[Responsibility2nd]

How the FBI Helped Sink Clinton’s Campaign

New reports reveal that decisions made by a number of officials, acting out of a variety of motives, injured not Trump’s candidacy—but that of his opponent.

Adam Serwer

Public statements from former FBI Director James Comey, as well as an internal investigation focusing on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, have shed light on the extent to which leaks from the Bureau influenced a series of late-October decisions that damaged Hillary Clinton’s chances in the 2016 election.

Pressure from the FBI officials investigating the Clinton Foundation, who leaked their frustrations to the press, affected both Comey’s decision to make his late-October announcement that the Clinton email probe had been reopened, and according to the Department of Justice Inspector General, McCabe’s decision to publicly confirm the existence of the Clinton Foundation probe to The Wall Street Journal. Both decisions were made under a torrent of conservative criticism, from Trump himself, who called the Clinton email inquiry “rigged,” and from the conservative press, which speculated that the Bureau was deliberately going easy on Clinton.

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[butlerweave]

LOL

[antidemoncrat]

Tell Hillary the waaaambulance is on its way.

[Responsibility2nd]

I will say this.

Hillary Clinton is the only presidential candidate to ever have been under TWO SEPARATE FBI Investigations.

And that cannot be blamed on the FBI.

[reasonisfaith]

In other words, FBI leadership was desperate for Hillary to win but they botched the operation like they do with all other active engagements.

[JoSixChip]

McCabe’s decision to publicly confirm the existence of the Clinton Foundation probe to The Wall Street Journal

That is the leak and bases of any perjury charges against mccabe. It has nothing to do with cleaning the swamp, more likely punishment for going against it.

[BenLurkin]

Lock her up.

[EnglishOnly]

Obama got way more help than Trump from the illegal voters.

Obama got a free pass on the required background check.

[Inyo-Mono]

I don’t believe it. No one changed their vote from Hillary to Trump because this.

[Enlightened1]

The Atlantic is a radical far leftist piece of trash.

[outofsalt]

If you search, “doj told fbi to stand down” on bing, you get 3,190,000 results. So, yeah...

[WayneS]

Well, it may be true... ...in a way.

If the FBI had not tried to help get Hillary Clinton elected, she might have beaten Donald Trump.

[RayChuang88]

I think the final straw that finished Hillary Clinton’s campaign was the revelation about Huma Abedin’s husband Anthony Weiner being heavily involved in the private e-mail server scandal. Given Weiner’s very sordid past even back in 2016, it couldn’t have been worse news for the Clinton campaign.

[Bryanw92]

Law enforcement investigating a criminal doing criminal acts is not “help” for someone else. It is the reason why law enforcement exists. Comey’s actions rendered the FBI irrelevant.

[JBW1949]

Yeah...Hillary’s one day a week campaigning and stumbling around, not even going to several states, and rambling talk when she did speak had nothing to do with her losing...

[SkyDancer]

Nobody had anything to do with Hillary losing but herself.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...former director just admitted in a book that he told President Obama he dreaded having to go to work for Trump after Trump defeated Clinton to claim the presidency...yeah, and his second in command had a wife who got 700K for her political career from the Clinton Foundation via Clinton bagman McAuliffe - sure the FBI wanted to see Hillary lose.......

[Buckeye McFrog]

Hey, if the Lefties want to join us in defunding a corrupt FBI, I’ll accept their help.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

So while Hussein was out campaigning for Crooked Hillary, Hussein’s FBI was helping the Donald Trump campaign.

Got it. Riiiiight.

[Fedora]

"A central debate in the campaign post-mortems is whether Comey, then the FBI director, tipped the election in Donald Trump’s favor with the Oct. 28 release of a letter announcing the review of possible new evidence in the Clinton email investigation. Some journalists, political analysts and Clinton herself contend that the letter’s release cost her the presidency. 'Absent that,' Clinton told NBC last week, 'I believe the evidence shows I would have won.' In a recent paper, however, we cast doubt on the claim. Using an analysis of polling data from the last four months of the campaign, we find no conclusive evidence that the Comey letter led to a decisive shift in voter support. Instead, changes in support for the candidates resulted largely from other factors.": Did Comey give Trump the presidency? We don't think so.

[colorado tanker]

This is Comey’s fundamental problem and why his offensive against Trump won’t work. To back Comey, the Left would have to admit its trope that the Comey letter threw the election to Trump isn’t true. (Which WE know is the case, but shush.)