Judicial Watch Uncovers A New Twist Involving Comey Memos & The FBI: ‘[They] Failed To Secure & Protect These Private & Classified Files’

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Judicial Watch announced in a new press release Wednesday that they obtained documents from the FBI showing that FBI special agents were sent to the home of fired FBI director James Comey.

Judicial Watch obtained the records in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department that sought all records of communications relating to Comey’s providing memoranda of his conversations with President Trump to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team. (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00932)), according to JW’s press release.

From Judicial Watch:

JW received six pages of records from the FBI showing that in June 2017, a month after FBI Director James Comey was fired by President Donald Trump, FBI agents visited his home and collected “as evidence” four memos that allegedly detail conversations he had with President Trump. One of his memos was written on June 6, a month after he was fired.

Comey was fired by President Trump on May 9, 2017. The memos obtained by Judicial Watch were collected from Comey by the FBI on June 7, a month later, and are dated February 14, 2017; March 30, 2017; April 11, 2017; and one is dated “last night at 6:30 pm.”

The FBI documents also revealed that Comey recalled writing two other memos after conversations with Trump that he claimed were “missing.” The FBI visit and interview took place on June 7, the day before Comey admitted leaking the memos in testimony to Congress.

The new FBI documents include a June 9, 2017, FBI Collected Item Log which states:

On June 7, 2017, at approximately 10:15 A.M., Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agents (SA) [redacted] and [redacted] collected memorandums (memos) as evidence from James Comey at his residence at [redacted]. The memos collected described as follows:

  • One memo dated February 4, 2017, two pages;
  • One memo dated March 30, 2017, two pages;
  • One memo dated April 11, 2017, one page;
  • One memo dated “last night at 6:30 pm,” four pages

Document Courtesy of Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch also received a newly declassified FBI document dated June 16, 2017, in which FBI agents describe Comey telling them that he had written two additional Trump meeting memos that he could no longer find.

Document Courtesy of Judicial Watch

“These extraordinary FBI docs further confirm that James Comey should never have had FBI files on President Trump at his home and that the FBI failed to secure and protect these private and classified files,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Mr. Comey’s illegal leaking these FBI files as part of his vendetta against President Trump (directly resulting in the corrupt appointment of Robert Mueller) ought to be the subject of a criminal investigation.”

From Judicial Watch:

On June 8, 2017, Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that he leaked memos of his conversations with President Trump “because (he) thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.” Columbia University Law professor Daniel Richman, a friend of Comey’s, reportedly“turned over copies of the former FBI director’s explosive memos … to the FBI, sidestepping a request by congressional committees to deliver the materials to Capitol Hill.”

The Justice Department previously argued to the court in a separate case that Comey’s leak of the memo regarding former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was unauthorized and compared it to WikiLeaks. Comey admitted to Congress regarding the “Flynn” memo, “I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter [for The New York Times] … I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.” The New York Times published a report about the memo on May 16, 2017. Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed the following day.

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Tom Fitton also posted a video on Twitter and wrote on Wednesday: “Judicial Watch: Comey Caught With @RealDonaldTrump FBI Files in His House. Docs confirm the corrupt formation of Mueller special counsel op, FBI’s negligence in protecting President Trump’s FBI files, and potential Comey crimes.

Fitton explains:

“Comey’s illegal leaking these FBI files as part of his vendetta against President @realDonaldTrump (directly resulting in the corrupt appointment of Robert Mueller) ought to be the subject of a criminal investigation,” Fitton reiterated.

(Related: Judicial Watch Files Another Lawsuit Against The FBI, Demands Docs Related To McCabe’s Book)