FBI Director James Comey fired by Trump

[SueEllenRules!]

F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump
WASHINGTON — President Trump has dismissed the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Tuesday.

• “While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau,” Mr. Trump said in a letter to Mr. Comey dated Tuesday.
• “It is essential that we find new leadership for the F.B.I. that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission,” Mr. Trump wrote.
• Officials at the F.B.I. said they were not immediately aware of Mr. Comey’s dismissal.
• In a separate letter released at the White House, Mr. Spicer said that the president informed the director that he has been “terminated and removed from office.”
• “The F.B.I. is one of our nation’s most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement,” Mr. Trump said in the statement.

https://apple.news/A5pFRsy9LRrWmDuW0zSuciQ

 

[Gabriel Maxwell]

Trump is in full panic mode. Is this the beginning of the end of Trump or is he now beyond the law?

The word is there are 3 grand juries now reviewing classified evidence (intercepted audio, bank transfers, etc.) pertaining to collusion and treason.

Trump's behavior yesterday + today's firing of the FBI chief investigating him = the conduct of a guilty man.

Firing your secret police chief because he's investigating you is the stuff of banana republics.

 

[Sarah]

Hilarious to think of him firing anybody.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

The ruse that Trump was concerned about Comey's handling of Hillary's emails is, like all Trump's ruses, laughably transparent. (Except to the very, very stupid).

Obviously, it's about Russia. What's more, no one saw this firing coming.

In what way was Comey not playing ball to Trump's satisfaction? And what's out there that Trump is afraid is about to drop?

 

[Gabriel Maxwell]

The word is there are 3 grand juries now reviewing classified evidence (intercepted audio, bank transfers, etc.) pertaining to collusion and treason.

The rumor about the grand juries I've been reading about on Twitter for 2 weeks is apparently true, CNN just reported grand jury subpoenas have been issued in FBI's Russia investigation (the rumor now is the Trumps and the Kushners are moving money offshore):

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/grand-jury-fbi-russia/

Meanwhile, Trump is lawyering up to fight suggestions of Russia business ties:

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...rebut-suggestion-russia-business-ties-n757106

And how bizarre, amid all this, Trump is meeting Russian Foreign Minister on Wednesday morning:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKBN18602R

Finally, Politico reports Trump has been screaming at TV when Russia reports come on, became enraged with Comey for saying publicly he was investigating the Trump team for collusion and wouldn't back up his Obama wiretapping lie and is now stunned and taken aback by the political explosion Comey firing has created - he thought both Democrats and Republicans would support him:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/10/comey-firing-trump-russia-238192

Buckle up, folks! It looks like shit may finally hit the fan.

 

[Emelee]

I don't read rumor, cause there are usually many conflicting ones. But it is highly suspicious behavior of Trump to fire the FBI boss. As far as I can see with what is public knowledge, there were no grounds for firing him. Highly suspicious indeed.

It's easy to suspect foul play concerning connections with Russia because Comey was looking into that.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

The rednecks are openly fine with the Russians stealing the election. Just ask 'em.

 

[Gabriel Maxwell]

The orange traitor just made the whole Comey mess even worse with his NBC interview:

The money quote from the Idiot-in-Chief:

“In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, ‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.’”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...384c9a-3669-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html

The NBC News report on the shifting White House story:

LOL, love the ending - they advised him against the visit to the FBI predicting "he won't be well received".

Meanwhile, POLITICO says "Trump's attempt to fix the Comey crisis made it worse":

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/11/trump-interview-james-comey-fbi-firing-238291

 

[SueEllenRules!]

Trump Tries to Intimidate Former FBI Director Into Silence With Tweet

• Just over a week ago, Donald Trump was celebrating the passage of his heinous health-care bill in the Rose Garden — and euphorically asking if anyone could believe that he was actually the president.
• Now, his White House is engulfed in the smoke of fires he mindlessly started. This week, the president decided that the best way to prevent the media from obsessing about the investigation into his ties to Russia would be to:

1. Fire the man tasked with leading that investigation.
2. Have everyone in the White House insist for days that said investigation had nothing to do with the firing, which had actually been initiated by the Justice Department, not the president.
3. Then tell NBC News that actually he alone decided to fire the FBI director, and that he did so, in part, because the bureau’s investigation into his campaign is illegitimate — a statement that arguably amounts to a confession of obstruction of justice.

• This proved to be a poor public relations strategy.
• And so, when the president woke up Friday morning, he knew there was only one way to put out the inferno he’d created: He was going to have to post some tweets.
• Trump began with the classics.
• Then, he advanced a pair of novel arguments.
• (Thank God, “ability to multi-task without creating constant public relations nightmares” isn’t an essential skill for American presidents.)
• (The president may abolish press briefings to improve transparency.)
• The crazy thing (or, rather, a crazy thing) about these tweets is that Trump didn’t just contradict the verbal statements of his surrogates in his interview with NBC News — he contradicted his own written explanation of the Comey firing.
• In his letter to the FBI director, Trump suggested that he had merely rubber-stamped a decision made by the Justice Department, writing, “I have received the attached letters from the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General of the United States recommending your dismissal as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, I have accepted their recommendation.”
• And then, the president tired of gas-lighting and proceeded to straight-up blackmail.
• On Thursday night, associates of James Comey told the New York Times that Trump had demanded the FBI director pledge loyalty to him at a private dinner. The meal came seven days into his presidency, and one day after Sally Yates warned the administration about Michael Flynn’s illicit conversation about sanctions with the Russian ambassador. Comey refused to take Trump’s loyalty oath.
• Or so Comey’s associates say.
• Surely, their narrative should be taken with grain of salt. After all, is there any reason to believe that the president would comport himself like an amateur authoritarian? It’s not like he just publicly tried to intimidate his former FBI director into silence by threatening to release secret recordings of their conversations — right?

https://apple.news/Au31tu-8PStabgXmetj5_uQ

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

The more ragingly corrupt they are, the harder they are to take down. So I'm not as hopeful as some.

 

[SueEllenRules!]

Source: Comey is 'not worried about any tapes'
(CNN) -- Former FBI Director James Comey is "not worried about any tapes" of conversations between him and President Donald Trump, a source familiar with the matter told CNN Friday, adding that "if there is a tape, there's nothing he is worried about" that could be on it.

• Friday morning, Trump issued a thinly veiled threat to Comey, apparently suggesting there are possibly recorded conversations between the two men that could be leaked to counter the former FBI director if necessary.
• "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press," Trump tweeted.
• On Friday, CNN's Jake Tapper reported that Comey was "taken aback" by Trump's request for a personal assurance or pledge of loyalty at a dinner shortly after he took office. Comey refused, saying he could not make such a pledge, but he promised to always be honest with the President.
• White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Friday rejected the idea that Trump asked Comey to pledge his loyalty. "I think the President wants loyalty to his country and to the rule of law," Spicer said.
• The source said of the dinner between Comey and Trump on January 27 that it came at Trump's request and was one-on-one. Trump told NBC he thought Comey asked for the dinner, but the source denied the President's account, saying that if Comey had wanted to dine with Trump, he would have had to put the request in through the deputy attorney general.
• "It doesn't work that way. It's ludicrous," the source said.
• A few days before the dinner, Comey had already been told by the President that he would stay on the job, the source said.
• "It is absolutely untrue that Jim asked to have dinner or that he asked to have his job," the source said. "That is a complete fabrication."
• As CNN has previously reported, Comey's refusal to pledge loyalty is one of the reasons the President fired him, the other being the acceleration of the probe into alleged collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, another source close to Comey has said.
• The source said Comey knew it was possible he would lose his job, especially when he did not agree to pledge loyalty and later with the fallout over refuting the President's claims that President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower, but he didn't expect it when he was fired.
• The source said Comey is likely not going to testify next week to Senate intelligence. As of Friday morning, Comey had not responded to the request.
• "He loved his job and the mission," said the source, who added, "he'll be fine."
• The source also confirmed previously reported accounts that Comey learned of his firing by catching it on TV -- initially, Comey thought it was a joke, and teased agents around him for teasing him. Then someone pull him aside and told him it was true, the source said.
• The source said Comey thought at least he would get a phone call, adding, "the way (Trump) did it was remarkable."

Shifting accounts of firing

• The initial, official White House version of how Comey came to be fired was that deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, fresh on the job, wrote a memo expressing concern about the way Comey had handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
• But mounting evidence suggests Comey was actually fired because of the Russia probe.
• Sources have told CNN that Trump's decision to ax Comey was made after he grew increasingly frustrated with him following a congressional hearing last week in which he said he was "mildly nauseous" over the idea that he helped sway the 2016 election.
• Trump's surrogates, including Vice President Mike Pence, have struggled to keep up with the shifting narrative on how and why the decision was made, and Trump tweeted Friday it was "not possible" for his team to recount details and talking points with "perfect accuracy."
• On Thursday, Trump, discussing the firing of Comey, told NBC News that he was frustrated by the ongoing investigation and believed it was motivated by Democrats' fury at losing the election.
• Trump told NBC's Lester Holt: "And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said 'you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.'"
• Trump also reiterated in the interview Thursday that Comey told him on three separate occasions that he was not under investigation for his campaign's alleged ties to Russian intelligence officials.
• "He told me that ... and I've heard that from others," Trump told Holt.
• The President said Comey told him he was not under investigation once during a "very nice dinner" and two other times over the phone -- comments consistent with the letter Trump sent Comey informing him that he had been fired: "While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau," Trump wrote.
• There are still questions, however, as to whether Comey actually did tell Trump he was not under investigation at the dinner on January 27 and two more times by phone. Those close to Comey tell CNN they find it hard to believe he would speak about an ongoing investigation. Still, the conversations were one-on-one, making it impossible for the sources to know for sure.
• One source was unwilling to tell CNN what was said about the investigation except that what was discussed was more nuanced than the way the President described it.
• Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said as well in remarks at a committee markup Thursday that he and ranking member Dianne Feinstein "heard nothing that contradicted the President's statement" when Comey briefed them about the targets of the various investigations. Grassley added: "It would not be appropriate for me to reveal those details before the professionals conducting the investigations are ready."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/05/12/politics/james-comey-dinner-trump/index.html

 

[Gabriel Maxwell]

Vanity Fair has an interesting article titled "Inside Trump's War with the FBI" which has a few doozies.

It mainly focuses on the pissed off FBI agents' reaction to the manner in which Comey was dismissed, but states the investigations are not going away and there are actually several probes on top of the collusion with Russia, including looking into whether there was filthy Russian money laundering. That confirms what I've been seeing on social media for weeks.

And guess who was also looking into those filthy Trump ties before they got fired one month ago? Preet Bharara and the Southern District.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/trumps-coming-war-with-the-fbi

So, we're seeing a clear pattern here. Days after the inauguration, on Tuesday January 24th, The FBI interviews General Flynn. The next day Sally Yates learns about his "improper underlying conduct" and warns the White House on Thursday. Trump immediately invites Comey over for dinner to ask if he's under investigation and ask for loyalty. By Monday January 30th, Yates is fired, supposedly because of the travel ban.

Preet Bharara was then looking into Trump's Russian money laundering and then Bharara got fired.

Finally, Comey refuses to back Trump's wiretapping lies and announces publicly the investigation into collusion, says in another public hearing last week that the investigation continues and when asked about evidence says it's classified and can't discuss it and does not clear Trump, Trump gets mad and panics and then Comey gets fired.

Yates, Bharara, Comey - all fired.

Yes, the corruption is staggering, but I just can't see how this massive and increasingly transparent charade will be sustainable for another 4-8 years. It has to collapse. It simply has to. Will they find scapegoats? Will they attack another country to deflect? We'll see. But this can't end well for these criminals.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Comey being dragged off a plane by Jeff Sessions as pilot Trump looks on...

 

[SueEllenRules!]

NBC/WSJ Poll: Just 29 Percent Approve of Trump’s Firing of James Comey

• Just 29 percent of Americans say they approve of President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey, while 38 percent disapprove, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Another 32 percent of respondents don't have enough to say on the matter.
• Yet among those who say they have read, seen or heard "a lot" about the firing, 53 percent say they disapprove, versus 33 percent who approve.

• The NBC/WSJ poll — conducted May 11-13, after Trump's dismissal of Comey — doesn't show a significant change in the president's overall standing.
• Trump's job-approval rating stands at 39 percent, which is one point lower than last month's NBC/WSJ survey — well within the poll's margin of error.
• Thirty-eight percent of Americans hold a positive view of the president, while 52 percent have a negative opinion — again mostly unchanged from last month's 39 percent positive/50 percent negative score. (By comparison, the FBI has a 52 percent positive/16 percent negative score in the new poll, and Comey's is 18 percent positive/26 percent negative.)
• And a combined 41 percent have a "great deal" or "quite a bit" of confidence in Trump as president, compared with a combined 57 percent who have no or "not much" confidence — again mostly unchanged from April's poll.
• Thirty percent say Trump's decision to fire Comey has given them a less favorable impression of the president, versus only six percent who say they have a more favorable view; 61 percent maintain that the firing hasn't changed their opinion of Trump.
• By party, 58 percent of Republicans say they approve of Trump's firing of Comey, while 66 percent of Democrats disapprove. Independents break 36 percent disapprove, 21 percent approve.

Seventy-Eight Percent Prefer Russia Probe Outside of Congress

• Forty-six percent of Americans, including 74 percent of Democrats, say they agree with the statement that Trump fired Comey to slow down the FBI investigation of Russia's involvement in the 2016 election.
• That's compared with 38 percent of respondents, including nearly two-thirds of Republicans, who agree that firing was due to how Comey handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
• A combined 65 percent say they have a "great deal" of confidence or "some" confidence in the FBI's ability to conduct a fair and impartial investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 election, versus a combined 40 percent who say the same of Congress.
• And asked if they prefer Congress or an independent commission or special prosecutor to investigate Russia's involvement, just 15 percent pick Congress, while 78 percent support an independent commission or special prosecutor.

The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted May 11-13 of 800 adults - including nearly half by cell phone - and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.5 percentage points.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...ust-29-percent-approve-trump-s-firing-n759196

 

[Gabriel Maxwell]

The main-stream media is finally catching up. It was about time.

Morning Joe on MSNBC said "FBI is close to exposing the President and it's not just an election issue, it's a criminal issue".

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/mo...nt-its-a-criminal-issue-and-trump-knows-that/

 

[SueEllenRules!]

Trump should be scared, Comey friend says
A friend of James Comey said Tuesday that if he were President Donald Trump he would be scared of the former FBI director's pending testimony.

• "I found it interesting and very telling that (Comey) declined any opportunity to tell his story in private," Benjamin Wittes, who describes himself as a Comey confidant, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on "AC360."
• "This is a guy with a story to tell," says Wittes, who also runs a blog called Lawfare and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
• Comey has agreed to meet with the Senate intelligence committee after Memorial Day.
• Wittes says he decided to speak out about discussions he had with Comey about his contact with Trump because of one recent report of Trump's request for a pledge of loyalty at a dinner shortly after he took office.
• "I was very shocked and it certainly crystallized in my mind what a whole lot of these interactions that I have had with him meant and why he had reacted to them the way he had reacted." Wittes added, "I suddenly understood them in a different and frankly, a more menacing and upsetting light than I had at the time of the conversation."
• Wittes detailed a few incidents that he said made Comey feel the agency's independence and ability to do its job in an apolitical fashion were not being respected.
• One incident was when Trump invited law enforcement officials to the Blue Room to express his thanks for their work at the inauguration just days before. Wittes says Comey was reluctant to attend and tried his best to not have any personal conversation with Trump. At one point, Wittes recalls, Comey stood in a position so that his blue blazer would blend in with the room's blue drapes in an effort for Trump to not notice him.
• That tactic was unsuccessful; Trump later called him out by name, leading to a greeting captured on camera.
• "He did not regard the people in the Trump White House as honorable? Cooper asked, to which Wittes replies, "That's correct." "I have no doubt that he regarded the group of people around the President as dishonorable."
• Cooper pointed out that defenders of the President could look at Trump's interactions with Comey as just a businessman trying to win people over to his side.
• "People have said he's a more transactional person," Cooper said. "In business he's schmoozing, back slapping — that it's just an attempt to kind of make the relationship personal of friendly."
• "I think it's perfectly possible to read it that way," Wittes says. "I'm not going to even say that's the wrong way to read it. It's not the way Comey read it."

Trump should be scared, Comey friend says - CNN
https://apple.news/An3cQ8b_LSvK8tLYx6Bydng

 

[SueEllenRules!]

Poll: Most Americans don't believe key points of Trump's narrative on Comey
A majority of Americans believe that President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey to deter that agency from investigating Trump's ties to Russia, according to a new poll released Wednesday.

• Fifty-five percent of those polled by Quinnipiac University say Comey was removed "to disrupt the FBI investigation into potential coordination," a reasoning that Trump has denied. Trump says Comey was fired because he no longer had confidence in him to lead the agency, a claim that only 36% of Americans say they believe.
• More than half of those polled, 54%, also say Trump is more generally abusing the powers of his office and Trump's approval rating continues to sag. Thirty-seven percent of Americans told Quinnipiac that they approve of Trump's job performance; 55% say they do not — largely in line with daily tracking polls.
• Americans also generally do not seem to believe the narrative Trump has told about the Comey firing: 54% say they do not believe that Comey told Trump three times that he was not under investigation, which Trump claimed in his letter firing Comey.
• And 55% say they believe Comey when he claims that Trump asked him to drop the investigation of his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, which Comey said in memos happened during private conversations with the President.
• The survey was conducted from May 17 to May 23, meaning that all interviews happened after the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department's Russia investigation. The poll surveyed 1,404 voters and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

Poll: Most Americans don't believe key points of Trump's narrative on Comey - CNN
https://apple.news/AHjBoA5KGSh-n3n7ktSibFg

 

[SueEllenRules!]

In other news, 45% of Americans are colossal nitwits.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

In other news, 45% of Americans are colossal nitwits.

It's our heritage.

 

[SueEllenRules!]

Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe
The nation’s top intelligence official told associates in March that President Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials.

• On March 22, less than a week after being confirmed by the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats attended a briefing at the White House together with officials from several government agencies. As the briefing was wrapping up, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
• The president then started complaining about the FBI investigation and Comey’s handling of it, said officials familiar with the account Coats gave to associates. Two days earlier, Comey had confirmed in a congressional hearing that the bureau was probing whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 race.
• After the encounter, Coats discussed the conversation with other officials and decided that intervening with Comey as Trump had suggested would be inappropriate, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters.
• The events involving Coats show the president went further than just asking intelligence officials to deny publicly the existence of any evidence showing collusion during the 2016 election, as The Washington Post reported in May. The interaction with Coats indicates that Trump aimed to enlist top officials to have Comey curtail the bureau’s probe.
• Coats will testify on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Lawmakers on the panel said they would press him for information about his interactions with the president regarding the FBI investigation.
• The question of whether the president obstructed the Russia investigation is expected to take center stage this week with Comey’s highly anticipated testimony on the Hill on Thursday. Comey associates say that before the director was fired in May, the president had asked him to drop the investigation into Flynn, and Comey refused.
• Brian P. Hale, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), declined to comment on whether Trump asked Coats to intervene with Comey regarding the Flynn investigation. Hale said in a statement: “Director Coats does not discuss his private conversations with the President. However, he has never felt pressured by the President or anyone else in the Administration to influence any intelligence matters or ongoing investigations.”
• A spokesman for Pompeo declined to comment on the closed-door discussions. The White House referred questions to outside lawyers, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
• Trump has repeatedly denied any coordination took place between his campaign and the Russian government, which, according to U.S. intelligence agencies, stole emails embarrassing to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and leaked them to undermine her campaign.
• Flynn had served as an enthusiastic surrogate for Trump during the campaign and then was fired after just 24 days as national security adviser over revelations he misrepresented his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States.
• The incidents suggest that Trump may not have appreciated the traditional barriers meant to insulate the intelligence agencies from politics.
• Though the ODNI oversees other intelligence agencies, the FBI director operates independently on many matters. For example, Comey kept James R. Clapper Jr., Coats’s predecessor in the Obama administration, in the dark about the bureau’s investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
• A day or two after the March 22 meeting, the president followed up with a phone call to Coats, according to officials familiar with the discussions. In the call, Trump asked Coats to issue a public statement denying the existence of any evidence of coordination between his campaign and the Russian government. Again, Coats decided not to act on the request.
• Trump similarly approached Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, to ask him to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of coordination, as The Post previously reported, according to current and former officials. Like Coats, Rogers refused to comply with the president’s request.
• Trump announced in January that he was nominating Coats to serve as director of national intelligence, responsible for overseeing U.S. intelligence agencies and for briefing the president on global developments.
• In February, as tensions flared between intelligence agencies and the White House over Russia and other issues, some of Trump’s advisers floated the idea of appointing a New York billionaire, Stephen A. Feinberg, to undertake a review of the ODNI. Coats, who was preparing for his confirmation hearing, felt blindsided, officials said.
• The White House backed away from the idea of naming Feinberg after Coats, members of the intelligence community and Congress raised objections.
• Officials say Trump’s advisers have since revived their proposal to appoint Feinberg to a senior position, possibly to review the roles of the ODNI and other intelligence agencies.
• Some officials said they viewed the prospective appointment of Feinberg as an effort by White House officials to put pressure on intelligence agencies to close ranks with the White House.
• In an appearance last month before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Coats refused to provide details about his interactions with Trump.
• But he indicated that he would cooperate with the Russia probe now being led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Under questioning by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Coats said that if asked, he would provide details of his conversations with Trump to Mueller.
• Coats also said that if he is called before an investigative committee, such as the Senate Intelligence Committee, “I certainly will provide them with what I know and what I don’t know.” He said the Trump administration had not directed the ODNI to withhold information from members of Congress conducting oversight.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...879f14-4ace-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html