Thread by @kyledcheney

COMEY sworn in for his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning.

GRAHAM keeps misstating Carter Page's relationship with the CIA. He was an "operational contact" which is different than a "source" or someone being "tasked" by the CIA.

Comey keeps pointing this out.

Here is the explicit distinction, as explained in the Horowitz report. Being an operaitonal contact "does not allow for operational use of a U.S. person or tasking of that person." justice.gov/storage/120919…

IMPORTANT: COMEY says that if he used the term "legit" to describe Flynn's calls to the Russians, it was meant to say the calls were "authentic" and not "fabricated."

Flynn team has used the "legit" phrasing to suggest Comey meant the calls were appropriate and above-board.

In fact, Flynn's attorneys in court yesterday used this interpretation, which Comey says today under oath is incorrect.

NEW: Comey says he's concerned about DOJ's decision to drop the Flynn case and that a key page of FBI notes cited by the Flynn defense has been incorrectly interpreted. w/ @AndrewDesiderio

politico.com/news/2020/09/3…

COMEY now says that neither Obama nor Biden made any suggestion about investigating Flynn under the Logan Act. That conflicts with another Flynn-team interpretation of the same set of notes — one Trump echoed on the debate stage last night.

politico.com/news/2020/09/3…

GRAHAM says that FBI agents purchased liability insurance because of the Flynn investigation.

But William Barnett, the lead Flynn agent who Graham just cited approvingly, said that suggestion was improbable and that the liability insurance discussion wasn't tethered to Flynn.