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Comey's entire prepared remarks here:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article154853419.html

“I had understood the president to be requesting that we drop any investigation of Flynn in connection with false statements about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in December,” Comey said in prepared testimony ahead of Thursday’s hearing in the Senate. “I did not understand the President to be talking about the broader investigation into Russia or possible links to his campaign.”

Comey said he “could be wrong” about that interpretation of Trump’s comments.

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Comey said he told then-president-elect Trump on Jan. 6 in a briefing in Trump Tower that Trump himself was not being investigated. Before that meeting, he spoke with the FBI’s leadership team about whether he should tell Trump the agency was not investigating him.

“That was true; we did not have an open counter-intelligence case on him. We agreed I should do so if circumstances warranted,” Comey said. “During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President-Elect Trump’s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, I offered that assurance.”

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According to Comey, Trump told him he was considering ordering an investigation into the salacious allegations the FBI director had briefed him on in the Jan. 6 meeting at Trump Tower. Comey then reassured Trump for a second time the president was not personally under investigation.

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During a phone call on March 30, Comey said he told Trump for a third time he was not personally under investigation.
 
What's interesting about the 3 times bit is that Trump wrote that in the termination letter he sent to Comey and that's been made public. Trump wasn't making that up, eh? The question begs the point of how he remembered these three occasions - just good memory, he himself took notes, or it was recorded and they went back and listened and counted the times.

If there are tapes, they need to be made public so we can hear the whole context of what was being said. To be fair.
 
Denny Crane said:
What's interesting about the 3 times bit is that Trump wrote that in the termination letter he sent to Comey and that's been made public. Trump wasn't making that up, eh? The question begs the point of how he remembered these three occasions - just good memory, he himself took notes, or it was recorded and they went back and listened and counted the times.

If there are tapes, they need to be made public so we can hear the whole context of what was being said. To be fair.
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Totally recorded.
 
Trump probably has video of Comey rolling his eyes behind his back.... you're fired
 
Denny Crane said:
What's interesting about the 3 times bit is that Trump wrote that in the termination letter he sent to Comey and that's been made public. Trump wasn't making that up, eh? The question begs the point of how he remembered these three occasions - just good memory, he himself took notes, or it was recorded and they went back and listened and counted the times.
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Or maybe Trump is just obsessed with finding out whether the FBI has anything on him yet.

If there are tapes, they need to be made public so we can hear the whole context of what was being said. To be fair.
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Totally agree.

barfo
 
barfo said:
Or maybe Trump is just obsessed with finding out whether the FBI has anything on him yet.



Totally agree.

barfo
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Or maybe you don't know much.
 
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017...-to-deliver-smoking-gun-democrats-craved.html

Dershowitz: Comey's statement fails to deliver the smoking gun Democrats craved

By Alan Dershowitz

Former FBI Director James Comey's written statement, which was released in advance of his Thursday testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, does not provide evidence that President Trump committed obstruction of justice or any other crime. Indeed it strongly suggests that even under the broadest reasonable definition of obstruction, no such crime was committed.
 
ABC News. Wow.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-trump-vindicated-potus-comey-wanted/story?id=47904018

ANALYSIS: Trump vindicated? President gets from Comey what he wanted all along

For all the unsavory details in the James Comey account of the president's behavior, tonight the White House and some top Republicans see big vindication for Trump.

When all is said and done, Comey has now publicly gone on record with what Trump always wanted him to say but which he wouldn’t or couldn’t for the past four months -– resolving the core irritant for Trump since he's taken office -- declaring that he told Trump he's not personally under investigation by the FBI.

"The President feels completely and totally vindicated," his attorney Marc Kasowitz declared tonight.

For Trump, it must feel like vindication not just from the criminal conspiracies but also for his abrupt and controversial decision to fire his FBI director. Only out of a job at the FBI has Comey finally done what Trump so desperately wanted.

In essence, Comey says the Trump encounters -- nine one-on-ones over four months -- were uncomfortable, but not impactful. The investigations continued unimpeded. The conversations may have been highly unusual, if not grossly inappropriate, but not necessarily illegal.

It is entirely possible that what Comey meant and what Trump understood were two different things, and that may get clarified with Comey's testimony Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. But it's hard not to read Comey's plain statement any other way: "We were not personally investigating President Trump. I reminded him [on March 30th] I had previously told him that," he wrote.

In fact, Comey even reveals for the first time that Trump encouraged him in private to continue the FBI investigation into his associates: "The president went on to say that if there were some 'satellite' associates of his who did something wrong, it would be good to find that out," Comey says.
 
Denny Crane said:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017...-to-deliver-smoking-gun-democrats-craved.html

Dershowitz: Comey's statement fails to deliver the smoking gun Democrats craved

By Alan Dershowitz

Former FBI Director James Comey's written statement, which was released in advance of his Thursday testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, does not provide evidence that President Trump committed obstruction of justice or any other crime. Indeed it strongly suggests that even under the broadest reasonable definition of obstruction, no such crime was committed.
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O.J. Simpson's former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, believes Simpson is being unfairly punished
 
Denny Crane said:
ABC News. Wow.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-trump-vindicated-potus-comey-wanted/story?id=47904018

ANALYSIS: Trump vindicated? President gets from Comey what he wanted all along

For all the unsavory details in the James Comey account of the president's behavior, tonight the White House and some top Republicans see big vindication for Trump.

When all is said and done, Comey has now publicly gone on record with what Trump always wanted him to say but which he wouldn’t or couldn’t for the past four months -– resolving the core irritant for Trump since he's taken office -- declaring that he told Trump he's not personally under investigation by the FBI.

"The President feels completely and totally vindicated," his attorney Marc Kasowitz declared tonight.

For Trump, it must feel like vindication not just from the criminal conspiracies but also for his abrupt and controversial decision to fire his FBI director. Only out of a job at the FBI has Comey finally done what Trump so desperately wanted.

In essence, Comey says the Trump encounters -- nine one-on-ones over four months -- were uncomfortable, but not impactful. The investigations continued unimpeded. The conversations may have been highly unusual, if not grossly inappropriate, but not necessarily illegal.

It is entirely possible that what Comey meant and what Trump understood were two different things, and that may get clarified with Comey's testimony Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. But it's hard not to read Comey's plain statement any other way: "We were not personally investigating President Trump. I reminded him [on March 30th] I had previously told him that," he wrote.

In fact, Comey even reveals for the first time that Trump encouraged him in private to continue the FBI investigation into his associates: "The president went on to say that if there were some 'satellite' associates of his who did something wrong, it would be good to find that out," Comey says.
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Hmmm: reminds me of something...
 
Comey a wee bit butt hurt over being fired.
 
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