BoscoX
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic erm, but he did tell people... you didnt watch it? the president is a liar. "Cowardly Comey failed to stand up to Trump." quote:
"I don't want to make it sound like I'm Captain Courageous," said former FBI Director James Comey at one point during his appearance before the Senate intelligence committee Thursday. Not to worry... ...In his own telling of repeated interactions with the president, Comey was deferential when he should have been confrontational, soothing when he should have been stern, and silent when he should have been vocal. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., was the first to ask him about such failures. She referenced the Feb. 14 meeting in the Oval Office in which Comey remembers Trump saying that fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn "is a good guy," and that Trump hoped that Comey would drop the investigation into Flynn's suspicious contacts with Russian operatives. In his written opening remarks, Comey said, "I replied only that 'he is a good guy.' I did not say I would 'let this go.'" "You're big," said Feinstein on Thursday. "You're strong. … Why didn't you stop and say, 'Mr. President, this is wrong. I cannot discuss this with you'?" "It's a great question," Comey said. "Maybe if I were stronger, I would have. I was so stunned by the conversation that I just took in. The only thing I could think to say, because I was playing in my mind — because I could remember every word he said — I was playing in my mind, what should my response be? … Again, maybe other people would be stronger in that circumstance." Later, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, followed up. "You could have said, 'Mr. President, this meeting is inappropriate. This response could compromise the investigation. You should not be making such a request. It's fundamental to the operation of our government the FBI be insulated from this kind of political pressure.'" Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., broadened the question about the same conversation: "Did you tell the White House counsel, 'It's not an appropriate request. Someone needs to tell the president he can't do these things'?" "I didn't," said Comey. "I didn't have the presence of mind." ... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-zorn-comey-coward-trump-perspec-jm-20170608-column.html He didn't tell anyone, until he illegally leaked his mind-reading to the press as a disgruntled ex-employee
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