James Comey woke up today, saw this, and immediately called his lawyer. Look, we all know Comey was up to no good.
Whether you hate him for the Hillary debacle or for the Trump debacle, either way, Comey has few friends in Washington.
Which makes Loretta’s accusation so powerful - if Comey lied under oath he committed a felony and should go to jail.
Put it this way - with partisanship at an all-time high and the only thing everyone agrees on is that Comey is a clown and guilty of something, expect some serious repercussions for James from these new accusations.
From The Daily Mail: Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch told investigators she did not ask former FBI Director James Comey to refer to the Hillary Clinton email review as a ‘matter’ instead of an ‘investigation,’ according to a transcript released Monday night.
Comey claimed in his 2017 sworn testimony that Lynch ‘directed’ him to call the investigation a ‘matter’ during a September 2015 meeting.
The transcript of Lynch’s December 19, 2018 interview with a joint task force of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees, which was released by Judiciary ranking member Doug Collins, clashes with what Comey testified under oath.
‘I did not. I have never instructed a witness as to what to say specifically. Never have, never will,’ Lynch told the congressional investigators, according to the transcript.
It is not clear if Lynch is only denying specifically directing Comey on what to say in his sworn testimony, or if she is also denying telling him how to refer to the investigation publicly or to the press.
ynch has been accused of helping stifle any investigations into Hillary Clinton’s emails in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate faced scrutiny over her use of a private email account to conduct State Department business during her time as Secretary of State under former President Barack Obama.
The incident involving Lynch and Comey took place in the midst of the Clinton email review in September 2015, before the hearing where Comey was asked about the investigation.
Comey said in his 2017 statements that he had been ‘confused and concerned’ by Lynch’s request.
‘The attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me,’ Comey testified, adding it was one of the reasons he decided to ‘step away from the department’ so the case could be credibly closed.
‘The Clinton campaign, at the time, was using all kind of euphemisms - security review, matters, things like that, for what was going on,’ Comey continued.
Comey said he knew they were getting to a place in the investigation where they would both have to speak about it publicly.
