Interesting take from Wictor, but I don’t think Rice is throwing Obama under the bus.
The key sentence is the following: “The next part of your email remains classified.”
This is right before Obama asks Comey to give him a follow-up as to any changes.
Rice knows that with Yates and Comey there it would not be possible to be certain that the meeting would be a secret if there were ever an investigation. One or both would divulge it if asked.
My guess is that Rice is protecting Yates, Obama and the rest of the team and throwing Comey under the bus.
Whatever is in the redacted sentence(s) is the plan by someone about how to best posture the Steele dossier and the Trump campaign surveillance to protect themselves.
Obviously, the meeting came to the conclusion that they should reveal to Trump the dossier, but not the spying, which Comey did the next day.
Yates from DOJ is senior to Comey from FBI and we know she is an arrogant SJW. Remember, Yates is the one that wanted to hang Flynn for an absurd ‘Logan Act violation’ for talking to the Russian ambassador. She is a martyr to the Left for refusing as acting AG to implement extreme vetting of Muslims from terrorism regions.
No doubt the Left foresees SJW Yates as a future Court of Appeals judge, maybe even a Supreme Court justice or perhaps a senior figure in the next Dem administration. She needs to be protected from scandal so she can pass a Senate confirmation in the future.
In this meeting, in deciding the “national security” procedures to be followed in how to reveal/shield the dossier and the spying on Trump, it would naturally fall to the senior DOJ person to lay out the plan.
So I suspect in this email Rice blamed it all on Comey, not Yates.
And that she sent the email after an oral conversation with Obama that morning of the Inauguration or the previous day.
“I suspect in this email Rice blamed it all on Comey, not Yates.”
And that she sent the email after an oral conversation with Obama that morning of the Inauguration or the previous day.”
Looks like Rice had a lawyer help her write this email to herself.
With this email she threw Comey under the bus in case all of this ever got out in the open, like it has!
“My guess is that Rice is protecting Yates, Obama and the rest of the team and throwing Comey under the bus.”
I think Rice is protecting Herself. Comey has already been run over by about 2 dozen buses. She’s putting her self so tight to Obama that they can’t take her down without taking him down too. I think she feels very burned by how she was thrown to the wolves with the Benghazi lies and she isn’t going down again. So she hugs Obama close, knowing that she can’t take any hits unless they want to nail a former President - the first one not melanin challenged - too.
they should reveal to Trump the dossier, but not the spying, which Comey did the next day.
Can't tell from the way this sentence reads whether you think Comey told Trump about the spying. We now know definitively that Comey not only did not tell Trump about the spying, he didn't even tell Trump where The Dossier originated; which leaves open the very real possibility that Comey was implying he could blackmail Trump. "Terrible what's in here, salacious and unverified and all. Be a shame if it got out, Mr. President, but there's this guy in British Intelligence and ..."
Knowing all along that The Dossier had its origins in the Hillary campaign, laundered through CIA, FBI, and ex-MI6 contacts, but not revealing it to the President makes the likelihood that Comey is secretly a white hat very remote indeed. [That is another one of Wictor's "super clever" theories, which lately he's had to pull back on. He still think's Mueller is a good guy. That is almost equally preposterous given Mueller's history, his appointments to the SC staff, and his closeness to Jimmy The Weasel Comey.]