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Comey has lost all credibility with claims of memos

In this May 8, 2017, photo, then-FBI Director James Comey speaks to the Anti-Defamation League National Leadership Summit in Washington. Could President Donald Trump keep Comey from testifying to lawmakers about their private conversations?
In this May 8, 2017, photo, then-FBI Director James Comey speaks to the Anti-Defamation League National Leadership Summit in Washington. Could President Donald Trump keep Comey from testifying to lawmakers about their private conversations? AP

Two words, “Russian involvement” in our general election, have been bandied about by the media since before President Trump was inaugurated. Now, suddenly former FBI director James Comey, who was fired in May by the Trump Administration, comes forward and states that he has notes and memos of conversations in the oval office in February.

How convenient and just in time for a special prosecutor to be named. I am wondering if Mr. Comey has any memos or notes taken during conversations with then-candidate Hillary Clinton during the investigation into her mishandling of state secrets during her term as secretary of state. When then-director Comey stated that she was grossly negligent but not criminal.

I think that James Comey has lost all of his credibility with the American public, and this now sounds like a big case of “sour grapes.”

Mark E. Reiter

Palmetto

This story was originally published June 5, 2017 at 11:57 AM with the headline "Comey has lost all credibility with claims of memos."

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