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Comey Branded as Criminal in Connection with his Actions as FBI Director

if they don't indict multiple people for this, there needs to be a deafening roar about it.

reason being there is obviously something illegal going on here. Whether it is a cover up or a coup, there IS a conspiracy playing out here. Too much crap being flung not to be.

someone better prove something or they all need to go.


:screwy


:lamo:lamo
 
There is not a single solitary quote from the actual IG report in that entire piece you linked. Oh by the way, that is one of the reasons though not the only reason I never post links here. Its a practice too often abused.

Its a debate forum. You get my debate arguments here as opposed to some BS from some BS site.

The link to the entire report was included in the link that was posted. From that table of contents:

https://bongino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/OIG-Report-No.-OR-19-02-Comey-Memos-08-29-19.pdf

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V. OI G Analysis ..................................................................................... 52
A. The Memos were FBI Records..................................................... 52

B. Comey Violated Department and FBI Policies Pertaining to theRetention, Handling, and Dissem ination of FBI Records andI nformation .............................................................................. 54
1. Comey Failed to Return Memos 2, 4, 6, and 7 after BeingRemoved as FBI Director .................................................. 55
2. Comey I mproperly Disclosed FBI Documents and I nformation 56

C. Comey Failed to I mm ediately Alert the FBI to the UnauthorizedDisclosure of Classified I nformation............................................. 59

VI . Conclusion ........................................................................................ 59

APPENDI X A ......................................................................................... 62

APPENDI X B ........................................................................................ 79
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From the IG's conclusion:

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We have previously faulted Comey for acting unilaterally and inconsistentwith Department policy. 103

Comey’s unauthorized disclosure of sensitive law enforcement information about the Flynn investigation merits similar criticism.

In a country built on the rule of law, it is of utmost importance that all FBI employees adhere to Department and FBI policies, particularly when confronted by what appear to be extraordinary circumstances or compelling personal convictions.

Comey had several other lawful options available to him to advocate for the appointment of a Special Counsel, which he told us was his goal in making the disclosure.

What was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information, obtained during the course of FBI employment, in order to achieve a personally desired outcome.

The OIG has provided this report to the FBI and to the Department of JusticeOffice of Professional Responsibility for action they deem appropriate.
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The link to the entire report was included in the link that was posted. From that table of contents:

https://bongino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/OIG-Report-No.-OR-19-02-Comey-Memos-08-29-19.pdf

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V. OI G Analysis ..................................................................................... 52
A. The Memos were FBI Records..................................................... 52

B. Comey Violated Department and FBI Policies Pertaining to theRetention, Handling, and Dissem ination of FBI Records andI nformation .............................................................................. 54
1. Comey Failed to Return Memos 2, 4, 6, and 7 after BeingRemoved as FBI Director .................................................. 55
2. Comey I mproperly Disclosed FBI Documents and I nformation 56

C. Comey Failed to I mm ediately Alert the FBI to the UnauthorizedDisclosure of Classified I nformation............................................. 59

VI . Conclusion ........................................................................................ 59

APPENDI X A ......................................................................................... 62

APPENDI X B ........................................................................................ 79
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From the IG's conclusion:

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We have previously faulted Comey for acting unilaterally and inconsistentwith Department policy. 103

Comey’s unauthorized disclosure of sensitive law enforcement information about the Flynn investigation merits similar criticism.

In a country built on the rule of law, it is of utmost importance that all FBI employees adhere to Department and FBI policies, particularly when confronted by what appear to be extraordinary circumstances or compelling personal convictions.

Comey had several other lawful options available to him to advocate for the appointment of a Special Counsel, which he told us was his goal in making the disclosure.

What was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information, obtained during the course of FBI employment, in order to achieve a personally desired outcome.

The OIG has provided this report to the FBI and to the Department of JusticeOffice of Professional Responsibility for action they deem appropriate.
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Still a FAIL. I did not see the word "Classified" in any of that. I saw the word "confidential" WHICH IS NOT A CRIME. There is nothing for DOJ to do with that finding from the IG other than mount a prosecution going NOWHERE.
 
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So, there is more to come.

This is really getting good!

It's fun to watch as the crooks turn on each other and scramble for the darkness.

It's fun to watch them backtracking from "I've seen the evidence" to "I must have had bad information".

This is high comedy. It's just not gotten all the way to the various punch lines. Yet...

I wish Mel Brooks was still in a position to make a movie about this similar to "The Producers".

I wonder what the "Springtime for Hitler" production would morph into using Comey, Brennan and Clapper as the main characters. :)
 
So, there is more to come.

This is really getting good!

It's fun to watch as the crooks turn on each other and scramble for the darkness.

It's fun to watch them backtracking from "I've seen the evidence" to "I must have had bad information".

This is high comedy. It's just not gotten all the way to the various punch lines. Yet...

I wish Mel Brooks was still in a position to make a movie about this similar to "The Producers".

I wonder what the "Springtime for Hitler" production would morph into using Comey, Brennan and Clapper as the main characters. :)

This is all groundless speculation on your part and a rejection of our intelligence services and the Mueller Report.
 
With whom the memo is shared has no bearing on whether the meeting is personal or official.

The meeting involved human beings, of course.

However, the human beings were office holders and therefore, the meeting occurred between the office holders, not the human beings.

When the Director of the FBI meets with the POTUS, it is automatically a classified exchange of ideas protected under Executive privilege.

The more senior official is the one who can reveal the content of the meeting, not the subordinate.

Not true. Meetings between office holders can involve an exchange of classified information, but any information exchanged is not automatically classified just because the senior official wishes it were. And if it is not classified, then the subordinate is under no legal obligation to not reveal it. The worst that can happen to a subordinate who shares unclassified information is termination.

In fact, with the case in question, Trump's own DOJ determined that it was not a classified exchange of ideas protected under Executive privilege. Comey knew this, which is why he felt comfortable sharing his personal memos with reporters once he lost his job and was denied his retirement benefits. A bit vengeful on his part I'll admit, but terminating someone and taking their retirement shortly before they are set to retire is a pretty nasty move. I can't say I wouldn't have done the same, and I can't say Trump didn't deserve it.
 
Still a FAIL. I did not see the word "Classified" in any of that. I saw the word "confidential" WHICH IS NOT A CRIME. There is nothing for DOJ to do with that finding from the IG other than mount a prosecution going NOWHERE.

Well, that's your option to not see a criminal lack of ethics in ignoring the court tested limits on actions by FBI officials.

Why are Liberals so committed to elimination of protections for US citizens and expansion of protections for criminal police thugs?

James Comey: The corrupt cop the media painted as their savior
 
This is all groundless speculation on your part and a rejection of our intelligence services and the Mueller Report.

That would be the Mueller Report that was instigated by the lying, leaking disgraced FBI Director based on nothing but his personal vendetta against the duly elected POTUS.

The same Mueller Report that showed that the Lying, leaking, disgraced FBI Director was lying and leaking in this and about everything else he did as FBI Director. Hillary got a taste of his "ethics" as well.

Our spy agencies in coordination with the spy agencies of Britain and Australia seem to have concocted a web of lies that is terrifying to anyone interested in justice, truth and fair play.

Tell me again why the words of an Australian official repeated by a low level nobody in the Trump Campaign to a British official would initiate this multi year, international investigation.

Even the most ardent party hack must be starting to question the foundations for this hoax.

I almost HOPE that our spies are this corrupt. It's frightening to think that they're this STUPID. On the other hand, there's Occam's Razor.
 
That would be the Mueller Report that was instigated by the lying, leaking disgraced FBI Director based on nothing but his personal vendetta against the duly elected POTUS.

The same Mueller Report that showed that the Lying, leaking, disgraced FBI Director was lying and leaking in this and about everything else he did as FBI Director. Hillary got a taste of his "ethics" as well.

Actually it is the same Mueller report that finds that the Russian government interfered in our election in a sweeping and systematic fashion and did so to benefit and elect Donald Trump and the Russian help was enthusiastically received by the Trump Campaign.

It is the same Mueller Report which found hundreds of contacts between the Russians and the Trump Campaign.

It is the same Mueller Report which found at least ten instances of the President committing the crime of obstruction of justice.
 
Not true. Meetings between office holders can involve an exchange of classified information, but any information exchanged is not automatically classified just because the senior official wishes it were. And if it is not classified, then the subordinate is under no legal obligation to not reveal it. The worst that can happen to a subordinate who shares unclassified information is termination.

In fact, with the case in question, Trump's own DOJ determined that it was not a classified exchange of ideas protected under Executive privilege. Comey knew this, which is why he felt comfortable sharing his personal memos with reporters once he lost his job and was denied his retirement benefits. A bit vengeful on his part I'll admit, but terminating someone and taking their retirement shortly before they are set to retire is a pretty nasty move. I can't say I wouldn't have done the same, and I can't say Trump didn't deserve it.


Comey was not comfortable at all with sharing these memos with reporters which is why he did not do so.

He hired his buddy to receive the memos who in turn distributed them to the reporters.

Yes, Comey did leak classified information

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The problem for Comey was Memo 2, which he sent to Richman and to Comey's two other lawyers, Patrick Fitzgerald and David Kelley. Of the memos Comey shared with his attorneys, Memo 2 contained six words that the FBI determined in June 2017 to be classified at the 'CONFIDENTIAL' level," the inspector general report said. In a footnote, the report added: "Four of the six words in Memo 2 that the FBI determined were classified were the names of foreign countries being discussed by the president....The president referenced the countries when he conveyed his personal views on the relative importance of promptly returning telephone calls from the leadership of the named countries."

Comey, who as director was something known as an OCA, or Original Classification Authority, had the power to classify material on his own. He did not classify Memo 2 at the time he wrote it, but an FBI team later determined it should be classified. When the document was released to the public, portions were blacked out to reflect that classification.

Another indication of the material's status as classified was that the the FBI took extensive steps to remove it from the computers and devices of the three lawyers, Richman, Fitzgerald, and Kelley, who received it. After top bureau officials determined that there was classified material in what Comey had sent, in June 2017 the FBI dispatched agents to Richman's home to take away his desktop computer. Nine days later, they returned the computer "after taking steps to permanently remove the memos from it," the report said.

In later months, FBI agents "met with the individuals and IT professionals associated with [Fitzgerald's and Kelley's] accounts, and confirmed that the emails and copies of the memos were deleted from the computer systems that had received them."

It was a lot of work. "The FBI wouldn't have wasted time deleting copies of Memo 2 from Comey's lawyers' email accounts if it didn't contain classified information," a source familiar with the interactions between the FBI, the inspector general's office, and oversight committees on the Hill about the classified clean-up efforts told me. "There is no doubt Comey leaked that classified memo to his counsel, and oversight committees have known about the clean-up operation since it first occurred."

Comey's defenders can argue that just a few words on Memo 2 were classified. They can argue, as Comey apparently believes, that even those words should not have been classified. But the fact is, they were classified, and Comey sent them to unauthorized recipients, and after the FBI learned about it, the bureau took steps to clean up what it called a "spill" of classified material.

So it's true that Comey did not leak classified information to members of the media. But he still leaked classified information.
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Don't get excited about it. Nothing is going to happen to Comey or any of the others. They'll get a public scolding, perhaps, but that will be the extent of things. The establishment does not eat itself.

The cynic says you are likely correct in your prediction.
 
Comey was not comfortable at all with sharing these memos with reporters which is why he did not do so.

He hired his buddy to receive the memos who in turn distributed them to the reporters.

Yes, Comey did leak classified information

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The problem for Comey was Memo 2, which he sent to Richman and to Comey's two other lawyers, Patrick Fitzgerald and David Kelley. Of the memos Comey shared with his attorneys, Memo 2 contained six words that the FBI determined in June 2017 to be classified at the 'CONFIDENTIAL' level," the inspector general report said. In a footnote, the report added: "Four of the six words in Memo 2 that the FBI determined were classified were the names of foreign countries being discussed by the president....The president referenced the countries when he conveyed his personal views on the relative importance of promptly returning telephone calls from the leadership of the named countries."

Comey, who as director was something known as an OCA, or Original Classification Authority, had the power to classify material on his own. He did not classify Memo 2 at the time he wrote it, but an FBI team later determined it should be classified. When the document was released to the public, portions were blacked out to reflect that classification.

Another indication of the material's status as classified was that the the FBI took extensive steps to remove it from the computers and devices of the three lawyers, Richman, Fitzgerald, and Kelley, who received it. After top bureau officials determined that there was classified material in what Comey had sent, in June 2017 the FBI dispatched agents to Richman's home to take away his desktop computer. Nine days later, they returned the computer "after taking steps to permanently remove the memos from it," the report said.

In later months, FBI agents "met with the individuals and IT professionals associated with [Fitzgerald's and Kelley's] accounts, and confirmed that the emails and copies of the memos were deleted from the computer systems that had received them."

It was a lot of work. "The FBI wouldn't have wasted time deleting copies of Memo 2 from Comey's lawyers' email accounts if it didn't contain classified information," a source familiar with the interactions between the FBI, the inspector general's office, and oversight committees on the Hill about the classified clean-up efforts told me. "There is no doubt Comey leaked that classified memo to his counsel, and oversight committees have known about the clean-up operation since it first occurred."

Comey's defenders can argue that just a few words on Memo 2 were classified. They can argue, as Comey apparently believes, that even those words should not have been classified. But the fact is, they were classified, and Comey sent them to unauthorized recipients, and after the FBI learned about it, the bureau took steps to clean up what it called a "spill" of classified material.

So it's true that Comey did not leak classified information to members of the media. But he still leaked classified information.
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To his lawyers. This is not illegal.
 
Trump supporters who have no problem with Trump abusing restrictions on access to classified information in order to give his children power in areas they have no competence complain about someone else abusing access to classified information, see no hypocrisy in their actions. News at 11.

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You lot have nothing to say about Comey and his memos.

trump is the president he can declassify anything he wishes.
comey cannot.
 
What are you talking about? The DOJ determined only that he mishandled personal memos containing unclassified information related to his job, and that he will face no prosecution for it.

actually the information that he leaked was classified later,
but they were not his documents they were government documents.

of course he won't face prosecution for it. we have a 2 tiered justice system in this country.
 
To his lawyers. This is not illegal.

the law says otherwise. that is why we have the law not his lawyers.
 
Actually it is the same Mueller report that finds that the Russian government interfered in our election in a sweeping and systematic fashion and did so to benefit and elect Donald Trump and the Russian help was enthusiastically received by the Trump Campaign.

It is the same Mueller Report which found hundreds of contacts between the Russians and the Trump Campaign.

It is the same Mueller Report which found at least ten instances of the President committing the crime of obstruction of justice.

and yet the Democrats in the house won't impeach...:2no4:
 
actually the information that he leaked was classified later,
but they were not his documents they were government documents.

of course he won't face prosecution for it. we have a 2 tiered justice system in this country.

What government documents did Comey leak?
 
and yet the Democrats in the house can't impeach...:2no4:

They can, they just won't. They want to face Trump in 2020.
 
What government documents did Comey leak?

i guess you didn't read the report. His memo's were not his personal memo's as they
conducted government business with the president. they were the governments memo's.
they should have been turned over to the agency for filing as a matter of public record or classified
depending on the conversation.

he had 0 ownership of those memo's nor did he have the right to leak them to the press.
 
They can, they just won't. They want to face Trump in 2020.

and lose? have you seen the clowns that the DNC are running?
 
i guess you didn't read the report. His memo's were not his personal memo's as they
conducted government business with the president. they were the governments memo's.
they should have been turned over to the agency for filing as a matter of public record or classified
depending on the conversation.

he had 0 ownership of those memo's nor did he have the right to leak them to the press.

Yes he did have the right. Unless the memos contained classified information, the government cannot claim ownership of personal memos. Civil servants have the same civil rights as anyone else.
 
and yet the Democrats in the house won't impeach...:2no4:

I don't remember that vote failing. What is the date they took that vote and declined to impeach?
 
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