More on the war against Trump: know-nothing Comey
In his recent testimony before the House of Representatives, James Comey presented himself as being something like a sleepwalker—he remembers nothing, knows nothing, and cannot even speculate on things he was involved in, much less ones that involved others in the agency he headed.
I think I can use this image without being called a racist, because Comey is white as the driven snow:
Comey doesn’t mind looking like a fool as long as he doesn’t implicate himself as a knave. He also knows that those who support him will see his tactic as a smart one—as any lawyer is aware, if a witness says he or she doesn’t know something it’s awfully hard to cite that person for perjury.
If you want to learn more about the details of what Comey professes not to know, please see this, this, and this. From the latter:
Somehow Comey managed not to know anything about the FBI’s most important case from the summer of 2016. He said that he hadn’t troubled himself to read the originating documents for Crossfire Hurricane and couldn’t be bothered to find out the agency’s claimed “predicate” for it.
As for the FBI’s most important “source” for Crossfire Hurricane, Christopher Steele, he showed no curiosity about him either, though Comey’s lawyer obviously coached him enough to repeat the sanitizing fable that Steele’s dirt-digging continued earlier work by Fusion GPS for Republicans. Comey claimed not to know that Hillary’s law firm paid Fusion GPS, but confidently stated that Republican money launched the “dossier” project, which is a falsehood. The Steele project was separate from Fusion GPS’s work for anti-Trump Republicans during the primaries.
How did Steele’s dossier get to the FBI? Comey plumb didn’t know! Did the FBI confirm his information? Comey couldn’t remember. Had he studied, before signing, the Carter Page warrant application that gave the FBI the power to rifle through Page’s life, both past and present? Nope; Comey didn’t think that necessary, though he did hear from someone that Page was supposedly working for the Russian government. Did he know that Steele had been dropped by the FBI for disseminating his paid opposition research on Trump to anti-Trump reporters? No, Comey didn’t, and wasn’t sure to this day if that had happened.
There’s so much more going on with all the anti-Trump investigations that to cover them all would take a full day of writing. So I’ll just give you some links. I warn you that they make for depressing reading, because just as it doesn’t seem that Comey will experience any consequences for his actions, it also seems as though these conspiracies may indeed bear just the fruit their planners intended: see this, this, and this.
Neo:
You can always be a racist nowadays. What does James Comey identify as? 🙂
Comey may not directly experience appropriate consequences but one way or another… consequences for everyone are going to manifest.
From what I read 250 questions were asked of Comey, and he answered “I don’t remember” 71 times, “I don’t know” 166 times, and “I don’t recall” 8 times, for a total of 245 non-answers.
Yet, based on past history, it’s pretty clear that Comey will suffer no adverse consequences for, in essence, giving the Committee, and us citizens, the finger.
See http://www.theamericanmirror.com/transcript-comey-didnt-know-answer-245-times/
The thing that caught my eye was that the questioners seemed to know a lot more about the answers than Comey professed to. If I were Comey, I would not have come out of that session feeling very good. In other words, the questions were asked in such a manner, it seemed to me that all they really wanted was for Comey to be put on the record under oath, for him to have answered honestly was not their goal, it seemed to me.
I kind of think those who ask question are supposed to know the correct answers before they ask the question in a legal procedure. I sure hope Comey is a real tall guy who is trying to bail out a leaking ship with too many holes.
Racist? The three monkeys are racist?
I kind of think those who ask question are supposed to know the correct answers before they ask the question in a legal procedure.
OldTexan: That’s the conventional legal wisdom.
Considering Comey wrote a book on the issues in question, not to mention his CYA memo to self after he met with Trump, Comey’s claims to recall almost nothing under oath are quite suspicious for those paying attention.
I think everyone is relying on information fatigue – just get it over with!
Comey says he doesn’t remember things, but turn the tables. Would the FBI let you day that you don’t remember things, No, they would not.
At this point in time, I do not trust anyone and I am adjusting my life & activities to deal with the outcome.I live in the middle of America so it will be easier to deal with whatever happens. I am prepared for a bit of time, depending on who I decide to help. Other people on the coasts, I don’t think they will survive any major disruption of supplies.
Look at their reaction to natural disasters. It is sad.
Shoot- the edit feature was not active –
“would the FBI let you SAY”, not day…fingers,what can I say?
FBI agents – Hey we want to begin an investigation on aides to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee with less than 5 months to go to the election.
Comey – Whatever.
FBI agents – Do you want to know why or see any of our evidence?
Comey – No, that’s okay. You guys got it. Trump isn’t going to win anyway so you’re all good. Just get me the paperwork to sign and you can go.
FBI agents – Cool. Yeah we’ll do whatever we can to make sure.
It seems like this was the real conversation from what I can glean from Comey’s testimony. Disengaged and uninvolved is really incompetence or trying to disguise what he really did.
If only he’d worn a pink suit he’d be just like Hillary, who couldn’t recall anything.
Colorful, yet not diverse. They are bronze-cast monkey figurines.
Hear no evil. Privacy.
See no evil. Censorship.
Speak no evil. #HateLovesAbortion.
“A wicked progression.”
Comey needs to be indicted. No one is above the law.
Some people just need a blanket party. That’s what can happen when you are too clever. I’ve got a sock filled with shaved soap just waiting.
I want to append an additional portion of the post Neo quoted, because I was thinking exactly the same thing:
“Don’t you feel relieved to know that FBI directors take such care with your civil liberties? Unbelievable. That Comey can talk about his “conscience” while so casually admitting such unprofessional indifference shows he doesn’t have one. It was dulled by years of breathtaking bureaucratic arrogance, summed up by a FISA “verification” process where the chief verifier doesn’t even know the most elementary facts of the case. “
Snow, huxley, and eeyore cover the rest of the territory, but I wonder what 5 questions did Comey answer, and how did he remember enough to write a book at all?
PS — too bad Trump didn’t just fire him by citing “he doesn’t know what his agency is doing” — but, of course, he did know and approved of all of it.
More double-standards at work, this time on the “lawyers for me but not for thee” aspect of Comey’s interview.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/memo-fbi-recommended-michael-flynn-not-have-lawyer-present-during-interview-did-not-warn-of-false-statement-consequences?platform=hootsuite
by Byron York
| December 11, 2018 10:36 PM
“Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who arranged the bureau’s interview with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 — the interview that ultimately led to Flynn’s guilty plea on one count of making false statements — suggested Flynn not have a lawyer present at the session, according to newly-filed court documents. In addition, FBI officials, along with the two agents who interviewed Flynn, decided specifically not to warn him that there would be penalties for making false statements because the agents wanted to ensure that Flynn was “relaxed” during the session.
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According to the 302, before the interview, McCabe and other FBI officials “decided the agents would not warn Flynn that it was a crime to lie during an FBI interview because they wanted Flynn to be relaxed, and they were concerned that giving the warnings might adversely affect the rapport.”
The agents had, of course, seen transcripts of Flynn’s wiretapped conversations with Russian then-ambassador Sergey Kislyak. “Before the interview, FBI officials had also decided that if ‘Flynn said he did not remember something they knew he said, they would use the exact words Flynn used … to try to refresh his recollection. If Flynn still would not confirm what he said … they would not confront him or talk him through it,'” the Flynn memo says, citing the FBI 302.
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In one striking detail, footnotes in the Flynn memo say the 302 report cited was dated Aug. 22, 2017 — nearly seven months after the Flynn interview. It is not clear why the report would be written so long after the interview itself.”
Do YOU remember the exact wording of any conversation you had more than a hour after it’s over?
I don’t.
But the agents apparently did, 7 months later (this delay is totally news to me, and totally outrageous. Why, indeed, the delay?
Flynn not only should not go to jail at all, he ought to be able to sue the FBI for unjust harassment and entrapment.
(Except the taxpayers have to pay both sides — it ought to come out of Comey’s book deal and likewise Brennan, Clapper, et al., all the way up and down the line. And put Hillary in jail.)
We can lie; but you can’t. And if you do lie, then we will make sure that you and your family and your friends suffer for it as much as we can and for as long as we can.
We can attack you; but you can’t fight back or defend yourself. And if you do dare to fight back or defend yourself, then you are, in fact, attacking us; and such naked and unprovoked aggression will be splayed on the front pages of all global media corporations and international organizations, where you will be smeared, excoriated, attacked and threatened. And justifiedly so.
We can steal elections; and there’s nothing you can do about it. But if you do try to do something about it, then you are baldly and illegally attempting to steal elections.
We can say anything about you—slander you, defame you, accuse you, shame you, call for your destruction; but if you stand up for yourself then you are a bald-faced boor and shameless liar who has exceeded all bounds of decency.
We can do anything we want and say anything want; and there’s not a thing you can do about it. And if you believe there is something you can do about it, then you are an enemy of the state and all things good.
We reserve the right to deploy the 2-minute hate (or rather, the 24/7 hate) because you have no moral right to exist. Claiming (or pleading) that you do have a right to exist is a severe provocation to all sense of morality and ethics and hence deserves only ridicule and excoriation. And ultimately destruction.
For the good of society. For the benefit of the country. For the health of the state. And what use are “laws” or “legalisms” or “The Constitution” when it comes to the good of society? Especially when such “laws” or “legalisms” or “Constitution” serve to defend the indefensible? Defend what ought to be banned? Defend what needs to disappear? Defend what must be destroyed?
We decide.
Don’t forget. We believed Hillary was a shoo-in and so didn’t do everything we could have done to ensure her victory.
Don’t forget. We will not allow this to happen again. No more Mr/Ms Nice Guy.
Don’t forget. We are the future. The arc of history is ours. We represent progress, while you are backward trogs, barbarians, savages.
You have been warned. (And you really ought to thank us…since scum like you don’t even deserve a warning.)
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Welcome to “Palestinian rules”.
Welcome to the “Democratic party”.
So much weaponizing of government since Obama, and yet I don’t recall anyone going to jail. So much assassination chic and virtue signalling from the pious scolds and moral superiors in the media. Now Comey smirks and pokes us in the eye yet again with his play acting, knowing that nothing will happen to him. Soon, the Demsheviks wiil retake control of the house and leverage Mueller’s report to launch and impeachment.
How much more will we stand for?
This comes to mind …
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
I escaped from California just in time.
A column in the Orange County Register about the election sounds like it was written by a character in a Kurt Schlicter novel. Where do they get these people ?
By the way, I have read his three novels and he has the jargon perfectly. He lives in LA and has a good ear. I just hope they stay fiction.
If not now, when? There are >200 million guns in the USA. The Yellow Jackets in France show us the way. But in our case, the military will join with us.
The present parody of Joostice only seems infinite. It is not. The chickens will roost.
None of them will be indicted; not Comey, not Strzok, not Lisa Page, not the Clintons. All of the lefties involved in this unbelievable conspiracy to undermine and destroy our duly elected president will remain free as birds. Lefties are, after all, immune from indictment. The irony is that the only one who may very well be indicted is the target of their conspiracy: Donald Trump.
My grandmother had an incense burner of the Three Wise Monkeys. Wonder what every happened to it.
Mike, OC is graying out the text because they don’t like my ad blocker (so, post ads that don’t trigger it, whydoncha?).
Headlines on the sidebar pretty much sum up the state of the union, not just in California.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/12/12/teacher-mourns-loss-of-30-year-old-lego-collection-smashed-by-vandals-at-san-clemente-elementary-school/
They didn’t even steal them, which might have been understandable.
Just destruction for the sake of destruction.
We won’t hear who did it unless they can be roped into the alt-right somehow (one of those white Hispanics maybe).