Comey Kept Detailed Notes Of His Meetings With Trump, But Not Obama

Former FBI Director James Comey has detailed notes of every conversation he had with Donald Trump. But there is no physical record of his conversations with Barack Obama.

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In a prepared opening statement released prior to his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday, Comey explained how he kept note of his meetings with Trump:

“I felt compelled to document my first conversation with the President-Elect in a memo,” Comey writes. “To ensure accuracy, I began to type it on a laptop in an FBI vehicle outside Trump Tower the moment I walked out of the meeting. Creating written records immediately after one-on-one conversations with Mr. Trump was my practice from that point forward.”

Comey said he met with Trump a total of nine times.

Conversely, Comey met with Obama twice; but he didn’t feel compelled to document what they discussed:

“This had not been my practice in the past,” he continued. “I spoke alone with President Obama twice in person (and never on the phone) — once in 2015 to discuss law enforcement policy issues and a second time, briefly, for him to say goodbye in late 2016. In neither of those circumstances did I memorialize the discussions. I can recall nine one-on-one conversations with President Trump in four months — three in person and six on the phone.”

It’s understandable that Comey wouldn’t bother to document his goodbye conversation with Obama. But the discussion about law enforcement policy issues? Why leave that off the record?

But that’s not the only example of Comey neglecting to make note of an important conversation. Last July, he didn’t record his three-hour interview with Hillary Clinton. In fact, during his testimony Thursday he stated that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch directed him not to call the Clinton email probe an “investigation.”

However, when Trump asked Comey to shut down the FBI investigation into former national security adviser Mike Flynn, he “immediately prepared an unclassified memo”:

“I immediately prepared an unclassified memo of the conversation about Flynn and discussed the matter with FBI senior leadership,” Comey said in his prepared remarks.

Gee — it’s almost like there’s a double standard.

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