If you were Comey would you have reported that meeting to

[malaise]

Session's Justice Department?

Nah!

[onecaliberal]

1. Nope

[spanone]

2. it would have been filed in #13

[FBaggins]

3. As part of my resignation letter - yes

Nt

[marylandblue]

4. Story is he gave the memo the Rosenstei and Sessions

Which is a smart move. By doi g that, they are complicit in any obstruction charge.

[malaise]

6. Well then he plays way better chess

than 'malaise'.

[Madam45for2923]

5. NOPE! Investigation was bigger than just that.

[L. Coyote]

7. Not to Boente either, because he had rescinded Yates order and was acting like a Trump lackey.

No, you place it on file as a documented record and allow the truth to prevail in due time, after the investigation is completed. You take measures as needed to ascertain you do not compromise your investigations in the meanwhile. For Comey, the Sally Yates firing would have been part of a pattern of obstruction of justice after his conversation with Trump, and from that point on obstruction would have been on his radar as part of the larger inquiry into the election interference investigation. Comey knew they were in Watergate territory way back then.

So, this week we might see if Boente was actually protecting the TrumpRussia investigation by doing what he could to keep his position. Rosenstein and Boente may be presenting Trump's indictment to the full Senate on Thursday, if they still have their jobs then.

EXCLUSIVE: Sealed Indictment granted against Donald Trump

[malaise]

8. Yep

I think you're right

[athena]

9. I would have made a press release about it.

But no, he had to write a memo and wait until he was fired to make it public. The guy is all about covering his own ass. He couldn't care less what happens to the country as long as he keeps his job. As Maddow explained yesterday, this is not the first time he has done this.

I'm glad this information has come out, but my opinion of Comey goes down the more I hear about him. He's one of the worst kinds of self-centered people out there. A typical Republican who only cares about himself.

Comey and the art of the well-timed leak

In 2009, The New York Times published stories on how top Bush administration and Justice Department officials signed off the use of torture on detainees suspected of terrorist links.
One story was based on emails leaked to the Times shows that Comey had written to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2005, arguing that the torture tactics were a bad idea and that Gonzales and other Justice officials would regret being pushed by the White House to approve them.

At the time the stories were published, Obama Justice Department officials marveled at the fortuitous timing of someone close to Comey coming to rescue of his larger-than-life, good guy reputation.

[Skidmore]

10. Hadn't Sessions recused himself so

why should he? I was also my understanding that Sessions had been in the room but left shortly before Trump cleared the room. I have no doubt that Sessions was a party to obstruction.

[malaise]

11. Sessions claimed to have recused himself

but given his involvement in Comey's firing, that clearly is not true

[hamsterjill]

12. Did you notice Paul Ryan spinning this in this morning's presser?

Ryan made reference to the need to find out why Comey hadn't reported the situation.

Then Ryan went on to complain about all of the "politics being played" against Trump.

I was driving and nearly had to pull over for an alka seltzer with all the blatant hypocrisy.

[malaise]

13. I missed the Ryan presser

and I'm glad

[hamsterjill]

15. I think you're life will go on just fine without having listened to that idiot!

Same song, second verse.

Have a good one today!

[malaise]

14. By the way Peter King carried the same line

earlier