{"id":5925,"date":"2018-04-20T03:32:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T03:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2018-04-20T03:32:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T03:32:35","slug":"the-james-comey-memos-on-president-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/the-james-comey-memos-on-president-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The James Comey Memos on President Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>On April 19, 2018, the online news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/congress-gets-comey-memos-ef5eea94-006e-4c4e-8005-36ece543c034.html\">AXIOS<\/a> published the following about the release of the memos:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Copies of former FBI Director James Comey&#8217;s memos have been delivered to Congress, reports the Associated Press who has obtained and is reviewing 15 pages of the memo.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Why it matters: The memos are &#8220;believed to be central&#8221; to special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s probe. Per Politico, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said Congress would get two versions of the memos: an &#8220;unclassified version with sensitive information redacted and a classified unredacted version that would be transmitted through a secure channel on Friday.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The documents were quickly leaked to many members of the press shortly after the Justice Department handed them over, and are available below.<\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/doj\/Ex-FBI-Director-James-Comey-s-memos.pdf\">The James Comey Memos on President Donald Trump<\/a> [15 Pages, 1MB]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/doj\/Ex-FBI-Director-James-Comey-s-memos.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background On April 19, 2018, the online news agency AXIOS published the following about the release of the memos: Copies of former FBI Director James Comey&#8217;s memos have been delivered to Congress, reports the Associated Press who has obtained and is reviewing 15 pages of the memo. Why it matters: The memos are &#8220;believed to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,2],"tags":[737,302,1038],"class_list":{"0":"post-5925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-controversies","8":"category-government","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-fbi","11":"tag-james-comey"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-19_20-30-51.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}