Dude hid behind a curtain.

Sharyl Attkisson??????
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@SharylAttkisson
Comey says he would not have allowed Strzok and Page to serve on the Hillary email investigation if he had known about their private communications (p. 18).

Comey said there was “the appearance of conflict or the appearance that [Lynch] was compromised in some fashion” (p. 48). Comey also said that Lynch should have recused herself from the Clinton investigation (p. 77)

Comey said he doesn’t know who drafted questions for Hillary’s FBI interview. He says he didn’t read them. The FBI didn’t record the interview. Comey said he also doesn’t remember why Clinton’s interview wasn’t conducted before a grand jury (p. 38).

Comey said he doesn’t know for sure why the witnesses in the Clinton email investigation weren’t subpoenaed and questioned before the grand jury. He says the FBI investigative team deemed it unnecessary (p. 212).

Comey called it “very unusual” for the FBI to have allowed Mills and Samuelson to sit in on Clinton’s FBI interview because “you’d ideally like people not to know what others’ stories are so they’re not able to get their story together.”

...Comey says he doesn’t remember why the arrangement was permitted. He said the decision was made by the Justice Department, not the FBI, but that the FBI didn’t object. Comey says he doesn’t remember whether he, personally, knew of the arrangement (pp. 202-204).

Comey says he doesn’t remember why the FBI granted Pagliano immunity (pp. 199-201). (Pagliano is the State Dept. employee who set up Hillary Clinton's unusual private server). Comey says he doesn't know if the FBI asked Pagliano who instructed him to set up the private server.

Comey acknowledged that FBI general counsel James Baker originally believed it was appropriate to charge Hillary Clinton with violating various laws regarding the mishandling of classified information (p. 230). Note: Baker later changed his mind.

The FBI opened an investigation into “4 Americans.” Comey will not name them. He says “at least some” of them were affiliated with the Trump campaign but insists the probe was not into Trump or the Trump campaign (pp. 23, 79, 136-138, 140, 142, 161).

Comey says he’s not aware of any DOJ or FBI effort to target the Trump campaign or Trump (p. 66). Comey said the FBI and DOJ never investigated Trump for political purposes. He says he knows of no request by the Obama administration to do so (p. 162).

Comey says he doesn’t think he ever read the FBI document launching the Russia probe and doesn’t remember the FBI’s stated “predicate” for it (pp. 24, 26-27, 30).

When asked about the meaning of “collusion,” Comey says it doesn’t constitute a crime and the word has no particular meaning in terms of U.S. Department of Justice vernacular (p. 27).

Comey says the president’s comments about Flynn were enough to potentially launch an obstruction of justice investigation. Comey says he doesn’t remember for sure whether he opened such an investigation, but he doesn’t think so.

Comey says Trump’s "directive" to "let this go" (referring to Flynn probe) had no impact. Asked if he was obstructed, Comey said he’s not sure but doesn’t think so. When asked about a similar statement Obama made in a different case, Comey says he didn’t take it as obstructive.

Comey says he wrote up a memo about Trump's improper "directive" & notified sr. FBI staff. He didn’t tell Atty Gen. Sessions, he says, because he knew Sessions would be recusing himself soon. Comey says he doesn’t remember who told him in advance that Sessions would be recusing.

Comey says he doesn’t think Steele had any direct knowledge about collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia (pp. 123-124).

Comey says he’s not sure how Steele’s dossier got to the FBI. Comey says he doesn’t know what steps the FBI took to verify Steele’s info before or after the FBI presented it to the FISA court. He says the FBI was still “evaluating” the information months after using it in court.

Analysis: “Verification” of the dossier is crucial. Intel sources say presenting a single unverified fact to the FISA court violates FBI’s strict Woods Procedures installed to prevent the FBI from obtaining wiretaps based on false or questionable information... (continued)
...There seems to be no recognition by Comey or anyone else of these important FBI rules (Woods Procedures) or how the FBI apparently violated them.

Comey says he doesn’t know if the FBI has a legal duty to present to the court any evidence indicating the target may be innocent, but he says as a matter of “trust,” the FBI should tell the court about strengths and flaws of the evidence (p. 132).

Comey: He & Mueller are “not friends..I don’t know his phone number,I’ve never been to his house,I don’t know his children’s names. I think I had a meal once alone w/him in a restaurant. I like him.I’m an associate..who admires him greatly. We’re not friends in any social sense."

Maybe Comey doens't know, but Mueller knows that FBI must verify ea. & every fact prior to presenting to FISA court or it cannot be used. As FBI Director, Mueller implemented the rules (Woods Procedures) after FBI abuses. Wonder why rules weren't followed with Page wiretap apps?

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