Comey faces real questions, fails miserably.
James Comey was interviewed by Fox News Bret Baier Thursday night. After arriving late for the interview (due to "traffic"), Comey was confronted with simple, but as of yet unasked questions while on his book tour. The questions involved both the Clinton and Trump investigations.
Some of the highlights were these:
Comey denied knowing who was behind the leak about the infamous anti-Trump dossier that was later revealed to have been used to obtain a surveillance warrant for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Comey claimed he never knew exactly who funded the dossier.
Imagine that?
Asked when he learned that the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign funded Steele's work, Comey said: “I still don't know that for a fact.”
You could almost hear a gasp from the Fox news team...Baier actually paused a bit after hearing it
Asked about FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page – whose anti-Trump text messages have been seized upon by Republicans -- Comey said he would have “removed both of them from any contact with significant investigations” had he been aware of the texts.
Amazing he was so clueless about what was going on within his own investigation team
When asked why he didn't reveal hiring Richman as a special government employee for the FBI. Comey responded, “It wasn't relevant.”
Comey denied the "Dossier" wasn't "critical" to getting a FISA warrant, in contradiction to what Andrew McCabe has said.
Strange then, why an unverified opposition research document was used at all?
He also claimed that he didn't consider giving his memos to the New York Times a leak.
Evidently, he has a different definition of a leak from the rest of us who consider what he did to be a felony.
It was stunning what Comey claims he didn't know:
He didn't know Steele's name!
He didn't know Steele lied to the FBI and was dismissed!
He didn't know who funded the Steele Dossier!
He didn't know who leaked it!
Thanks go out to Bret Baier for exposing James Comey at long last.
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“Did you want to know who it was funded by?” Baier asked.
“I wanted to know what I knew which is it was funded by people politically opposed to Donald Trump,” “Which particular opponents wasn’t that important to me.”
“So you still to this day don’t know that it was funded by the DNC or the Clinton campaign?” Baier asked, completely stunned.
“I’ve read that in the media but I don’t know for a fact, and didn’t know when I was at the FBI, who, which exact opponents of the president funded that.”
It's amazing what he doesn't know, can't remember, or doesn't recall. This lying leaker is going to be in for some very rough days in the near future. His memory is almost as bad as HRC's
She and Comey should do their book tours together.
Skirting the CoC [ph]
Comey explains everything that you think he has done that is criminal with facile ease. That is because he actually knows the facts of the cases and you are basing your opinion on right wing media fantasies.
No, he is liar and a leaker, as the facts plainly show. It's all on video!
I have watched the entire Fox News interview with Comey. I thought his answer about who he thought paid for the dossier was a little disingenuous , or perhaps he was expressing the letter of the law, but other than that one issue Comey was in command of all the information discussed in the interview.
True - but not nearly as amazing as the shear number of liberal twits and useful idiots that cannot think for themselves sufficiently to see through Comey's lies.....or, as has been pointed out before, DO see through it but haven't got enough self honesty and character to publically admit to it.
I will admit that Comey had obviously spent a great deal of time and effort practicing his BS. He was smooth, had the body language down most of the time, and his words sounded as if they could be an honest appraisal - but for anyone listening to the answers that was familiar with established facts, FBI protocol and Comey's previous public statements - the clear challenge Comey has with telling the truth was plain and obvious.
That being said, having seen liberals apologize for and justify unbelievably un-American and incredibly blatant illegal behavior perpetrated by the political leaders among their ranks it comes as no surprise you are willing to overlook an obviously disingenuous performance here because it suits the left's agenda.
Actually, he had to pretend he didn't know things that he should have known. I'm sure he knew what questions he would be asked (the very ones he hadn't been asked by the likes of CNN. BTW he was 15 minutes late for the interview, he claims because of traffic, leaving Baier less time for follow up questions.
Is there a link to the seeded article, or are these Vic's original interpretations?
Is there a video of the entire Brett Baier interview with Comey, so we can see it for ourselves?
It would appear that one only need to return to the top of the page to find what it is that you seek ... or Google it?
It is an article by Vic.
You can watch it again on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dycp2x_hWbA
As for the impressions, ya they are mine, as I indicated
James Comey is an honest man. He has no worries about any of his conduct because he knows the laws and the facts better than his accusers do.
His main "problem" is that he sometimes answers questions by giving his own opinion, and then saying "on the other hand" and giving the alternative opinion as well. This makes him sound unsure about some things.
Vic, why didnt you mention Mueller's comments about the memos being classified? Trump ranted to Fox and Friends yesterday that Comey leaked classified memos. Trump is lying. The memos are in Comey's book, and have been vetted by the FBI and obviously approved for inclusion in the book.
I'm sure both you & Comey are convinced of that.
His main "problem" is that he sometimes answers questions by giving his own opinion, and then saying "on the other hand" and giving the alternative opinion as well. This makes him sound unsure about some things.
As if he was nailed to the Cross ?
Vic, why didnt you mention Mueller's comments about the memos being classified?
Evidently, you agree with him that they were not. First of all the memo's were written when he was still FBI director - that makes them FBI property, regardless of classification. The other important thing to remember is that they involve private conversations he had with the President. Think about that for a minute. Because it's Trump it's ok, right? If that was done to any other President most everyone would be at the very least concerned. Thank's for bringing it up.
I guess Mueller felt that it was enough to remove Strozk from the investigation. Was he wrong?
Facts are a wonderful thing...you should try reading them sometime.
Timeline of Carter Page's contacts with Russia
So, the FBI knew Trump was already involved with Page in 2014? Hmm, since this whole opposition research was started by the Washington Free Beacon who initially hired Fusion GPS in 2015 then dropped it because Trump had already convinced the zombies and was nominated. But the Dems are the bad guys because they picked up where the Beacon left off.
Anywhere in there that The Steele Dossier was in any circulation before The Beacon hired Fusion initially?
God help us if the last President had hired someone that previously worked for the Kremlin and nobody investigated.
Part of the anti-Comey argument is that the FBI used the "dossier" to seek surveillance of Page. This conveniently forgets that Page had been previously under surveillance prior to the FBI learning of the dossier, so as your material states, the dossier was additional information for the court to consider, but not the entire basis for the request to the FISA court.
Page had always been a pathway for spying on the Trump campaign
Obama and his administration and higher ups in the FBI and DOJ were heavily involved with the Russians long before Trump was nominated, and especially afterward. You might say they were the original colluders.
"Well, Obama...."
You must be kidding yourself, because you aren't kidding anyone else.
That was their job. Putin and Obama weren't swapping spit like Putin and Trump so obviously/illegally were/are.
BBBBBWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tell us - truthfully please - does the statement where Dingle-Barry himself is caught whispering instructions to the outgoing Russian President, for him to relay the message to Putin telling Vlad "It's important he give me space. I'll have more flexibility after my election."
Hell bubba - when you put that together with the Obama administration giving Putin 20% of US held uranium, Obama giving billions of dollars in aid to the terrorist arms of the Putin regime (Iran and Hamas), Obama financing political opponents of US ally Netanyahu, paying Russian intelligence for that phony dossier and standing in line with the Klintons to take millions of dollars in bribes from the Russians - your statement isn't just hilariously funny - it defines the complete logic disconnect of the liberals, it explains and demonstrates the fantasies of the loony left - it is in a nutshell (appropriately) the delusional self-desception required for the liberals to hang on to the dead-ended, discredited and demonstrably foolish obsession the left has with a Trump collusion narrative.
Hey Studius... good to see you. And I read that as "Free Bacon" and considered moving to Washington.
They most certainly are. You made the same mistake Comey made - The Free Beacon did opposition research on Trump via Fusion GPS but it had nothing to do with Christopher Steele and his infamous "Dossier". That was all paid for by the Clinton Campaign and they paid a generous price for it. From there people within the Clinton organization like Sidney Blumenthal promoted it to the State Department. Christopher Steele promoted it or sold it to the FBI. They told him not to disseminate it and he did, then lied to the FBI about it. Another fact Comey lied about. Then the FBI used it - and not just as a piece of the FISA request, but the heart and soul of it!
Weren't his answers to Baiers questions a little absurd for an FBI director in charge of the investigations under discussion? :
He's not sure. "It's possible"...he thinks...! It's not for him to say...it's his understanding...he doesn't remember clearly, "I'm not allowed to say," I SAY BULL SHIT!
Pathetic to see Comey plead ignorance on such basic facts. He's not dumb, so that leaves one other choice..
That you are wrong on what you consider to be facts?
We have the Fox perception of the facts and the real world perception of the facts.....as usual they are two totally opposite viewpoints.....our friends on the right think that the questions that Brett Baier {who is maybe the closest to a real reporter on Fox} asked are relevant, but we'll see what Mueller has thought or will think is necessary. The same will hold true for the New York investigation. What any of us think doesn't make any difference at this point.
So we will see. We will see if it is possible to prosecute members of the deep state like McCabe & Comey.
In view of all available evidence, on record and under oath, Comey is in a heap of trouble.
But Trump isn't, right Gregger?
For what, exactly?