{"id":30974,"date":"2017-06-08T20:43:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T00:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30974"},"modified":"2017-06-08T20:45:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T00:45:58","slug":"some-things-just-dont-add-up-very-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30974","title":{"rendered":"Some Things Just Don’t Add Up Very Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am combining two stories related to former FBI<\/a> Director James Comey<\/a>‘s actions in the past year. The first story was posted at National Review<\/a> by Andrew McCarthy<\/a> yesterday, and the second story was posted at The Gateway Pundit<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n

The story at the National Review asks a very important question, “If the FBI had unmasked tapes of General Flynn’s conversations with Russian ambassador<\/a> Sergey Kislyak, why did the FBI find it necessary to question General Flynn on the details of that conversation. Since there was nothing illegal in either the conversation or the content of the conversation, what was the justification for the questioning? What law had General Flynn broken?<\/p>\n

The article at National Review explains:<\/p>\n

Yet, Flynn was treated as if he were a suspect. So hot was the Obama Justice Department<\/a> to make a case on him, it apparently even considered charging him with a violation of the Logan Act. That is a purported prohibition against freelance engagement in foreign policy by American citizens. Its constitutionality is so dubious that it has never been successfully prosecuted (and almost never invoked) in the two centuries it has been on the books. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The question here was whether the Justice Department wanted Flynn interrogated in the hope that he would not truthfully describe the conversation with Kislyak. Since they had a recording, any inaccuracy could then be charged as a false statement \u2014 a classic \u201cprocess crime.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems as if General Flynn’s civil rights were violated.<\/p>\n

The article at The Gateway Pundit points out a glaring discrepancy in the actions of former Director Comey.\u00a0 Former Director Comey has stated that he took notes on all meetings with President Trump. That was very conscientious of him.<\/p>\n

However, The Gateway Pundit reports that he did not record the testimony of Hillary Clinton<\/a> concerning her email server. The Gateway Pundit quotes an article from The Hill on July 7th of last year:<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton did not swear an oath to tell the truth before meeting with the FBI for three and a half hours last weekend, and the interview was not recorded, FBI Director James Comey told House lawmakers on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lack of a sworn oath does not remove the possibility of criminal penalties against Clinton if she lied to the FBI, though he said he had \u201cno basis to conclude\u201d that she was untruthful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cStill a crime to lie to us,\u201d Comey told the House Oversight Committee<\/a>.<\/strong>
\nFBI policy is not to record interviews as part of its investigations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet the revelations will nonetheless raise questions among Republicans, who have been skeptical of the FBI\u2019s investigation and have demanded to see the transcript of the former secretary of State\u2019s interview in downtown Washington<\/a> on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is also interesting that as FBI Director, James Comey went along with the Justice Department’s request to call the email server investigation a ‘matter’ rather than an investigation. It seems to me that he is accusing the wrong people of interfering with an investigation or obstructing justice.<\/p>\n

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I am combining two stories related to former FBI Director James Comey‘s actions in the past year. The first story was posted at National Review by Andrew McCarthy yesterday, and the second story was posted at The Gateway Pundit yesterday. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9703,3357,420,1457,10095,68,6984,211],"class_list":["post-30974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-director-of-the-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-james-comey","tag-united-states-department-of-justice","tag-united-states-senate-select-committee-on-intelligence","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30974"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30979,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974\/revisions\/30979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}