Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation

Sounds like he needs to be investigated himself.

 

Not sounds like, he does need to be investigated.

 

So, if Obama told Lynch to go to Phoenix and meet with Bill Clinton just prior to the FBI finishing their investigation of Hillary we can assume Lynch squashed the Investigation?

 

Does it bother you that AG Loretta Lynch met on a private plane with Bill Clinton just before it was announced no charges would be filed against Hillary? Doesn't it bother you that Obama invoked Executive Privilege over eMails on Fast and Furious where 2 American Law Enforcement people were killed by Fast and Furious guns? Should I keep going?

 

No, I'd rather you stay on topic.

Legalities aside, should the President have told the FBI Director he hoped the FBI would drop the investigation into the former NSA director's ties with Russia? Is that something you support?

 

No even close nor would he say so. Perhaps you should be listening to Prof. Turley tonight laying to rest your fallacious view of the law governing obstruction of justice.

 

And why didn't he have the guts to do it himself?

 

Comey can de-classify conversations with the President. Only the President can do that.

 

Conversations with the President are classified and subject to Executive Privilege.

 

You can assume what you want. This is about Trump, Flynn and Comey

 

Why shouldn't he have done that? He wanted a private conversation, during which he said he wanted the loyalty of the FBI leader. Is that really such a big deal?

This whole scam has been a waste of time and money. The only thing it demonstrates is how people can get highly agitated over something which occurs naturally every day. You can see there was no obstruction here, as stated by Comney.

 

Comney has identified himself as a leaker and his professor friend was probably a regular conduit. But the fact that Trump wanted to get to the bottom of any Russian involvement among any of his 'satellites' clearly shows Trumps lack of involvement with anything Russian.

This seems a real problem for the Democrats because they have so much time and effort invested trying to find a phony scandal that they now have nowhere else to go. Everyone has become accustomed to Maxine Waters, for example, being a fool but what does that say about the people who voted for her? Between her and the rioting PCers, the Democrats are now being led by a very shady group of sheep dogs, leading their flock in several directions around the pasture, and will say or do anything to try and stay in power.

 

He didn't so your point makes no sense

 

Actually he did, depends on the Trump explainer's skill set. Comey literally buried him yesterday........now it's just a matter of time.

 

Lynch is all about Comey.

 

Comey buried himself. First of all he broke the law. His notes are not personal notes but government documents that he leaked to the press. This is the same guy that was supposed to be investigating leaks. The FBI director serves at the pleasure of the president not himself. Lynch asked him to do something and he did it. No one has ever been prosecuted for hoping for something.

 

Keep your head buried................Comey buried both Trump and Sessions. Trump has his word only....................produce the tapes or **** Crooked Donnie. Comey has his word, his notes, the witnesses he told, the chronology of the timeline is on his side. Comey can't leak his own notes, he stated they were written specifically in an unclassified manner and their were his own recollections. Don't let Trump/FOX spin you with the shiny object., that's a nothing burger.

 

So? Include Lynch in it if you want

 

Comey also probably broke a non-disclosure agreement. Unclassified documents are still federal records and it is against the law to disseminate them without permission, that is what FOIA requests are for.

Comey buried only himself. His butthurt opinion is about as good as his wrongful decision to decide what was prosecutable for Hillary, which is not something the FBI does, that is the purview of the DOJ.

 

You should re-check your sources of information.

Even die-hard Chris Matthews recognized the jig was up. http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/08/matthews-russia-collusion-theory-came-apart-video/

 

SEN. RON WYDEN: ...In talking to senator Warner about this dinner that you had with the president, I believe January 27th, all in one dinner, the president raised your job prospects, he asked for your loyalty and denied allegations against him. All took place over one supper. Now, you told senator Warner that the president was looking to, quote, get something. Looking back, did that dinner suggest that your job might be contingent on how you handled the investigation?

COMEY: I don't know that I'd go that far. I got the sense my job would be contingent upon how he felt I — excuse me — how he felt I conducted myself and whether I demonstrated loyalty. But I don't know whether I'd go so far as to connect it to the investigation.

WYDEN: He said the president was trying to create some sort of patronage. Behaving in a manner consistent with the wishes of the boss?

COMEY: Yes. At least consider how what you're doing will affect the boss as a significant consideration.

WYDEN: Let me turn to the attorney general. In your statement, you said that you and the FBI leadership team decided not to discuss the president's actions with Attorney General Sessions, even though he had not recused himself. What was it about the attorney general's interactions with the Russians or his behavior with regard to the investigation that would have led the entire leadership of the FBI to make this decision?

COMEY: Our judgment, as I recall, is that he was very close to and inevitably going to recuse himself for a variety of reasons. We also were aware of facts that I can't discuss in an opening setting that would make his continued engagement in a Russia-related investigation problematic. So we were convinced — in fact, I think we'd already heard the career people were recommending that he recuse himself, that he was not going to be in contact with Russia-related matters much longer. That turned out to be the case.

WYDEN: How would you characterize Attorney General Sessions's adherence to his recusal? In particular, with regard to his involvement in your firing, which the president has acknowledged was because of the Russian investigation.

COMEY: That's a question I can't answer. I think it is a reasonable question. If, as the president said, I was fired because of the Russia investigation, why was the attorney general involved in that chain? I don't know. So I don't have an answer for the question.

WYDEN: Your testimony was that the president's request about Flynn could infect investigation. Had the president got what he wanted and what he asked of you, what would have been the effect on the investigation?

COMEY: We would have closed any investigation of general Flynn in connection with his statements and encounters — statements about encounters with Russians in the late part of December. We would have dropped an open criminal investigation.

WYDEN: So in effect, when you talk about infecting the enterprise, you would have dropped something major that would have spoken to the overall ability of the American people to get the facts?

COMEY: Correct. And as good as our people are, our judgment was, we don't want them hearing that the president of the United States wants this to go away because it might have an effect on their ability to be fair, impartial and aggressive.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/08/full-text-james-comey-trump-russia-testimony-239295

 

Killing with the facts............testimony per the record.

 

BTW: Jeff Sessions is going to be appearing, under oath, next Tuesday in front of the senate subcommittee.

 

Everybody is all focused on the legal ramifications of yesterdays testimony, yet there's still a Special Prosecutor out there combing through a lot more than James Comey's relationship with the President. This is not the end, by any stretch.

My question was not to ask whether you believe speaking alone with Mr Comey was wrong; my question was, and remains, do you support the President, share his hopes, that the FBI not investigate into Flynn's dealings with Russia (and subsequent failure to disclose them), and let it go?

I'm unclear as to which part you're referring to; that he did not kick everyone out of the office to be left alone with Comey or he didn't privately tell Comey he hoped the investigation into his former aid's ties with Russia would go away. Please elaborate.