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New Filing: FBI Fights to Keep Comey Memos Secret…
« on: May 07, 2019, 10:15:12 pm »
New Filing: FBI Fights to Keep Comey Memos Secret…
Conservative Treehouse, May 7, 2019

This is frustrating, but not surprising.  In the updated DOJ court filing today (pdf link here) the DOJ tells the court they want to keep the Comey Journal (memos) hidden from public review {BACKSTORY HERE}:

Hat Tip Techno-Fog: The release of Mueller’s Report… “does not alter the FBI’s position with regard to the remaining redactions in the Comey Memos.”


https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/07/new-filing-fbi-fights-to-keep-comey-memos-secret/


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Re: New Filing: FBI Fights to Keep Comey Memos Secret…
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2019, 10:19:25 pm »
Backstory:

Court Filing Reveals Numerous Comey Memos Including Investigative Meetings, Sources, Methods and Contacts…
Conservative Treehouse, Apr 9, 2019

A late day submission to DC Circuit Court in a FOIA case previously discussed, reveals the content of Mueller’s probe & use of multiple, previously unknown, James Comey memos. Additionally, within the filing we discover how Comey documented multiple events, meetings and information surrounding the FBI investigation of Donald Trump.

The documents surface as part of the FOIA case [Backstory Here] where DC Court Judge James E. Boasberg -an Obama appointee and also a FISA judge- asked the FBI to file an opinion about the release of Comey memos to the public.  There are two issues: (1) can the memos be released? and (2) can prior sealed FBI filings, arguing to keep the memos hidden, be released?

In a very revealing filing last night (full pdf below) the lead FBI investigator for the Mueller special counsel, David W. Archey, informs the court that with the ending of the special counsel some of the memo material can be released, such as their existence; however, Archey also states much of the memo content and sealed background material from the FBI must continue to remain sealed and redacted.


More:  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/04/09/court-filing-reveals-numerous-comey-memos-including-investigative-meetings-sources-methods-and-contacts/

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Re: New Filing: FBI Fights to Keep Comey Memos Secret…
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2019, 10:35:07 pm »
If the court rules in favor of the FBI, that would seem to weaken the House Democrats position.
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