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-- 2015 --

Oct. 1: Comey tells reporters that FBI investigators looking into possible compromise of information on Clinton's private email server would be fiercely independent, because they "don't give a rip about politics."

"Part of doing our work well is to make sure we don't talk about it," he said, approximately a year and 27 days before talking about the FBI's work in a pretty public way.
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/527773206/what-just-happened-the-james-comey-saga-in-timeline-form

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July 5: Hillary Clinton and her staff were "extremely careless" in handling classified data over a private email server while she was secretary of state, FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday — but the FBI is recommending that no charges be brought against her [because] evidence points to carelessness instead of intentional violations — and given that, they do not suggest criminal charges.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/05/484785586/fbi-recommends-no-charges-for-hillary-clinton-in-email-server-case

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March 20: [FBI Director James] Comey said that Russia did try to influence the electoral process - he said they engaged in a "multifaceted campaign" to undermine US democracy ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/20/donald-trump-trolls-fbi-director-james-comey-twitter-house-intelligence/

March 20: Donald Trump trolls FBI director James Comey on Twitter during house intelligence committee hearing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/20/donald-trump-trolls-fbi-director-james-comey-twitter-house-intelligence/

May 3: Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, [James] Comey said he believed revisiting the investigation just before the election — knowing it could affect the outcome — would be really bad, but that not to do so would be catastrophic for the agency's independence. In retrospect, he said, he still believes he made the right choice.

"Look, this was terrible. It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election. But honestly, it wouldn't change the decision," he said.
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526720922/fbi-director-comey-testifies-before-senate-judiciary-committee

May 9: President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday after senior Justice Department officials concluded that he'd mishandled the investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

"You are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately," Trump told Comey in a personally signed letter obtained by NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey-n757101

May 12: President Trump suggested on Twitter Friday morning there might be recordings of his private conversations with former FBI Director James Comey, whom he fired earlier this week, in an apparent attempt to caution Comey against "leaking to the press." At the White House briefing in the afternoon, press secretary Sean Spicer refused multiple times to confirm or deny whether there is a secret recording device in the Oval Office.
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/528104260/trump-tweet-suggests-his-conversations-with-comey-might-have-been-recorded

May 12:  James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
@realDonaldTrump

See June 8 (Comey: ‘Lordy, I hope there are tapes’)

May 12: In an interview with NBC's Lester Holt Thursday night, the President directly contradicted the reasoning his staff -- as well as Vice President Mike Pence -- had laid out for his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey.

"I was going to fire Comey -- my decision," Trump told Holt. "There is no good time to do it, by the way. I was going to fire regardless of recommendation."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/12/politics/donald-trump-lester-holt/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion

May 18: The Justice Department abruptly appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller Wednesday night as a special counsel to lead a federal investigation into allegations that Donald Trump’s campaign collaborated with Russia to sway the 2016 election that put him in the White House. Mueller will have sweeping powers and the authority to prosecute any crimes he uncovers.

The surprise announcement to hand the probe over to Mueller, a lawman with deep bipartisan respect, was a striking shift for Trump’s Justice Department, which had resisted increasingly loud calls from Democrats for an outside prosecutor. It immediately escalated the legal stakes -- and the potential political damage -- for a president who has tried to dismiss the matter as partisan witch hunt and a “hoax.”
https://www.apnews.com/d4ea16a1e9fe46deb0b1107c6fed30e6

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May 18: So confident was [Trump] of his own immunity to convention that he once boasted he could shoot someone in the middle of New York's Fifth Avenue and wouldn't lose voters. But as President, that impunity has been challenged and Trump's behavior became a liability. Ultimately, had he not fired [FBI Director James] Comey in a fit of pique about the Russia investigation, it might never [have] emerged that he reportedly asked the FBI chief to cool it in his investigation. And [Deputy Attorney General Rod] Rosenstein's hand may not have been forced and Trump may not have faced a special counsel [Robert Mueller].
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/politics/donald-trump-robert-mueller-democracy/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

May 19:
During a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak last week, President Trump told the men that fired FBI Director James Comey was a “nut job,” and that his removal would relieve pressure on his administration over its ties to Russia.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/trump-told-russians-that-nut-job-comeys-firing-relieved-pressure/527451/

May 19:
[Trump was asked if he had] urged then-FBI Director James Comey to slow or stop an FBI investigation into deposed national security adviser Michael Flynn ... "No. No. Next question," Trump responded. ... [In doing so,] he directly contradicted the reporting around a memo that Comey had written ... in which Trump told him to see if he could find a way to end the Flynn investigation ... Both of those things can't be true.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/politics/donald-trump-comey-denial/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

May 19: James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, will testify publicly about his role in the investigation into Russian meddling in the election and any possible connections to the campaign of President Trump, the Senate Intelligence Committee announced Friday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-fbi.html

May 24: American voters disagree with President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, think the dismissal was for self-serving reasons, and approve of a special counsel being appointed to investigate Russian government efforts to influence the election and the Trump campaign.  In addition, a majority opposes the Republican plan to replace Obamacare. 

That’s according to a new Fox News Poll of registered voters nationwide.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/24/fox-news-poll-trump-approval-down-voters-support-special-counsel-on-russia.html

May 26: Then-FBI Director James Comey knew that a critical piece of information relating to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email was fake -- created by Russian intelligence ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/politics/james-comey-fbi-investigation-fake-russian-intelligence/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

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May 26: The FBI on Thursday declined the request of the chairman of the House oversight committee, Jason Chaffetz, for the memos maintained by former FBI Director James Comey detailing his interactions with President Donald Trump.

In a letter, the FBI cited the appointment of a special counsel as the reason for its decision to withhold the documents.
http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-comey-memo-jason-chaffetz-house-oversight-2017-5

June 2: Legal experts are skeptical the President could successfully invoke the privilege to muzzle Comey because Trump has already written a letter about their conversations, talked about them publicly and even tweeted about them.

In other words, they say, the President can't use the privilege as a sword in one context and a shield in another.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/02/politics/trump-james-comey-executive-privilege/index.html

June 5: President Donald Trump will not try to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying before Congress, deciding not to invoke executive privilege, spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday at the White House briefing.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/politics/trump-comey-executive-privilege/index.html?adkey=bn

June 7: Former FBI director James Comey will testify Thursday that President Trump asked him for his loyalty, according to a copy of Comey’s opening statement posted to the Senate Intelligence Committee website.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/06/07/read-james-comey-opening-statement-senate-intelligence-committee/cky3jGkvdUkpI5qVjuCOPJ/story.html

June 8: Comey: ‘Lordy, I hope there are tapes’

Former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday said he was too “stunned” to respond to President Trump at an Oval Office meeting in which Comey alleges the president sought to bury the FBI investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

He also expressed his hope that his conversations with the president were recorded, saying: "Lordy, I hope there are tapes."
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/336925-comey-lordy-i-hope-there-are-tapes

June 8: ... James Gagliano was looking for a shower. ...  "I read [the James Comey written testimony] and I literally wanted to rinse myself off afterwards," said the former FBI agent. "I felt completely disgusted." ... "For 48 years ... FBI Director (J. Edgar) Hoover pulled puppet strings, and had presidents on their heels," he said. "We now have a President that was attempting to put an FBI director on his heels."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/07/politics/james-gagliano-fbi-james-comey-statement-erin-burnett-outfront-cnntv/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion

June 9: [Trump's personal attorney Marc] Kasowitz' s ... assertions that Comey leaked "privileged" information are patent nonsense, as Comey did not have an attorney-client relationship with the President, the leaked memos were not classified, and the President explicitly waived executive privilege. (Executive privilege would be inapplicable here in any event.)
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/09/opinions/for-trump-a-prosecution-of-comey-would-be-a-disaster-opinion-callan/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

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June 9: A defiant President Donald Trump said Friday he was willing to testify under oath about his conversations with James Comey, further fueling the swirling controversy ignited by the fired FBI director's bombshell testimony before the Senate on Thursday. ... "One hundred percent," Trump said ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/09/politics/trump-news-conference/index.html

June 9: Trump ... indirectly accused Comey of perjury when he adamantly denied the fired FBI director's claim that the President asked him to end the FBI's investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/09/politics/trump-news-conference/index.html

June 9: [Trump] ... denied that he asked Comey for his loyalty, though he added: "There would be nothing wrong if I did say it."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/09/politics/trump-news-conference/index.html

June 12: Nearly a dozen people ... inside the White House, in other parts of government as well as ... several close associates of the President ... told CNN they suspect ... [the existence of tapes of conversation(s) with Comey] ... is merely Trump bluster and there's no such taping mechanism ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/trump-james-comey-tapes/index.html

June 12: "The tape thing is a total Trump real estate developer comment," [one] Republican said. "You just make it up, and you say that as a way of intimidating the other side." ... The open question -- with potentially far-reaching consequences -- is whether Trump failed to understand the difference between playing the intimidation game in the boardroom versus the Oval Office.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/trump-james-comey-tapes/index.html

June 20: Throngs of journalists and political pundits are hanging on Trump press secretary Sean Spicer's every word, hoping he'll confirm or deny the existence of tapes of conversations between President Donald Trump and fired FBI Director James Comey.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/20/politics/jackie-speier-sean-spicer-donald-trump-comey-tapes-erin-burnett-out-front-cnntv/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

June 20: Do you think [Trump] made the whole thing up when he raised the whole idea of tapes?" Erin Burnett asked ... on Tuesday evening. ... "I absolutely do," was Speier's hesitation-free response  ... [the] comments from ... California Democrat [Rep. Jackie Speier] come just days ahead of a deadline set by the House intelligence committee that pushes Trump to address the issue of tapes by week's end. Speier is a member of the committee.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/20/politics/jackie-speier-sean-spicer-donald-trump-comey-tapes-erin-burnett-out-front-cnntv/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

June  22: [Trump's] admission, on Twitter Thursday that he did not secretly record his conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey -- after earlier raising the possibility that he did -- capped a six-week charade that damaged his presidency and cast doubt on his personal credibility. http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/trump-comey-tapes-recordings-white-house/index.html

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June 23: The White House is letting President Donald Trump's tweet Thursday -- asserting that he had not taped former FBI Director James Comey -- stand as the President's official statement. [Rep. Adam] Schiff said Thursday that Trump's tweet alone would not be enough, and that he had more questions, including whether the President was trying to threaten Comey with his May 17 tweet.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/white-house-comey-tapes-trump-tweet/index.html

July 19: Mr. Trump recalled that a little more than two weeks before his inauguration, Mr. Comey and other intelligence officials briefed him at Trump Tower on Russian meddling. Mr. Comey afterward pulled Mr. Trump aside and told him about a dossier that had been assembled by a former British spy filled with salacious allegations against the incoming president, including supposed sexual escapades in Moscow. The F.B.I. has not corroborated the most sensational assertions in the dossier.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-sessions-russia.html

July 19: In the [NY Times] interview, Mr. Trump said he believed Mr. Comey told him about the dossier to implicitly make clear he had something to hold over the president. “In my opinion, he shared it so that I would think he had it out there,” Mr. Trump said. As leverage? “Yeah, I think so,” Mr. Trump said. “In retrospect.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-sessions-russia.html

July 19: The president dismissed the assertions in the dossier: “When he brought it to me, I said this is really made-up junk. I didn’t think about any of it. I just thought about, man, this is such a phony deal.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-sessions-russia.html

July 19: Mr. Comey declined to comment on Wednesday.

But Mr. Comey and other intelligence officials decided it was best for him to raise the subject with Mr. Trump alone because he was going to remain as F.B.I. director. Mr. Comey testified before Congress that he disclosed the details of the dossier to Mr. Trump because he thought that the news media would soon be publishing details from it and that Mr. Trump had a right to know what information was out there about him. A two-page summary about the dossier was widely reported the week before Mr. Trump’s inauguration, including by The Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-sessions-russia.html

August 1: New White House chief of staff John Kelly [former homeland security secretary] was so upset with how President Donald Trump handled the firing of FBI Director James Comey that Kelly called Comey afterward and said he was considering resigning [as homeland security secretary], according to two sources familiar with a conversation between Kelly and Comey.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/politics/kelly-comey-phone-call-angry/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

October 14: Government lawyers have asked a judge to reject CNN's requests to make public the memos of former FBI Director James Comey in which he details his meetings with President Donald Trump ... Several news outlets and government watchdogs, including CNN, have requested the documents be released under the Freedom of Information Act.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/comey-memos-foia/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion

October 14: "Publicly explaining in any greater detail why the release of the Comey Memos would be detrimental to the pending investigation would itself disclose law enforcement sensitive information that could interfere with the pending investigation," the government wrote.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/comey-memos-foia/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion

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January 11: A federal judge Thursday said he would look at the memos former FBI Director James Comey wrote about his interactions with President Donald Trump before deciding whether the Justice Department can withhold them from the public. It's a signal that the judge may be skeptical of Justice's argument that the Comey memos should stay confidential because their release could compromise the Russia probe.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/politics/comey-memos-lawsuit/index.html

January 23: Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is seeking to question President Trump in the coming weeks about his decisions to oust national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James B. Comey, according to two people familiar with his plans.

Mueller’s interest in the events that led Trump to push out Flynn and Comey indicates that his investigation is aggressively scrutinizing possible efforts by the president or others to hamper the special counsel’s probe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-seeks-to-question-trump-about-flynn-and-comey-departures/2018/01/23/e6652db6-0068-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?utm_term=.94b44ffe1a25

January 24: Special counsel Robert Mueller's team wants to question former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon about the firings of national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James Comey, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/robert-mueller-steve-bannon-questioning/index.html

February 2: Comey rips 'weasels and liars,' invokes Joe McCarthy in Twitter rant ... Comey tweets: All should appreciate the FBI speaking up

Former FBI Director James Comey lashed out at unnamed "weasels and liars" on social media late Thursday, hours before President Trump was expected to declassify a controversial memo about purported surveillance abuses over the objections of Democrats.

"All should appreciate the FBI speaking up. I wish more of our leaders would," Comey wrote on Twitter. "But take heart: American history shows that, in the long run, weasels and liars never hold the field, so long as good people stand up.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/01/comey-rips-weasels-and-liars-invokes-joe-mccarthy-in-twitter-rant.html

March 17: Special counsel Robert Mueller has memos written by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe documenting his conversations with President Donald Trump, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN.

The memos also detail what former FBI Director James Comey told McCabe about his own interactions with Trump while he was FBI director and are seen as a way to corroborate Comey's account in Mueller's probe on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/17/politics/mccabe-memos-trump/index.html


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April 12: Inside the GOP plan to discredit Comey

The battle plan against Comey, obtained by CNN, calls for branding the nation's former top law enforcement official as "Lyin' Comey" through a website, digital advertising and talking points to be sent to Republicans across the country before his memoir is released next week.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/politics/trump-comey-publicity-tour/index.html

April 16: Former Clinton campaign chair discusses Comey apology, 2016 election
https://news.yale.edu/2018/04/16/former-clinton-campaign-chair-discusses-comey-apology-2016-election

May 8: In his new book, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) defends his decision to give a controversial dossier about President Trump to former FBI chief James Comey.

“I agreed to receive a copy of what is now referred to as ‘the dossier,’” McCain writes in the upcoming book, titled The Restless Wave, referencing information compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. “I reviewed its contents. The allegations were disturbing, but I had no idea which if any were true. I could not independently verify any of it, and so I did what any American who cares about our nation’s security should have done.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mccain-confirms-he-gave-trump-dossier-to-comey-duty-demanded-i-do-it

May 11: Former FBI Director James Comey is skipping a closed-door Senate hearing next week to discuss the intelligence community's findings about Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

"Because of a previously scheduled engagement, Jim will not be testifying at this hearing," said his attorney, Daniel Richman.

Comey was among four former intelligence community leaders invited to attend the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/11/james-comey-skipping-may-senate-intelligence-hearing-583918

May 23: James Comey pushes back on Trump's spying claims

Former FBI Director James Comey pushed back on President Donald Trump's spying claims on Wednesday, warning that attacking the FBI "will do lasting damage to our country."

In a tweet that did not address the President by name, the former FBI director wrote, "Facts matter. The FBI's use of Confidential Human Sources (the actual term) is tightly regulated and essential to protecting the country. Attacks on the FBI and lying about its work will do lasting damage to our country. How will Republicans explain this to their grandchildren?"
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/23/politics/james-comey-donald-trump-informant-spy-claims/

September 19: Carter Page: If Comey, Clapper & Brennan Advised Trump, U.S. Would Be In Wars And Conflicts
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/09/19/carter_page_if_comey_clapper_brennan_advised_trump_us_would_be_in_wars_and_conflicts.html

December 2: James Comey To Testify Privately To The House Judiciary Committee

The committee is expected to question Comey about decisions made by the FBI in 2016, including the agency's investigations into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, and possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/02/672747032/james-comey-to-testify-before-house-judiciary-committee

December 10: Comey calls on Americans to 'use every breath we have' to oust Trump in 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/09/politics/james-comey-donald-trump-2020/index.html

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