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eral of the memos comey took with him from the fbi contained classified information as you can see from the above exchange with senator martin heinrich r new mexico comey openly discussed the fact that at least two of the memos he had in his possession weeks following his firing from the fbi were written so as to be classified and contain classified information comey clearly states that 1 of the 7 memos was written down immediately following a classified briefing at trump tower comey has publicly admitted under oath mind you that he 1 took documents containing classified info with him after being fired as fbi director 2 gave 4 of these documents 1 of which likely had classified info in it to a person with no security clearance columbia law professor daniel richman that s not just 1 illegal act that s two separate illegal acts mueller s investigators have had more than 1 1 2 months to determine 1 how many memos comey took with him from the fbi 2 how many of those memos that comey illegally took with him contained information that was classified 3 which particular 4 of the 7 memos comey handed off to richman and if 1 or more of those memos contained classified information in point of fact mueller s investigators know exactly which 4 memos comey gave richman since richman has now given them back and if one of those 4 memos contained classified information there is no way comey avoids being charged for this recall 2 years ago a sitting cia director general david petraeus was charged tried and convicted of allowing unauthorized access to classified info former cia director general david petraeus petraeus had jotted down classified information in what he considered a personal journal he then showed the contents to his biographer and mistress important petraeus journal was not marked classified it didn t need to be a document containing classified information is classified by it s very nature not just because somebody marked it as containing classified information david petraeus with paula broadwell petraeus mistress paula broadwell as it so happens had a national security clearance but could only have viewed such sensitive material in a secure facility not in a private home note that none of the classified info in petraeus journal was ever leaked to media he just showed it to an authorized person at an unauthorized location petraeus attempted to argue the journal was his own personal papers sound familiar the court rejected that defense petraeus was fired charged tried convicted sentenced to 2 yrs probation and a 100k fine now consider this at the time petraeus committed this crime he was still the cia director he still had legal access to the classified info what got him in trouble was showing that classified info to someone authorized to see it at an unsecure location a private residence comey did something far worse comey had lost the job as fbi director he d been fired he no longer was supposed to have any access to these documents with classified information his taking them with him upon leaving the fbi adds a whole new offense beyond what petraeus did petraeus got a 2 years probation 100k fine for showing broadwell classified info he still had legal access to but he showed it to her an an illegal location comey can t say that he no longer had legal access to any of these memos much less the rumored 4 that were classified he committed an act of theft by taking these documents even before he ever showed them to anyone else just admitting he took memos that had classified information in them was bad enough if mueller s investigators have discovered 1 of the 4 memos comey gave richman had classified info in it comey s crime would be far worse than petraeus and it would require a more severe sentence not only did comey illegally take documents with him from the fbi he compounds the crime by handing them off to richman people who keep harping on the fact the one memo that richman anonymously leaked to the new york times was one of the 3 memos that wasn t classified are missing the point none of these memos had to be leaked for comey to have committed two illegal acts now all this is public record comey s already admitted to all this he took classified documents with him from the fbi richman has given the 4 memos back to mueller s investigative team it wouldn t take long to determine if 1 or more had classified info unlike hillary clinton who never ever admitted to doing anything illegal at all during the email scandal comey has already admitted to theft of classified documents under oath how many more months of investigation would be needed to determine if comey had illegally taken classified information with him and then given someone with no security clearance access to some of it mueller s investigators already have all the evidence they need to make such a determination action should come soon posted by brian cates at 3 30 pm 420 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday may 1 2017 the skinheads are coming the skinheads are coming why the left s breathlessly anticipated wave of racist domestic terrorism has failed to materialize since the mid 1980 s brian cates may 1 2017 netflix just debuted two shows well worth your time to watch the pbs american experience episodes on ruby ridge oklahoma city i have thought for many years that someone needed to do a documentary detailing how ruby ridge waco oklahoma city were all related the ruby ridge episode reveals many details about that armed standoff randy weaver and his family had with the fbi on that remote mountain in idaho that resulted in 3 deaths i watched the ruby ridge episode first thought it would have been better to explain robert matthews the order in detail instead of in passing you really don t understand why federal authorities were in such a big hurry to get informants in place with the aryan nations without this detail however robert matthews the ultra violent white supremacist group he founded is discussed in great detail in the oklahoma city episode due to extensive media coverage far more people know about ruby ridge waco oklahoma city than remember matthews the order but as this american experience episode on oklahoma city makes clear without matthews what he did there is no ruby ridge or waco and without ruby ridge or waco there is no oklahoma city in the early 1980 s robert matthews founde d a violent white supremacist group called the order that committed many armed robberies killed one person denver radio personality alan berg after rolling up most of the members of the group law enforcement tracked matthews to a cabin in washington state surrounded by federal agents matthews chose to die rather than surrender after a fierce hours long gun battle the cabin he was in burned down with him inside of it the order was totally broken if you want to know why some in our government have been warning about a forthcoming tidal wave of right wing racial violence you can trace that right back to robert matthews and the order in the late 1980 s the idea of violent racial obsessed terrorists on our own soil began with robert matthews now don t get me wrong matthews was dangerous but all matthews his tiny group of about 10 members did was rob a bunch of banks armored cars kill exactly one person when you stack that up against the crimes committed by the weather underground the black panthers other violent left groups it s not much in just an 18 month span in 1972 1973 radical leftists in america unleashed a domestic terror campaign that has never been equaled over 2 500 bombings occurred and it must be recall that weather underground radicals joined the black liberation army in committing the armed robbery of a brinks truck that killed three people a single incident that immediately moves them past the order in the number of people actually killed by their crimes by a factor of two but the idea was fostered there are many of these militant racist groups out there and we have no idea what they are planning are they still just a bunch of white trash losers meeting in faraway compounds in the woods talking fantasies or was matthews a foretaste of a coming trend of racist radicals who have decided to put the talk of revolution and violence into actual action it appears top law enforcement officials in d c decided to answer that by saying better safe than sorry from the mid 1980 s to the mid 1990 s bob matthews the order were the reason federal agencies began preparing to turn back a supposed tidal wave of forthcoming white supremacist domestic terrorism the feds became desperate to get informants inside the white nationalist movement before the anticipated violence could get going federal agents made the mistake of viewing randy weaver as if he were bob matthews 2 0 as the pbs american experience episode on ruby ridge shows in great detail this is what led to the fiasco up on that mountain in idaho in 1992 randy weaver his family never joined the nearby aryan nations cult they did however occasionally visit after he sawed off some shotguns for an fbi informant they tried to get weaver to cozy up to the aryan nations inform for them weaver refused the federal firearms charges were then filed against him the weaver family s response was to completely isolate themselves randy weaver refused to come down off the mountain appear in court long story short sheer incompetence by the government led to 3 people needlessly dying now bear with me here it s gonna look like i m going off on a tangent but i m not after playing up the supposed very real threat of many violent white supremacist groups preparing to attack at any time the feds as they are wont to do overreacted to prepare to handle the numerous violent domestic terror groups they expected to show up the atf formed a very large very expensive raiding team after staffing equipping training this very large raiding team several years went by it was noticed there were no real threats emerging the expected wave of ultra violent right wing domestic terrorists refused to make their expected appearance man after 5 years of training i m getting bored how about you guys bob matthews and the order he founded burned up in 1984 by 1988 the federal agencies were staffed equipped and ready for the coming threat they foresaw as 1988 turned into 1989 then into 1990 which then turned into 1991 then 1992 then finally 1993 it was finally noticed this very expensive very large atf raiding team wasn t doing much of anything the atf actually wanted to increase the funding for this raiding team but they had to justify it there was beginning to be push back to their funding requests congress was telling the federal agencies like the atf why are we funding this very large team that never does much of anything somebody at the atf decided they needed to find a real legitimate threat big enough to warrant a full scale raid by the entire atf team and the atf picked david koresh the branch davidians outside of waco tx to be the threat they needed for a showcase raid yeah this crazy guy and his followers they ll do and that s how waco happened folks the american experience episode on oklahoma city discusses waco but leaves all this funding background out they show an atf agent giving a single statement explaining why they raided this compound the way they did with a full scale armed swat style assault 1 there was a good case to make that the branch davidians were illegally converting semi auto rifles into fully automatic rifles 2 and some evidence that they were making their own hand grenades which is also a federal weapons felony however as troubling as those crimes were what justified a full scale armed assault on a compound holding numerous women children this is the simple excuse that an atf agent voices in the documentary koresh had had these followers of his isolated out there a while and koresh had been preaching about a soon to arrive armageddon which hadn t come yet so to keep his followers under his control he might get impatient do something violent himself that s it apparently that s the justification koresh his followers had a lot of guns he was preaching the end of the world and he might do something crazy soon for that reason a large scale raid was approved for the waco compound because one day some day who knows koresh might become violent towards the world outside the mt carmel compound yeah we all saw this movie right explaining the real reason for the raid might have made the atf look kind of bad well we have this large raiding team we want more funding for but it doesn t do much of anything so we decided to have a big showcase raid to protect our funding now let s look at the raid itself it was botched from the start local news was tipped off about it a reporter looking for the branch davidian compound asking for directions to it actually ended up tipping off a friend of koresh s as mind boggling as this is going to sound once the atf agents in charge realized koresh had had almost an hour s warning of their raid they decided to proceed anyway and they didn t change hardly anything in the original plan this plan actually called for i am not making this up heavily encumbered atf agents in 60 pounds of gear carrying ladders up to the building then climbing up the ladders entering the building from the roof through the 2nd floor windows after breaking this window an atf agent realizes there is a thick black blanket nailed into place over it to slow any entry into the room if you re going to do that even with the element of surprise you had better be fast they weren t fast it took these agents forever to place ladders climb up them get the windows open and then start climbing through and they are under fire the entire time they are doing this the davidians are already behind defensive positions with guns pointed it s a miracle the atf only had 4 agents killed following this plan bad leaders following a bad plan they stuck with long after they should have abandoned it got 4 atf agents and 6 davidians killed here s some incomplete footage from the raid these agents were under fire from multiple directions the entire time they were climbing up these ladders trying to get in through the windows altogether there were 76 agents for this showcase raid that turned into an utter fiasco in all the congressional hearings that followed this outrage it was revealed the atf could ve arrested koresh without this show of force because koresh often rode into town on his motorcycle by himself they could have arrested him at any time that way in the taped phone calls with fbi negotiators koresh himself keeps bringing up the fact he was absolutely amazed the atf opted for a full scale armed assault on a his compound instead of just approaching him when he was in town but if the feds did that how do they justify the huge expense of their big raiding team no they need a real large armed threat so they engineered o...