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The Comey Memos Are Here
The Associated Press has obtained the memos drafted by former FBI Director James Comey on his interactions with President Donald Trump. You can find all of them 
The memo’s help the President: No obstruction; no collusion; no porn stars.
Jon,
It looks like Comey is the biggest Zero ever to run a major Washington Agency much less the FBI.
Truly the Comey Comeleon.
Regards,
Jim
He is a strange man. Is this normal for the FBI? The memos are very personal.
This didn’t age well:
Pres. Trump reminds me of some of the smartest people I know who happen to be over 60 years old: he says the same things over and over again, and he asks the same questions over and over again. I’m not passing judgement on that. It is what it is.
I read the whole thing. It was not a page turner.
Isn’t just amazing that there are zero records on Madame Clinton. No recordings, memo’s, nothing.
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
I quit reading after a few pages.
it reads like a diary that of petty note taking, retelling in a deliberately condescending manner.
Example, conversation by jigsaw puzzle.
Comey doesn’t hide his agenda well, and, as someone else pointed out, is it odd nothing, zero, zilch, nada, on her highness Hillary?
Tell me again why these were held back?
I would take the time to read the memos but I need to clean my cat’s litter box.
Comey: I sat there in the airplane, looked into my paper cup and contemplated my whine…
Well hand me them memos, I gotta freshen up the parrot cage.
It’s the same for some of us not “the smartest people” you know, too.
At the gym this morning, excepts from the memo were front and center on CNN, for nearly the entire 5:30 – 6:30 AM time I was on the treadmill. They did their earnest best t0 find whatever dirt they could. CNN has a history of being shrill, this, however, was fumblingly dreadful catty nothingness.
I think it’s wise to repeat yourself. Scott Adams says it’s an essential element of persuasion. You ask the same questions over and over again to see if the answer changes, especially if yo didn’t like the answer the last time you asked.
Sure am glad Trump and Putin discussed the quality of Russian prostitutes.
Am I the only person who read those memos and thought: Comey has been entirely consistent in his public statements so far?
We need to address the Prostitute Gap before it damages our credibility on the world stage.
There are so many responses I can come up with here, but none of them are CoC compliant.
You mean he hasn’t said anything worth hearing?
No, just that his story is pretty consistent. Consistency is usually something to look for when determining truthfulness.
Jamie Lockett:
“Am I the only person who read those memos and thought: Comey has been entirely consistent in his public statements so far?”
Apparently so. Let us hear from the joint statement of Representatives Nunes, Gowdy and Goodlatte:
‘These memos are significant for both what is in them and what is not,” begins the joint statement, which goes on to completely dress down the FBI and James Comey:
Sorry, which ones of these points demonstrates that Comey has been inconsistent in his statements? These are the interpretations of Nunes, Gowdy and Goodlatte, I think based on what I read in the memo some of them are valid and others aren’t. Then again I’m old enough to remember when Gowdy’s name was mud around here (that is I’m more than a week old).
Hee.
The Comey Memos Read Like The Diary Entries Of A Young Teenager
This.
A Thousand Times This.
From Sean Davis:
“As it turns out, however, the information leaked by Comey was classified, and the records in his possession were clearly government records which Comey was not authorized to possess or distribute. How do we know the information was classified? Because the FBI itself told Congress as much. In fact, the information leaked by Comey was so sensitive that members of Congress were not even allowed to read the memos he wrote outside of a Special Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, a highly secure room or area designed to prevent classified information consumed within from being improperly distributed.”
But, but, but weren’t we told that Comey was “entirely consistent” in his public statements? It’s sad but the truth is always relative to the closed mind of the Leftist Progressive and because of that he or she will never admit that truth particularly when it hurts the Progressive cause.
As it turns out the Memos were apparently classified in December 2017. After Comey was fired and long after he leaked them. They were marked confidential: the lowest level of classification. Since Comey was an OCA himself at most this amounts to a judgement call and no criminal action. It also appears that someone marked the memos classified after Comey left and after the existence of the memos became public with the express purpose of undermining them once they were released.
I don’t know about the motive of the person or persons that marked them “Confidential”, and it maybe different now, but in my time “Confidential” was almost nothing. Getting clearance for access to confidential material was pretty much just a matter of filling out a form.
From Zero Hedge:
“Attorney General Jeff Sessions told the White House recently that he might quit if his President Trump fires Deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein.
Sessions reportedly warned White House counsel Donald McGahn of his position in a phone call last weekend according to the WaPo, while President Trump’s rage at Rosenstein grew over the Deputy AG’s approval of a raid on Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s home, office and hotel room on April 9 – requested by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “
Great! We the people could get a wonderful two-fer.
The Constitution demands that Donald Trump “take care” to enforce the laws of these United States. He has been failing in his job to enforce the law. He has allowed a cabal of current and previous government officials including Sessions, Rosenstein, Mueller, Comey, Brennan, Lynch et al, to collude and conspire to massively obstruct justice in too many numerous ways to count.
Trump should fire Rosenstein immediately to further the cause of justice. Rosenstein has broken the law and cannot in any way continue lawfully in his role as Deputy Attorney General.
Rosenstein approved the extension of a obviously fraudulent FISA warrant and became yet another DOJ/FBI official to commit crimes in the unlawful collusion against Trump. He has a clear conflict of interest in his appointment of his friend Mueller, with also an obvious bias to protect the many officials he knows and has worked with who should also be prosecuted. His actions raise serious concerns of illegal advocate-witness prohibitions and furthermore he has also failed to properly supervise the malicious prosecutorial conduct of Mueller.
Thirteen House Republicans have called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a second special counsel to investigate the actions of Hillary Clinton and her staff, to investigate the Clinton email probe, and the start of the investigation into Russia’s election meddling and alleged surveillance abuses by the FBI.
Sessions refuses to appoint this absolutely justified Special Counsel investigating these incredibly serious allegations of massive wrongdoing by government officials. These allegations have been backed by mountains of evidence, so it would be a serious miscarriage of justice and an incredible assault against the rule of law if such lawbreaking were allowed to go unpunished. But that is exactly what Sessions has tried to do. Sessions has tried to avoid and stymie almost any attempt at investigating these horrendously illegal abuses of the FBI and DOJ. Jeff Sessions has purposely avoided his responsibility to take care to enforce the law and as such he should be fired immediately. So if he quits over the firing of Rosenstein, so be it.
Furthermore, if Rosenstein is fired, the new Solicitor General and Trump appointee Noel Francisco takes over the supervision of the seriously troubled Mueller investigation and could call for a new Special Counsel investigating the DOJ/FBI abuses. We could only hope that happens and that we may have finally some justice coming out of our “Department of Justice”.