Comey memos published by TPM and AP

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Thursday April 19, 2018 · 7:17 PM PDT

2018/04/19 · 19:17

Former FBI director James Comey speaks during a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill June 8, 2017 in Washington, DC..Fired FBI director James Comey took the stand Thursday in a crucial Senate hearing, repeating explosive allegations that President Donald Trump badgered him over the highly sensitive investigation Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Talking Points Memo has gotten ahold of Comey’s write-ups on his meetings with Trump. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/exclusive-read-james-comeys-notes-on-his-meetings-with-donald-trump

The Washington Post is also linking to the memos as hosted by the Associated Press in this article: www.washingtonpost.com/… The article is a bit weird though in that it doesn’t actually say that the memos are available for us to read, it just links to them.

Anyway they are somewhat riveting and worth a read even though there does not seem to be breaking news in them.

West VA: More Voted for Obama than McCain

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Wednesday May 14, 2008 · 7:27 AM PDT

2008/05/14 · 07:27

Obama sure got crushed in West Virginia last night, receiving only 91,652 votes. John McCain sure must be pleased, right, knowing that his opponent could only get ninety thousand people to vote for him?

Well, too bad McCain only got 89,683 votes. Link

Yes, you heard me, even in the heart of Appalachia Barack Hussein Obama pulled in two thousand more votes than the Republican presumptive nominee.

Seems to me that this should be the spin coming out of the Obama camp this morning.

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Did you watch the primary coverage last night?

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Did you watch the primary coverage last night?

I watched it just like I've watched it every other night

26 votes

I watched it but don't always

2 votes

I didn't watch it last night but this is the first time I didn't this season

34 votes

I didn't watch it; sometimes do, sometimes don't

12 votes

I didn't watch it and usually don't

6 votes

Other

3 votes

Libby Pardon: Legal Factors and Timing

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Wednesday March 07, 2007 · 1:06 PM PST

2007/03/07 · 13:06

Everybody wants to know, will Bush pardon Libby, and if so, then when? It would seem that Bush will need to weigh various factors, including damage to his own historical reputation versus loyalty to Libby versus preventing the possibility of a flip.

Personally I would prefer Libby not be pardoned and he serve a lengthy prison sentence. However, if he is going to be pardoned, I hope it does maximum damage to Bush and the Republican party. Bush, of course, will be seeking to minimize such damage. What then, can we guess now about pardon possibilities given the legal situation and when a pardon might happen? I haven't seen much analysis of this question other than on Olbermann last night and, ironically enough, in the New York Sun today. In this diary, I will argue that the key timing issue is whether Judge Walton allows Libby to remain free pending appeal, and that this is where we should focus our thoughts for now at least.

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Pardon me?

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Pardon me?

No pardon

10 votes

Pardon now

1 vote

Pardon in June

1 vote

Pardon just before he goes into custody

19 votes

Pardon Xmas 2007

0 votes

Pardon Xmas 2008

11 votes

Pardon January 19, 2009

23 votes

Cloneburgers

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Thursday December 28, 2006 · 12:15 PM PST

2006/12/28 · 12:15

Mmm, cloneburgers. Is that what you are having for lunch? Beef taken from cloned cows? Gross?

Well, get ready for it, today the FDA ok'd food from cloned livestock, saying that it is "virtually indistinguishible" from conventional livestock.

Labelling will NOT be required. So, yes, non-vegetarians will be eating cloned meats soon enough.

... more below

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Here's what I think of cloned meat

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Here's what I think of cloned meat

I'd eat it no problem and don't care about labeling

17 votes

I'd eat it but would prefer to see labeling

8 votes

I'd really rather not eat it, but it's not a big deal either way

3 votes

I'd strongly prefer not to eat it but what I don't know won't hurt me

3 votes

If they don't label this, I'm going vegetarian or at least orgainic

19 votes

I'm already vegetarian or vegan, so HA HA

5 votes

Hadley: Maliki either lying, stupid, or incompetent

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Tuesday November 28, 2006 · 8:03 PM PST

2006/11/28 · 20:03

Michael Gordon has gotten ahold of a memo that Stephen Hadley wrote for Bush about Iraq. Hadley doesn't have nice things to say about Iraq PM Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

"His intentions seem good when he talks with Americans, and sensitive reporting suggests he is trying to stand up to the Shia hierarchy and force positive change,” the memo said of the Iraqi leader. “But the reality on the streets of Baghdad suggests Maliki is either ignorant of what is going on, misrepresenting his intentions, or that his capabilities are not yet sufficient to turn his good intentions into action."

So let me get this straight. Bush says that things are going ok in Iraq, it's just Al Queda that's the problem. Meanwhile, he's getting unvarnished memos from his National Security Adviser saying that Maliki is either "ignorant" (aka stupid), "misrepresenting" (aka lying), or incapable of getting things done.

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Which comes first?

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Which comes first?

Maliki no longer PM

55 votes

Bush concedes this is a civil war

9 votes

Help! Jimmy Carter is speaking at my company tomorrow

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Tuesday September 19, 2006 · 6:41 PM PDT

2006/09/19 · 18:41

I work for a very small, private, highly profitable company in the finance industry. This year the company started hosting an occasional speaker series as a morale booster. The first speaker was John Cleese and it was amazing. Tomorrow we've got President Jimmy Carter. (Yes, I'm not kidding about the profitability.)

There will probably be about 300-400 people in the room, and I expect that President Carter will give some sort of a talk, and hopefully questions will follow.

I'd like to ask him a question if I get the opportunity, and I'd like to engage your help to figure out what to ask ... follow me below if you want to help. Read More

State Department Official Indicted for Bribery

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Friday August 25, 2006 · 1:42 PM PDT

2006/08/25 · 13:42

Another corrupt Bush administration flunky. This time its the guy in charge of nonimmigrant visas at the US consulate in Toronto. You know, the guy in charge of keeping the terra'ists from Canada from making it into the US. But at least he had some fun before he took the fall.

A State Department official accepted free flights to Las Vegas with exotic dancers, expensive meals, hotel rooms in New York and other bribes to speed up the visa process for a jewelry company, federal prosecutors said Friday.

According to the indictment, Michael John O'Keefe fast-tracked applications and approved some that had been rejected for a jewelry company notwithstanding the fact that some terrorists use jewelry to raise money.

Yawn. Another one bites the dust. I'm sure it'll make the news. NOT.

George Bush Is Aiding The Terrorists

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 8:56 AM PDT

2006/08/10 · 08:56

I read in the NYTimes today that Cheney thinks that Lamont's defeat of Lieberman aided the terrorists.

[Cheney] cast Mr. Lieberman's loss in ominous terms, suggesting that it would hearten American terrorist enemies. Terrorists, he said, are "betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task.
"And when we see the Democratic Party reject one of its own, a man they selected to be their vice presidential nominee just a few short years ago, it would seem to say a lot about the state the party is in today."

Well you know what I think? I think that Dick Cheney and George Bush aided the terrorists when they decided to invade Iraq, and I think that they are continuing to aid them today by not withdrawing our troops. And I also think that Democrats should be saying so at every opportunity.

Things Are Massively Fucked Up in Afghanistan

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Thursday June 22, 2006 · 4:35 PM PDT

2006/06/22 · 16:35

I don't believe that it's been diaried on Kos yet, but there's an important new development in the war in Afghanistan. It's a major new operation called Operation Mountain Thrust and it involves more than 10,000 American, Canadian, British and Afghan soldiers pushing into the desert in Afghanistan in a likely futile chase after the Taliban. You might have noticed that four US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan yesterday. Well, there's a lot more to it than that as I'll discuss below the fold. Read More

I just got engaged. Doom abounds. Should we have kids?

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Tuesday March 07, 2006 · 8:16 AM PST

2006/03/07 · 08:16

I got engaged on Saturday. My fiancé and I plan to get married next summer. We live in a nice co-op in Brooklyn, both have good jobs, and life is good.

Well, our lives are good anyway, at least as long as we pretend that the rest of the world isn't going to hell in a handbasket. My fiancé definitely wants to have children, and I think that I do too, but every time I think about this issue I start to think about the way things are going in the US and in the world and the likelihood (or lack thereof) that our kids (if any) might have actually grow up and live ok lives. So I'd like to solicit your advice: should we have kids?

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New Wilkerson quote: docs trace prisoner torture to Cheney!

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Friday November 04, 2005 · 10:06 AM PST

2005/11/04 · 10:06

Dan Froomkin's got the scoop. Apparently Lawrence Wilkerson was on NPR yesterday and was talking about the abuse of prisoners by US soldiers. He says that there may be documentation tracing the torture policies to Cheney himself. Froomkin says that no other media outlets are pushing the story. This could be big. We've got to help push this into the media ciculation.

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Bush Just Said that the Results Are Not Acceptable

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Friday September 02, 2005 · 6:14 AM PDT

2005/09/02 · 06:14

On CNN, Bush just said "The results are not acceptable." Finally! Acknowledgment.

He also referred to the convention center debacle. He looked like he's on serious drugs.

Next step hopefully: fire Mike Brown and install someone who can handle the situation.

This is front paged on CNN.com right now. I'll provide a link to the video when it makes the Internets.
Update [2005-9-2 9:23:8 by Loudocracy]:
Here is the MSNBC story on this. The link from their front page right now says "President Bush rips relief efforts" I do believe this may well be the tipping point in the ongoing hurricane story. Blaming the victim will no longer work.

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