LIKE RATS FROM A SINKING SHIP: Comey vs. Rice Edition

For your consideration, a letter from the Senate Judiciary Committee to one Susan “Benghazi” Rice. Perhaps this pathetic attempt was Rice’s own form of an ‘insurance policy’.

Dear Ambassador Rice:

 The Senate Judiciary Committee has a constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the FBI
and the broader Department of Justice. Part of that duty involves ensuring that law enforcement
efforts are conducted without improper political influence. Accordingly, the Committee has
been investigating the FBI' s relationship with Christopher Steele during the time his work was
funded by Hillary for America and the Democratic National Committee, as well as the FBI's
reliance on his unverified third-hand allegations in the Bureau' s representations to courts.

 As part of that effort, the Committee sent a request to the National Archives for records
of meetings between President Obama and then-FBI Director Corney regarding the FBI's
investigation of allegations of collusion between associates of Mr. Trump and the Russian
government. In response, the Committee received classified and unclassified versions of an
email you sent to yourself on January 20, 2017 - President Trump' s inauguration day. If the
timestamp is correct, you sent this email to yourself at 12: 15pm, presumably a very short time
before you departed the White House for the last time.

 In this email to yourself, you purport to document a meeting that had taken place more
than two weeks before, on January 5, 2017. You wrote:

 On January 5, following a briefing by IC leadership on Russian hacking during the
 2016 Presidential election, President Obama had a brief follow-on conversation
 with FBI Director Jim Corney and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in the Oval
 Office. Vice President Biden and I were also present.

That meeting reportedly included a discussion of the Steele dossier and the FBI' s investigation of
its claims. 1 Your email continued:

 President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to
 ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law
 enforcement communities "by the book". The President stressed that he is not
 asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective.
 He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would
 by the book.

 From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to
 be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if
 there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.

The next part of your email remains classified. After that, you wrote:

 The President asked Corney to inform him if anything changes in the next few
 weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming
 team. Corney said he would.

 It strikes us as odd that, among your activities in the final moments on the final day of the
Obama administration, you would feel the need to send yourself such an unusual email
purporting to document a conversation involving President Obama and his interactions with the
FBI regarding the Trump/Russia investigation. In addition, despite your claim that President
Obama repeatedly told Mr. Corney to proceed "by the book," substantial questions have arisen
about whether officials at the FBI, as well as at the Justice Department and the State Department,
actually did proceed "by the book."

 In order for the Committee to further assess the situation, please respond to the following
by February 22, 2018:

1. Did you send the email attached to this letter to yourself? Do you have any reason to
 dispute the timestamp of the email?

2. When did you first become aware of the FBI' s investigation into allegations of
 collusion between Mr. Trump' s associates and Russia?

3. When did you become aware of any surveillance activities, including FISA
 applications, undertaken by the FBI in conducting that investigation? At the time you
 wrote this email to yourself, were you aware of either the October 2016 PISA
 application for surveillance of Carter Page or the January 2017 renewal?

4. Did anyone instruct, request, suggest, or imply that you should send yourself the
 aforementioned Inauguration Day email memorializing President Obama' s meeting
 with Mr. Corney about the Trump/Russia investigation? If so, who and why?

5. Is the account of the January 5, 2017 meeting presented in your email accurate? Did
 you omit any other portions of the conversation?

6. Other than that email, did you document the January 5, 2017 meeting in any way,
 such as contemporaneous notes or a formal memo? To the best of your knowledge,
 did anyone else at that meeting take notes or otherwise memorialize the meeting?

7. During the meeting, did Mr. Corney or Ms. Yates mention potential press coverage of
 the Steele dossier? If so, what did they say?

8. During the meeting, did Mr. Corney describe the status of the FBI's relationship with
 Mr. Steele, or the basis for that status?

9. When and how did you first become-aware of the allegations made by Christopher
 Steele?

10. When and how did you first become aware that the Clinton Campaign and the
 Democratic National Committee funded Mr. Steele' s efforts?

11. You wrote that President Obama stressed that he was "not asking about, initiating or
 instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective." Did President Obama ask
 about, initiate, or instruct anything from any other perspective relating to the FBI' s
 investigation?

12. Did President Obama have any other meetings with Mr. Corney, Ms. Yates, or other
 government officials about the FBI' s investigation of allegations of collusion between
 Trump associates and Russia? If so, when did these occur, who participated, and
 what was discussed?

 Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please contact Patrick Davis of
Chairman Grassley' s staff at (202) 224-5225 or Lee Holmes of Chairman Graham' s staff at
(202) 224-5972 if you have any questions.

 Sincerely,

Charles E. Grassley Lindsey 0. Graham
Chairman Chairman
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism
 Committee on the Judiciary

Ewww. Interesting.

So Rice says she, Comey and Obama met on the latter’s last day in office.

Hat tip: BadBlue Uncensored News.