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1. Dana J. Boente had been asked to be interviewed by the Special Counsel
-not a subject or a target but a witness
-requests legal representation
2. document: letter from FBI to Boente 1/17/17
certification, that notes he took (top secret) are NOT top secret
"your handwritten notes are unclassified"
the contents are not top secret or unclassified
3. Maddow has THE NOTES
1st contemporaneous record confirming Comey testimony on calls with Trump.
Take away: Boente's contemporaneous notes corroborate Comey's account.
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE!!!
Just in from @maddow > In a Jan. 2 letter, Dana Boente informed DOJ officials that Mueller's office asked to interview him. Boente was Acting AG after Trump fired Yates, then Acting DAG, then acting head of the National Security Division.
Boente's contemporaneous notes reiterate Comey's testimony, which presumably is in his notes (& likely McCabe's notes as well). Of course it's not proof, but, given that Boente has been the one favored by Sessions and Trump, it seems notable that his account backs Comey's claim.
Cloud as a result of the Russia bus. This makes running the country difficult.
UPDATED TO ADD MORE OF THE NOTES:
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What I do to relieve the cloud the cloud. Kept coming back to it makes it hard to - do bus. for the country.
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Reminded him we are NOT invest. you. That would be great to get out.
More Sources Here:
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/10/1756074/-Maddow-Justice-Department-officials-handwritten-notes-corroborate-Comey-s-testimony-on-Trump
oasis
(49,400 posts)MFM008
(19,818 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I have done both in the past when the popcorn eating got really good.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)And i have...
LenaBaby61
(6,976 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)or doctored.
Wait for it ...
Takket
(21,614 posts)they will do it here too
mucifer
(23,559 posts)Ilsa
(61,697 posts)This is a cool deal! Comey's handwritten notes memorializing trump's request that comey say publicly that trump is not under investigation. Dana Boente has notes of discussion with Comey about it all, memorializing it.
Hekate
(90,773 posts)orangecrush
(19,611 posts)magicarpet
(14,160 posts)oasis
(49,400 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)I saw it and Maddow seems to have incontrovertible proof that Comey's testimony at this hearing was truthful.
Boente's contemporaneous notes on Comey's calla to him that same day are almost verbatim.
This is surely obstruction of justice, and the DOJ will want to show a pattern established of such behavior.
Boente was fired by Trump, but he now works for the FBI.
Check out the replay of her show for all the details.
Upthevibe
(8,068 posts)Wow...............
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)"preponderance of evidence."
calimary
(81,437 posts)What do they call that in legalese? Contemporaneous evidence (or some such thing)? The credibility of which, I think, is established because of WHEN the notes were made, in this case, right away after Comey told Boente what he'd just been through during an Oval Office visit.
George II
(67,782 posts)Richard Nixon, aka donald trump:
"But it would be wrong"
oasis
(49,400 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)It made us want to scream. She basically had three blurps and explained them over and over like we we're 3 year olds...then she gets on Lawrence and they have about it again.
njcpa1978
(114 posts)Why would anyone not have a voice recorder when talking to Donnie? Right there on your phone if you need one.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)This gets a week lead on Comey's book, and that hyped interview on ABC this weekend. Shuts 'em up before they can even start the trash talking.
I am **so** glad these guys are on our side. They scare the bejeezus out of me.
onetexan
(13,056 posts)as i was reading the post i couldn't help but have great anticipation to see Comey's interview this Sunday w/ Stefanopolous. I have mixed feelings about Comey, but the irony is sweet that it's Repugs who are turning against the madman.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)Somebody told them to do it, I don't think they would have done it on their own, they were told to classify the documents this way.
By whom and for what reason?.
riversedge
(70,282 posts)words to Comey's phone calls/notes. f