[Free Beacon] Former FBI Director James Comey revealed Thursday that he provided excerpts of his memos to a friend with the understanding that they would be given to reporters.
Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that after President Donald Trump tweeted that he might have "tapes" of their conversations, he realized his private memos might set the record straight.
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Daniel C. Richmanis the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
Richman is a former federal prosecutor who served as chief appellate attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and has served as a consultant to the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury on federal criminal matters. Richman was the Brendan Moore Professor in Advocacy at Fordham Law School before joining Columbia Law School’s faculty. In 2004, Richman was appointed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as chairman of the Local Conditional Release Commission. He is currently an adviser to FBI Director James B. Comey.
Richman's scholarly writings include more than 30 law review articles. He has offered testimony as an expert in a number of congressional hearings, and state, federal, and international criminal and civil matters.
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"I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter," he said. "I didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel."
Snowflake pajama boy didn't deserve to be head of the FBI. No better than the DC snipers John Allen Muhammad and Malvo taking shots. He is a duplicitous weasel who is not to be trusted.
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The Director of the FBI leaking a memorandum? WTF, maybe he is Pajama Boy having hot chocolate. Well, the hearings were a typical congressional circus, but they sure revealed the character of this ex (thank G-D)FBI director.
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Geez. A leaker and an officer of the court.
The felony possibilities multiply.
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[BREITBART] Thursday during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, former FBI Director James Comey said former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch had asked him to call the FBI investigation into former Secretary of State and then-Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... ’s handling of classified information on a private email server a "matter."
Comey said, "There were other things that contributed to that. One significant item I can’t. I know the committee’s been briefed on. There’s been public accounts of it which are nonsense. But I understand the committee has been briefed on the classified facts. Probably the only other consideration I guess can talk about in an open setting is at one point the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation but instead to call it matter, which confused me and concerned me. But that was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the department if we’re to close this case credibly."
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Put Comey and Lynch in adjoining cells at Supermax, and call it "Protective Custody".
1. Clinton is a clueless rascal who can't handle classified, but we won't pursue due to lack of 'intent.'
2. The Russians are evil manipulating bastids.
3. Trump is a liar whom can't be trusted.
4. The media is evil and often gets it wrong.
5. Jeff Sessions and the Russians are in cahoots.
6. Lynch manipulated the FBI mission, but I went along with it because she was my boss.
7. I am a besieged paragon of virtue and patriotism (think Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket), but sometimes I have trouble sleeping.
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Did Comey also perjure himself under oath? Comey leaked privileged information to a friend, some of which was classified? The NYTs was also involved in this boondoggle.
Does this drama queen face time in the Greybar Hotel? Mueller going to look into this?
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Lynch is now saying Comey is a liar. She never told him to call the investigation of Hillary a matter.
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Comey keystroked those memos on an FBI computer while, he was the Director of the FBI. Those are not his memo's to own and then leak. They are "work product" subject to FBI info handling protocols.
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Comey keystroked those memos on an FBI computer while, he was the Director of the FBI. Those are not his memo's to own and then leak. They are "work product" subject to FBI info handling protocols.
Exactly, and NONE of the emails that Hillary received and sent (whether deleted or retained) were HER'S--they belonged to the Citizens of this Nation. I cannot believe that so many of our people lack this fundamental understanding. It doesn't matter her "intent", nor does it matter what the content of the emails were. They simply DID NOT BELONG TO HER, and any action she took to the contrary was a VIOLATION OF THE LAW.
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Comey, as a result of his testimony yesterday, may provide entry into the DNC shenanigans, Hillary's election rigging, selling our uranium to Russia, pay-for-play, white-collar crime, etc...kind of like Harry Reid and his nuclear option--the gift that keeps on giving.
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Comey, as a result of his testimony yesterday, may provide entry into the DNC shenanigans, Hillary's election rigging, selling our uranium to Russia, pay-for-play, white-collar crime, etc...kind of like Harry Reid and his nuclear option--the gift that keeps on giving.
[PJ] On June 3, PJ Media reported that although Theresa May's Conservatives still had an edge in the general election polls, the socialist Labour Party was catching up. Well, according to Sky News, Britain will indeed have a "hung parliament," meaning that the Tories have lost their majority and can only remain in power by forming a coalition government.
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It could be the remainaics in the Tory party tried to throw the election.
I saw zero campaigning and the campaign management was awful.
Then all the terrorism happened and the response was dismal.
Plus Corbyn ran a Trump style meet the people thing where he went up and down the country. He mainly met activisits BUT they liked it and went out. TMay? Did feck all.
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London has a Muslim mayor and he's apparently feeling no blowback over the latest attack there. The Brits may be done. They apparently have no will to fight.
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The problem is that the trajectory of the country is not really affected by political events or elections. Brits will not be able to vote themselves out of this trajectory.
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I paraphrase. She said something like, 'We couldn't have predicted it, and there was nothing we could do to stop it.'
My response was must not have read any Israeli news for the last 10 years.
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"We couldn't have predicted it, and there was nothing we could do to stop it"
I remember that. It sounds just like typical American political blather that indicates they will do better without taking blame for failure. I guess I underestimated the response that would get.
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Get the f&$k over it. You aren't president. You will never be president. By all rights you should be succumbing to your many illnesses while slowing rotting in a federal penitentiary.
[The Hill] A former FBI agent said he felt "completely disgusted" after reading the prepared testimony of former FBI Director James Comey regarding interactions with President Trump.
"I read this and I literally wanted to rinse myself off afterwards," James Gagliano said on CNN.
"I felt completely disgusted."
Gagliano's comments came after Wednesday's release of the opening statement Comey is set to deliver Thursday to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Trump repeatedly sought to influence the FBI's investigation into Russian election meddling before firing Comey as the bureau's director, according to the testimony Comey is set to deliver.
Comey's opening statement details multiple interactions with the president, including a January dinner at the White House where Trump said he needed and expected the FBI director's loyalty.
Gagliano on CNN also described the interactions between Trump and Comey.
"Beginning with that first awkward handshake that we saw on camera when Director Comey and the president met and ... it started out as a handshake, turned into kind of a half hug," Gagliano said.
"You could tell -- it was palpable -- how uncomfortable Director Comey was."
"For 48 years ... FBI Director [J. Edgar] Hoover pulled puppet strings, and had presidents on their heels," he added. "We now have a president that was attempting to put an FBI director on his heels."
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There's the rub: Bureaucratic institutional Washington sees the President as a temporary nuisance who must be brought to heel. This particular voter does not see it that way and I'm sure I'm not alone...
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A definate "rub." The last guy was a totally compliant, 'Affirmative Action' Deep State puppet. Wars, bread & circuses, a giddy Hollywood, regime changes, an unending list of new laws and regulations and expanded government and costly new programs.
This new fellow is our punishment for daring to elect someone from outside the beltway party [sarc].
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"Beginning with that first awkward handshake that we saw on camera when Director Comey and the president met and ... it started out as a handshake, turned into kind of a half hug," Gagliano said. "You could tell -- it was palpable -- how uncomfortable Director Comey was."
Comey: "I expected Hillary"
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Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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This woman has beaucoup criminality coming at her from many directions: the Clinton Foundation, pay-for-play, large-scale theft, perjury during Congressional hearings, having an illegal server and mishandling classified info among a few.
Wouldn't it be prudent to go after her for some of these things. She'd pick up a felony conviction and get knocked out of politics for 2010 and probably forever. This would protect the American people from the ever-present existential threat she presents to them. Besides, she hates us all.
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Give him (McShame) a break! He's still attempting to locate 'moderate muslims' which must be quite frustrating. Imagine waking up looking into the mirror each morning with that cock-up hanging around your neck. Pity the poor swamp creature.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] In his written and spoken testimony on Thursday, Comey said that he never felt that Trump had tried to impede the FBI's investigation into Russia, even that the president had encouraged it and he suggested that former national security adviser Mike Flynn wasn't at the heart of the investigation.
"The assumption of the critics of the president, of his pursuers, you might say, is that somewhere along the line in the last year is the president had something to do with colluding with the Russians ... to affect the election in some way," Matthews said on MSNBC, following the testimony.
"And yet what came apart this morning was that theory," Matthews said, listing two reasons why. First, he said Comey revealed that "Flynn wasn't central to the Russian investigation," and secondly, he said that kills the idea that Flynn might have been in a position to testify against Trump.
"And if that's not the case, where's the there-there?" Matthews said.
In his testimony, Comey confirmed media reports that Trump had asked him if he could drop the FBI investigation into Flynn and that the president had asked for his "loyalty." But Comey also asserted that he had told Trump that he was not personally under any investigation and that the president had encouraged the Russia investigation, even if it implicated any of his associates.
The hearing lasted nearly three hours and was followed by additional closed testimony in the Senate.
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When you lose Chris Matthews, what do you have left?
[Free Beacon] The Obama administration "systematically disbanded" law enforcement investigative units across the federal government focused on disrupting Iranian, Syrian, and Venezuelan terrorism financing networks out of concern the work could cause friction with Iranian officials and scuttle the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a former U.S. official who spent decades dismantling terrorist financial networks.
David Asher, who previously served as an adviser to Gen. John Allen at the Defense and State Departments, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday that top officials across several key law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the Obama administration "systematically disbanded" law enforcement activities targeting the terrorism financing operations of Iran, Hezbollah, and Venezuela in the lead-up to and during the nuclear negotiations with Tehran.
"Senior leadership, presiding, directing, and overseeing various sections [of these agencies] and portions of the U.S. intelligence community systematically disbanded any internal or external stakeholder action that threatened to derail the administration's policy agenda focused on Iran," he testified.
Asher now serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Illicit Finance and is an adjunct fellow at the Center for New American Security, two national security think tanks.
He attributed the motivation for decisions to dismantle the investigative units to "concerns about interfering with the Iran deal," a reference to the nuclear deal forged between the U.S., five other world powers, and Iran during the final years of the Obama administration.
As a result, "several top cops" retired and the U.S. government lost their years of expertise.
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ValJar's influence
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I'm afraid this might be jut the tip of the iceberg concerning Barack Obama's administration support of the Terrorist nation Iran and terrorists in general.
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ValJar, the most successful foreign agent in US history. The breadth of her actions to aid Iran is staggering, yet virtually invisible to the investigative geniuses of the MSM. Why is that?
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Honestly, was Obama just a fool with Grima Wormtongue hadnling Iranian deals for him, or was in actively undermining US policy because he felt Iran wasn't a threat (or wouldn't be if treated nicely).
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Sure, Val, everybody should have cheap, affordable, comprehensive health care. As long as somebody else pays for it.
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These petulant, communist lizards cannot stray far from the public eye. Please keep talking Val. Voluntarily declaring one's self a 'leaker' of sensitive (if not classified) documents to the NYT is gaining popularity. Your turn may soon come.
[THEHILL] The House of Representatives on Thursday passed sweeping legislation to strip and replace much of the financial regulations passed under President B.O. after the 2008 financial crisis.
The House passed the Financial CHOICE Act 233-186, along party lines. The bill is not expected to pass the Senate.
Why not?
Sponsored by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the CHOICE Act is the most ambitious Republican effort to roll back the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, passed in 2010. Republicans have long targeted Dodd-Frank, saying it has created a crushing regulatory burden that suffocates small businesses and banks while empowering unaccountable babus bureaucrats.
"Dodd-Frank represents the greatest imposition on our business enterprises than all Obama era regulations combined," Hensarling said Thursday morning in a briefing with news hounds. "In many respects, it was not a response to the financial crisis, but a grab bag of leftist ideas that were waiting on the shelf for quite some time."
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Why not?
Dunno for sure but my guess would be McCain and Graham.
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Senate is expected to filibuster. That's probably why the Schlappschwaenze in the House were willing to pass this in the first place, kind of like when they only vote to repeal Obamacare when there's no chance of its being signed.
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