Posted on 12/17/2018 10:33:39 PM PST by Olog-hai
Former FBI Director James Comey had harsh words for House Republicans on Monday, saying their silence in response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the Justice Department is “shameful.”
Comey said Republicans “have to have the courage to stand up and speak the truth, not be cowed by mean tweets or fear of their base.”
He was on Capitol Hill for a second closed-door interview with two Republican-led committees investigating what they say was bias at the Justice Department before the 2016 presidential election. Republicans argue department officials conspired against Trump as they started an investigation into his ties to Russia and cleared Democrat Hillary Clinton in a separate probe of her email use. Democrats have called the GOP investigation “nonsense.”
Comey, who led both investigations, mocked the congressional probe, saying the questions were about “Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Steele dossier” — two favorite subjects of Republicans who insist there was bias in the department. The dossier was Democratic-funded opposition research on Trump’s ties to Russia compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
“This while the president of the United States is lying about the FBI, attacking the FBI and attacking the rule of law in this country. How does that make any sense at all?” Comey asked. …
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Hello kettle!
from 9 minutes 40 seconds in: FBI John Iannarelli, retired FBI agent. there’s nothing about this interview (with Flynn) that strikes me as the typical FBI interview. first, Strzok was Dep Asst Dir of the FBI. Dep Asst Directors DON’T conduct interviews. special Agents, street agents conduct interviews....that shows me that they were dealing with this outside the norm of FBI procedure.
Youtube: Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream 12/17/18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RZTZVc4zak
The guilty (Comey) will always have a hard time facing the truth because it indicts them and cuts them to the very core.
Faced with cutting truths, the guilty and corrupt will rail louder and louder in their protests, which as predicted, Comey is doing.
Me, too. I’d also like to meet him personally and tell him what a real POS he is.
Take this guy out and hang him . Leave the corpse to rot on the rope.
Comey is one tall glass of urine.
Over the target then
What is shameful is that this guy is not in prison for treason, sedition and malfeasance.
WE will see.
Assistant Director Mark Felt (Deep Throat) was prosecuted and convicted (for overreach while pursuing the Weather Underground). Former President Nixon even spoke on his behalf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Felt
William Mark Felt Sr. (August 17, 1913 – December 18, 2008) was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent and Associate Director, the Bureau’s second-highest-ranking post, from May 1972 until his retirement from the FBI in June 1973. During his time as Associate Director, Felt served as an anonymous informant, nicknamed “Deep Throat”, to reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post. He provided them with critical information about the Watergate scandal, which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974...
Felt worked in several FBI field offices prior to his promotion to the Bureau’s headquarters. In 1980, he was convicted of having violated the civil rights of people thought to be associated with members of the Weather Underground, by ordering FBI agents to break into their homes and search the premises as part of an attempt to prevent bombings. He was ordered to pay a fine, but was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan during his appeal.
...On February 17, 1973, Nixon nominated Gray as Hoover’s permanent replacement as Director.[48] Until then, Gray had been in limbo as Acting Director. In another taped conversation on February 28, Nixon spoke to Dean about Felt’s acting as an informant, and mentioned that he had never met him. Gray was forced to resign on April 27, after it was revealed that he had destroyed a file that had been in the White House safe of E. Howard Hunt.[49] Gray recommended Felt as his successor.
The day Gray resigned, Kleindienst spoke to Nixon, urging him to appoint Felt as head of the FBI. Nixon instead appointed William Ruckelshaus as Acting Director. Stanley Kutler reported that Nixon said, “I don’t want him. I can’t have him. I just talked to Bill Ruckelshaus and Bill is a Mr. Clean and I want a fellow in there that is not part of the old guard and that is not part of that infighting in there.”[50] On another White House tape, from May 11, 1973, Nixon and White House Chief of Staff, Alexander M. Haig, spoke of Felt leaking material to The New York Times. Nixon said, “he’s a bad guy, you see.” He said that William Sullivan had told him of Felt’s ambition to be Director of the Bureau.[51]
...In the early 1970s, Felt had supervised Operation COINTELPRO, initiated by Hoover in the 1950s. This period of FBI history has generated great controversy for its abuses of private citizens’ rights. The FBI was spying on, infiltrating, and disrupting the Civil Rights Movement, Anti-War Movement, Black Panthers, and other New Left groups. By 1972 Felt was heading the investigation into the Weather Underground, which had planted bombs at the Capitol, the Pentagon, and the State Department building. Felt, along with Edward S. Miller, authorized FBI agents to break into homes secretly in 1972 and 1973, without a search warrant, on nine separate occasions. These kinds of FBI operations were known as “black bag jobs.” The break-ins occurred at five addresses in New York and New Jersey, at the homes of relatives and acquaintances of Weather Underground members. They did not contribute to the capture of any fugitives. The use of “black bag jobs” by the FBI was declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in the Plamondon case, 407 U.S. 297 (1972)...
In 1976, Felt publicly stated he had ordered break-ins, and recommended against punishment of individual agents who had carried out orders. Felt also stated that Patrick Gray had also authorized the break-ins, but Gray denied this. Felt said on the CBS television program Face the Nation he would probably be a “scapegoat” for the Bureau’s work.[55] “I think this is justified and I’d do it again tomorrow,” he said on the program. While admitting the break-ins were “extralegal”, he justified them as protecting the “greater good.” Felt said:
“To not take action against these people and know of a bombing in advance would simply be to stick your fingers in your ears and protect your eardrums when the explosion went off and then start the investigation.”
Griffin B. Bell, the Attorney General in the Jimmy Carter administration, directed investigation of these cases. On April 10, 1978, a federal grand jury charged Felt, Miller, and Gray with conspiracy to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens by searching their homes without warrants.
The indictment charged violations of Title 18, Section 241 of the United States Code and stated Felt and the others:
Did unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree together and with each other to injure and oppress citizens of the United States who were relatives and acquaintances of the Weatherman fugitives, in the free exercise and enjoyments of certain rights and privileges secured to them by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America.[56]
Felt told his biographer Ronald Kessler: I was shocked that I was indicted. You would be too, if you did what you thought was in the best interests of the country and someone on technical grounds indicted you.[57]
Felt, Gray, and Miller were arraigned in Washington, DC on April 20. Seven hundred current and former FBI agents were outside the courthouse applauding the “Washington Three”, as Felt referred to himself and his colleagues in his memoir.[58] Gray’s case did not go to trial and was dropped by the government for lack of evidence, on December 11, 1980.
Felt and Miller attempted to plea bargain with the government, willing to agree to a misdemeanor guilty plea to conducting searches without warrants—a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2236. The government rejected the offer in 1979. After eight postponements, the case against Felt and Miller went to trial in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on September 18, 1980.[59] On October 29, former President Richard M. Nixon appeared as a rebuttal witness for the defense. He testified that in authorizing the Bureau to conduct break-ins to gather foreign intelligence information “he was acting on precedents established by a number of Presidential directives dating to 1939.” It was Nixon’s first courtroom appearance since his resignation in 1974. Nixon also contributed money to Felt’s defense fund, since Felt’s legal expenses were running over $600,000 by then. Also testifying were former Attorneys General Mitchell, Kleindienst, Herbert Brownell Jr., Nicholas Katzenbach, and Ramsey Clark, all of whom said warrantless searches in national security matters were commonplace and understood not to be illegal. Mitchell and Kleindienst denied they had authorized any of the break-ins at issue in the trial. (The Bureau used a national security justification for the searches because it alleged the Weather Underground was in the employ of Cuba.[60])
The jury returned guilty verdicts on November 6, 1980. Although the charge carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, Felt was fined $5,000 and Miller was fined $3,500.[57] Writing an OpEd piece in The New York Times a week after the conviction, attorney Roy Cohn claimed that Felt and Miller were being used as scapegoats by the Carter administration and it was an unfair prosecution. Cohn wrote the break-ins were the “final dirty trick” of the Nixon administration, and there had been no “personal motive” to their actions.[61] The New York Times praised the convictions, saying “the case has established that zeal is no excuse for violating the Constitution.”[62]
Comey is a desperate partisan. But they are all going to the mattresses against Trump.
Freakishly tall dudes like him at 6’8” die younger naturally.
Wonder if Reggie "Shove" Love ever got jealous?
Betcha that Flynn didn’t find out until afterwards that Strokin-It was a Comey ball-washer...
Actually, I sense desperation in Comey. I hope I am right.
A FISA warrant is supposed to be the most strict of warrants as it goes outside of the normal processes. It must be totally validated by the rules governing this type of warrant.
Jim Comey has testified that he did not know of the Hillary and DNC connection relative the financing of the Dossier by Steele whom will not validate the accuracy of the Dossier.
The monies came from the DNC and the Hillary campaign via a law firm and then to Fusion GPS which is a political hit squad that then hired Steele to create the phony Dossier.
At best Comey can only be described as incompetent. Comey is not incompetent but just a damn liar.
Comey is a criminal.
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It almost seems that way? He is not a stupid man but he has been making some foolish statements in recent weeks. He needs to get that ego in check or it will contribute to his criminal demise.
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