EXCLUSIVE: Fearing Trump interference, FBI agents hid copies of Russia investigation docs

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

In the hours after President Donald Trump suddenly fired FBI Director James Comey, on May 9, 2017, his former subordinates in the J. Edgar Hoover Building wondered if there would be more shoes to drop.

Would Trump dismiss more people? Would he shut down the investigation of his campaign's ties to Russia? Would the President demand that the Bureau cease its investigation of Michael Flynn, Trump's onetime national security adviser?

In response to these concerns, the FBI took extraordinary -- and previously undisclosed -- steps to protect its investigations.

From Comey's first meetings with Trump, shortly after he won the presidency, the FBI director developed misgivings about his new boss' behavior -- about Trump's demands for "loyalty," and even more unnerving, his request that the Bureau drop its investigation of Flynn. Comey's conversations with Trump had been so distressing that the director started writing up contemporaneous summaries of their interactions and sharing them with a handful of top officials at the Bureau. Now, suddenly, Comey was out -- and the question arose of what to do with his memos about his conversations with the President.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/politics/jeffrey-toobin-trump-fbi-mueller-true-crimes-and-misdemeanors/index.html

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. The things we will learn once the traitor has been kicked out of the White House . . .

[Dios Mio]

8. It will certainly fill a library.

Seriously, there will be college government courses taught on this president.

[cstanleytech]

14. Hopefully Biden will not make the same unfortunate mistake President Obama made when he allowed

Bush and those in his administration to escape the consequences for their actions like torturing people.

[KS Toronado]

2. Appears we still have some in government trumpig doesn't have in his pocket.

We'll call them NON-LOYALISTS, need more of them.

[soothsayer]

3. Patriots?

[lagomorph777]

4. Oh yeah, that too.

[turbinetree]

5. This means that they have recordings ................

[niyad]

6. Hm mmm,m. Many people here on DU figured they were doing that.

[rzemanfl]

7. +1. I recall that as well. n/t

[kacekwl]

9. It's a shame they didn't release that information

to those who could have done something about it. We still have no idea what is in the Muller report to this day. By the way, F-Comey.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

10. Thank you, seriously, f- Comey with a chainsaw...

[DENVERPOPS]

11. Amen to that

Just as Colin Powell turned the opinion of the Iraq nightmare with his phony testimony, Comey turned enough opinions with his phony email bullshit to make sure many changed their votes from Hillary to Lard ass........

Fuck him..................He saved the election, the RepubliCON party, the corporations and in doing so FUCKED AMERICA and DEMOCRACY.........................

Both are traitors, committing the highest crime in the country, that of TREASON..........

The once admired Colin Powell did a 180 just to be accepted into the "White Boy Club". And they kicked him to the curb the second he did their dirty work for them...........

He didn't learn after the Mai Lai slaughter cover up he helped engineer, ......he came back for more. What a fucking idiot...........

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. That sounds awful...............

But fair.









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[louis-t]

13. Off topic, but I still say the reason Sandy Berger took copies

of documents from National Archives after 9/11 was Clinton was afraid repugs would disappear some of them and claim Clinton did nothing after first WTC bombing. I can think of no other reason.