When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

Bumped for breaking news: Sally Yates has thrown Comey under the bus.

On Wednesday, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the January 2017 FBI interview of incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn was done without her authorization, and that she was upset after finding out about it.
 
“I was upset that Director Comey didn’t coordinate that with us and acted unilaterally,” Yates said in response to a question from committee chairman Senator Lindsay Graham.
 
“Did Comey go rogue?” Graham asked.
 
“You could use that term, yes,” Yates replied
 
Yates was also unaware that Michael Flynn was being wiretapped, only learning about it after a now-infamous January 5, 2017, briefing in the Oval Office about Russian election interference with FBI Director James Comey, Vice President Joe Biden, CIA Director John Brennan, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. President Obama asked Yates and Comey to “stay behind” after the briefing was over, and it was during this more private meeting that Obama spilled that he was aware of wiretapped conversations of incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn, a man he previously fired from his administration, and whom Obama had personally warned Trump not to hire.

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The media have a problem, then, given that they repeatedly led viewers and readers to believe Steele was a master spy. They can almost get away with ignoring the recent news that once again shows their previous reporting was catastrophically wrong. In fact, some media outlets did just that.
 
But after breathlessly reporting — day in and day out for years — what they claimed were important updates buttressing Steele’s collusion narrative, they can’t completely hide the on-the-record revelations showing how the collusion narrative was invented and used to undermine the Trump campaign and administration.

12 Replies to “When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal”

  1. Yates is a bold faced liar and throwing Comey under the bus is a desperation move to save her own skin. Her claim that Flynn’s call to Russia worried her because he talked about weakening Obama’s sanctions being just one of her whoppers.
    The bigger story, save for Cruz, Hawley, is how certain Republicans are not asking the questions that need to be asked.
    I seriously can’t believe what comes out of Lindsey Graham’s mouth at times.

    And seriously – It’s the 21st century can we get an audio that doesn’t sound like they’re hooked up via two tin cans and a wire.

  2. Anybody who even mentioned the Logan Act as it was misapplied to include an incoming NSA should be criminally charged.

    There is no excuse for that kind of rank negligence; the vestigial Logan Act was designed to prevent private citizens from representing themselves as part of the government. Incoming administrations obviously speak with foreign actors.

    That is normal, but this bunch used twisted logic of Trump didn’t “really win” as an excuse for their partisan tangents.

    They all need to face justice to prevent this disgusting miscarriage of justice, ethics and government misconduct.

    Until the apparatchiks are held accountable with how they misuse citizens’ authority and money, it will continue.

  3. This is nice and dandy until evidence floats to the surface that every word of hers is a lie.
    I wish that day will come when she is convicted for perjury.

  4. Poor Jim Comey… it must be very sad to realize that your friends don’t like you anymore.

    [trying desperately to work up crocodile tears]

  5. I’m not on Twitter, quit about three years ago, but has Comey realized he’s the fall guy for Obama and his Administration on all this stuff?

  6. I suspect all is not as it appears. A bureaucrat like Yates will only be this direct and focused if she knows that she is, actually, the one in the cross hairs. This may seem, on the surface, like someone serving up Comey. But, I suspect it is a precursor to everyone on the other team serving up Yates and she knows it’s coming.

    What I find the most interesting is that Graham is leading her. There was no purpose for that “rogue” question other than to set the premise. Don’t doubt me, Lindsey Graham is as scared as anyone that the truth will come out. The last thing he wants is someone tearing through his bank accounts and determining a connection to votes on foreign policy.

  7. The problem with all this is no-one in DC except some Trump staff cares. Don’t pretend DoJ does.
    Thanks to the left’s capture of media, Joe Sixpack hasn’t even heard, it exceeds his 60 second attention span anyway and even that doesn’t matter because his 60 second corporate memory takes care of erasing any desire to assimilate the details.
    The only way this can be prosecuted is via the DoJ. As they have done with McCabe, Comey, Brennan etc etc, who could have been prosecuted on the available evidence years ago,…they simply “decline to prosecute”.

    Real world “decline to prosecute” can take many forms, leading to the same result.
    And that’s all she wrote.

  8. Decline to prosecute could also include judge Sullivan hearing the case.

    I doubt anyone involved is sweating at all.

    Six ways to Sunday to derail this if it ever gets to court.

  9. actually, Sundance at CTH lays it out real good, the 702 queries were good for stock info, and allows those with that info to make lots of $$$$$$. When we had the discussion in here about Snowden, there were posters who down played the usefulness of Meta data, but as Sundance points out it is very revealing for stock info. And there are lots of politicians and bureaucrats benefiting from that info. Trumps is destroying that cookie jar on them, and they hate that. Also Flynn would possibly know all the ins and outs of that set up.

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