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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: NYT Headline: "Retribution"
Date: 09/26/25 5:20 PM
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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.

thefederalist.com - After harming the country with russiagate comeys indictment is well deserved

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:

thefederalist.com - Brennan overruled CIA experts objections to include steele dossier in bogus intel assessment

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.

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