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It may have began before Trump announced his candidacy .

Washington Times has a blockbuster report that if true proves that the FBI had a campaign to get Trump well before Russiagate .According to FBI whistleblowers involved infiltration of the Trump campaign; in a fishing expedition ;by agents posing as "honeypots" in an entrapment attempt.

This operation was reportedly signed off by FBI Director James Comey OFF THE BOOKS

According to the disclosure, which The Washington Times reviewed, the investigation differed from the later Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence operation targeting Russian collusion. It said the early off-the-books probe was a criminal investigation targeting Mr. Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign staff.
The agent “personally knew” that Mr. Comey ordered an FBI investigation against Mr. Trump and that Mr. Comey “personally directed it,” according to the disclosure.

The off-the-books investigation did not appear to target a specific crime but was more of what agents would describe as a fishing expedition to find something incriminating about Mr. Trump.

Whistleblower: James Comey had FBI 'honey pot' spies infiltrate Trump's 2016 campaign - Washington Times


In a related story ;IRS whistleblowers revealed that the FBI and the DOJ knew that Hunter's laptop belonged to him . They were barred from conducting an investigation.
Two agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler ;who has been sued by Hunter for revealing this to Congress; said they were barred from investigating it AND prosecutors did not want to know about "the big guy" because they knew it was Clueless Joe.

IRS whistleblowers tell Catherine Herridge they were banned from investigating Joe Biden | Daily Mail Online

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No one is above the law. Not even a former Director of FBI who outright lied in testimony to Congress under oath.

James Comey was one of the main characters who perpetrated the fraud investigation of the Trump campaign in 2016 called 'Crossfire Hurricane' .

He was investigated for “falsely stating to a US Senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he…had not ‘authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports.’”

Count 1 says he lied under oath
Count 2 says he obstructed Congress.
gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.1.0_3.pdf

Former FBI Director James Comey Indicted | Lawfare

He stupidly made his statement remotely from Virginia . That made it Virginia's Eastern District's jurisdiction rather than the much friendlier DC district.


The indictment beats the statute of limitations by a couple of days . It is largely devoid of details ;which works in Comey's favor .

The former prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia ;Erik Siebert, resigned last week because of pressure from Trump for not charging Comey . He was replaced September 22 by Trump's former lawyer Lindsey Halligan . She was clearly put in the position of DA to make this indictment happen.
That works in Comey's favor also .

The indictment by the Grand Jury was NOT unanimous . Again ;a plus for Comey.

I am more interested in the obstruction charge than the perjury charge. The obstruction charge is about Comey interfering in Congress' investigation of Evita's Russia Collusion Hoax and her private server .

We'll see. I guess it would be too much to get the type of justice that Martha Stewart ;who served jail time due to Comey's persecution. She said he should be put in a Cuisinart and turned on high.

Martha Stewart Says “Idiot” Prosecutors in 2004 Conviction “Should Have Been Put In a Cuisinart and Turned on High”

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Comey is lucky that is all he was charged with . But maybe more is coming. It would've been justice if he was treated as he treated people he charged .

Roger Stone for perjury and obstruction of justice
Video shows FBI arrest Roger Stone at his house

Comey ambushed General Flynn in the White House, charged him on very similar charges, even though the FBI agent who interviewed said that they he did not believe that Flynn had lied. Then he threatened to go after Flynn's son to compel a confession and in the process drained Flynn of his resources to defend himself.

The smug bass turd bragged how he duped the administration into allowing a Flynn interview.
“Let’s Just Send A Couple Of Guys Over”: Comey Admits Another Violation Of Department Protocol and Policy – JONATHAN TURLEY


He has no conspiracy charges yet even though he was point man on the Russian collusion hoax. He has no charges relating to giving false and misleading information to the FISA court so he could obtain illegal surveillance on Trump's campaign.

Clearly Comey's indictments have hit a nerve

Oh the irony

Elizabeth Warren on X: "Trump is using our justice system to pursue personal revenge against his political opponents like James Comey and Fani Willis. This is what dictators do." / X

Chris Murphy �� on X: "We aren't on a slippery slope to a constitutional crisis. We are IN the crisis. Time for leaders - political leaders, business leaders, civic leaders - to pick a side: democracy or autocracy?" / X

Critics Call Former FBI Director James Comey’s Indictment a “Vengeance Campaign” | Truthout

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You see ;Comey never was a leaker . He gave stuff to a professor who leaked on his behalf. Get it ? He is Daniel Richman, a longtime Comey crony, and professor at Columbia Law School. What Comey did was keep detailed notes about conversations he had with Trump . Then he passed them on to Richman to give to his media friends to disclose. This way Comey could bypass FBI procedures.

In 2017, he told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he asked “a good friend,” Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law professor who had worked with him in the Southern District of New York, to leak memos on his behalf about Trump’s alleged instructions that a probe into Michael Flynn be dropped.
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Grand jury weighs indicting James Comey for false statements as statute of limitations deadline looms





Richman’s name also came up, in relation to Clinton probe leaks, in a subsequent FBI investigation, dubbed “Arctic Haze,” that was recently made public by FBI Director Kash Patel.
In 2018, a DOJ inspector general investigation into the Wall Street Journal leaks noted that McCabe told investigators that Comey “agreed it was a ‘good’ idea” to disclose information related to the Clinton email scandal.
The DOJ IG report, however, notes that “Comey and McCabe gave starkly conflicting accounts” of what transpired, with the former FBI director maintaining that he did not authorize the disclosures.

Former FBI Director James Comey indicted on charges of lying to Congress

Peter Strzok and Lisa Page also leaked on Comey's behalf .

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It looks like the Trump team screwed up the Comey indictment .

The over his head "Interim "US Attorney Lindsey Halligan failed to show the actual final indictment to all but 2 of the Grand Jury .
WHAT ??????
Yes it is true . He admitted it in court yesterday in a hearing to determine if the Comey indictment was selective ; brought at the direction of Trump and based on his animosity toward Comey.
U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff is an appointee of Clueless Joe and he will decide if the case can go forward .
Trump's words loom over Comey case as judge weighs tossing indictment - ABC News

How frustrated is White House Attorney Ty Cobb with this ?

He suggested that both Halligan and Pam Bondi should be disbarred . I can't say I disagree. The case against Comey is a slam dunk . Any law school student could successfully get a conviction.

UNBELIEVABLE !!!! You have to seriously consider that the case was sabotaged from the inside.

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Well there ya go . A Bubba appointed judge threw out the cases the DOJ has against Comey and Leticia James.... “without prejudice,” which means the government could seek new indictments .Judge Cameron McGowan Currie was appointed by Bubba in 1994 .

Now she may have a point in the fact that acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan “a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience,” was appointed by AG Pam Bondi under Trump's direct orders for the purpose of bringing the prosecutions. (another DOJ fiasco in a growing list of them).

But Currie's justification is absurd . She says that judges appoint interim US; Attorneys ;not the President or the AG.

Will Chamberlain notes on X that to do this she had to change the wording of the relevant statute.

DOJ, again, explained why Judge Currie should have been more cautious. Any interpretation of the statute that would grant the District Court exclusive authority to appoint a US Attorney runs headlong into the separation of powers. The prosecutorial function belongs to the executive branch. This opinion will be reversed. The Supreme Court has indicated in a slew of cases over the past year that the unitary executive isn't a "theory" - it's the Constitution, and interpretations of statutes that purport to confiscate executive authority and give it to actors uncontrolled by the President don't pass constitutional muster.

Will Chamberlain on X: "Judge Currie should have been aware of all these points. This is from the introduction of DOJ's response to Comey's motion to dismiss. In a single page it explains why Halligan was clearly appointed properly, and why Comey should have lost his motion. https://t.co/RN7NxBaphD" / X

The problem with the Comey case is that it is running up against the statute of limitations. But even if he skates this one ;he is the subject of a conspiracy investigation that includes all the usual suspects of the Russiagate persecution of Trump.

DOJ launching grand jury investigation into Russiagate conspiracy allegations - CBS News