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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
-- 2016 --
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
-- 2017 --
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
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
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
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
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
-- 2018 --
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
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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