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ex-khobar Andy wrote: But I do believe that he was between a Scylla and a Charybdis...

ex-khobar Andy wrote:I still think that he materially affected the outcome of the election through his e-mail interjections. But I do believe that he was between a Scylla and a Charybdis and there was no safe outlet. An honest man can make a wrong decision, and that's what happened there.

As the hearing unfolded, Speaker Paul D. Ryan offered an explanation of sorts for how the president spoke with Mr. Comey.

“The president’s new at this,” Mr. Ryan said at a news conference.  “He’s new to government.  And so he probably wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between D.O.J., F.B.I. and White Houses.  He’s just new to this.”

“The president’s new at this,” Mr. Ryan said at a news conference. “He’s new to government. And so he probably wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between D.O.J., F.B.I. and White Houses. He’s just new to this.”

“The president’s new at this,” Mr. Ryan said at a news conference. “He’s new to government. And so he probably wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between D.O.J., F.B.I. and White Houses. He’s just new to this.”

Lord Jim wrote: 5.He claimed that Comey “admitted that he leaked to friends of his purported memos.”

This is a lie. Comey admitted to giving one memo to one friend

good try bro
Idiot Trump Lawyer (And Alex Jones!) NAILS James Comey
For Leaking *Unclassified* Information. LOL!

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So that is some lawyering! But it’s not good lawyering. Kasowitz says Comey “[made] clear that the President never sought to impede the investigation,” because apparently we are going to split hairs over the EXACT WORDS Trump used. Trump said he “hoped” Comey could find a way to stop investigating Michael Flynn. It wasn’t an order or anything! It’s not like Donald Trump is the president, oh wait he is, at least technically. Comey, of course, testified that he took it as a directive, because ANY SANE PERSON IN A MEETING IN THE OVAL OFFICE would take it that way, ESPECIALLY if the president had just shooed everybody else out of the room so he could grab the FBI director by the pussy in private.

Kasowitz straight up denies that Trump asked for Comey’s loyalty, to which we will just echo Comey’s testimony, when he said, “Lordy I hope there are tapes” of their conversations. Why? Because Donald Trump is a known fucking liar, and there is no reason to believe he’s told his lawyer the truth.

But that’s not the most LOL part. The most LOL part is about how James Comey IS THE REAL LEAKER!!!!!11111ELEVEN!!!1! We’ll transcribe, so we can laugh at it REALLY LOUDLY:

• Mr. Comey admitted that he unilaterally and surreptitiously made unauthorized disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the President. […] Mr. Comey admitted that he leaked to his friends his purported memos of these privileged conversations, one of which he testified was classified. […] We will leave it the [sic] appropriate authorities to determine whether this [sic] leaks should be investigated …

Oh. My. God.

Comey testified SPECIFICALLY that he wrote certain memos in an unclassified way, so that if they needed to be shared, there wouldn’t be a ton of red tape. Let’s go to the transcript:

• WARNER: I found it very interesting that, that in the memo that you wrote after this February 14th pull-aside, you made clear that you wrote that memo in a way that was unclassified. If you affirmatively made the decision to write a memo that was unclassified, was that because you felt at some point, the facts of that meeting would have to come clean and come clear, and actually be able to be cleared in a way that could be shared with the American people?
  
  COMEY: Well, I remember thinking, this is a very disturbing development, really important to our work. I need to document it and preserve it in a way, and this committee gets this but sometimes when things are classified, it tangled them up. […]
  
  If I write it such a way that doesn’t include anything of a classification, that would make it easier for to us discuss within the FBI and the government, and to hold onto it in a way that makes it accessible to us.

In later questioning, sexxxy Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico asked for clarification as to whether all the memos were unclassified. Comey said nah, some were classified. A bit after that, idiot Missouri Republican Senator Roy Blunt sought clarification, to make sure Comey didn’t leak CLASSIFIED memos to his pal, which then ended up in the New York Times:

• COMEY: Not the classified documents. Unclassified. I don’t have any of them anymore. I gave them to the special counsel. My view was that the content of those unclassified memorializations of those conversations was my recollection recorded.

So, since they are UNCLASSIFIED and Trump was Twitter-sharting about “Comey better hope I don’t have tapes,” there was literally NOTHING illegal or untoward about him giving his UNCLASSIFIED memo about his OWN RECOLLECTIONS to his FRIEND. We know lawyers like to speak lawyer-ese, but this is just fucking stupid. Maybe the sorts of “best people” who are willing to represent Donald Trump are impressed by that sort of logic, but not GOOD lawyers, or people with IQ’s over 100. Bad job, Marc Kasowitz!

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Comey “[made] clear that the President never sought to impede the investigation,”

Former FBI Director James Comey has said he has "no doubt" President Donald Trump fired him because of his department's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.

“I take the president at his word that I was fired because of the Russia investigation,” Mr Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee in a public hearing. “Something about the way I was conducting it, the president felt, created pressure on him he wanted to relieve.”

In an off-screen press briefing on Thursday the White House deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said that President Trump is not a liar, despite earlier testimony from former FBI Director James Comey in which he said that the president had, in fact, lied.

“I can definitively say the president is not a liar,” Sanders said. [Wow Sarah, I hope you're wearing your asbestos knickers, because you pants just burst into flames] “It’s frankly insulting that the question would be asked.”

"It's frankly insulting that anyone would say my friend looks like a gorilla"

McCain explains what he was trying to ask Comey

After his questions to former FBI director James B. Comey baffled everyone, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) later joked that he’d stayed up too late and attempted to clarify his point.

“I get the sense from Twitter that my line of questioning today went over people’s heads,” [that's the kind of dry humor that McCain is famous for] McCain said in a statement issued Thursday afternoon. “Maybe going forward I shouldn’t stay up late watching the Diamondbacks night games. What I was trying to get at was whether Mr. Comey believes that any of his interactions with the President rise to the level of obstruction of justice.”