Thread by @TheLastRefuge2

A direct result of interviews with Andrew McCabe; where McCabe's defense was: you can't threaten me about the same stuff that my boss did?... etc.

nytimes.com/2020/01/16/us/…

Remember.... Comey said he doesn't know how many memos there are. at 03:20

From beginning-to-end Comey considered himself an investigative agent against the President-elect and then President Trump.

IG Report Comey Memos page 19

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President-elect Trump should be “treated like FISA derived information in a counterintelligence investigation.” During this 1/6/17 operation, Comey was the active FBI agent gathering evidence for later use. The collected intelligence would be shared with the team via memo #1.

Lisa Page Text 01/06/17:

The FBI redacted almost all of that text because it outlines the distribution of the evidence Comey was collecting. Comey’s memos were essentially FD-302 reports, and the officials within the DOJ and FBI didn’t want that exposed.

Lisa Page text was heavily redacted because it would have shown the January 6th encounter was an operation against Trump.

[Release time-frame: Mueller investigation]

So the “small group”: Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Baker, Priestap, Rybicki, et al, were running a counterintelligence operation against the incoming administration.

Back to the New York Times today (Pay Attn):

"Though officials retroactively determined that other memos that Mr. Comey wrote contained classified information, prosecutors declined to charge Mr. Comey with illegally disclosing the material."

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Times continues...

"The Justice Department’s inspector general, who had examined Mr. Comey’s conduct and referred his findings to prosecutors in New York, concluded that Mr. Comey violated F.B.I. policy."...

Jump back to 2019 IG report.

Who made the decision(s) about what “was” or what “was not” classified? Or, put another way: who was making the internal decisions about Comey’s exposure to legal risk for sharing his investigative notes (memos) outside the department?

The answer is the same “small group” who were carrying out the operation (Page 44):

James Baker, Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, James Rybicki and Lisa Page were determining what parts of James Comey’s investigative notes needed to be classified.

The corrupt FBI was in position to police itself.

This is not a conflict of interest, it is better described as a profound conflict of self-interest.

The information the ‘small group‘ wanted to use to frame the target [Trump] would be visible, not classified; however, any material that would outline the construct of their corruption in targeting the target would be hidden, classified.

You can’t make this stuff up folks.

The “small group” WERE the sources and methods they were protecting.

The small group were the: "according to people familiar with the matter"...

Everything needed to understand the NYT report tonight was outlined in the way the 2019 IG report discusses the handling of James Comey’s investigative notes (ie. memos).

...AND the fact that James Comey kept them hidden, yes hidden.

First, “no hard copies of any of the memos were found in Comey’s FBI office.”

Page #33:

So, if the memos were not held in Director James Comey’s official FBI office, the next logical question is where were they?

Well, when Special Agents went to James Comey’s house, he still kept them hidden and never informed the agents.

(Page 34):

If Mr. Altruism, James Comey, was simply fulfilling the duty of a concerned and dedicated FBI Director, why not tell the FBI agents -picking up FBI records- that he had copies of FBI investigative notes in his “personal safe” while they were there?

What honorable justification exists for keeping them hidden from valid investigators?

Obviously me, you and God are not the only ones able to see the sketchy nature of this construct. In fact, an internal FBI whistleblower came forward soon after that search of Comey’s home to request official “whistleblower status protection” from the IG.

What would prompt someone inside the FBI; who at some point gained access to the Comey memos; to request ‘whistleblower protected status’?

Doesn’t the “whistleblower request” indicate the requesting FBI official saw something nefarious in the way this was all going down?

Who was that ‘whistleblower’?

Well, first, Captain Obvious would tell you it has to be someone who actually gained possession of those memos right?…. this is not a big group. Second, you only need to read a few more pages of the IG report to see who it was:

The “whistleblower” was the Supervisory Special Agent described in page 38 as above.

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The memos were “stored” in a “reception area“, and in locked drawers in James Rybicki’s office. [“Drawer safes” are silly FBI legal terms for fancy locked drawers]

Also note…

“Reception area“? “May 15th“?

Well, (#1) apparently no-one wanted to be the one holding the hot potato of investigative evidence (Comey memos); that ownership would outline them as participatory members in carrying out the targeting of then President Trump....

Oh, yeah, those investigative notes were not in “the office of the FBI Director” on May 10th, when you were here searching the last time,… for some mysterious reason.. they, uh,… well, they were discovered… in the “reception area“… yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket!

That's the ticket.... "reception area"... Right under the four month old copy of People Magazine, n’ stuff.

….ARE YOU FRIGGIN’ KIDDING ME WITH THIS?

…AND (#2) the very next morning, GUESS what happened?…

This is where the New York Times today, and that IG report, and the whistle-blower all comes together...

Ready?

The very next morning, May 16th: Daniel Richman !!!

Of course the SSA gave the Inspector General the seven memos, asked for whistleblower protection, and likely told the IG the way they were produced stinks to high heaven. Good grief.

And the media can’t see this?

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