Comey Releases Prepared Testimony: “I Hope You Can See Your Way To Letting This Go… I Need Loyalty”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jun 7, 2017
Ahead of tomorrow’s much-anticipated testimony, former FBI Director James Comey has released his prepared remarks.
Key highlights include:
First Contact:
I first met then-President-Elect Trump on Friday, January 6 in a conference room at Trump Tower in New York. I was there with other Intelligence Community (IC) leaders to brief him and his new national security team on the findings of an IC assessment concerning Russian efforts to interfere in the election. At the conclusion of that briefing, I remained alone with the President- Elect to brief him on some personally sensitive aspects of the information assembled during the assessment.
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I discussed with the FBI’s leadership team whether I should be prepared to assure President-Elect Trump that we were not investigating him personally. That was true; we did not have an open counter-intelligence case on him. We agreed I should do so if circumstances warranted. During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President- Elect Trump’s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, I offered that assurance.
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I felt compelled to document my first conversation with the President-Elect in a memo
The awkward dinner:
The Rest…HERE
