Subject: Re: NYT Headline: "Retribution"
I don't know if you saw my other post, but I was wondering if you could elaborate on what statement by Comey you believe involved him "lying to Congress." .

I'm looking at his exact testimony where he claimed the Steele dossier was not the basis of the Russiagate stuff, when we now know that not only was it the basis but Comey and the IC inner circle (of which Comey was a member) all knew it was. What the media reports I'm not going to speak to.


https://thefederalist.com/2025...

The declassified report further contradicted claims made by Comey and other Obama intel chiefs that salacious and false information from the infamous Steele dossier were not included in the main body of the ICA. Speaking before Congress in September 2020, Comey unequivocally stated of the dossier, “It was significant enough and consistent enough with other intelligence that it ought to be included, but it wasn’t sufficiently corroborated to be in the body of the Intelligence Community Assessment.”

Except that...it was:

https://thefederalist.com/2025...

Newly released documents show former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan included the now-debunked Steele dossier in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) despite warnings from intelligence experts that the dossier was flawed. The dossier was later used as the basis to launch the Russia collusion hoax.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a 2020 report by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence showing — among other things — that members of the intelligence community were concerned with several aspects of the ICA.

So there's at least one lie. His defense - which will now be previewed in this thread - will center around the definition of the word "included". I'm not going to argue linguistics; his lawyers will get to do that for him in a court of law.