The
Comey Memos Open the Door to See the Appointment of Robert Mueller as FBI
Target Continuation
April 30, 2026 | Sundance |
I apologize for the deep weed
details, but this stuff will soon become critical. If James Comey is
indicted for leaking the “Comey memos” suddenly the door opens wide to see how
the Robert Mueller appointment was a coordinated ongoing ‘conspiracy’ effort to
target Donald Trump.
Back in June 2017 CNN (and other
media) filed a FOIA suit to gain the Comey memos. As the lawsuit
progressed through a lengthy battle -where the Mueller team did not want to
turn over those memos- Mueller’s lead FBI agent, David Archey, made sworn
declarations to the court. Those statements became known as the “Archey
Declarations”. Inside those declarations agent Archey provided a specific
outline of the FBI and the memos.
There are two sets of documents that
outline a very specific picture. Robert Mueller’s lead FBI Agent David
Archey made sworn declarations to the court. However, at the time of his sworn
statement, Archey did not have knowledge of an inside FBI “whistleblower” who
provided information to DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz.
There is a distinct conflict within
the IG Horowitz report on James Comey (and memos) [Available Here] and the David Archey declarations [Available Here]. However, beyond the conflict there’s
an even more alarming picture of how Robert Mueller was deployed, when all the
information is overlaid in a timeline. A very clear picture
emerges; very clear.
Note the date: Agent Archey states the “investigative team” came into
full possession of the Comey memos: “on or by May 12th, 2017,”…
[Page #3 of Exhibit A – Archey Declarations]
The “investigative team” would be Andrew McCabe, Bill Priestap, Peter
Strzok, Lisa Page, and then James Baker as lead counsel for the group.
The “Director’s staff” would be James Rybicki, who is identified by Archey as
having “maintained” possession of the memos.
This “small group”, particularly Comey’s Chief of Staff, James Rybicki, is
the center of the team. This team is also confirmed by the IG Horowitz report. This team had the memos on May
12th, 2017.
Now we move into the aspect where the motives and ideology become clear as
we look at the IG custodial record of the memos, as outlined by the Supervisory
Special Agent in charge of Comey’s documents within the IG report, compared to
the Archey declarations.
The FBI Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) in charge
of Comey’s document retrieval is the “whistleblower” who eventually went to the
IG. I’ll explain why and how below; and to make understanding easier we
shall use “SSA Whistleblower” to describe him.
♦ On May 10th, the Comey memos were not in Comey’s office [per IG
report]. At the time of the search and review of Comey’s office there
were no hard copies found by SSA Whistleblower.
Now, keep in mind “by May 12th” James Rybicki had all the
Comey memos in his possession, per Mueller team FBI Agent David Archey.
♦On May 12th, SSA Whistleblower went to James Comey’s house along with James
Rybicki and Deputy FBI Director David Bowditch.
During this May 12th visit James Comey never told SSA
Whistleblower he had the memos in his personal safe. James Rybicki was
also present for this retrieval visit and also never told SSA
Whistleblower that he was holding the memos in his FBI HQ office.
♦On May 15th, three days later, James Rybicki then tells SSA Whistleblower
he knows the location of the Comey memos; and Rybicki informs SSA Whistleblower
he has additional relevant material.
From the IG Report: “Rybicki told the SSA that he
did not tell anyone about the Memos during the May 10 inventory because he
understood that process to only include Comey’s office.” Very sketchy.
At this point SSA Whistleblower had to suspect something sketchy was
happening. Keep in mind the following day May 16th, 2017, Comey sent memo
content to his friend Daniel Richman with instructions to leak to the New York
Times. [Article published 5:00pm 5/16/17]
If Rybicki didn’t inform SSA Whistleblower on May 15 about the Comey memos,
then SSA Whistleblower would have found out from leaked media reports the next
day May 16.
If Rybicki didn’t tell SSA Whistleblower about the memos on May 15, then it
would have looked like the ‘small group’ was hiding and leaking the memos.
An intellectually honest review of the timing, and considering Rybicki had
indeed been hiding the memos, leads to the conclusion Rybicki knew the NYT leak
was coming; Rybicki was coordinating with James Comey; and Rybicki/Comey were
trying to avoid team scrutiny. [Further evidence of this surfaces in the
Mueller contact timeline.]
By May 16th, 2017, SSA Whistleblower, had to see the sketchy nature of how
this was unfolding. As a result this scenario from the IG report
now makes sense:
♦ If we overlay
the FBI “small group” contact with Robert Mueller an even more clear picture
emerges.
“Crossfire Hurricane” – During 2016, after the November election and
throughout the transition period and into 2017, the FBI had a
counterintelligence investigation ongoing against Donald Trump. FBI Director
James Comey’s memos were part of this time-period as the FBI small group was
gathering evidence. Then Comey was fired….
♦Tuesday May 9th – James Comey was fired
at approximately 5:00pm EST. Later we discover Rod
Rosenstein first contacted Robert Mueller about the special counsel appointment
less than 15 hours after James Comey was fired.
♦Wednesday May 10th – From congressional testimony
we know DAG Rod Rosenstein called Robert Mueller to discuss the special counsel
appointment on Wednesday May 10th, 2017, at 7:45am. [See Biggs questions to
Mueller at 2:26 of video]
According to his own
admissions (NBC and CBS), Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe immediately
began a criminal ‘obstruction’ investigation. Wednesday May 10th; and he immediately enlisted
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
A few hours after the Rosenstein-Mueller phone call James Comey’s office was
being searched by the SSA Whistleblower per the IG report on Comey’s memos.
♦Thursday May
11th – Andrew McCabe testified to congress. With the Comey firing fresh in the
headlines. McCabe testified there had been no effort to impede the FBI
investigation.
Also on Thursday May 11th, 2017, The New York Times printed an article, based on information seemingly leaked
by James Comey, about a dinner conversation between the President and the FBI
Director. The “Loyalty” article [link]. The IG report shows: “[Daniel]
Richman confirmed to the OIG that he was one of the sources for the May 11 article, although he said he was not the source of the
information in the article about the Trump Tower briefing“.
♦Friday May 12th – Andrew McCabe met with DAG Rod
Rosenstein to discuss the the ongoing issues with the investigation and
firing. Referencing the criminal ‘obstruction’ case McCabe had opened
just two days before. According to McCabe:
… “[Rosenstein] asked for my thoughts about whether we needed a special
counsel to oversee the Russia case. I said I thought it would help the
investigation’s credibility. Later that day, I went to see Rosenstein again.
This is the gist of what I said: I feel strongly that the investigation would
be best served by having a special counsel.” (link)
According to Andy
Biggs questioning of Mueller, on this same day, May 12th, evidence shows
Robert Mueller met “in person” with Rod Rosenstein. This is the same day
when SSA Whistleblower went to James Comey’s house to retrieve FBI material and
both Rybicki and Comey never informed the agent about the memos:
May 12th is the date noted by David Archey when FBI investigators had
assembled all of the Comey memos as evidence. However, no-one in the FBI
outside the “small group” knows about them.
♦On Saturday May 13th, 2017, another
meeting between Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller, this time with AG Jeff
Sessions also involved. [Per Andy Biggs]
♦Sunday May 14th – Comey transmitted
copies of Memos 2, 4, and 6, and a partially redacted copy of Memo 7 to Patrick
Fitzgerald, who was one of Comey’s personal
attorneys. Fitzgerald received the email and PDF attachment from Comey at
2:27 p.m. on May 14, 2017, per the IG report.
♦Monday May 15th, McCabe states he and Rosenstein conferred
again about the Special Counsel approach. McCabe: “I brought the matter up with him again after the
weekend.”
On this same day was when James Rybicki called SSA Whistleblower to notify
him of Comey’s memos. The memos were “stored” in a “reception area“,
and in locked drawers in James Rybicki’s office.
♦Tuesday May
16th – Per the IG report: “On the morning of May 16,
Comey took digital photographs of both pages of Memo 4 with his personal cell phone. Comey then sent both photographs, via text message, to Richman”
On this same day Rod Rosenstein takes Robert Mueller to the White House for
a meeting in the oval office between President Trump, VP Pence, Robert Mueller
and Rod Rosenstein. While they were meeting in the oval
office, the following story was published by the New York Times (based
on Comey memo leaks to Richman):
Also, during the approximate time of this Oval Office meeting, Peter Strzok
texts with Lisa Page about information relayed to him by Tashina Guahar (main
justice) on behalf of Rod Rosenstein (who is at the White House).
Later that night, after the Oval Office meeting – According to the Mueller
report, additional events on Tuesday May 16th, 2017:
Interesting that Tashina Gauhar was taking notes presumably
involved in the 5/16/17 meeting between, Lisa Page, Rod
Rosenstein, and Andrew McCabe.
This meeting at Main Justice appears to be happening in the evening (“later
that night”) after the visit to the White House with Robert Mueller. This
meeting appears to be Lisa Page, Rod Rosenstein and Andrew McCabe; along with
Tashina Gauhar taking notes.
Why is the Tuesday May 16th, 2017, date of additional
importance?
♦ Wednesday
May 17th, 2017: Rod Rosenstein and Andrew McCabe go to brief the congressional “Gang-of-Eight”: Paul Ryan,
Nancy Pelosi, Devin Nunes, Adam Schiff, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Richard
Burr and Mark Warner.
… […] “On the afternoon of May 17,
Rosenstein and I sat at the end of a long conference table in a secure room in
the basement of the Capitol. We were there to brief the so-called Gang of
Eight—the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate and the chairs
and ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. Rosenstein
had, I knew, made a decision to appoint a special counsel in the Russia case.”
[…] “After reminding the committee of how the investigation began, I
told them of additional steps we had taken. Then Rod took over and announced
that he had appointed a special counsel to pursue the Russia investigation, and
that the special counsel was Robert Mueller.” (link)
Immediately following this May 17, 2017, Go8 briefing, Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein notified the public of the special counsel appointment.
What is clear from a review of all the related and released information is
the FBI small group (McCabe, Page, Strzok, Rybicki, Baker) were hiding the
ongoing FBI investigation from other FBI officials (including the SSA Whistleblower),
inside the department after Comey was fired.
McCabe launched a “criminal investigation” (obstruction) May 10th, and
Rosenstein was in immediate contact with Robert Mueller about being a special
counsel after conversations with the FBI small group. The small group were then
releasing information to their media allies, and hiding the releases from FBI
agents outside the small group; until they no longer needed to do so (May 15).
On May 15th, it appears the SSA whistleblower was finally notified
of the Comey memos because the small group already knew Robert Mueller was
going to be appointed.
Comey, his lawyers and Lawfare allies, together with the small group,
coordinated to leak and publish the NYT article (May 16th) the day Mueller was
interviewing President Trump in the oval office. They knew Mueller was going to
be appointed the following day, May 17th. The NYT leak was cover and
ammunition for Rod Rosenstein to fulfill his role.
This is the Special Counsel as the insurance policy deployed.
Everything was a set up by the small group; exclusively executed by the
small group; kept hidden from other FBI agents and officials; and Mueller’s
visit with President Trump was part of that investigative effort.
This overall conspiracy/plan is why the FBI SSA turned to Inspector General
Michael Horowitz and requested Whistleblower protection. This is also why
IG Horowitz was motivated to carve out the Comey memos in his report.
KEY POINT – OIG Michael
Horowitz outlined the Special Counsel appointment as fraudulently predicated.
Because FBI Agent David Archey was not part of the original team (he did not
join until August 2017); and because Archey had no idea a whistleblower had
gone to the FBI when he wrote his declarations; David Archey wrote about the FBI
investigative team having all of the copies of the memos on May 12th,
2017.
FBI Agent David Archey was unaware the ‘small group‘ had kept the
Comey memos hidden from the FBI SSA Whistleblower until May 15th, 2017;
so he inadvertently exposed their assembled disposition prior to the ‘small
group’ admissions to the SSA.
Lastly….
♦ June 1st, 2017 – After the “small group” had successfully
organized the operation to get Robert Mueller appointed, then this same team
sat down to classify the material that might expose their efforts to set up the
special counsel appointment.
They knew about the leak from Comey to Richman and then to the New York
Times on the 16th of May, but this group then told Inspector General Horowitz
they didn’t know Comey shared his memos during their discussions on June 1st.
Prosecute James Comey for releasing classified information, and the
background of all the FBI ‘small group’ effort comes into play. Michael
Horowitz would even be a good witness for the prosecution. Their effort
led to the appointment of Robert Mueller and the team of Lawfare operatives who
targeted the office of the president for two years.
This was a conspiracy against rights, including the right of the American
voter to have a functioning administration.
