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A Smoking Gun

Steve

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Key question: Is Comey claiming here that he’s never experienced political pressure during an investigation of any kind or is he claiming that he’s never experienced it from the DOJ? That’s what Mazie Hirono’s question was about — the DOJ, not the White House.

HIRONO: So if the Attorney General or senior officials at the Department of Justice opposes a specific investigation, can they halt that FBI investigation?

COMEY: In theory yes.

HIRONO: Has it happened?

COMEY: Not in my experience. Because it would be a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something that — without an appropriate purpose. I mean where oftentimes they give us opinions that we don’t see a case there and so you ought to stop investing resources in it. But I’m talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason, that would be a very big deal. It’s not happened in my experience.

He wasn’t asked about Trump so technically his answer’s not inconsistent with the phantom memo. But it would be lawyerly to a Clintonian degree to answer a question about whether the president’s deputies at Justice ever pressured him to quash an investigation for political reasons by saying no, without elaboration, when in fact he’d been approached by the president himself to “go easy” on Flynn. Is that really going to be his defense when he’s asked about this in the future? “Her question wasn’t about Trump, so I didn’t think attempted obstruction of justice by the White House was worth mentioning”?

The question here is similar to the question of why he didn’t report what Trump allegedly said to him to his superiors at the DOJ. The likely answer to that one is that he thought Trump’s request was inappropriate but not so clear-cut a threat as to constitute obstruction and he didn’t want to set off a political firestorm over an ambiguous remark. That’s defensible — but Hirono isn’t asking him about offenses that rise to the level of obstruction here. She’s asking whether he’s experienced any form of political pressure on an investigation from the DOJ. As such, it’s hard to square his omission of Trump’s request with the memo reported by the Times unless he goes the hyper-lawyerly route. And if he goes the hyper-lawyerly route, his credibility’s going to take another hit.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/05/18/comey-testifying-may-3rd-weve-never-asked-stop-investigation-political-reason/

the left's whole argument hinges in innuendo and their opinion...

I expect there will be a few small charges, similar to Clinton's charge of perjury, but not on the same scale. this is just a waste of taxpayer money..but the media will make it a win and garner more elite Hollywood money to further their failed agenda..

If Trump was smart he would tout the jobs created by the special prosecutor and mock them on this.
 
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