I was a nurse for 20 years, and I would assume that these FBI notes are similar to nurse's notes. We were always encouraged not to write a story...but to write what occurred, what was said, at what time...facts. We could not even use "appears" because this would be giving a subjective opinion.

Hope I am making sense....?

...they said that Comey will say that he did NOT tell Trump that he was not under investigation, contrary to what Trump has claimed.

The headline and statement was that Comey will say "Trump didnt try to Obstruct him"


Did we really think Trump would get caught?

n/t

Comey will not say Trump obstructed justice, because it is not his job to say that. His narrow job is to present the facts - only. Not interject a personal opinion which would make him a biased witness.

The Special Prosecutor will have no problem connecting the dots between James Comey, Preet Bharara, and Sally Yates who were involved in this Russian investigation.

Comey is just a witness. It's up to Mueller to decide whether the facts Comey describes are evidence of obstruction of justice.

trump said Comey told him three times that he wasn't under investigation. Comey will say that this is a lie.

Comey won't say if he thinks it was obstruction or not. It's not his place to determine what Obstruction is in this case. It's up to prosecutors to determine obstruction.

This is still good news for us. It shows trump is a liar.

Nt

People are treating this like the final nail in the coffin. It will be nothing more than overplayed hype. Grandstanding by Comey an nothing more..... I have no faith this will do anything....

We know Trump is a liar but this is not going to be anything more than the usual banter.

and all the build up for this, including the big three broadcast networks suspending those stupid afternoon judge shows, and "who's the father" crapola, will just convince a lot of people that there's nothing going on. That will make them pay even less attention than they are now, I'm afraid.

Facts are always better...since we know Dump did not use the exact word "obstruct" to Comey, Comey will state the exact wording that was said to him.

at least not solely on himself. He wants to remain the objective witness and let others draw conclusions. He and his family will be safer this way.

Of course he won't.
The guy's a feckin' attorney.
He knows how it works.
He will say what happened.
It will be up to the investigators to say what laws were broken.

We can hope he'll turn and bite Trump, but he'll still be a snake, no matter what.

Obligatory apology to decent hardworking reptiles everywhere.

I for one do not have any optimism in Comey's testimony. Any good that comes out of this, in regard to getting rid of the IPOTUS, will be a great surprise.
Thing is, it's on us. We can't lay back and keep hoping one person will change everything for us - we have to organize and take our non-violent actions public.
We've been down this road before. Let's be strong and let's keep our pressure on, but let's also understand that this is on us, not the guy who screwed our candidate right before the election.

a hostile witness, but will just state factual answers to the questions he is asked. If he's asked for his impressions or opinions, he will probably not answer that. Many times in court, they will ask a witness for their impressions or opinions and a hostile witness will state something like "the accused did not look like they were upset." Or "they looked nervous."

If they ask "Did Trump ask you not to 'go after' Flynn, instead of saying "yes," he will just state the facts, i.e. whatever Trump said verbatim.

Excuse my awkward legalese, I am not a lawyer. Only an expert on legal tv shows and took a few law classes.

... gun to his head if he didn't stop the investigation too.

I was going to post the same thing, albeit without the extra detail (which provided an awesome visual, by the way).

DOOOOOOOMED!

The President in the United States, don't try, they Compel

the President of the United states tells you something is a good idea.

That is not obstruction, that's a threat

Then the lawyers and the public can decide if it's obstruction or not.

testimony in something like this. This is going to be a long ride; get comfortable and rest easy.

Report: Comey Will Not Accuse Trump of Obstructing Justice in Flynn Probe

http://www.thedailybeast.com/report-comey-will-not-accuse-trump-of-obstructing-justice-in-flynn-probe?via=mobile&source=copyurl

Former FBI Director James Comey will stop short of accusing President Trump of obstructing justice during his upcoming public testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. ABC News reported on Tuesday that Comey told associates he will testify that the president did not interfere with the FBI’s probe into former national security advisor Michael Flynn, after having previously noted in a memo that the president said he hoped the FBI would drop the Flynn investigation. “He is not going to Congress to make accusations about the president’s intent, instead he’s there to share his concerns,” a source told ABC News. The former FBI director also plans to counter the president’s public assertion that Comey repeatedly assured him that he was not being scrutinized as part of the Russia probe.

Just the facts Ma'm

As I understand it, Trumps comment/question was open to interpretation.

I've had experience with this. Manager asks question. If you do what manager asks, you break the law. Manager can claim lack of knowledge. The expert is supposed to give honest answer. Honest answer is "No". Everybody is off the hook.

His testimony on Thursday will be filled with goodies, though.

It's not his job to determine Trump's guilt or innocence. His only job is to testify.

...brettdale.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029166584

Comey views himself as a larger-than-life, above-the-fray lawman, which means he doesn't stoop to "taking sides." He will deliberately refuse to say anything that would constitute open-and-shut obstruction. He'll say weak, subjective things like he "felt uncomfortable" and the situation "was inappropriate," but he will deliberately fall short of saying "I believed he wanted me to shut down the investigation."

He did the same thing with the Hillary investigation. He told people no sane prosecutor would pursue charges, and then he spent 10 minutes essentially making the case for pursuing charges. In his mind, he was somehow straddling the middle by refusing to prosecute while also tarnishing her as badly as possible. He will do the same thing here, cast doubt on Trump while conspicuously refusing to say anything that crosses the threshold of criminality.

I am willing to bet we will be nowhere closer to prosecuting Trump on Friday morning than we are right now.

Just like he did with Hillary

He is going to say, "No."

And that is a disaster for people like us who want Trumpy to go down.

So I think it may be Fitzmas again, or close to it.

The whole colluding with Russia story just falls apart because of Comey! The FBI and special prosecutor will surely stop their investigations after hearing Comey!!

The legal effects of what he said and did will be left to the investigators.

Here, folks...

Acting as if it would in our best interest to just give up ....
Accept the fact that we've been fucked over royally ...
Hell, next they'll suggest we need to convince ourselves we enjoy it...

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You do fucking realize that Comey cannot truthfully say that Trump tried to obstruct an ongoing investigation....
Because at that point in time It was not known by the public nor *45 that there even was a fucking investigation going on....

So, *45 basically suggested that Comey should not bother to investigate Flynn...
IOW attempted to influence the Dir of FBI to overlook, disregard, ignore the possibility that there needed to be any investigation

Then
When it became public knowledge that there were ongoing investigations involving grand juries etc.
And *45
realized Comey had not followed the earlier suggestion to shirk his legal responsibility to investigate possible criminal acts ....
*45 fired him
*45 then admitted that he did so because *45 thinks the Russia Investigations are Not valid in purpose..

Problem:
It is not within the purview of the Executive branch to determine what should/should not be investigated & /or prosecuted ...

As such, the series of actions by *45 is what establishes that his initial "suggestion" was purposefully made in an effort to supress ANY existing/future possible investigation
Which is an abuse of executive power

Firing Comey for investigating possible crimes by people that *45 does not want investigated
Is an abuse of executive power

Combined, these acts establish that *45 attempted to usurp the power of the Judicial branch
Which is an abuse of executive power

Each&Every abuse of executive power is an impeachable offense.

All Comey needs to do is answer the questions...

No way Comey testifies if he incriminates Trump.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029163190

Comey giving Trump an out. It will give Trump cover and the GOP with wholeheartedly agree and push, push, push for their extreme right-wing agenda. The GOP voters will concur and once again we will see America go back to being a Banana Republic. I also suspect another "Support the Troops" moment.

We Americans love WAR.....it is our history, nothing will change. White people will never stop the insanity.

I hope Im wrong, but trump is going to love thursday.

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