He whose name shall not be mentioned.

Who are you going to believe? Devin Nunes or your own lying eyes?

He thought Rosenstein would refuse to release them and then the cons would explode with one moronic conspiracy theory after another about what was in the memos, what were they hiding. Instead, Rosenstein shrugged his shoulders and said "knock yourselves out".

so we could all read them together.

Opps.

And so desperate to muddy up the Russia investigation because he's dirty in it up to his eyeballs that he's willing to try anything to distract and deflect. REmember when his memo was supposed to lead to the arrest of Mueller, Obama, Hillary and a whole host of others? That's what hannity promised his audience.

And what happened to Nunes' recusal from over a year ago? He's not supposed to have anything to do with this Trussia investigation, and yet he's all over it like super glue.

The fact that Comey's memos do nothing to help Trump is completely lost on Nunes.

Well played GOP! Any other bright ideas?

I assume they would keep them secret but feed them to the trump defense team

He was soooo certain that it would make Comey look bad that he never for a moment considered that it would be worse for Trump.

Heck, apparently Republicans even suck at Go Fish.

... where Fox news and Trump's Twitter feed (the two officsl state media sources) will tell the base that these exonerated Trump.

Donny Dollhands may be surprised he can't. /snark/

... but he could probably get Nunes taken off the House investigation committee, if he really wanted to.

It would be hard to find someone equally stupid and pliable to replace him though. Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House is in charge of committee appointments. So Cheeto could tell Ryan to take Nunes off the committee.

Ryan could pick. Heck, he's got a legion, nay an army, of fools to pick from!

Per Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe.

See: https://twitter.com/tribelaw
(scroll down to Thursday's tweets)

(snips)
Today: "The Comey Memos: They fully corroborate Comey’s account of all his interactions with Trump. Nothing they say — or fail to say — helps Trump’s defense, despite his loyalists’ desperate efforts to spin them his way."

Thursday:
"I agree the memos hurt only Trump; his allies on the Hill were crazy to demand them. Still, Rosenstein had a duty to stand his ground. The memos were evidence in an ongoing FBI investigation. Releasing them set a dangerous precedent."
and
"Now that Rosenstein has caved to that threat & has given Congress the Comey memos, setting a terrible precedent, I worry about Rosenstein’s integrity — just as I did when he helped Trump concoct a phony excuse for firing Comey."

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Prof. Tribe's bio: https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10899/Tribe
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(my head spins again)..... ........

If much was redacted and most of what was in the memos were "out there" already then it is nothing really. Maybe Rosenstein and Mueller even collaborated to release these as a way to back up Comey's claims, keep Rosenstein as boss for now, maybe embarrass Nunes and Trump, and show that the Republican Congress leaks info.

However, Prof. Tribe's point is well taken, that this could make Congress think they can have access to anything they want from any investigation - which creates a dangerous precedent and essentially politicizes active legal case evidence.

In that abstract sense only, this is a win for Trump and the Repugs. We'll have to wait an see if they demand more items.

is so partisan, he has no rationality for the things he does. Either that or he is so deep himself in the Russian thing, desperation takes over his reasoning.

Just what the hell is it that Putin has on this guy anyway? Putin should put a pin in him already because it's very difficult to see how the Kremlin benefits from anything this putz does.

I just hope Putin finally gets pissed off at Trump & them & says if you are not going to deliver, why should I waste time on you & just leaks out everything the Kremlin knows about them.

Shower it with kisses

Just sayin'.

Ewww! Does the kink factor know no bounds with Trump?

Comey spoke live & said he made detailed notes a year ago, he also mentioned the people he told, including Sessons.

Nothings changed over the past year. Comey has always been credible & truthful.

Imagine the difference if Comey was actually corrupt & went along with the Republican presidents crap.

PLEASE don't make us give you these memos, these memos that corroborate everything Comey said, contain additional damaging information about what was going on at the White House and makes Trump look even worse!

We're not gonna give 'em to you no matter WHAT!

Oh, well, ok. If you insist. But whatever you do, PLEASE don't let the PRESS get ahold of them!

And DOJ be like:

of the WH/cheeto. Everybody had to be on board.

....regardless of whether or not that incident actually took place.

That can't be what the Madman wants to be dominating the news cycle right now.

It also contained some other little tidbits not helpful to Trump, like the part about him being angry that Flynn didn't tell him earlier than Putin had called.

Whatever you want to think about James Comey, the memos pretty much back up everything he testified to and wrote in his book. I was a little surprised at reading them about how much stuff in them I already knew.

Now, if you're Trump, go ahead and call Comey a liar and claim he's making stuff up about him.

But that means that Comey would have had to be contemporaneously trying to frame Trump all the way back to early January 2017, at a point where he has no reason to believe his job as FBI director was in jeopardy, and at a time where the primary focus was a counterintelligence investigation directed at Flynn.

He can't be all that sanguine about being tied to Trump, and must have known that there could or would be trouble in the memos. This gives him cover, if he dares to begin distancing himself.