{"id":19361,"date":"2025-11-04T21:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=19361"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:25:35","slug":"das-vergessene-protokoll-wie-james-comey-schon-2016-wusste-was-amerika-bis-heute-leugnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/das-vergessene-protokoll-wie-james-comey-schon-2016-wusste-was-amerika-bis-heute-leugnet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten Protocol - How James Comey Knew in 2016 What America Still Denies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington \u2013 It is an unassuming sheet of paper, little more than a few lines, hastily noted, almost casual. Yet within these lines lies a political detonation. The United States Department of Justice could no longer avoid releasing a handwritten note by then-FBI Director James Comey, dated September 26, 2016 \u2013 six weeks before the election that brought Donald Trump into the White House. The document, now filed as \u201cGovernment Exhibit 13\u201d in an ongoing case on November 3, 2025, shows that U.S. authorities already had indications at that time of two explosive facts: possible financial ties between Trump and Moscow \u2013 and coordinated Russian attacks on American voter databases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JB \u2013 We have CID (likely the Counterintelligence Division)
\u2013 Uncertainty about Hillary Clinton
\u2013 Contractors have access to the system
\u2013 Hillary Clinton plans to hit Trump
\u2013 Clinton\u2019s health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerry \u2013 Trump finances
\u2013 Debts to Moscow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JB \u2013 Journalist(s) say they are working with Trump
I mentioned the New York Times \u2013 Russia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durbin \u2013 The Department of Justice should examine a pattern in the intrusions and scans of state voter databases<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Comey wrote in pen what now appears like a silhouette of truth. It says: \u201cKerry \u2013 Trump finances \u2013 debts to Moscow.\u201d John Kerry, then Secretary of State, is said to have raised the issue: Trump\u2019s finances, his possible obligations in Russia. In the same notes, Comey also recorded that the Department of Justice was asked to \u201cexamine a pattern in the intrusions and scans of state voter databases.\u201d In the same meeting, according to the record, there was also talk of \u201cjournalists working with Trump\u201d \u2013 with direct mention of the New York Times and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These words now stand in black and white in the government archive \u2013 and they prove that the FBI leadership in the fall of 2016 already knew that a foreign power was interfering in American democracy. The note dates from a period when the FBI was still officially conducting two investigations: one against Hillary Clinton over her private emails, and another, covert, into Russian influence operations.\nJames Comey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The line about \u201cTrump finances \u2013 debts to Moscow\u201d is a time bomb that lay in the dark for nine years. If it is confirmed that the FBI already had indications in 2016 of Russian money flows to Trump or his companies, it would be one of the gravest revelations since the beginning of the Russia affair \u2013 and a blow against the myth Trump has built ever since: that it was all a \u201cwitch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equally explosive is the section on the voter databases. As early as the summer of 2016, cybersecurity agencies had detected suspicious access to the servers of several states. Officially, it was later claimed that the threat had been limited. But Comey\u2019s note proves that the FBI was already describing a systematic pattern at the time. Senator Dick Durbin, whose name appears in the note, had already called for an investigation into these attacks \u2013 and was dismissed. The fact that the note also mentions Clinton\u2019s health and her planned strategy against Trump shows how closely politics and national security were intertwined. While the world speculated about Clinton\u2019s coughing fits, the FBI was recording attacks on democratic institutions \u2013 and information about Trump\u2019s possible debts in Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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July 1987, Moscow, USSR \u2014 Trump, 41 years old, flies to Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Yuri Dubinin.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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For years, James Comey had been Trump\u2019s personal nemesis \u2013 the man who, in 2017, placed him at the center of the Russia affair, who refused to pledge loyalty, and was finally fired in an act of open contempt. Eight years later, on September 25, 2025, came the payback: a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted Comey \u2013 for making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Trump celebrated the result as belated justice, speaking of the \u201crestoration of the rule of law\u201d and \u201crevenge on the traitors.\u201d Yet behind the judicial fa\u00e7ade lies political intent. The charges against Comey rely on testimony from a 2020 Senate hearing that had never been deemed criminally relevant and lacked any substance \u2013 until Trump\u2019s Department of Justice suddenly exhumed it. It was less a trial than a symbol: the president wanted to turn the man who once questioned him about Russia into the accused. His allies, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, openly spoke of \u201csettling old scores.\u201d For Trump, the indictment of Comey was not a legal proceeding \u2013 it was a personal triumph, the fulfillment of a promise he had carried for years: \u201cHe will pay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine years later, America once again stands at a point where history repeats itself \u2013 a president in the White House who abuses his power, and a bureaucracy that remains silent for too long. Comey\u2019s note shows that the rupture between truth and politics began back then \u2013 and that it was never healed. It is a reminder that democracy is not destroyed in a single day but in moments of looking away. In one sentence, one line, one meeting that no one wants to remember. And sometimes, a single sheet of paper is enough to make all the silence of power audible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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