excerpt from NYT:Mr. Comey wrote the memo detailing his conversation with the president immediately after the meeting, which took place the day after Mr. Flynn resigned, according to two people who read the memo. The memo was part of a paper trail Mr. Comey created documenting what he perceived as the president’s improper efforts to influence a continuing investigation. An F.B.I. agent’s contemporaneous notes are widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations.
While an F.B.I agent's contemporaneous notes are widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations, those notes are normally taken during the conversation and are maintained as evidence. Two points for consideration would be:
1. Were these notes taken during or even immediately following the conversation or were they made at the end of the day or even the next day.
2. Mr. Comey was not an F.B.I agent. He was a political appointee in an executive position and had no investigative portfolio. Would the political nature of the relationship have to be taken into consideration in assessing credibility of the writing.
