{"id":360170,"date":"2018-05-08T01:42:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T00:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/comey-comey-pants-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2018-05-08T01:42:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T00:42:57","slug":"comey-comey-pants-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/comey-comey-pants-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Comey, Comey, Pants on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a bit of FBI-related news broke late Friday;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A newly unredacted section of a House Intel Committee report\u00a0reveals that former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe told Congressional investigators that\u00a0<strong>the FBI had virtually no case\u00a0against Mike Flynn<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The same report reveals that\u00a0<strong>James Comey contradicted himself during a recent\u00a0interview with Bret Baier<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Comey, McCabe and then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord\u00a0<strong>gave the committee &#8220;conflicting testimony&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Anti-Trump FBI &#8220;Lovebird&#8221; Lisa Page (with whom Peter Strzok was having an affaird) has flown the coop, tendering her resignation on Friday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>One of Comey&#8217;s closest confidants,\u00a0<strong>former FBI top lawyer James A. Baker also resigned\u00a0Friday<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A newly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/378246260\/Final-Russia-Investigation-Report\">unredacted version<\/a>\u00a0of the House Intelligence Committee&#8217;s final report on Russia was released on Friday, containing bombshell revelations stemming from the Congressional testimony of former FBI and DOJ officials Andrew McCabe and James Comey.<\/p>\n<p>For starters,\u00a0<strong>the redacted section of the report covers up the fact that former deputy director Andrew McCabe told Congressional investigators\u00a0<u>the FBI had virtually no case against\u00a0former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McCabe also says that former FBI Director James\u00a0<strong>Comey spearheaded the &#8220;ambush&#8221; of Flynn<\/strong>\u00a0at the White House &#8211; in which two FBI agents,\u00a0<strong>one of whom was Peter Strzok<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>dropped in unannounced to interrogate him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Compare the fully redacted version that came out last week to the mostly unredacted version that came out today. Do you see what DOJ\/FBI tried to cover up? McCabe said they hadn&#8217;t substantiated anything against Flynn, and the ambush of Flynn at the WH was directed by Comey. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Fc9U3kVwM\">pic.twitter.com\/6Fc9U3kVwM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/992552049249308672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a...<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/05\/tyler-durden\/fbi-chaos-liar-comeys-pants-on-fire\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a bit of FBI-related news broke late Friday; A newly unredacted section of a House Intel Committee report\u00a0reveals that former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe told Congressional investigators that\u00a0the FBI had virtually no case\u00a0against Mike Flynn The same report reveals that\u00a0James Comey contradicted himself during a recent\u00a0interview with Bret Baier Comey, McCabe and then-Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}