Kirsters Baish’s POV| The fight for disgraced former FBI Director James Comey’s infamous “Trump memos” heated up on Tuesday when the FBI released a new court filing in which they argued that releasing special counsel Robert Mueller’s report “does not alter the FBI’s position with regard to the remaining redactions in the Comey Memos.”
Essentially, the FBI is still preventing James Comey’s Trump memos from being released.
Let’s take a look back at some important facts.
Towards the end of March, United States District Judge James Boasberg of Washington (who also happens to be a FISA judge) ordered that the FBI hand over James Comey’s ‘Trump memos.”— They asked that both clean and redacted versions of the memos be turned over by April 1st. Boasberg carefully considered releasing the memos to the American public.
The Gateway Pundit explains:
The FBI previously pushed back on March 1st and wrote to Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee, saying that the memos were still redacted and classified and should remain under seal to avoid interfering with Mueller’s inquisition — Mueller’s witch hunt ended last month so the judge asked the FBI to file an opinion about the release of Comey’s memos.
In an April 9 filing, the FBI made another shocking revelation when they stated that James Comey had been a witness in Robert Mueller’s probe.
“The FBI and the Special Counsel’s office have determined that disclosure of the Comey Memos … could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the pending Russia investigation. The Comey Memos are his contemporaneous notes about incidents that are of interest in that investigation …” an April 9 court filing said. This was the same filing that proved that James Comey had been a witness in Mueller’s probe.
“The documents also suggest then-FBI Director James Comey began his coup against President Trump because he didn’t like his foreign-policy decision-making. The documents were released as part of a FOIA lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, CNN, USA Today and others against the FBI in an effort to make Comey’s Trump memos public,” the Gateway Pundit explains. “It turns out that hiding behind the Mueller investigation was just an excuse because the FBI is still pushing back and fighting like hell to keep the memos secret — the same memos Comey strategically leaked to the New York Times through his friend Daniel Goldman.”
The Justice Department did authorize the January 22, 2018 transcript to be released:
New filing: the FBI fights to keep the Comey memos secret.
The release of Mueller's Report… "does not alter the FBI's position with regard to the remaining redactions in the Comey Memos." pic.twitter.com/6zIDt2WA0T
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) May 7, 2019
