DC: Former FBI Director James Comey acknowledged that he orchestrated the leak of a memorandum detailing his private interactions with President Donald Trump during testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Thursday morning.
“I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter,” Comey said. “I didn’t do it myself for a variety of reasons.”
He added that he did so in hopes that his account might spur the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the Trump campaign’s contacts with elements of the Russian government, and any subsequent cover up.
The tree of liberty needs to be seriously relieved of drought.
No laws broken by this?
These are official documents created on Government time as FBI Director. They reflect confidential consultations with the POTUS in the Oval Office. Matters so confidential the office was cleared by POTUS request.
They are not Comey’s to release to anyone, especially not to third parties outside government. With specific instructions to leak them to partisan “friendly” press.
Several crimes here. Both by Comey and by his buddy Columbia law professor,,,
The funny thing is, this is AFTER he slammed the NYT for writing FAKE NEWS.
This fool should not have only been fired, he should have been fired by a rocket.
Time for final comments – insanely idiotic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtNHuqHWefU
He has all the brains and integrity of a clam.
jail time
Comey gave the docs to the NYT to make sure they finally had a reliable unnamed source to feed them reliable information.
That explosion I’m hearing must be backfire.
We saw the real Comey today. Shrewd, conniving, preening, self-important.
There’s a reason Comey rhymes with Blow-me
“… tap-dancing like his life depended on it.”
the FBI needs a new acronym. Fidelity, bravery and integrity are seemed to be in short supply while Comey led the group.
I think Hillary will kill Comey with the same gun she used to murder Vince Foster.
@moochoman – I’ve always liked Fart, Burp, and Itch.
After eight years and more of the FBI’s failure to call out obama on all the ways in which he compromised our nat’l security, including, especially, his lackadaisical attitude toward crime in general, I about spewed my coffee this morning listening to comey’s “City on a Hill” speech. Comey should change *his* name to “Fantasy Comey.”
I try to look at it this way: If Trump had fired Comey in his first days in office, we would not have seen how depraved, juvenile and ethically challenged the Director of the FBI was, nor just how inured he’d become to believing his own BS. Trump saw this and I’m glad he fooled comey into believing his job was safe — all while Trump was sharpening the axe. Comey made such a total ass of himself, and all because he just couldn’t come to grips with the fact that not everyone agreed with his own high opinion of himself. Pride goeth before a fall.
that leak you heard was all the air coming out of comeys inflatable mattress.
And CTH has added these:
1. Comey said he leaked his WH dinner conversation to his Columbia U. friend on 5/15 in response to Trump’s tweet about maybe having a tape of the conversation. But at least one person tweeted about the subject on 5/11 — the tweet about Trump asking comey for “loyalty.”
2. comey said he briefed the Gang of 8 about there not being an open investigation of Trump and yet the four D members of that Gang have all told the media that Trump was definitely under investigation.
Connive we much!
Comey is a grade A dirtball. I hope he committed a crime here because I would love to see him hung by his own arrogance.
Instead of heaping fawning praise on Comey, I wish just one republican had the balls to start his questioning with an outline of all of Comey’s shady dealings:
1. (While at the DOJ in the 90’s) Clearing Bill Clinton of wrongdoing in the Marc Rich pardon.
2. As head attorney for Lockheed-martin, he approved millions of dollars in contributions to the Clinton Crime foundation in exchange for lucrative government contracts.
3. Comey gets named Director and board member of HSBC Holdings which was involved in a huge scandal laundering money for Mexican drug cartels and Saudi terrorist funding. HSBC was a huge Clinton foundation donor. It’s problems went away thanks to Comey’s efforts.