Posted on 12/23/2016 4:39:52 AM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc
The attorney general could have ordered FBI Director James Comey not to send his bombshell letter on Clinton emails. Heres why she didnt.
Twelve days before the presidential election, FBI Director James B. Comey dispatched a senior aide to deliver a startling message to the Justice Department. Comey wanted to send a letter to Congress alerting lawmakers that his agents had discovered more emails potentially relevant to the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server.
The official in Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yatess office who received the FBI call immediately understood the explosive potential of Comeys message, coming so close to the presidential election. Federal attorneys scrambled into offices on the fourth and fifth floors of Justice Department headquarters, where they huddled to figure out how to stop what they viewed as a ticking time bomb.
It was DEFCON 1, said an official familiar with the deliberations. We were incredibly concerned this could have an impact on the election.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Shoulda, coulda, woulda .....
They were “concerned that it would have an impact on the election”
Not “they were concerned their candidate had comitted criminal acts and was unworthy of the office”
Funny how their thinking works.
“...began exchanging increasingly tense and heated phone calls, nearly a half-dozen throughout the afternoon and evening”
So...was it FIVE calls? Are FOUR “nearly a half-dozen”?
Another cover story for the Lynch bitch. Lynch, Obama, and Hillary are all equally criminal in this coverup and the American citizens know it.
Yes, a cover story for the Lynch Beacch. Just wanted to spread the love from the Wa Po.
Whenever someone mentions that releasing info could have an effect on the election, they fail to admit that not releasing relevant information also could have an effect on an election. They only want to support an effect of their choosing.
Umm, who cares! The Comey letter had nothing to do with Hillary losing!
I believe that Obama sabotaged Hillary- I think he never intended to help her get to be President. The Obama’s and Clinton’s loathe each other.
I think Obama did things to make it look like he was helping, behind her, like his stump speeches, smoothing over the plane meeting with Lynch and Bill, the FBI in the summer not prosecuting, but letting Comey say a few things to cause doubt in Hillary’s criminality. Then the final blow, the leak about the FBI findings on laptop of Weiner and Huma.
This was timed to be released just before election.
How could Obama compete with Clinton machine after he leaves WH? He couldn’t allow them to steal his goals post Presidency.
If the information was that she secretly rescued puppies and volunteered at a homeless shelter they would be rushing to reveal it.
No way, TRUMP getting into means Obama’s legacy is destroyed
WaPo should change their name to BuHu.
Just think. Hillary could have avoided all of this if she never used a private server, 2nd chance— turned over all of the emails.
They all claim the timing was bad on the Comey letter. Clinton was trying to run out the clock on this whole mess— she only needed another week!
The Feds write the story and give to WP. 21st Century reporting.
Obama said the day before the election that if Trump wins “The sun will come up tomorrow”. I believe he was telling his worshippers it was okay not to vote for Hillary. And they can’t say dems stayed home so they had to have voted for Trump.
Actually, I believe the Obamas and Clintons are in the same crime ring. Both of the families are pushing the Muslim empowerment. What sitting president ever screeched that a presidential candidate was unfit to be president besides Barack the insane Obama? . I don’t know how it could be any clearer. My gosh, he made the crooked bitch Secretary of State to coddle the Muslims.
100% focus on the supposed political impact of the FBI’s action; 0% on the criminality being investigated. This is identical to the DNC Media’s current coverage of the WikiLeaks revelations: 100% focus on unsupported claims that the Rooskis “hacked the election” and nothing about the DNC corruption that the leaks revealed.
There’s a dead body in the closet and all the press can do is discuss whether or not the closet door should have been opened and by whom!
Just as liberals cannot understand the importance of “content of character”, neither can they understand that the primary issues are with the content of the leaked/hacked DNC memos and the FACT that Hillary deliberately violated statutes regarding the handling of classified and extremely sensitive documents. Because of her actions, these documents were accessible to her maid, her “most trusted” personal (Muslim Brotherhood) assistant and that assistant’s demonstrably morally depraved and eminently black-mail able husband.
Less exalted potentates have spent time in prison for either their handling of information (Martha Stewart) or their answers to the FBI during an investigation (Scooter Libby). Lock her up!
“WaPo should change their name to BuHu.”
Exactly!! LOL
I am busy today creating a countdown to incarceration clock!!
“Theres a dead body in the closet and all the press can do is discuss whether or not the closet door should have been opened and by whom!”
Ok, coffee all over my laptop. This is hilarious!!!
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