Congress.
Democrats contend that there was a darker element to Nunes’ aggressive posture toward Rosenstein and Wray: giving Trump a rationale for removing them.
"Chairman Nunes’ threat of contempt proceedings, and of impeachment, serves insidious purposes: to intimidate DOJ and FBI, to provide the president with a pretext to fire Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and FBI Director Wray, and to undermine special counsel [Robert] Mueller’s investigation," said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. "The chairman’s rhetoric is a shocking and irresponsible escalation of the GOP’s attacks on the FBI and DOJ."
Schiff said the Justice Department had already shared ample information, including sensitive material connected to the Russia investigation, that Republicans subsequently released through an unprecedented process that included a move by Trump to declassify information over the FBI’s objections. I think this is misdirection. We were told earlier that the Steele dossier was used.
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Appears they've once again, successfully masked foreign intelligence service involvement. Nothing from Admiral Rogers at NSA? I thought not.
BTW, with FB and the POMS, why do we even need an NSA ?
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I want to know who the contact was and what country.
The country is Australia and I forget the name of the contact. This information has been known for quite some time. It has been discussed at length on The Conservative Treehouse.
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Alexander John Gosse Downer AC (born 9 September 1951) is an Australian diplomat and former politician who is the current High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, in office since 2014. He was previously Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and earlier served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995.
In 2005 Australian members of the spiritual group Falun Gong launched action against Downer in the ACT Supreme Court alleging that his department had unfairly limited their freedom of expression.[30][31]
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade under Downer was accused by Chinese diplomat and defector Chen Yonglin of closely collaborating with the Chinese Embassy in Canberra, even to the extent of "giving suggestions to the Chinese Government on how to handle difficult political cases." Downer was accused of pursuing an unduly strong pro-China policy and failing to address human rights violations adequately.[32]
In September 2007, on the sidelines of the 2007 APEC Conference in Sydney, Downer indicated that Australia planned to launch bilateral ministerial-level security talks with the People's Republic of China. Downer also stated, "China is a good partner of Australia. Whatever the differences there are between us in terms of our political systems, human rights issues, China is a very important part of the strategic architecture, the security architecture of the Asia-Pacific region and it's important we have good forums to discuss any issues of that kind with them.
The Australian (2011). Huawei names John Brumby, Alexander Downer board members. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
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