Even as he repeatedly assured Trump that he was not a target, the former director was secretly trying to build a conspiracy case against the president, while at times acting as an investigative agent.
Two U.S. officials briefed on the inspector general’s investigation of possible FBI misconduct said Comey was essentially “running a covert operation against” the president, starting with a private “defensive briefing” he gave Trump just weeks before his inauguration. They said Horowitz has examined high-level FBI text messages and other communications indicating Comey was actually conducting a “counterintelligence assessment” of Trump during that January 2017 meeting in New York.
In addition to adding notes of his meetings and phone calls with Trump to the official FBI case file, Comey had an agent inside the White House who reported back to FBI headquarters about Trump and his aides, according to other officials familiar with the matter.
Although Comey took many actions on his own, he was not working in isolation. One focus of Horowitz’s inquiry is the private Jan. 6, 2017, briefing Comey gave the president-elect in New York about material in the Democratic-commissioned dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Reports of that meeting were used days later by BuzzFeed, CNN and other outlets as a news hook for reporting on the dossier’s lascivious and unsubstantiated claims.
Comey’s meeting with Trump took place one day after the FBI director met in the Oval Office with President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to discuss how to brief Trump — a meeting attended by National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and National Intelligence Director James Clapper, who would soon go to work for CNN.
Comey is a stinking POS!
Trump told Comey he wanted to make sure the FBI did its investigation to find out who wrote the bullshit dossier. Three-faced snake!
Last Boy Scout my ass. Comey deserves nothing less than a long sentence at the gray-bar hotel in a pair of striped pajamas.
Comey deserves a thorough investigation of his many abuses of power, likely an indictment for treason (or at least sedition), and, if convicted of treason, a trip up the gallows stairs, a rope and a short drop. I’d be happy to oil, stretch and knot the rope. If he’s a REAL Boy Scout, I’d be happy to let him inspect the knot…
Comey should not only spend a long time in prison but he should have to share a cell with Hillary.
I don’t like Comey, there’s something about him I don’t trust.
Mueller “forgot” his cell phone in the Presidents Oval Office after a meeting and it was recording in his absence…. That is correct, Robert Mueller bugged the President of the United States in the White House.
Let me guess, there will be a bombshell about a hearing about an IG investigation that will lead to criminal referrals that will lead to nothing happening.
Until we get confirmation he is in Federal Prison, can we just quit mentioning his name, PLEASE!
Trump’s only non crime crime was winning the election which the political class of both parties did not like. His election was analogous to a total outsider walking into a private club and getting himself elected. Instead of accepting the results of an presidential election which has always been the norm until Bush W, scumbag Comey and others abused their power to undermine an election. I don’t call it a hoax. I call it a coup, sedition . Something that occurs in a banana republic.
Most people in their personal lives despise liars and duplicitous people. Comey is both. If we don’t put up with liars in our personal lives, why are we expected to put up with them in our government?
Trump never colluded with the Russians. It was totally fabricated to prevent his election and to remove him from office when he was elected.
If those involved are not indicted, we no longer have the rule of law
I don’t mind complying with laws but feel like a fool when so many others are not.
Treason is a hanging offense, let get the ball rolling!
Comey and Mueller have done to the FBI what Lerner and Koskinnen did to the IRS.
Thrown into the latrine and sunken so long in filthy doodoo, that there is nothing left worth retrieving.
Shoot all four of them in the head and thrown them hard into that latrine!
Everybody keeps acting like this is going to be a problem for the dhimms and never Trumpers.
Yawn. We’ve known this for… two years? Predicate, predicate. “By the book”. If Comey were conducting a real investigation that implicated the president, of course he would be lying to him (and permitted to do so.) Predicate, predicate… was there a valid predicate…
Where is Barr. Where is Durham. Wake me up when someone is arrested.
MORE proof and MORE evidence…and nothing happens except for “bombshells” and “scortchings” and testifying and questioning…but nobody is indicted. Nobidy tried. Hell…they didn’t even bother to clean the festering pus out of the FBI. There should be a tsunami of indictments there alone!
Everyone associated with GWB misleads Americans, always have, always will. remember 3 years ago both Comey and the MSM TOLD US OVER AND OVER THE FBI ATTACK ON DON was not partisan COMEY WAS PROMOTED BY BUSH! Comey then agreed with the Rove/Bush clique that Clinton should have won; as he “resigned” from the GOP!