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April [A].
IG report.
Sessions public attack.
RR problems.
Seals broken.
[A]rrests.
Why was Huber made public?
Why now?
Everything has meaning.
[A]wan.
Tarmac.
Iran.
NK.
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FBI.
DOJ.
James Comey Testimony May 2007 concerning the Dismissal of 7 US Attorneys during the Bush Admin.
SCHUMER: Thank you, Senator Whitehouse.
Mr. Comey, I just want to follow up on one final question. I showed it to Senator Specter ahead of time because he had to leave.
But he was asking about legality/illegality, within law/not (ph). The key point here is isn't it the Office of Legal Counsel that makes a determination about whether something is within the law or not within the Justice Department?
COMEY: Yes. And its opinions are binding throughout the executive branch.
SCHUMER: And didn't that office make a decision and advise you that what was attempting to be done was not within the law?
COMEY: The conclusion was that they could not find an adequate legal basis for…
SCHUMER: OK. Let's put it that way.
COMEY: Yes.
SCHUMER: So they could not find an adequate legal basis for doing it that way?
COMEY: Correct.
SCHUMER: And you felt that if they couldn't, you couldn't preside over the Department of Justice if you were going to be overruled by the White House to do it anyway.
COMEY: Yes.
Also his involvement in the timing of Attorney General John Ashcroft's mysterious illness the day before the DOJ was to testify to the legality of the Patriot Bill and the procedures concerning the FISA court.
Comey had a private meeting with Ashcroft the night he fell ill.
He was acting Attorney General during Ashcroft's illness and did not give DOJ "approval on the legality of the legislation, and or EO"
Mueller.
Mueller was the confidant of Comey and was with him in the hospital talking to Ashcroft the night before the "approval deadline"
Comey and Mueller met separately with Bush concerning the Patriot Act after it was renewed. Bush did not give Comey any direction, but, according to Comey, Mueller said that Bush told him to tell Comey "to do what you need to do so that the legislation is in compliance".
Comey testified that there was no statute at that time for the DOJ to approve, only the "custom".
http:// www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051501043.html
Election Integrity. Comey's Testimony on one of the US Attorneys being fired:
KOHL: To me, you have expressed that opinion. I mean, without having expressed it, you expressed it.
Mr. Comey, when you testified in the House a few weeks ago, you were asked about the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Steve Biskupic. At that time, you said that Mr. Biskupic was, quote, "an absolutely straight guy," unquote.
When you were asked whether you knew that Mr. Biskupic was on a list for weak performers and potentially slated for dismissal, you said – and I quote – "No, and I think very highly of him."
Having had time to reflect on your testimony, do you have anything to add to what you said at that time? Do you know why he was put on a list of weak performers, and why he came off the list?
Did it have anything to do with the prosecution of voter fraud cases that he was taken off the list, or the prosecution of Georgia Thompson, an employee of the Democratic governor's administration at that time?
http:// www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051501132.html
KOHL: Mr. Comey, yesterday's Washington Post reported that White House and Republican Party concerns regarding voter fraud prosecutions were the cause of many of the U.S. attorney dismissals. Can you confirm this?
During the time you served as deputy attorney general were you aware of concerns from the White House that U.S. attorneys were not active enough in prosecuting voter fraud cases? Did the White House exert any effort to encourage the Justice Department to remove U.S. attorneys whom it believed were not prosecuting voter fraud cases vigorously enough?
COMEY: I'm not aware of any issue that came to my attention regarding voter fraud when I was deputy attorney general, complaints or otherwise.
KOHL: While you served at the Justice Department, were you aware of any pressure from the White House to bring voter fraud cases?
COMEY: No, sir.
KOHL: Thank you so much.
http:// www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051501132.html
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