Comey's testimony, unflattering picture. He'll be back for more.

[chuck_curtis]

...After his testimony, Comey told reporters with confidence that when the transcript of the hearing was released, everyone would see he had nothing to hide, and that he was very truthful and honest. The transcript would also show how nothing of any real value was learned from the hearing, and that it was all just a desperate Republican attempt to rehash the Clinton email investigation.

When the actual transcript was released the following day, the testimony drew a very different picture than the one Comey had painted for the media. As it turns out, he was putting on an act—he was bluffing for the cameras.

The picture of Comey that emerges from the transcript is incredibly unflattering. He looks like a guy who has no idea what was actually going on at the federal agency he was supposedly in charge of running.

To sum up briefly some things that happened on Comey’s watch that he now insists he knows nothing about:

1.  He claimed to have never read or seen the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page text messages about stopping Donald Trump from becoming president.
2.  He said he didn’t know how the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign got started or who initiated it. He didn’t know in 2016—and testified to Congress on Dec. 7 that he still doesn’t know—how it happened or who started it.
3.  He claimed to have very little knowledge or direct oversight of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, claiming division head Bill Priestap and top agent Peter Strzok were, pretty much, running operations on their own with little or no input from him.
4.  Comey was forced to admit that if the Justice Department (DOJ) or FBI had any actual evidence of a crime by Trump campaign personnel that was used to launch Crossfire Hurricane, he’s completely unaware of what it was.
5.  Comey also stated he’s seen no evidence supporting the narrative that mainstream media have pushed for two years—that the Trump campaign conspired with Russian hackers to steal DNC/Hillary Clinton campaign emails—is true.
6.  Comey admitted he has no idea what ‘collusion’ is, or if it’s even a crime.

The biggest news to come out of the hearing is that Comey was forced to admit under questioning that DOJ/FBI officials knowingly presented what they knew was an unverified dossier to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).

In often convoluted and contradictory answers, Comey insisted to congressmen questioning him that no effort was made to hide from the FISA Court that the so-called “Steele dossier” was a political product created by individuals who were well-compensated by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

That dossier was beyond a doubt politically tainted, and it’s a hot issue of dispute between Republicans and Democrats on these House committees just how much, if at all, the FISC judges were made aware of that before they granted the initial warrant to spy on the Trump campaign and its subsequent renewals.

Several Republican members of the House committees, such as Devin Nunes of California and Mark Meadows of North Carolina, have read the unredacted FISA warrant and claim that information showing the fully political nature of the Steele dossier doesn’t appear in it. This is one of the reasons Republicans are calling on President Donald Trump to declassify the warrant.

It’s an incontrovertible fact that, even at this late point, nobody knows exactly who these shadowy, anonymous Russians were who supposedly supplied former MI6 agent Christopher Steele with “inside information” that formed the basis for the dossier he compiled. How could the dossier be verified by the FBI if Steele’s sources were still completely unknown to the agency at the time it used the dossier at the FISA Court to get its warrant?

When pressed about this question on Dec. 7, the best Comey could do was blather that the dossier was coming from a “trusted source” with a “long track record.”   

As Andrew McCarthy at National Review has been pointing out for months, such a claim to the FISC judge should have been laughed out of the courtroom. Second- and third-hand accounts from anonymous sources don’t even come close to meeting the FISA Court’s high bar for getting a warrant to spy on U.S. citizens.

Despite the brave and confident face he put on when meeting with the media afterward, this hearing was a disaster for Comey—and this was only round one. He’s scheduled to return for more questioning by the committees on Dec. 17.

Bear in mind that the president could declassify and release the FISA warrant at any time. If it should happen in the intervening week before Comey testifies again, that would give Comey even less of an excuse to refuse to answer questions.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-fbi-director-comeys-bluff-gets-called_2735280.html

[Jim]

 
Like Hillary, who claims she is mentally capable of being President, and Comey who is lauded as the most mentally fit to run the FBI; Comey parrots Hillary by claiming to "not remember" nearly 300 time (so far).

Like Hillary, Comey is a Liar and a Criminal lying straight faced to Congress, and like Hillary he is part of the Deep State Anti-American cabal that has the Left completely brainwashed.

[Oscar_LaVista]

i think we should just take BM Jim's crazy ass lying words for it and arrest Comey and Clinton without any fucking evidence because BM Jim claims they did this shit. 

Just like we did in the Kavanaugh case- one person, who actually passed a lie detector accused him, and he was turned down from being a Supreme Court justice and put in jail.

[lakitss]

Comey lied out his ass about Hillary so he could act like he knew nothing about her gross national security protocol violations using unsecured servers for classified material. Any first year military private is briefed on that almost immediately, plus she was first lady for 8 years and is well aware of the policies and procedures in place.

As per usual Hillary feels the laws only apply to us peasants as she thumbs her nose at anyone with the gall to challenge her highness.

This criminal should have been in jail years ago.....

[Oscar_LaVista]

Comey lied out his ass about Hillary so he could act like he knew nothing about her gross national security protocol violations using unsecured servers for classified material. Any first year military private is briefed on that almost immediately, plus she was first lady for 8 years and is well aware of the policies and procedures in place.

As per usual Hillary feels the laws only apply to us peasants as she thumbs her nose at anyone with the gall to challenge her highness.

This criminal should have been in jail years ago.....

you are a stupid low info trump voter who wouldn't know a fact if it built a campfire in your asscrack, fool.  have someone who can read try to 'splain to you what these words mean, right wing parrot boy-

No marked classified email was ever on her private server.  Even Comey admitted this in his hearing.

This is from a politifact article-

Comey was not really completely honest about what the facts were about Hillary and classified email on her server from the get go-

This is from a politifact article-

The State Department confirmed July 6 that it was aware of two emails that were marked confidential, the lowest level of classification, when they were sent. An aide sent the two emails to Clinton to prepare her for phone calls with foreign leaders, according to the New York Times. 


State Department spokesman John Kirby said call sheets are often classified when they are prepared. But then at some point before the call is made, someone with the appropriate authority will declassify them. These two call sheets sent to Clinton unnecessarily retained their confidential markings due to human error, Kirby said.


Even though just two emails out of many thousands were marked classified at the time they were sent, it’s more than the number Clinton cited: zero."

Here is what Factcheck clarified and proves she had zero....According to Comey in his later testimony. 

But now we are learning more about those emails from Comey, who testified before the House Oversight Committee on July 7, and State Department spokesman John Kirby, who addressed these emails at press briefings on July 6 and 7:

Comey said three emails had “portion markings” on them indicating that they were classified, but they were not properly marked and therefore could have been missed by Clinton. He said the emails were marked as classified with the letter “C” in the body of the email.

Kirby said the State Department believes that at least two of the emails were mistakenly marked as confidential. He could not speak to the third email, saying the department didn’t have “all of the records and documents that the FBI used in their investigation.”

The issue is a bit complicated, but important, because it provides Clinton with a stronger defense against claims that she sent and received material that was marked as classified over her private server when she was secretary of state.

At a State Department briefing on July 6, Kirby addressed a report in the New York Times that Comey was “evidently referring to two emails that one of Mrs. Clinton’s close aides, Monica R. Hanley, sent to prepare her for telephone calls with foreign leaders.” The Times report was based on interviews with anonymous State Department officials.

Each was marked with a small notation by a paragraph inside the email, “(C),” indicating it contained information classified as “confidential.”

Kirby said based on the email traffic, it appears that Clinton had already made the decision to call then Malawi President Joyce Banda and Annan, so the “confidential” markings should have been removed when Hanley sent the emails. (He made his remarks at about the 12-minute mark.)

At his hearing, Comey was asked repeatedly about the marked emails, with Republicans accusing Clinton of lying, while Democrats defended her actions. As we have written, Clinton had repeatedly said she did not send or receive any emails marked classified. As recently as July 3, Clinton said that she “never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.”

For example, Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy asked Comey if Clinton was telling the truth when she said that she did not send or receive marked classified material. Comey said she wasn’t.


Gowdy, July 7: Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails either sent or received. Was that true?

Comey: That’s not true. There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.


Likewise, Rep. Matt Cartwright, also a Democrat, asked Comey if the emails were properly classified, and Comey said they were not. (Executive Order 13526 spells out how documents should be properly classified, including a header on the document clearly identifying the email as classified as “confidential,” “secret” or “top secret.”)


Cartwright asked if Clinton could have missed the improper markings. Comey said that that was possible.


Cartwright, July 7: So, if Secretary Clinton really were an expert at what’s classified and what’s not classified and we’re following the manual, the absence of a header would tell her immediately that those three documents were not classified. Am I correct in that?




Comey: That would be a reasonable inference.

https://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/revisiting-clinton-and-classified-information/

[omiaqt]

What will he say before the Senate?

[Oscar_LaVista]

And further reason the whole idea Hillary was receiving or sending classified email on her private server, or that any government official with any top secret clearance EVER GETS ANY CLASSIFIED EMAIL ON THEIR GOVERNMENT EMAILS, OR PRIVATE EMAIL SERVERS, is completely ridiculous- 

There are restrictions on how classified documents can be shipped. Top Secret material must go by special courier. Secret material can be sent within the U.S. via registered mail, and Confidential material by certified mail. Electronic transmission of classified information largely requires the use of National Security Agency approved/certified "Type 1" cryptosystems utilizing NSA's unpublished and classified Suite A algorithms. The classification of the Suite A algorithms categorizes the hardware that store them as a Controlled Cryptographic Item (CCI) under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, or ITAR. CCI equipment and keying material must be controlled and stored with heightened physical security, even when the device is not processing classified information or contain a cryptographic key. NSA is currently moving towards implementing what it's calling Suite B which is a group of commercial algorithms such as Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA), Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) and Elliptic curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH). Suite B provides protection for data up to Top Secret on non-CCI devices. This is especially useful in high risk environments or operations needed to prevent Suite A compromise. These less stringent hardware requirements stem from the device not having to "protect" classified Suite A algorithms.

Specialized computer operating systems known as trusted operating systems are available for processing classified information. These enforce the classification and labeling rules described above in software. However, as of 2005, they are not considered secure enough to allow uncleared users to share computers with classified activities. So if one creates an unclassified document on a secret device, the resultant data is classified secret until it can be manually reviewed. Computer networks for sharing classified information are segregated by the highest sensitivity level they are allowed to transmit, for example, SIPRNet (Secret) and JWICS (Top Secret-SCI).

"NSA Suite B Cryptography – NSA/CSS". Nsa.gov. Retrieved 2013-07-04.

THE MOST PERTINENT FACT FROM THIS ARTICLE-


How did Clinton receive and consume classified information?


The Secretary's office was located in a secure area. Classified information was viewed in hard copy by Clinton while in the office. While on travel, the State Department had rigorous protocols for her and traveling staff to receive and transmit information of all types.


A separate, closed email system was used by the State Department for the purpose of handling classified communications, which was designed to prevent such information from being transmitted anywhere other than within that system.

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/07/13/email-facts/