A recent FOIA release from Judicial Watch (full pdf below) reveals that two of Mueller’s initial FBI agents, based on dates and redactions – likely Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka, visited James Comey on June 7th, 2017, to retrieve a collection of his memos.
[However, a word of caution, one of the memos was titled “last night at 6:30pm” and is being widely misinterpreted to have been written the night before (June 6th, 2017) when that is not accurate. It is likely that memo relates to the January dinner in the White House with President Trump that held the same sentence.]
(pdf here)
If we ignore the misinterpreted “last night” memo aspect (dinner with potus in January ’17), here’s what we can learn from this FOIA release:
♦First, the memos were picked up while FBI agent’s Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka were lead FBI agents that transferred into the Mueller team. Therefore it’s likely they were the two who traveled to Comey’s house for this June 7th effort.
♦Second, the memos were picked up June 7th, 2017, the day before James Comey appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, June 8th, 2017 [See Link].
It was during this June 8th SSCI committee testimony where Comey first revealed the scope of his memo keeping. Keep in mind, all prior research shows SSCI Chairman Richard Burr and SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner were part of the corrupt effort against President Trump. Their committee was where leaker James Wolfe (sleeping with journalist Ali Watkins) was operational. The SSCI was part of the aggregate coup effort.
WARNER: I think that’s a very important statement you just made. Then, unlike your dealings with presidents of either parties in your past experience, in every subsequent meeting or conversation with this president, you created a written record. Did you feel that you needed to create this written record of these memos, because they might need to be relied on at some future date?
COMEY: Sure. I created records after conversations that I think I did it after each of our nine conversations. If I didn’t, I did it for nearly all of them especially the ones that were substantive. I knew there might come a day when I would need a record of what had happened, not just to defend myself, but to defend the FBI and our integrity as an institution and the Independence of our investigative function. That’s what made this so difficult is it was a combination of circumstances, subject matter and the particular person.
WARNER: I think that is very significant. I think others will probably question that. Now, the chairman and I have requested those memos. It is our hope that the FBI will get this committee access to those memos so again, we can read that contemporaneous rendition so that we’ve got your side of the story. – Transcript Link
Understanding the timeline; and overlaying the ideological intents and purposes; it would make sense that Robert Mueller and the ‘small group’ would want to exploit the memo content (hell, they likely knew all about it as soon as written), and simultaneously keep those memos buried and under their ‘small group’ control.
By taking custody of the memos, the Mueller investigative team would be able to block any outside inquiry. That’s the motive for the FBI visit to James Comey on June 7th, 2017. Comey could then talk about the memos the next day while knowing the ‘small group’ would use the “ongoing investigation” to keep them hidden from review.
Senators Mark Warner, Richard Burr and the media would be able to frame discussion of the memos to undermine President Trump, while knowing the memos would be kept out of public review. With hindsight go back and review the SSCI testimony; this approach appears to have been pre-planned.
Here is the FOIA release on the FBI records:
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Now lets overlay the Archey Declarations” against the FOIA release.
David Archey was the lead FBI agent who took over the Mueller investigation after FBI agent Peter Strzok was removed. David Archey came into the small group effort in August of 2017.
After the media sued the DOJ and FBI to get the Comey memos, David Archey described them. Now we find a disparity.
David Archey gave sworn testimony to DC Circuit Judge Boasberg that the memos were assembled by the FBI “on or by May 12, 2017”.
(pdf source – page #3 of declaration #3)
Obviously if the FBI was picking up memos on June 7th, 2017, the Archey declaration to the court is incorrect. However, remember, Archey didn’t join the team until August 2017, so his sworn statement in October 2017 has to be based on information from others.
Regardless of how the error was made, a lie – or intentional mistake, the declaration to Judge James Boasberg was obviously inaccurate.
Again, the bottom line is the Comey Memos (of unknown quantity) contain a diary of record keeping by FBI Director James Comey. Obviously he was writing these memos because he was covering his ass. The fact that he was keeping these notes at home, and/or he moved the memos to his home after the election, is even more indication that Comey knew the operation against President Trump had the potential to go sideways.
I would strongly advise everyone to be familiar with the Archey Declarations (pdf below) which are descriptions of the Comey memo content.
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The DOJ has until August 2nd, 2019 (Friday), to file a response to the CNN motion supporting an earlier court order that mandated the release of the Archey Declarations
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Coney is cooperating that’s why no charges… he has been out of the loop for too long … 2 years watching this whole coup attempt that he started go off the rails knowing full well that trump will not take this sitting down.. watching every attempt by his people to take the president down fall flat .. also seeing the people who were still in there to protect the scam getting picked off one by one.. comey folded..
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Comey is cooperating? How so?
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Who is getting picked off, one by one? I don’t remember any indictments of Strozk, Page, Baker, McCabe, or any of Comey’s co-conspirators. Where can we find out about all of these indictments and Comey’s on-going “cooperation?”
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I believe he’s referring to the people who have been fired/forced to resign. Still, Comey cooperating is a reach.
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Don’t RICO indictments usually come down all at once?
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Yes, but you do not need to wait for a RICO indictment to indict Comey for those felonies. You can incorporate it into a RICO indictment by making the RICO indictment a Superseding indictment.
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That’s exactly what I’m saying … read the third to last paragraph where it says comey was covering his a••.. the last part says he knew it had the potential to go off the rails.. James Comey sat on the outside looking in and watched this go sideways… He had a lot of time to think about providing a safety net for himself… just sayin..!!!
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Comey obviously knew it could go sideways and was covering his ass. It’s a big stretch to go from that to “Comey is cooperating” though.
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He isn’t. He wouldn’t be prancing around selling a book and tweeting if he was cooperating. Nothing has happened to him except Trump fired him.
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Papadopoulos heads to Greece to return $10K used in alleged set-up …
https://www.oann.com/papadopoulos-heads-to-greece-to-return-10k-used-in-alleged-s…
3 days ago – Papadopoulos heads to Greece to return $10K used in alleged set-up … Papadopoulos claims the money is marked bills, and was given to him in a plot … as the Justice Department is getting closer to acquiring transcripts of ..
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Let’s see if Papadopoulos makes it back to the United States alive and with the same bills.
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Anybody want to start a GoFundMe page for a new Timex. All this ticktocking has worn me old one out. Think I need a Rolex might not help with Justice. But heck it would be nice to wear. Maybe I will just wait he’ll D rats may give it to me for a vote.
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No need for that. Timex takes a licking and keeps on ticking!
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Apologize Tapping52…DID NOT SEE YOU’RE POST!!! Great Minds Think Alike!!!
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Reminds me of John Cameron Swayze Timex commercial (Takes a Licking and keeps on Ticking):
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Here is the problem with all of this, at the moment. Horowitz’s report has not been released. So, we really have no idea what is in it or even if Horowitz recommended prosecution. And, we certainly do not know if the AG’s office declined to prosecute. This could be accurate information or not.
Comey has the same problem that HRC had with Servergate. He violated several laws and there is overwhelming evidence of that. But, he also knows where most of the bodies are buried. Does anyone think for an instant that when his “memos” were picked up from his home that there were not copies stashed in numerous places? Just as with Hillary’s emails, we have no idea how many of Comey’s memos the government actually has. And, until someone turns up a stash of all the memos, we won’t really know.
Now, Comey was always the public face of the Protect Clinton-Get Trump operations. And, I suspect that he was also the designated Oswald, as well. Remember, his firing was engineered in order to open a criminal investigation of Trump for obstruction of justice. He was the one who stood in front of the cameras and “exonerated” HRC of criminal wrongdoing after laying out a prima facia case for her indictment. And, Comey’s leaks to his friend did nothing to trigger the Mueller SC. That was to remind his fellow conspirators that he was not expendable and that he had the memos as insurance. His visit to Mueller was to make it clear that he would not take the fall alone. Comey is very wily and I am sure that he has his insurance policy all paid up.
So, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens vis a vis Comey. It might be something. Or it might be nothing.
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The Justice Department declining to prosecute is , in itself, treason. Of COURSE the Justice Department will decline to charge ANYONE. The people in that Department are protecting their own, is all. Comey got to write his side of the story and they called it “true”.No judge or Jury heard the case. Why the heck doesn’t someone like Trey Gowdy holler FOUL and get Comey charged. The law doesn’t talk about intent because there is NO way to prove or disprove intent. But they let Trump has never had any intent to break the law but you can be suren they are going to say he did “Millions of times”. Hillary off because she had no intent to break the law. End of Rant!
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I concur. They distort the legal process b/c they can, since no one calls them out for the BS. Just as they’ll maintain control of any evidence against them, & what if any get released, & when. They need to control the narrative to ensure they aren’t held accountable.
But they’ll be certain to continue implicating PDJT with as much as possible, giving the impression of wrongdoing– & w/o the need for presenting any actual evidence. They’ve been doing it for close to 3 years, & successfully prevented any opportunity for his defense.
Along with his advisors, they blocked him from exposing the fraud– & under the guise of claiming it’d be “Obstruction”. When it could’ve ended the Mueller Probe a year + ago. He left the “verdict” up to Report findings, which didn’t work out so well when they all ignore the conclusions. He also lost the presumption of innocence, somewhere along the way.
Barr & Rosey convinced him to release the Report– saying it’d be the end of it. But this only provided the House & MSM with needed material to keep it going. Notice we also never saw PDJT’s rebuttal to the Report– Guilliani spent months promoting its existence. Why?
This entire hoax has long surpassed any reasonable timeframe in dragging out. Whether that’s deliberate or inadvertent, as far as PDJT’s role– who knows?
But it’s a safe bet they’ll eventually flip the script, claiming he didn’t expose it b/c he’s complicit, or has something to hide.
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I’ve begun to feel that, if the President lets this sham happen, he deserves the outcome. He relinq
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If Comey is the “get under the bus or we’ll put you there guy” he certainly has me fooled. He not only needs the book thrown at him but IMO the whole library.
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To think for a second that our wily, experienced and well-connected opposition hasn’t thoroughly “gamed out” all of these possible outcomes is naive – and they’ve been given the time to do it. Moreover, there is more than ample reason to believe that our team’s heart isn’t really in the game.
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I agree, they war-gamed the hell out of this coup, but there are vulnerabilities and weak points in every plan.
If there is as much will by the Do”J” to make this right through full disclosure and prosecution, as there was/is to keep it buried then there will be justice. There is (as we have seen) enough energy and power in the DoJ as a whole to accomplish just about anything, good or bad.
It all comes down to the will to do the right thing. “By the book” as the former ill-mannered, immature, marxist, America hating prezzy once (allegedly) said, and justice will be done.
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Again I’ll say it. Before youveven getcto the reporter, whether its Carter, Solomon or Hannity, DiGenova, etc. you have to wonder the motive of the source.
And we DON’T know WHO the source is.
Firstly, do they even know what they are talking about?
“Them that know, don’t say”.
Secondly, what is the,sources motives?
A) They really want the truth to getvout cause, despite working in government buerocracy, they are all about transperency
B)They are,trying to spin things for some nefarious motive.
I strongly suspect there are NO A’s, all B’s, myself.
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Dutchman, sounds reasonable. Except it seems to me that John Solomon is the real deal.
On another note that occurred to me tonight is that if Tom Fitton or John Solomon get asked on the show, they have to tell the Hannity directors what they will talk about. Hannity then spills the entire tray of beans when he brings them on AS IF he too had reliable sources. Another poster long ago stated that Hannity used to do that on his radio program when following another that had inside info.
I would not think any of the A or B sources would talk directly to Hannity.
And spinning, depending on who they talk to. But I think both John Solomon and Tom Fitton have real sources that are not on the target list but know what is happening (to a varied degree of certainty).
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Yeah, to each his own. The sources DO have motivations. Turns out Deep throat,was p.o.’d at not being promoted.
I don’t totally trust half the people that DO identify themselves, let alone ‘anonymous sources’.
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When Comey was fired I assume he never had access to his office from that point forward? Another reason he kept his notes at home.
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The Hillary contingent plan.
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I am sure Comey went home and started composing his Memos immediately AFTER he was fired….or immediately after Admiral Rogers visited Trump Tower…The entire cast of the “small group” started deleting files, creating “by the book” memos and Russian interference reports…after Mike Rogers met with PDT…LAWFARE was working overtime for months after that meeting, spinning and weaving an “insurance policy ” for the entire group…
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Seems to me, that if you want to get the traitors , you squeeze, and get some to come forward, to get off the hook by cooperation. Mueller and team, squeezed like hell,
Letting people off the hook until later is not putting pressure on the traitors. That makes me skeptical.
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Squeezing the deep state seditious evil bastxxxs is the very last thing the DOJ would do.
As a matter of fact we now know that the DOJ gave HRC attorneys permission to destroy evidence.
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Uh, no.
The destruction of evidence along with broad immunities without corresponding witness statements and/or evidence agreement between the FBI and HRC’s lawyers was never a secret. We’re rapidly approaching three years since that little arrangement was initiated.
That DOJ prosecutors are openly forgiving DOJ employees crimes by refusing to prosecute is also open knowledge.
Leaving the question(s), is Barr and Durham complicit in that very public prosecutorial malfeasance or not?
Given the very public exposure of top DOJ prosecutors flaunting their ability to ignore the law, I have to believe that these crimes will be prosecuted.
There is an old quotation about giving evil doers’ all the rope they need to hang themselves. The question should be whether that extra rope is also circling Barr and Durham, or is it just circling Wray, Comey, Rosenstein and their minions.
With Nunes, Grassley and quite a few others watching carefully, I assume the rope is still circling Wray, Comey, Rosenstein and their criminal minions.
Barr and Durham are watched by experienced and informed hawks, they must adhere strongly to the rule of law; some allowances will be made, so long as the central conspirators are prosecuted to the maximum.
Any statement by the DOJ declining to prosecute must be signed by a DOJ prosecutor. She and they are signing their ropes.
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IN re Speculation about who went to Comey’s house.
FYI : Page 9 on the receipt of property documents within SD article…
It was received by SA…
So it’s Special Agent.
Leadership does not write SA before their name on custody docs.
Also working on the SA …handwriting. Oops…this will be obvious if Strozk, Pientka or other SA we’ve seen docs from.
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HANDWRITING ANALYSIS: It was not Peter Strzok writing the receipt FD-597… he makes the # 4 like a sail boat. The author makes 4s with a lopsided goal post.
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Didn’t Strzok get promoted from SA to some deputy or assistant something or other in 2016?
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Small note: The Comey memos are also contained in 1A of the case file FBI 18-CV-00932-4 (mentioned under Adminstration section) inside SD article above. Judicial Watch has other FOIA on the FD-597 referred to as well under Case 1:17-cv-01624.
Maybe Joe DiG…is referring to that FOIA. This is additional place that the memos could be released from and is before a different judge.
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The Comey Memos.
I have a feel8ng they were written, and easily picked up, and made into a thing, as a trap, as a foil.
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Read the third to last paragraph where it says comey was “covering his A**..” also there’s a couple other articles out there that say just cuz no indictment on this means bigger more stringent indictment later.. this was nothing compared to what’s coming.. I have faith..
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Sundance, I think you are mistaken about one aspect but I dont understand the significance of it.
It says in the FBI FD-302:
“This meeting was scheduled in advance, for the purpose of providing certain classified memos TO Comey for review.”
“TO Comey”
This interview was on June 7.
Couldnt this be the “compilation” that Archey was referring to that was done by May 12? Whatever they showed Comey for review had to be compiled at some time, right. Couldnt this be that?
Whoever the FBI agents were, they took something TO Comey’s house to show to HIM. He then said two were missing, told them what he thought the two missing memos were, and then provided them with 4 memos.
The 302 does not clarify what memos the FBI was showing to him. There could be some difference between what they showed him and what Comey provided or else they would have said that in the 302, right? That 302 just seems vague and ambiguous to me, like they left something out, or added something in.
Im still trying to understand the purpose of that “interview” and what really transpired there. Something is fishy.
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WTF, can’t confirm intent to leak classified information? Since when is that the standard for prosecution? Let’s ask that sailor that suffered because he took a pick in a submarine to share with his friends if intent should be the standard.
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I am sure Comey went home and started composing his Memos immediately AFTER he was fired….or immediately after Admiral Rogers visited Trump Tower…The entire cast of the “small group” started deleting files, creating “by the book” memos and Russian interference reports…after Mike Rogers met with PDT…LAWFARE was working overtime for months after that meeting, spinning and weaving an “insurance policy ” for the entire group…
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(Note:XX brackets strikethrough material. Please enlighten me as to technique.)
As a barely literate deplorable, I don’t understand why the DOJ didn’t word their release differently:
[…] Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz’s team referred Comey for possible prosecution under the classified information protection laws, but Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors working for Attorney General William Barr reportedly have decided to XXdeclineXX defer prosecution — a decision that’s likely to upset Comey’s conservative critics.
Prosecutors found the IG’s findings compelling but decided XXnot to bring charges because they did not believe they had enough evidence of Comey’s intent to violate the law, according to multiple sources.XX to press charges when the full review of Comey’s culpabilites was completed.
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When is intent considered? Oh, if this is true, the country is done.
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I meant to say if this leak is true…..
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I take exception to the mention of intent, as do you. My reason for posting was to really question if the DOJ really meant to take possible offences off the table.
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I just want Comey’s Government pension taken away from him. He has had time to arrange for plenty of income from his efforts to entrap PDJT, so he shouldn’t need his pension by now. But, as a taxpayer, I just want him to lose all his connections to taxpayer funding. Since this is the best I ever really can hope for as an outcome for this treasonous criminal, I think we should be trying to pursue it as an option for AG Barr to use in the final deal with Comey. I am pretty sure that Comey and all of the others involved will never face justice in a courtroom.
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Somebody please help me figure this out.
CNN filed the FOIA request for the memos. Then the fight shifted to Archey’s summary of the memos.
DOJ has been fighting the release of all of it.
Is that a good sign?
If CNN wants it to come out, its certainly only for the purposes of obfuscation, spin, etc….
And if Comey, Mueller et al, previously wanted it hidden, why would CNN be fighting for it now?
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I don’t think CNN wants it to come out. I think its because CNN knows if it isn’t out THEY are all in trouble. They are using it as a litmus.
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I appreciate your reply, but Im not following you.
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Did the FBI show up to collect the memos on June 7, 2017 at 10:15am only after Comey’s statement to the Senate Intelligence committee leaked. Why didn’t they collect them right after the May 16, 2017 and May 17, 2017 articles about Comey’s memos were published in the New York Times?
Comey Leaked Statement: I Told Trump He Was Not Personally Under Investigation
Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date June 7, 2017
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/06/07/comey_leaked_statement_i_told_trump_he_was_not_personally_under_investigation.html
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2 Senate committees want Comey memos; intelligence panel asks him to testify
May 17th, 2017
By Lisa Mascaro
https://www.thedailyworld.com/nation-world/2-senate-committees-want-comey-memos-intelligence-panel-asks-him-to-testify/
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two Senate committees have asked the FBI to turn over copies of any memos that former FBI Director James B. Comey wrote about his encounters with President Donald Trump…
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James Comey’s attorney – “Jim, the DOJ has a pretty solid case and they will likely prosecute.”
James Comey – “Tell them if I go down, Loretta Lynch and Obama will be sitting right beside me.”
James Comey’s attorney – “Jim, the DOJ has wisely declined to prosecute.”
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Just two agents went to his house for the memos? Comey is FBI, a trained killer! Where was the Swat team and CNN?
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Comey is a trained money launderer (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) and alleged lawyer. He was never a Special Agent of the FBI.
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Meanwhile Durham has deposition from Mifsud…
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/breaking-durham-investigators-have-obtained-an-audio-taped-deposition-of-joseph-misfud-video/
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