Works for me

Comey, is still a REPUBLICAN, and as such he will act like one and cover his butt as much as possible, and say as little as possible while assuming a posture of truthfulness and integrity.

Comey is a master at threading the needle. I expect obfuscation, "can't answer", and "that's classified " to be applied diligently.

#hopeI'mwrong

Comey will offer evidence and let the "jury" come to it own conclusions. If the evidence is as overwhelming as it appears to be, the conclusion will be inescapable.

Anyone who trusts one, even one, of today's Republicans is naive. Forty years of extreme propaganda has so warped their shriveled minds that you can only possibly regard them as the enemy of Truth. One only has to watch a few miserably hours of these jackals to comprehend they are brainwashed zombies. Five minutes of being subjected to Conway's plastered smile is enough to make you vomit. She is the personification of evil. The Republican Party is nothing more than a criminal enterprise as corrupted to the depths as the Nazi Fascists hounds.

charges, if any, are not made in Congressional testimony.

Former FBI Director and special prosecutor is likely looking into it.

Above all else, Comey should tell the truth as he experienced it, and I'm sure he will.

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But the memos are corroborating evidence that Comey's firing WAS obstruction of justice.

A point that the media seems to deliberately miss in their discussions.

The memos are contemporaneous notes of conversation in which Trump attempted to obstruct justice. In essence, they confirm and bolster what is likely to be Comey's testimony and fall with an exception to the hearsay rule.

Why did Comey not file charges?

Why did he not feel there was enough evidence, based only on that conversation, to file obstruction of justice charges?

Do you see why that's not a good avenue of inquiry?

Do you see why that's the avenue of inquiry pursued by the GOP?

he doesnt want to burn his bridges with any future job offers by doing anything to take down a Republican president especially after the effort he himself went through to help Trump win the election with that hail mary pass with that bogus last minute email stunt he pulled.

The FBI may have had a pending investigation that was broader in scope than just the alleged obstruction. Or perhaps Comey did make a referral to DOJ. I'll look forward to hearing Comey answer the question on Thursday, and it will be asked.

We've already heard Trump say what's described above.

We also know Trump is a liar. Of course Comey never told him he was not under investigation.

So Comey is going to come there to say essentially what we all already know.?

I hope he has more because it's a big waste of time if he has nothing to add other than confirming what we all know...Trump is a serial liar.

Or did you just miss where he's going to dispute that he told degenerate donnie he wasn't under investigation? It isn't up to Comey to say donnie obstructed justice - that's for a prosecutor to decide.

Comey telling us Trump is a liar doesn't add anything.

We don't need Comey to tell us he never said those things to Trump. We already know Trump is a serial liar.

Unless he provides something that adds to an obstruction of justice or Russian meddling case, it will be a big nothing burger in my mind.

unable to understand what it takes to build a legal case. That's entirely your problem.

with building a legal case.

That is done with testimony to special prosecutor.

That is entirely your problem.

explain this to anyone at DU. The congressional investigations are for informational purposes - to make sure the American people see the oversight that congress is tasked with. Not to build a case, not to get Comey to throw anyone under the bus. Why you were expecting that from this is beyond my understanding although I have my suspicions. If you think Comey will be spilling ALL he knows tomorrow, you're dreaming.

I can't believe I have to explain this to anyone on DU.

I find it hilarious the judgmental nature of your post.

All I said it will be not worth watching if he didn't add anything to the discussion.

Somehow you turn it into I am expecting something...I SAID...based on the article I am expecting NOTHING.

And lmao, enjoy your "suspicions"! Perhaps that's worth another post!

that these investigations are going on simultaneously? Along with the Schneiderman case? And they're ALL focusing on the same people testifying?

that someone can know EVERYTHING you just said and be of the opinion that Comey's testimony, if nothing new is added to the discussion, is not worth watching?

I've ordered a dump-truck load of Orville Redenbacher's best.

People on that committee who have been pushing those lies. No doubt they will try and parse words making Trumps actions seem legitimate, and Comey will push back about his mounting concerns and his attempts to keep the investigation on track despite Trump.

We know Trump is a liar. We know Republicans push those lies. We know Comey will tell us what we already know; he didn't say any of that stuff to Trump.

I am just saying if he doesn't add to what we already know...no need to watch.

The political dance to argue what we already know won't be any fun to me. Other might think it's fun. That's OK.

When you strike at the King, you better get the job done.

That would require actual teeth. The surrogates are like very yappy but very elderly chihuahuas who lunge at you feebly and try to gum your ankles.

A witness is a witness.

What can be derived from the witness's testimony, on the other hand.....

He stopped short of saying Hillary was innocent.

Is "consistent" the wrong word?

is still a REPUBLICAN, and as such he will act like one and cover his butt as much as possible, and say as little as possible while assuming a posture of truthfulness and integrity.

I think Comey has to say that he felt Trump was suggesting he drop further investigations. Otherwise, Trump will claim -- and his supporters including Congress will agree -- that he was just trying to help Flynn who had made a mistake and been punished enough by being fired.

This whole thing has been like Fitzmas all over. Hope I'm wrong.

he'll testify about the FACTS of which he is aware, imo.

In his capacity as FBI director (now former) he was a cop whose job was to investigate possible crimes by collecting facts. Whether those facts are evidence of crimes would be up to a prosecutor, not the investigator.

prepared to be underwhelmed and enormously disappointed Thursday.

private dinner meeting with 45? The dinner was on the Jan. 27th and she was fired on the Jan. 30th.

Comey considered it such a red flag that Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch had a very publicly observed and unplanned tarmac encounter that he felt absolutely COMPELLED to give an unprecedented press conference to announce the result of the FBI investigation. And it was very important for the reputation of the FBI that even as he confirmed there was no evidence H. Clinton committed a crime, he simultaneously demonstrated the "integrity" of the investigation by also using that opportunity to smear her character. B. Clinton and Lynch had some shared history, and their meeting was not secret or planned, much different than a FBI chief, who had no personal history with 45, yet was invited to a private dinner with someone whose campaign was under investigation by the FBI... and AGREED to go. AND the guy whose campaign was under investigation actually DID ask the head of the FBI for "loyalty." Why did Comey ever agree to a private dinner? Seems quite the double standard.

I wonder if Comey informed Yates, either before or after the meeting?

Comey was apparently ALONE with 45 again, leading to this:

<<Feb. 14 — Trump and Comey

In an Oval Office meeting, Trump asks Comey to end the investigation of Flynn, according to a memo that Comey wrote. The New York Times reported that Trump told Comey: “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” Trump added that Flynn had done nothing wrong.

Comey only replied, ‘I agree he is a good guy,” the memo said.>>

And just for the record, what did Comey think made Flynn a "good guy?" (Not much evidence of that.) But again, he let himself be alone with someone who had already previously (and inappropriately) asked for a favor. Comey's such a Boy Scout, except when he's not.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/23/president-trump-versus-james-comey-a-timeline/?utm_term=.9d99e091f043

If he claimed obstruction, his testimony could be claimed to have biased the investigation.

Comey has been blackmailed, bought off, and offered future rewards for a positive outcome from his testimony. He will not say one thing that could result in any substantial legal action against Trump, much less an impeachment.

Watch Comey squirm through his answers. Once he is done; he is home free. He will disappear into retirement with a paid consulting job somewhere in the Midwest and never be heard from again.

I thought that was the whole deal..get comeys' testamony
and let the big chief decide whether it is ooj...
Ever get the feeling the whole thing is one
big shame? The lines are being rehearsed....the players
have all been pacified...

Comey is a witness the will allow the judge and jury to remove drumpf et al from the oval office and the WH.