[ABC] There will be much in former FBI Director James Comey’s upcoming congressional testimony that will make the White House uncomfortable, but he will stop short of saying the president interfered with the agency's probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a source familiar with Comey's thinking told ABC News.
Although Comey has told associates he will not accuse the President of obstructing justice, he will dispute the president’s contention that Comey told him three times he is not under investigation.
The president allegedly said he hoped Comey would drop the Flynn investigation, a request that concerned Comey enough that he documented the conversation in a memo shortly after speaking with the president. In the memo, according to sources close to Comey who reviewed it, Trump said: "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," during a February meeting.
The request made Comey uncomfortable, but the source tells ABC News that Comey has told associates he will not accuse the President of obstructing justice.
"He is not going to Congress to make accusations about the President’s intent, instead he’s there to share his concerns," the source said, and tell the committee "what made him uneasy" and why he felt a need to write the memo documenting the conversation.
Some legal experts told ABC News that Trump's requests as detailed in the memo, which ABC News has not seen, could meet the legal definition of obstruction.
Or not. Since ABC News staff have not seen the alleged memo, which may or may not exist, there is a maximum of 25% probability that it does indeed meet that definition.
#7
He won't though, newc. He's smart enough to answer the given questions 'appropriately' and the questioners probably won't throw too many curve balls or sliders.
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[LI] British PM Theresa May, in an address to the nation, stated that it wasn’t possible to have "predicted" or "envisaged" the latest terrorist attacks in Manchester and London.
Here’s her statement, as broadcast on CNN this morning:
"We could never have predicted the tragic turn which events would take. We could never have imagined the appalling depravity which led a cowardly and callous killer to target innocent men, women, and children, in the way that we saw in Manchester two weeks ago. Nor could we have envisaged the brutal attack that was carried out on the streets of London Saturday evening."
Seriously? Why couldn’t she "envisage" the London Bridge attack, given that a very similar attack--in which a vehicle was used as a weapon of mass murder--took place on Westminster Bridge less than three months ago?
As for Manchester outrage, there were echoes of it in the attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. In any case, how can anyone possibly be surprised, or find it hard to "envisage," Islamic terrorist brutality in any form?
"Appalling depravity" hard for May to have predicted? Despite the history of mass beheadings, drownings, and burning in cages?
#3
Unprepared, ignorant. A reflection of the society that put her in power. They think they know it all, until terror strikes and then the survivors are in shock. And if they are truly outnumbered, they must submit.
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#4
This idiocy could well lose her the election to the odious Corbyn. What was she thinking? People aren't fools.
#11
Under Natural Law, a lack of imagination (especially if it is for political reasons) provides no protection against enemies that have an imagination (as limited as it may be ..).
#17
I think they imagined it, but this is the sort of platitudes politicians mouth after tragedies. The underlying sentiment is that from this point on we will imagine and stop this sort of thing.
[HUFFPOO] On the morning of May 12, Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed that he had instructed federal prosecutors to begin pursuing lengthier prison sentences for drug offenders.
It was a draconian change in approach that flew in the face of a growing bipartisan agreement on sentencing reform. "He’s completely discarded what has been an emerging consensus about how best to keep the country safe," said Matthew Miller, a former Department of Justice spokesman. "[O]ne of the most extreme voices in the country on criminal justice policy just happened to be put into the most important job for shaping its future."
The move was then largely buried under an avalanche of Donald Trump-related news.
Just hours after Sessions’ policy was revealed, the president tweeted that he may have taped conversations with his recently-fired FBI director, James Comey. With less than 140 characters, Washington was abuzz again over Trump’s potential ties to Russia, which Comey had been investigating.
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On the morning of May 12, Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed that he had instructed federal prosecutors to begin pursuing lengthier prison sentences for drug offenders traffickers.
FIFY. HUFFY wants you to think of poor addicted users. Wonder what Huffy would say if some major food supplier (the suits) was found pushing tainted products they knew would harm the consumer? /rhet question
Former AG Holder instructed federal prosecutors to ignore sentencing guide lines. Now AG Sessions comes in and instructs prosecutors to revert back to pre-Obama days. And as "draconian" as it may sound to some, he's telling prosecutors to follow the statutes as written. Kinda old school really - back before laws could be changed with a cell phone and a pen.
#4
"growing bipartisan agreement on sentencing reform." Well if there is bipartisan support for sentencing reform then reform sentencing, don't tell the law to not do their jobs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[LI] British PM Theresa May, in an address to the nation, stated that it wasn’t possible to have "predicted" or "envisaged" the latest terrorist attacks in Manchester and London.
