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This is a fascinating read on why it's likely Comey didn't come forward immediately. An interview with a former DOJ employee in the Obama's administration that worked with Comey. A couple of days after Comey was fired this guy tweeted that Comey would probably have extensive notes on any meetings.

MILLER: Yeah. And Comey — he might have had two motives here. One is, when you’re put in this situation, you want to make a record, so if the other side ever tells their story, you can pretty clearly demonstrate with contemporaneous records that you acted appropriately.

I keep wondering — something in the back of my head keeps saying to me — maybe Comey was actually trying to build an obstruction-of-justice case against the president here. You know what I mean? Because Comey could handle this one of two ways: The president makes this request, and the first time Comey might say to him, ‘You know, Mr. President, it’s inappropriate for us to have this conversation, and I would appreciate if you would not make a request like this to me again.’ That’s a way to handle it that says very clearly to the president that this should never be repeated.

But if you’re trying to build an obstruction-of-justice case, you might want the president to keep talking, because everything he does is digging a deeper legal hole for himself.

Q: And that would be, ostensibly, a reason for him not to resign after that first conversation, as some people have suggested he should have.

MILLER: That’s exactly right. You have to remember, the president in that letter firing Comey said, 'You told me three times I wasn’t under investigation.' We have no idea if that’s true or not. But I think it’s also a little bit of a red herring, because the president’s campaign is under investigation. He is obviously the head of his own campaign, and when the Justice Department investigates any organization — whether it be a Mafia organization, a cartel or just a corporation — you’re always investigating and looking to make a case against the highest person possible. So they would always have in their minds, ‘We have no idea where this is going, but at the end of it, it could reach the very top of the campaign.’

So in that particular circumstance, Comey might have wanted him to keep talking to see what he says.

MILLER: Yes. Look, there’s one thing I agree with the president on: That#Comey is a showboat. You just look at his actions in the [Hillary] Clinton case, where he made himself the central player when there was no reason for him to be the central player. That aside, his entire history shows that he likes to be at the center of attention. You look at the Ashcroft bedside incident where that unfolded in#one of the most dramatic congressional hearings in history. And it was pretty clear at the time that that hearing had been pretty well planned by Comey and by Preet Bharara — to uncover real wrongdoing by the Bush administration — but also to present Comey in a very favorable light.

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