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What I See

Oh Lordy – FBI Leaker James Comey Spotted Entering New York Times… (Via Daily Mail) Former FBI director James Comey made a quiet visit to The New York Times on Thursday, one of few public outings since he admitted leaking stories to the newspaper about President Trump before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8. That's What I Saw Leaker Comey kept his sunglasses on and his gaze forward as he marched through the front entrance of the Times Square office building which houses the publication shortly after 6pm. He was accompanied by his wife Patrice Failor who also wore sunglasses. (read more with additional pictures)

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Guy Ellis

COMEY COMEY COMEY

If this is all Comey has ...  it’s not what Democrats had been hoping for   This is the “let this go” discussion that was the topic of prior leaks to the media. Interestingly, Comey and his small team decided not to tell anyone else about it, not even AG Jeff Sessions. Perhaps most important, Comey says the Trump comments were only as to Flynn, not as to the Russia probe. The official statement (pdf.) from James Comey, to be read during the hearing tomorrow, has bombshells — but they are helpful to Donald Trump. The statement is embedded in full at the bottom of this post. Comey confirms — contrary to media reports — that he told Trump that Trump was not personally under investigation. That’s a pretty big concession considering speculation that Trump himself was under investigation. Comey also paints a picture of Trump trying to put in a good word for Michael Flynn, but there is no suggestion that anything rising to the level of obstruction of justice was said. Also, Comey made clear that those comments did not relate to the general investigation of Russian interference in the election. We will have additional analysis shortly. Here are some key excerpts (mostly) in the order in which they appear, and how they relate to prior media reporting. All emphasis is added. Trump Not Personally Under Investigation Comey confirmed — three times in the statement — that he told Trump he was not under investigation. The fact of three such statements was in Trump’s termination letter of Comey, but the media discounted it and cited anonymous sources denying it. January 6 “In that context, prior to the January 6 meeting, I discussed with the FBI’s leadership team whether I should be prepared to assure President-Elect Trump that we were not investigating him personally. That was true; we did not have an open counter-intelligence case on him. We agreed I should do so if circumstances warranted. During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President Elect Trump’s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, I offered that assurance.” January 27 “During the dinner, the President returned to the salacious material I had briefed him about on January 6, and, as he had done previously, expressed his disgust for the allegations and strongly denied them. He said he was considering ordering me to investigate the alleged incident to prove it didn’t happen. I replied that he should give that careful thought because it might create a narrative that we were investigating him personally, which we weren’t, and because it was very difficult to prove a negative. He said he would think about it and asked me to think about it.” March 30 “I explained that we had briefed the leadership of Congress on exactly which individuals we were investigating and that we had told those Congressional leaders that we were not personally investigating President Trump. I reminded him I had previously told him that. He repeatedly told me, “We need to get that fact out.”” “Loyalty” – January 27 Dinner Trump’s alleged demand for a loyalty pledge has received a lot of media attention. Comey says the issue of loyalty came up, but when you read the context, it’s clear that Comey had a predisposition not to trust Trump, and left it vague as to what Trump demanded. You have to read the whole passage, though the media certainly will pull out certain clauses to make it seem more nefarious. “The President began by asking me whether I wanted to stay on as FBI Director, which I found strange because he had already told me twice in earlier conversations that he hoped I would stay, and I had assured him that I intended to. He said that lots of people wanted my job and, given the abuse I had taken during the previous year, he would understand if I wanted to walk away. My instincts told me that the one-on-one setting, and the pretense that this was our first discussion about my position, meant the dinner was, at least in part, an effort to have me ask for my job and create some sort of patronage relationship. That concerned me greatly, given the FBI’s traditionally independent status in the executive branch. I replied that I loved my work and intended to stay and serve out my ten year term as Director. And then, because the set-up made me uneasy, I added that I was not “reliable” in the way politicians use that word, but he could always count on me to tell him the truth. I added that I was not on anybody’s side politically and could not be counted on in the traditional political sense, a stance I said was in his best interest as the President. A few moments later, the President said, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.” I didn’t move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. We simply looked at each other in silence. The conversation then moved on, but he returned to the subject near the end of our dinner…. Near the end of our dinner, the President returned to the subject of my job, saying he was very glad I wanted to stay, adding that he had heard great things about me from Jim Mattis, Jeff Sessions, and many others. He then said, “I need loyalty.” I replied, “You will always get honesty from me.” He paused and then said, “That’s what I want, honest loyalty.” I paused, and then said, “You will get that from me.” As I wrote in the memo I created immediately after the dinner, it is possible we understood the phrase “honest loyalty” differently, but I decided it wouldn’t be productive to push it further. The term – honest loyalty – had helped end a very awkward conversation and my explanations had made clear what he should expect. Flynn Investigation and Russia Probe It is clear that Comey was uncomfortable with Trump’s personal pitch for Mike Flynn, but there is nothing in Comey’s narrative to suggest a corrupting or unlawful interference. February 14 Oval Office Meeting – “Let This Go”  FULL William A. Jacobson analysis Mark Finkelstein commented that, at the end of the day, both sides will  declare victory.  Which highlights the real problem.  The left establishment simply ignore truth, and have the media resources to tell a loyal audience of Millenials, Snowflakes, and die hard socialists that their center fielder was able to catch a walk-off home run  ball after the bases were cleared. And be believed. So at some point we have to kill them all, he said hyperbolically.

DNC Assassin

Comey's Mustache

Trump Dropping the Hammer on Comey Originally, Comey’s job was simply to totally botch the Hillary investigation and ruin the case against her and her minions within the FBI regarding the emails. At the same time Comey also started work on a parallel assignment to illegally “wiretap” and surveil Donald Trump and every other person involved in the Republican campaign -Lisa Frank does yeomanlike work here, by cobbling together know facts and generating a plausible, even rock solid, case against Comey and Obama's DOJ.   James Comey is a poisonous snake of the highest order… a deep-water Swamp Denizen who has been highly paid to deliberately provide cover for high-level corruption by the Clintons and Obama. He is has been central to trying to destroy the Trump campaign and then the Trump administration from the start. He is as dirty as they come in DC. He had highest-level cover (the FBI no less) and was deep into an effort to eliminate Trump. Trump had to move hard, fast, and at exactly the right time to cut the head off the snake without getting bitten by the snake or being finished by the other swamp denizens. Begin by noticing how the President fired Comey when Comey was 3,000 miles away from his office, that Comey had no inkling he was being cut, that all his files, computers, and everything in his office were seized by his boss Sessions and the justice department. This was not a violation of protocol, it was tactical. Notice how Prez Trump compartmentalized the strike and did not inform any of his White House “staff” to prevent leaks. Notice how he emasculated Comey and the swamp denizens by letting them know in a tweet that the Attorney General got information (surveillance “tapes” from the seizure of Comey’s office) to let Comey and his handlers know that Trump’s DOJ has the goods on them. This was a brilliant, strategic and totally imperative move at exactly the right time against horrible, evil and corrupt powers infesting our government. Comey goes on national TV and violates every rule of the FBI, the Justice Department and American law enforcement by revealing some of the FBI’s “evidence” of what Hillary did ..., The swamp is on notice that the President is on to them, they are sweating bullets because their criminal games of corruption are being pursued and they know it. They are screaming and ranting because they are desperate denizens of the swamp who are beginning to realize they are roadkill. THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE COMEY SCAM. Taken from credible public sources (readily available if you want to look or want me to sent them to you), with a few reasonable “fill in the blank” conclusions of my own. The Highlights: Comey was a minor assistant US attorney in the late 90’s. He only gained power and money by being the DOJ official who “investigated” and cleared Bill Clinton of any wrong-doing in Clinton's totally corrupt pardon (for huge payoffs) of criminal financier Marc Rich as Clinton was leaving the Presidency. This is how Comey began his career as a creature of the “swamp” years ago, as a servant of the Clintons. Comey provided “cover” for the Clintons in their gaining incredible power and wealth after leaving office through pardoning a billionaire money-launderer, arms dealer and criminal. Comey was a key piece in how the Clintons upped their corruption game and gained incredible wealth through their foundation after leaving the White House. A huge part of the scheme was giving Marc Rich a free pass when he should have spent life in prison, and that is what Comey covered-up for the Clintons. This set up Comey to be part of the corruption machine, making him powerful and wealthy. Immediately after doing the Clinton’s dirty work as a DOJ official, Comey resigned from the DOJ and took a position as the head attorney (Counsel) of the Lockheed Martin company, a huge military contractor. While he was in that position Lockheed became a major contributor (millions) to the Clinton Foundation and its fake charity spin-offs. In return for these payment to Clinton Inc., Lockheed received huge contracts with Hillary’s state department. Comey was the chief legal officer of Lockheed throughout this period of contributions to Clinton Inc. in return for State Dept. contracts. In late 2012, after overseeing Lockheed’s successful relationship with the Hillary State Department and the resulting profits, Comey stepped down from Lockheed and received a $6 million dollar payout for his services. In 2013, the largest bank of England, HSBC Holdings, was deep into a scandal. Investigations by federal authorities and law-enforcement had revealed that for years HSBC had been laundering billions of dollars for Mexican Drug Cartels, channeling money for Saudi banks who were financing terror, moving money for Iran in violation of the sanctions, and other major criminal activity. HSBC’s criminality was pervasive and deliberate by the Bank and its officials. HSBC was a huge Clinton Foundation contributor (many millions) throughout the “investigation” and Bill Clinton was being paid large personal fees for speaking at HSBC events (while Hillary was Sec of State). Eric Holder and the Obama Justice Department did what they were paid to do, and let HSBC off of the hook for a paltry 1.2 Billion dollar fine (paid by its stockholders), and not one Director, officer or management member at HSBC was fired or charged with any criminal. Exactly when everyone involved with HSBC Bank (including the Clintons and all of their “donors”) were being let off without penalty, and cover had to be provided to HSBC, Comey was appointed as a Director and Member of the Board of HSBC (in the middle of the fallout from the scandal). He was part of the effort to cover up the scandal and make HSBC “respectable” again. After about a year as HSBC director, despite his lack of any law enforcement experience, no DOJ leadership experience, and no qualifications for the job, Comey was appointed FBI director by Obama. The only qualification Comey had was that the Clinton’s and their cronies knew Comey was in bed with them, was compromised and was willing to do their dirty work. Comey was appointed to the FBI right when Hillary was leaving the State Department, and was vulnerable to the FBI because she had been using a private-server, mis-handling classified information, selling access to favors/contracts from the State Department to Clinton Foundation Donors (including Comey’s Lockheed Martin), and much more. Remember that this was about the time the Inspector General of the State Department found over 2 billion “missing” from the State Department finances during Hillary's tenure. The obvious conclusion is that Comey was appointed to the FBI (along with other reliable Clinton-Obama cronies) to run interference for the Clinton’s and Obama’s at the nation’s federal law enforcement agency(in conjunction with a corrupt Department of Justice). Comey was and is owned by the Clintons. He owed all of his power and wealth to being part of their machine and providing them with cover. In late 2015 and early 2016, information began to come out about the Clinton Foundation and its use by the Clinton’s as a multi-billion dollar slush fund for corruption and political favors. (even Chelsea’s wedding had been paid for by the “charity) This was right as Hillary was beginning her campaign for President. It was revealed that the Foundation had never completed required reports or had an audit. Supposedly the FBI, under Comey, began an “investigation” of the Clinton Funds. A “professional” accounting firm was brought in by the Clintons to do a review, file some reports, make recommendations to the Clinton Foundation Board, and provide a veneer of legitimacy to the Clinton Fund operations. Predictably, one of the partners in the firm that was chosen (and paid lots of money) is the brother of James Comey (FBI Director). This brother owes James Comey $700,000 for a loan James gave him to buy a house, and presumably some of the money from the Clinton Fund was used to make payments to James on the loan. Over 2 years later and nothing has happened as a result of the FBI “investigating” the Clinton Funds under Comey. No one in congress or federal law enforcement was intending to actually pursue the Clintons, but Judicial Watch and other independent sources obtained information proving that Hillary had been running her own server, sending out classified information, etc. This information began to come out right in the middle of her campaign to be coronated as President. A “show” investigation had to be performed to appear to look into it and clear her. Who to use?...the reliable shill James Comey. As head of the FBI, Comey (and his lackeys in key positions) deliberately screwed up the investigation into Hillary’s use of a private server and her plain violation of national security law on classified information. The investigation was deliberately mis-handled in every aspect. Comey gave immunity to all of Hillary’s lackeys, did not use subpoenas or warrants, lost evidence, allowed the destruction of evidence, failed to do any searches or seizures of evidence, did not use a grand-jury, did not swear witnesses, did not record testimony, allowed attorneys to represent multiple suspects (corrupting the testimony). Everything that could be done to ruin the FBI investigation and to cover for Hillary was done. A “slam-dunk” case became a mess. Immunity was given every witness even though they provided no help. Maybe more importantly, by focusing the FBI on the email scandal, attention was drawn away from the much bigger scandal of the Clinton Foundation that could bring down a huge number of corrupt politicians, lobbyists, and even governments. Originally, Comey’s job was simply to totally botch the Hillary investigation and ruin the case against her and her minions within the FBI regarding he emails. At the same time Comey also started work on a parallel assignment to illegally “wiretap” and surveil Donald Trump and every other person involved in the Republican campaign. He was tasked with digging up any dirt or fact that could be used to hurt the Trump campaign later. This included using a fake “dossier” paid for by the Clinton campaign to obtain authorization for the surveillance and to try to associate Trump’s campaign with the Russians. Under Comey’s direction the Trump/republican campaign was monitored and surveilled and all information was provided to the Obama Whitehouse and the Clinton camp all during the campaign. Lorretta Lynch was supposed to complete the coverup for Hillary as Attorney General by issuing a finding that the deliberately botched FBI “investigation” did not justify prosecution of Hillary. But someone screwed up and Bill Clinton was video’d meeting with Loretta Lynch in Arizona shortly before she was supposed to make her decision on Hillary (interference with a federal investigation), and Lynch could no longer credibly squash the Hillary scandal. The solution, give the job to James. The Clinton’s owned him and he would have to do whatever is necessary to provide cover. Comey goes on national TV and violates every rule of the FBI, the Justice Department and American law enforcement by revealing some of the FBI’s “evidence” of what Hillary did (enough to make it look like the FBI and Comey did some investigation), then declaring that there was no “intent” and clearing Hillary. He did what he was ordered to do. The Justice Department and Obama backed Comey’s coverup and it looked like Hillary had survived the scandal. Then, right before the election, the NYPD obtained pervert Anthony Wiener’s laptop and found classified emails from Hillary on the laptop. The NYPD began leaking details to new-media outlets, and the story was about to explode. Comey once again stepped in to cover Hillary. He short-circuited the NYPD leaks by publicly acknowledging the laptop and the emails, but then claimed just days later that hundreds of thousands of emails had all been reviewed and “nothing new” was on the laptop. Once again, he had done his job. Providing cover and FBI “protection” for Hillary on the newest scandal when it broke. If Hillary had won, Comey would have kept right on providing cover for the corruption of the Clinton machine. He would have kept the FBI paralyzed, prevented the Clinton Fund from being investigated, and continued to do his job as the Clinton’s personal scandal eraser at the FBI. BUT TRUMP WON. The Swamp and its bottom-dwelling denizens realize they are at risk from this political outsider who is not connected to the uni-party machines. Before Trump takes office, a “failsafe” plan is implemented to ruin Trump’s administration and try to force him out of the Presidency. The key players committed to the plan are the democrat politicians, the RINO establishment, the media, the Obama-Clinton operatives imbedded throughout the intelligence agencies and the entire bureaucracy, and most importantly, the Obama DOJ and JAMES COMEY. The scheme is to smear Trump with Russian “connections,” through a fake FBI “investigation” and more importantly, to trap him into a charge of criminal interference with the FBI. COMEY IS THE CENTRAL FIGURE IN THE SCHEME TO TAKE DOWN TRUMP. The surveillance of the Trump campaign is continued after he is elected, all participants are “unmasked” illegally, and the transcripts are leaked throughout the government and to the media. When General Flynn appropriately calls Russian officials on behalf of Trump, they brush off the old fake “dossier” and all of the surveillance of the campaign, and Comey creates the “Russian Conspiracy” investigation. With help by RINO swamp kingpin and warmonger sell-out McCain, the fake "Russian pee dossier” is leaked to the press. There is no actual evidence of any collusion or connection between Trump or his campaign with Russia, but that does not prevent Comey from initiating an “investigation” at the FBI. This provides Comey with protection from Trump firing him immediately. Comey (or his minions) constantly leak news of the “Russia Investigation” to the media, and the media does its scripted part by screaming constantly about “Russia.” The Democrats fill their role and constantly scream about “Russia.” McCain and the RINO establishment do their part by promising to “investigate” how the Russians influenced the campaign. Immediately after Trump is sworn in, the DOJ Hillary/Obama operatives and Comey start the direct attack. This is before Sessions has been appointed to the Department of Justice and the DOJ is still controlled by Obama operatives. DOJ Obama appointee Sally Yates approaches the Whitehouse with news that General Flynn had been in contact with Russia and alleges that he might be compromised. She reveals that there is an FBI “investigation” into the Russia ties (which they are constantly leaking to the media themselves). The White House Counsel (who Yates talks to, not Trump) asks for some more information. The day before the promised additional information is to be provided by Yates to the Whitehouse, Comey sets up a dinner with Trump. If he can get Trump to ask about Flynn or try to intervene regarding Flynn or Russia then Trump can be charged with “interfering with an FBI investigation.” MY OPINION IS THAT COMEY SURVEILLED AND “TAPED” THIS MEETING IN HIS ATTEMPT TO SET UP TRUMP. This is a two-pronged attack. It protects Comey and DOJ democrat holdovers from being terminated by the new administration because they are involved in an “ongoing investigation” that they control the timetable on(albeit one with absolutely no evidence). If Trump fires Comey then he is “interfering with the investigation” which is itself a federal crime that the FBI could then “investigate.” Alternatively, if they can get Trump to question Comey about Flynn or try to get him to back off of Flynn or the “Russia” investigation, then they again have him “interfering.” Trump knows it is a set up by Comey and that he is probably being recorded (tips from FBI or DOJ who are not part of the corruption?) Maybe because his phone calls in the Whitehouse as President have already been bugged and released to the media. (FBI is in the best position to do this) Maybe because he was used to the Mafia in NY trying to shake him down every time he built a hotel. Comey tells Trump that Trump is not under investigation regarding Russia, but that others involved with the campaign are being investigated. Trump does not take the bait and attempt to intervene about Flynn or the Russia scam. Later, Flynn is cut loose because he is being used by Comey and the Obama-holdover Justice to try to damage Trump. He did not thing wrong, but if he stayed the charge of “interfering with an investigation” might seem to have teeth. Comey verbally tells Trump on two more occasions that he is not being investigated, but refuses to state this fact publicly or when testifying in Congress. Trump knows everything I have gone through above about Comey. But he has to move carefully. He has to get his Attorney General and Deputy AG in place, get enough leverage on the Russia narrative, and ideally get rid of Comey in a way that allows him to obtain all the information that Comey has been accumulating (if he is taping Trump he is taping others). Comey, and others testify in Congress. Under oath, both Sally Yates and Intelligence officials from the Obama administration state that there has been no actual evidence of any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. More importantly, Comey, while refusing to say that Trump is not under investigation, testifies that he has informed the Senate Intelligence Committee heads who exactly is under investigation regarding Russia. Trump tells almost no one at the White House that he is moving against Comey (so no leaks… no listening in on his conversations) Trump somehow contacts Sen. Grassley (the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee) and confirms that Comey told the Senator that Trump was not under investigation personally. Trump gets both the Attorney General and the new Deputy Attorney General to legitimately review Comey’s unprofessional actions at the FBI and to recommend in writing that Trump terminate Comey. Somehow Comey goes to California (at the request of AG Sessions or already scheduled and someone at FBI telling Trump?). Trump seizes the moment and acts. While Comey is in California, 3000 miles away and 7 hours from his office, Trump prepares a letter firing him (with Sessions and the Deputy AG recommendations attached). In the letter Trump states that he had been told 3 times by Comey that he (Trump) was not under investigation. The letter is hand-delivered to the FBI headquarters by DOJ officials to lock-down and seize everything in Comey’s office, including all surveillance files (“tapes”) of Trump and others. All of Comey’s files, docs, computers and “tapes” are taken to Sessions at DOJ. They are not taken to the Whitehouse or Trump, but to Sessions, who has every right to have them. Sessions can tell Trump that Comey had surveillance tapes of Trump that contradict what Comey has been telling Trump, and perhaps tapes of conversations with other swamp “conspirators.” But Trump does not have them personally or at the Whitehouse. Comey learns he has been fired when the media broadcasts it in California. He had no idea it was coming and he is ticked. On cue, the Democrat politicians and media begin screaming about Trump’s “interference with the Russia investigation” in accordance with the plan to set up Trump for that charge. The Swamp wants to blow up the Russia narrative using Comey, and Comey is set to testify before Congress to try to hurt Trump by saying he was interfering with the FBI investigation. Comey intends to follow through with the plan to take down Trump. But because of his brilliant timing on this, Trump has Comey’s files, documents and information safely with Sessions at DOJ. Trump sends out a “crazy” tweet that says: “James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press.” The media and the politicians go crazy about the “inappropriateness” of this tweet. They accuse Trump of “taping” everyone at the WhiteHouse (forgetting that the Presidents phone calls with foreign leaders have been “taped” without his knowledge.) Notice that Trump did not say he taped anyone, or that he has any tapes at the White House. It seem apparent that Trump is telling Comey that the DOJ (who has every legal right to possess it) has the surveillance information and files from Comey’s office, the “tapes" obtained and kept by Comey. Comey and all the Swamp Creatures understand the clear message… their plan has failed and Trump’s DOJ is now holding all the cards. The whole Russia interference scheme crashes and burns. While the mouthpiece media, Hollywood and the insane fringe continue to scream about Russia and Comey being fired, the politicians who will soon be in the crosshairs of a legitimate (and ticked) FBI and DOJ are starting to fall strangely silent. Comey realizes all the leverage is with Trump and that he will be lucky if he is not added to the Clinton Death List because of his knowledge (better not take any baths near an electrical outlet or get on any airplanes). Comey tells Congress he will not testify and writes a public letter to the FBI accepting his firing and telling them he does not want to discuss why or how he was terminated. Senator Grassley and Senator Feinstein (she must be covering her butt in fear …) issue public statements confirming that Comey told them that the “Russia Investigation” does not involve President Trump personally. AG Sessions and his Deputy AG use the Comey trove of information to determine who has been part of the Comey Syndicate at the FBI. They will be appointing an “interim” Director of the FBI shortly who has not been compromised by Comey, Clinton or Obama. That “interim” Director does not have to be approved by Congress or anyone, and can immediately begin cleaning house at the FBI of all Comey/Clinton/Obama minions, initiating investigations of the Clintons, Clinton Fund, violations of intelligence confidentiality laws by Susan Rice and Obama, human trafficking in DC, political corruption… draining the Swamp. Using the Comey files they can be fairly certain they are not getting another Comey as an “interim", and they do not have to wait for the circus of appointing a new permanent “Director” through Congressional approval. Most of the heavy lifting on rooting out FBI corruption and starting investigations into the swamp will be done by the “interim” before a new director is appointed. I suspect the Trump administration hopes the approval FBI Director process will be slow and tedious, so there is no political interference with the housecleaning that is starting. In one masterstroke, Trump has eliminated a truly toxic and dangerous enemy to his administration and our country, dealt a horrendous blow to the Clinton/Obama and deep state machines, begun the restoration of the integrity of the FBI and the DOJ, and gained incredible ammunition to begin hunting the foul creatures in the swamp. -Lisa Frank, Operation Disclosure

ANDREA MITCHELL: (screams) What about the Russian investigation?

The Humanity

RUSH: Trump Trolls Hate-Filled Democrats — And I Can’t Stop Laughing (But First...) Even MSNBC’s Peter Alexander was confused as to why Maxine Waters ... CNN’s Jake Tapper Highlights Democrat Lies To Sell Obamacare CNBC! Reporter Takes Maxine Waters to Task on Comey Hypocrisy MAXINE WATERS; The Black Pelosi Back To RUSH BREAK TRANSCRIPT Another thing that happened: “WikiLeaks Offers Comey a New Job.” (laughing) Is this not great? “A surprising job offer rolled in for former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday afternoon, mere hours after President Donald Trump fired him… “WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he would be happy to consider Comey for a position at the organization’s Washington D.C. office, where the now unemployed bureau chief might continue his mission to ‘properly investigate the U.S. government.'” That is not what he’s doing. You know what another big moment in this whole episode is that nobody’s talking about? I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s the real story, but again this is in the top five. [...] In Trump’s letter to Comey, Trump mentions that Comey told him three times he was not under investigation. Now, the way this is being handled by the Drive-Bys is, “Well, man, Trump really blew it on this. Trump really messed up! He shouldn’t have put that. He just can’t help himself. He had to let everybody know that he’s innocent He had to know, and he put Comey on the spot.” They’re missing the entire point. You have to know Donald Trump. Yeah, it may look awkward; yeah, it may look unusual. ANDREA MITCHELL: (screams) What about the Russian investigation? This is Donald Trump… Can I translate this for you? This is Donald Trump saying, “Despite the fact the guy ain’t after me, I’m letting him go anyway.” That’s all this means. It’s not Trump saying, “I’m innocent. I didn’t do anything. You can’t prove it.” He’s not doing a Bart Simpson. He’s simply saying, “Hey, despite the fact the guy told me three times they’re not looking at me; I haven’t done anything — despite the fact that he’s helping me out here — I still have to get rid of him.” But there’s still the detail of the detail, the detail of the news. Comey has told Trump three times he’s not under investigation? Why hasn’t Comey announced that? Comey’s announced everything else about this case. Comey’s violated every rule there is in conducting investigations, especially investigations that are not gonna end up with anybody being charged. That July 5th press conference… We’ve mentioned this I don’t know how many times. That July 5th press conference was totally uncalled for, and it ended up… You can prove that by looking at the various ideological interests in the country. The left loved certain aspects of it and hated certain aspects of it, and people on the right loved certain aspects. But nobody should have loved it because it was a total bastardization of the criminal justice procedures. What he did just isn’t done. But that’s for later. Three times, James Comey… You think Trump’s lying about this? You think Trump would put this in this resignation letter if this isn’t true? You know what’s gonna happen now? The Drive-Bys are gonna try to get hold of Comey. He was supposed to address a Senate committee tomorrow. [...] This has gone beyond mere political posturing. These people on the left — led by the media and the Democrat Party and the political apparatus — I’m telling you, are sick. I have never seen… I wasn’t thinking about it last night. I’m 66 years old. I have been following politics honestly since I was 10. I’m not kidding. I have seen unhinged behavior. I have seen the wild allegations that Democrats make and repeated. I have never seen this degree of collective insanity. I have never seen this degree of so many people literally being out of touch, devoid reality, and unhinged. I’ve never seen this degree of hate. I understand it because of what’s happened. Trump has totally embarrassed every one of these people inside the Washington Beltway, and he’s taunting them, meeting with the Soviet (chuckling) Russian ambassador today, after the Democrats are convinced the Russians stole the election! They have repeated it so many times; they actually believe it now. The only way this rage can exist is if they really believe this election was stolen, and if the really believe the Russians colluded with Trump. Nine months and not a shred of evidence, and most recently this was acknowledged by Clapper and Sally Yates. It’s been acknowledged by Comey himself in recent congressional testimony. It’s been acknowledged by Dianne Feinstein. There isn’t any! It was acknowledged by Maxine Waters yesterday. There isn’t any. And yet they believe it. That’s all they’ve got. They cannot, will not blame themselves. So they literally believe that the Russians somehow colluded with Trump, even though there’s no evidence for it. They really believe Trump fired Comey because he might have been getting close, under the assinine belief that firing Comey’s gonna stop the investigation? How many investigations are there? The House has one. The Senate has one. The FBI’s got their own. Do you know who’s running the FBI today? McCabe, a Democrat! His wife ran for the Senate or ran for governor of Virginia. He’s very close to The Punk, Terry McAuliffe. The guy is a hardened Democrat. He’s now running the FBI. He’s in charge of the investigation to get Trump. [...] Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, ran into the Soviet foreign minister today. He’s in town talking to Trump. (laughing) Here’s Trump colluding with the Russians and the day after he fires Comey he has a meeting with the Soviet — the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov! (laughing) I mean, this is trolling extraordinaire. Andrea Mitchell, she is loaded for bear. After Secretary of State Tillerson welcomed Lavrov to the U.S. — they’re about to leave — Andrea Mitchell found Lavrov and asked him a question. MITCHELL: (shouting) Does the Comey firing cast a shadow of your talks, gentlemen? LAVROV: Was he fired? MITCHELL: (screams) Yes! LAVROV: You’re kidding! You’re kidding! MITCHELL: (screams) What about the Russian investigation? RUSH: Did you hear that? Andrea Mitchell, NBC News: “Does the Comey firing cast a shadow around your talks, gentlemen?” And the Soviet, the Russian foreign minister said, “Was he fired?” Mitchell said, “Yes!” Lavrov: “You’re kidding! You’re kidding!” He was fired?” Mitchell said, “What about the Russian investigation?” What investigation? (chuckling) The trolling here, you just have to love it. [FULL]  Remember the  Heaven's Gate cult?  Ahem

COMEY THE CLOWN

Comey; Distract Attention From Wikileaks

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Limbaugh: FBI Rekindled Email Investigation Just to Distract Attention From Wikileaks October 28th, 2016 Limbaugh: FBI Rekindled Email Investigation Just to Distract Attention From Wikileaks by Sam Reisman | 5:07 pm, October 28th, 2016 AUDIO 157    By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Saturday, October 29, 2016 Vice President Joseph R. Biden called FBI Director James Comey a “straight guy,” in spite of being a Republican, who will be fair in his renewed investigation of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s emails. “Look, I’ve found him to be a straight guy,” Mr. Biden told CNN’s Michael Smerconish in an interview released Saturday. “He’s a tough guy, he’s a Republican, but he’s always been straight. And I’m confident that this will turn out fine.” Responding to the news Friday that the FBI was rekindling its investigation into Clinton’s emails, Rush Limbaugh speculated that the bureau was simply trying to redirect voters’ attention away from Wikileaks’ ongoing release of emails hacked from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta. FBI Director James Comey “is going to make everybody think for the next three or four days that there’s really something to be forthcoming here,” Limbaugh said. Limbaugh said that the revelations in the Wikileaks material were “starting to hurt” the Clintons and that the renewed interest in an FBI investigation into her private email server would be a fruitless distraction. The radio host likened Comey to the “Lone Ranger,” riding to the Clinton campaign’s rescue. He added that Comey was “still carrying water for Clinton and is trying to get everybody to stop paying attentions to the Wikileaks dump.” Limbaugh qualified that this was the “cynical” interpretation of recent events. [FULL] It appears we are being punked big time. This election is truly a pivotal time. I fear that unless Trump wins, and by a great enough margin to survive government (Democrat)  attempts to throw it into litigation limbo, it could very well be all over. Even if Trump  should win every state, it may not not preclude that Obama will foment rebellion and declare martial law.  Sound crazy?  Bet your ass.

Comey's Actions in Context

Putting Comey's Actions in Context "He is Clark Kent. This guy, you cannot corrupt him. He's incorruptible! And now, for the first time in his life, he's facing allegations he's never had to face that will taint his reputation, which then the piece de resistance has to be that in the -- and karma's a wonderful thing. They're looking at four different investigations of the Clinton Foundation, and they're looking for some reason at Carlos Danger (Anthony Weiner), and they discover something for which they don't have a warrant." I borrowed this transcript from Rush (original here) because I want a historical copy in my archives. And, it's brilliant. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let's start at the beginning on this, because what Comey did in the first place is... You can't put all this in context without going back and looking. It was July 5th, I think it was. I'm not sure about the date, but that's when Comey announced everything he had found, all the evidence that Hillary Clinton had violated this and violated that and maybe told some distortions here.  She didn't... At that point, she had not lied to the FBI, but she may have lied to Congress. She may have lied to the American people, which is not the same as lying in your FBI interview.  So what Comey does, is he comes out and explains what they found, and it was a list of crimes.  And it was comprehensive.  But that was unprecedented.  This hardly ever happened.  When's the last time you can remember the director of the FBI announcing what he had found in an investigation of anything?  Normally that's the Department of Justice. That's the attorney general that announces these things. I have this on good authority that agents who worked the case and agents who didn't work the case were just livid over how all of this went down because they know. They know what was found. They know in no other case does the husband of a perp get to arrange a meeting on a faraway airport tarmac with the attorney general to discuss the case. It just doesn't happen! That's, "Hello, mistrial," if it ever goes to court or, "Hello, tainted investigation." They're sitting watching all of this, the agents are, and there is credible word that Comey was facing... You can't examine why Comey did what he did Friday without going back to the beginning, because once you start making mistakes, you usually continue making them in order to service the first mistakes.  So the first mistake, being honest, was what Comey did in announcing her crimes, listing what would have been an indictment. But then he took the extraordinary step of saying he was recommending that she not be prosecuted because he couldn't find any intent and no reasonable prosecutor would take this case to court. And everybody signed off on it.  This was, of course, after Bill Clinton had met on the tarmac with the attorney general, Loretta Lynch.  I mean, everything about this has just been one mistake after another because it's involving the Clintons, and they corrupt everything that they touch.  So the theories began to Comey... Remember, his reputation going into this is one of unimpeachable integrity.  Everybody that's ever known James Comey has talked about his character and his integrity and the fact that he's a straight shooter and doesn't go partisan one way or the other and is a strict law-and-order guy. Everybody who's ever worked with him or knows him said this about him.  Then that whole press conference happens, and there are numerous reactions to it.  But in the grand scheme of things that shouldn't have happened.  Why did it?  Well, theories abound.  I'll tell you what mine is: I think that Comey knew that no matter what he recommended, there wasn't gonna be a prosecution.  Bill Clinton had met with Loretta Lynch.  His boss is Barack Obama.  He knows that they are not going to pursue Hillary Clinton. Another thing: He didn't want to be the guy the history books wrote about as the guy who took out the duly nominated presidential candidate of the Democrat Party.  "Don't want to go there," he says to himself.  "That's not for me to do."  Throughout the criminal justice system there is a philosophy that -- and I'm paraphrasing this, but it goes along the lines that justice knows no timeline.  Meaning you don't delay justice for elections, you don't delay justice for birthdays, you don't delay justice for Christmas. When you've got the case, you go forward with it.  But this clearly was a case of justice affected by an election and one man, Comey, not wanting to be the guy in history books who took her out.  And that's what it would be.  And he's smart enough to know that.  He doesn't want that for himself.  He may not want that to be the case anyway.  So he reads off this list of irregularities and crimes and whatever.  I think he was laying it out for the American voters.  I think he was actually trying the case not before judge and jury, but before the American voters with that press conference. This guy McCabe, whose wife got all that money from Terry McAuliffe, if that news hadn't hit, if we hadn't learned that this McCabe, the number two guy in the FBI, if we hadn't learned that McAuliffe, the governor of Virginia had been funneling money to this guy's wife and this guy's had a role in the Clinton investigation, the Hillary investigation, if we hadn't learned that, they might have been able to sweep this under the rug by saying, "You don't have a warrant for the Huma data on Weiner's laptop." I don't have any idea if that's true.  It's just my theory.  I think he cares deeply about this.  I think he finds everything that's gone on here really problematic, and if it weren't the Clintons and if it weren't an election -- if it weren't the fact she's a Democrat nominee -- I think it would have gone an entirely different way.  So he lays it out for the American people.  Well, that causes problems.  Because agents who did the investigation know full well what they've got on her.  In addition to whatever he announced, they know full well what they found. They worked very hard on it, and there were a lot of irregularities in this case that don't usually happen.  For example, Cheryl Mills -- who is really nothing more than an aide to Hillary Clinton, a very exalted executive assistant.  She's never been her lawyer.  But during Hillary's FBI interview, they gave Cheryl Mills immunity. They let her sit in on the Hillary interview and then acknowledged that she was Hillary's lawyer, which gave them attorney-client privilege, which meant anything that Cheryl Mills said could not be used in the investigation. Even granting her immunity, you have to be an agent in the FBI looking at this saying, "What in the Sam Hill is going on?  This is not how we do investigations.  This is not how we work at all.  Why is this woman being called a lawyer for this interview?  Why is she being granted immunity?"  And then, to add insult to injury, the FBI announced that after all this they were gonna destroy the laptop computer of Cheryl Mills and one other person. And when that happened, we're all scratching our heads: Why in the world are they destroying the laptop? Well, because in other criminal cases like, say, involving drugs, they destroy the evidence.  After it's been used for your investigation and you wrap the investigation, whether it results in a trial or not, you destroy the evidence.  You get rid of the cocaine. You get rid of the whatever it is.  Well, in this case it was laptop computers. You get rid of them. Except we now know they didn't.  Some rogue agents -- "rogue," in this case, is a loosely used term -- kept the laptop.  They didn't throw it away, and the agents in... I have this on good authority that agents who worked the case and agents who didn't work the case were just livid over how all of this went down because they know. They know what was found. They know in no other case does the husband of a perp get to arrange a meeting on a faraway airport tarmac with the attorney general to discuss the case.  It just doesn't happen! That's, "Hello, mistrial," if it ever goes to court or, "Hello, tainted investigation." They're sitting watching all of this, the agents are, and there is credible word that Comey was facing... I hate... I don't want to use the word "mutiny," but it's been used by others. But that there was just discontent and disunity and all kinds of trouble inside the FBI as a result of the first Comey announcement, and then subsequent interviews where Cheryl Mills was granted immunity and then proclaimed a lawyer, when she's never acted as Hillary's lawyer -- and then her laptop ordered to be destroyed.  So then you get to the Friday Comey announcement.  Look, all of this is speculation. Some of it well informed, by the way, but it's still speculation.  I don't know. Nobody really knows. And the bottom line is: Is it gonna have an impact on the election?  Yes.  That's the bottom line.  That's what people want to know.  We've dealt with that.  There's no question that it will.  But it's still interesting to discuss what happened.  So Comey is dealing... He's got this... Remember, go back to the first Comey press conference. He's of impeccable integrity, impeccable character. He has endorsements from everybody who's ever worked with him that he's a straight shooter, a straight up guy, not partisan. He is Clark Kent.  This guy, you cannot corrupt him. He's incorruptible! And now, for the first time in his life, he's facing allegations he's never had to face that will taint his reputation, which then the piece de resistance has to be that in the -- and karma's a wonderful thing. They're looking at four different investigations of the Clinton Foundation, and they're looking for some reason at Carlos Danger (Anthony Weiner), and they discover something for which they don't have a warrant. Here's the way the legals work on this.  Let's say that agents are investigating a perp for bank robbery. So they get a search warrant for the perp's house to see if they could find the money.  While they're in there, they find a huge stash of cocaine.  Well, the warrant says they only have right for the money, but if they find the cocaine, the courts and the law say they can seize the cocaine, because they have lawful entry. Red flag after red flag after red flag. Because of the potential -- we don't know if it's really happening, but good authority that agents inside the FBI are just livid and prepared to go public, by the way. Comey and his sullied reputation, a lot of things have come together here that apparently compelled Mr. Comey to go forward and make the announcement on Friday. Okay.  So, in this case, they've got a warrant for Danger's computer, but they're looking at what he did with the sexting and with the girls and whatever. And in the process they find that Abedin might have lied through her teeth, that there might be classified State Department U.S. government documents on Weiner's computer; they don't have a warrant for that.  They don't need a warrant to use it, but to keep it totally clean, they go get one, and they got it.  They were issued the warrant.  And you know who forced that to happen? This guy McCabe, whose wife got all that money from Terry McAuliffe, if that news hadn't hit, if we hadn't learned that this McCabe, the number two guy in the FBI, if we hadn't learned that McAuliffe, the governor of Virginia had been funneling money to this guy's wife and this guy's had a role in the Clinton investigation, the Hillary investigation, if we hadn't learned that, they might have been able to sweep this under the rug by saying, "You don't have a warrant for the Huma data on Weiner's laptop." But because attention was focused and because news had been made of McAuliffe funding this guy's wife, he was the guy that led the charge to get the proper warrant to make sure that they could look at Weiner's computer on which there are supposedly access to 650,000 emails.  Now, they're obviously not all on that computer.  Many of them are gonna be on a server, but you've got links to them there.  And it may well be that Huma has committed perjury by promising that she had given up everything to the FBI, had given over everything to the FBI, that she had nothing left, that she had been totally forthcoming. And now here comes Weiner and they find something on there that's serious enough at this stage, you talk about impacting an election, you talk about not wanting to run the case on Hillary because she's the duly elected nominee, what about the pressure they faced here?  It must have been so compelling they had to do this. Let's go through it the other way.  Let's say they ignore this, she gets elected, this investigation's gonna go on, folks.  They're not gonna conclude this before the election.  And if they do, that's a whole 'nother thing.  I've gotta make a note to myself to get back to that because that's another possibility here that you don't want to think about.  The odds are they can't finish this investigation one way or the other before the election, so it's gonna be ongoing.  So let's say she wins, and we've got a president-elect under serious criminal investigation and many of her support staff.  Not cool.  Not good.  No matter how you slice it.  It's not good that the Democrat Party's nominated this woman who has been the subject of an ongoing, legitimate criminal investigation which has even ensnared our dear president and turned him into a liar. So they look at what they've got, they go public, Comey goes out Friday and says (paraphrasing), "We've learned additional things."  The left said, "Wait, what did you learn?"  Comey says, "I haven't looked at the emails yet, but we've got a serious indication that there's something very, very serious here to find."  "What is it?"  Well, they look and they found state.gov email addresses on some of the email.  So state.gov and Hillary Clinton dot whatever on Anthony Weiner's laptop. Red flag after red flag after red flag.  Because of the potential -- we don't know if it's really happening, but good authority that agents inside the FBI are just livid and prepared to go public, by the way.  Comey and his sullied reputation, a lot of things have come together here that apparently compelled Mr. Comey to go forward and make the announcement on Friday. largeAnd believe you me, he knew he was gonna get hit from the Democrats.  They loved him two months ago.  He was the greatest guy in America two months ago. He was the finest American. He was an American everybody should listen to.  Now all of a sudden Harry Reid has announced that he's got a friend who says that Comey has broken the law, the Hatch Act.  Comey has not broken the Hatch Act, by the way.  This is just a technique we now know that Harry Reid uses. So Comey has revived the investigation because he couldn't resist mounting pressure inside the FBI by agents.  This is, of course, people who are in there and know.  Those people say the atmosphere inside the FBI has been toxic ever since last July when she was exonerated.  Ed Klein, U.K. Daily Mail, says that Comey told his wife he was depressed by the stack of resignation letters piling up on his desk from agents who were unhappy and didn't want to keep working there. He was worried Republicans would accuse him of granting Hillary political favoritism after the presidential election.  He's facing all these different things.  I think finally what happened was, if you want to know the truth, I think finally what happened to James Comey is that old saying that I paraphrased earlier that "justice knows no clock" has finally prevailed here. So the question, will it affect the election?  Hell, yes.  We don't know how much, and we don't know to what end, but hell, yes, it's gonna.  You only have to look at Democrat reaction to this to know that.   ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT I borrowed this transcript from Rush (original here) because I want a historical copy in my archives, and for the convenience of y'all.  You're welcome