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Home Front: Politix
The Comey Memos....er, huh, where did they get off to ?
2017-05-22
[Conservative Tribune] On Tuesday, The New York Times fired a shot heard round the world when it claimed President Donald Trump had asked former FBI Director James Comey "to shut down the federal investigation" into former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s contacts with the Russian and Turkish governments.

According to the writer of the story, Michael Schmidt, the exchange was all written down in a memo by Comey after a meeting with Trump.

I mean, allegedly. And the memo was read off to him over the phone. Oh, wait, no -- not quite read off. His source saw it and vouchsafed for its authenticity. But he didn’t remember the exact wording.

Do you perhaps begin to see the problem here?

Schmidt revealed this during an interview on MSNBC with Brian Williams -- a man not exactly known for veracious rigor -- when The Times reporter was asked about his sources.

"We’d been working -- I’d been working on a story for the past few days about the fact that Comey had written these," Schmidt said. "We thought that was pretty significant in and of (itself)."
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Even this memo I have of a conversation with the IRS saying I didn't have to pay my taxes ever again?
Posted by: gorb   2017-05-22 14:22  

#4  If I were a politician I'd write crazy memos (Obama put a gun to my head and demanded this and that! Hillary admitted to killing this person, etc) so that if they ever leaked folks would look foolish. At that point you claim they were notes for a satirical novel you were writing. It's a memo, it's proof of nothing.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-05-22 14:19  

#3  NYT reporter's source does not remember the exact wording. I'm guessing Comey doesn't remember Trump's exact wording either. We got nothing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-05-22 10:51  

#2  As I recall, the question is: Where would the other man tell me these roads go? Or, if the questioner knows the possible destinations: Which road would the other man tell me goes to X?
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-05-22 10:23  

#1  It is easy to quickly get lost in ambiguation, dissembling, propaganda, lies, and weasel-wording when reading stories involving WAPO, the NYTs, and other left MSM publications. It is kind of like the symbolic logic problem where a traveler comes to a fork in the road. There are two people there who provide directions; one always tells the truth and the other always lies--what single question can one ask to get the correct direction? One path leads to death and the other to riches. (Perhaps, the traveler should find another road).
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-05-22 08:08  

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