“And by remembering and being open and truthful about our mistakes, we reduce the chance we will repeat them”.
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The memos, seen by Reuters, include notes on a meeting at the Trump Tower in NY in January 2017 just before Trump’s inauguration in which Comey spoke alone with the then president-elect about the dossier that detailed an alleged 2013 encounter involving Trump and prostitutes in Moscow.
Tapper opened the interview by asking about the IG report, asking “If they ultimately bring a case against Andrew McCabe, would you be a witness for the prosecution?” “Getting a little (lot) of their own medicine?” he tweeted.
In his statement, Bromwich said that “the report fails to adequately address the evidence (including sworn testimony) and documents that prove that Mr. McCabe advised Director Comey repeatedly that he was working with the Wall Street Journal on the stories in question prior to publication”.
If I were representing McCabe, I would carefully review with him yesterday’s congressional referral with an eye to determining where and how my client could be of service to prosecutors. “I don’t have any views on it”. Speaking of the President’s recent pardon of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney, Comey said, “That pardon is an attack on the rule of law”. And I don’t think the reaction you’ve seen from the president to Comey’s book necessarily helps him.
It will give Donald Trump more ammunition for his false claims that the Russian Federation investigation is a “witch hunt”.
The 15 pages of leaked documents contained new details about Comey’s interactions with Trump that he found so unnerving that Comey documented them in writing.
Last Friday, they demanded that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein provide access to unredacted copies of the documents. Recall that when Trump wanted to fire Mueller last June, White House counsel Donald McGahn reportedly threatened to resign in protest.
“It was a new deputy attorney general, who I didn’t have confidence in, given what I’d seen around my firing, and so I thought something has to be done”, Comey said. The president told Mr Comey that “he is trying to do work for the country, visit with foreign leaders, and any cloud, even a little cloud, gets in the way of that”, Mr Comey wrote, referring to “the Russian Federation thing”.
Trump told Comey that “if there was “some satellite” (NOTE: I took this to mean some associate of his or his campaign) that did something, it would be good to find that out, but that he hadn’t done anything”, Comey recalled. “None of the F.B.I. information presented fell within a restricted area of disclosure”, says a bureau press officer, who would not comment on whether Mueller’s team was also given an advance look. “That hypothetical is too hard for me to go back in time and try and answer”.
Comey said that while he felt “tremendous pain over the prospect that we played any role” in the outcome of the election, he didn’t feel that he had made any wrong decisions along the way. Comey has appeared on a number of networks for high-profile interviews and media appearances, the place he has mentioned the ebook and slammed former Obama administration colleagues, together with former President Barack Obama. He’s clearly not. So what do we do about it?’
If I were him, I wouldn’t be too anxious about this either.
“I don’t hate Donald Trump”.
In the first, the president just checked in to see how the Federal Bureau of Investigation director was doing, but during the second call he went on at length about the “cloud” that the Russian Federation scandal was causing, saying that he did not cheat on his wife and that he was personally suing former British spy Christopher Steele.
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The criminal referral is an indication of the extreme tensions building up within the American state.
