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“The agents went to interview Flynn to try and understand why the national security adviser was making false statements to the vice president of the United States about his interactions with the Russians during the transition,” Comey said in response to a question from House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.).
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He also said that the Republicans paid for the dossier. They did not. Then he said that he didn't care that the dossier was funded by Hillary Clinton.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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If you read the 302, you can plainly see that they did not go over there to find out why he lied to Pence.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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the dossier was funded by GOP contenders to Trump during the primary season, once Trump won Hillary's campaign began funding itComment
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Not according to Steele, in his testimony before a court.Originally posted by Berzerker View Post
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Nike Memoni (NBC) has noticed that Comey either lied to the media/public or Congress.
Comey, to Wallace 12/9: Q: What did he think they were coming there for? COMEY: "I don’t think he knew. We didn’t tell him." Comey, to Gowdy 12/17: “The Deputy Director ... told him what the subject matter was. ... He knew what he was going to be asked about."I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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Chuck Todd, Daily Caller- Former FBI Director James Comey continues to falsely claim that Republicans were the initial backers of Christopher Steele and his infamous dossier.
- In congressional interviews on Dec. 7 and Monday, Comey repeatedly claimed that Steele had Republican backers.
- In reality, Steele was hired in June 2016 by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which was working at the time for the law firm for the DNC and Clinton campaign.
Former FBI Director James Comey falsely claimed throughout two recently congressional interviews that Republicans were the initial backers of the infamous Steele dossier, which alleges a vast conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian government to influence the 2016 election.
Comey claimed twice in an interview Monday with the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees that Republicans initially commissioned the work of Christopher Steele, the former British spy behind the dossier. He made similar claims twice more in an interview with the same committees on Dec. 7.
“I remember being told that Steele’s work had been funded first by Republicans opposed to Trump, then by Democrats opposed to Trump,” Comey said at one point during Monday’s interview, according to a transcript of the session. (RELATED: House Committees Release James Comey Transcript)
“It was Republicans opposed to Trump, and then it was Democrats opposed to Trump,” he said later in the same interview.
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Comey, who was fired as FBI chief on May 9, 2017, made the same mistake in his interview earlier this month.
“I thought [Steele] was retained as part of a Republican-financed effort — retained by Republicans adverse to Mr. Trump during the primary season, and then his work was underwritten after that by Democrats opposed to Mr. Trump during 110 the general election season,” Comey said during his Dec. 7 interview.
U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions from the press while departing the White House December 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
Later, he said that he believed that it was important for investigators to understand that the dossier was “a politically motivated effort, first by Republicans, then by Democrats.”
It is clear from the transcripts of Comey’s interviews that he was unfamiliar with details of the dossier and how it was handled within the FBI. He was fuzzy on dates and said that he was not familiar with Fusion GPS, the firm the hired Steele, or Perkins Coie, the law firm that hired Fusion on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC.
Comey is not the only Trump opponent to falsely claim that Republicans were involved in the dossier. Democrats and many journalists have repeated the inaccurate claim. The source of confusion revolves around the timeline of Fusion GPS’s investigation into Trump.
The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website owned by Republican donor Paul Singer, paid Fusion GPS during the 2016 primary season to investigate Trump. But executives with the website and with Fusion GPS have said that they discontinued the Trump research effort after it became apparent that the real estate baron would win the GOP nomination.
“I think we started in September or October, and I think it wound down in April [2016], sometime in the spring,” Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson testified to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Nov. 14, 2017. “As the Republican primaries came to an end, it became obvious that that work was going to end.”
Fusion went looking for a new client soon after to continue its investigation of Trump. The firm found Perkins Coie.
With a new client funding its anti-Trump effort, Fusion GPS hired Steele in June 2016. Perkins Coie paid Fusion around $1 million through November 2016, and Fusion paid Steele around $170,000.
Steele, a former MI6 officer who worked in Russia before retiring, relied on intermediaries to obtain information about Trump and his campaign advisers.
Steele would go on to produce 17 memos dates from June 20, 2016, to Dec. 13, 2016. The FBI relied on his unverified memos to obtain four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Republicans have accused the FBI and Comey of misleading the FISA Court by relying so heavily on the dossier, which was unverified when the FBI included information from it in FISA applications.
Republicans have also argued that the FBI should have told FISA judges that the Clinton campaign and DNC were the ultimate funders of the dossier.
Comey rejected that idea in his House interviews.
“Whether it was Sally Smith or Joe Jones, Republican, or Sally Smith, Democrat … to me, it didn’t matter,” Comey said in an exchange with North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, a Republican on the Oversight Committee.
The FBI did disclose in its FISA applications that Steele’s information was funded by a client that opposed Trump’s campaign.
Comey claimed that he believed it was important only that the FISA Court knew that “there was potential bias in this information.”I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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Berz,
Anti-Trump dossier author was hired to help Hillary challenge 2016 election results
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Wednesday, December 12, 2018
British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who wrote the Democrat-financed anti-Trump dossier, said in a court case that he was hired by a Democratic law firm in preparation for Hillary Clinton challenging the results of the 2016 presidential election.
He said the law firm Perkins Coie wanted to be in a position to contest the results based on evidence he unearthed on the Trump campaign conspiring with Moscow on election interference.
His scenario is contained in a sealed Aug. 2 declaration in a defamation law suit brought by three Russian bankers in London. The trio’s American attorneys filed his answers Tuesday in a libel lawsuit in Washington against the investigative firm Fusion GPS, which handled the former British intelligence officer.
SEE ALSO: Read Christopher Steele's London court declaration
In an answer to interrogatories, Mr. Steelewrote: “Fusion’s immediate client was law firm Perkins Coie. It engaged Fusion to obtain information necessary for Perkins Coie LLP to provide legal advice on the potential impact of Russian involvement on the legal validity of the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election.
...I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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The hilarious part is Flynn telling the judge that he lied and is guilty as charged yet...Originally posted by Ming View Post
ONLY IN KIDLAND
Kid claims Flynn is wrong! As if the man doesn't know his own plea or lied to the judge multiple times about pleading guilty!
"Flynn is lying about not lying!"
I provided CNN, the Washington Post, The New York Times.... I could provide AP or a dozen others. It is just fact, kidiot, learn to accept facts and reality even if you do not like it.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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You are an imbecile.Originally posted by Kidicious View PostTry http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Comey from someone that keeps pushing conspiracy theories that continually get disproven and never lesrns.Originally posted by Dinner View PostI drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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Steele was originally paid by Republicans, then by Democrats in support of Hillary... and then nothing for a bit... and then by Democrats apparently with the idea of challenging Trump.
The point of Steele being paid to challenge Trump was this last time when the Dossier was mostly complete (so only the things added after lots of people saw it came from the final payments).
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GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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The whole story of the dossier isn't even new. They already had a story like this involving Bob Dole and Manafort. All they did was exchange Bob Dole with Trump. This is after it became evident that Alpha Bank was not sending data to Trump Tower (at least nothing nefarious).Originally posted by Jon Miller View Post
I don't know if they got some information from Republicans but Fusion GPS is behind it.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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This shows that the State Department was clearly involved in the Witch Hunt, which was really a plan to hurt the president (as well as find criminal activity). There is more evidence out there on this. Hopefully we get to see it.
It's a sad day in this country when the current government can get away with this as they are. Don't think this isn't going to happen to Democrats.
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released two sets of heavily redacted State Department documents, 38 pages and 48 pages, showing classified information was researched and disseminated to multiple U.S. Senators by the Obama administration immediately prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The documents reveal that among those receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN).
...I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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This whole thing about the judge accusing Flynn of treason is turning out to be fake. The full story is that he asked the Mueller team if Flynn could be prosecuted for any other crimes. The prosecution said, "The Logan Act." Then the judge laughed, saying that no one has ever been prosecuted for that.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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