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Comey’s ‘who cares?’ reply recalls ‘what difference?’ retort
The Hill ^ | 12/18/2018 | JOHN SOLOMON

Posted on 12/22/2018 9:02:14 AM PST by bitt

A few years ago, when the FBI began investigating classified information flowing through a private email server, it was hard to imagine that James Comey and Hillary Clinton could share much in common.

He was then the FBI director, a Republican, and the man leading the probe. She was a former secretary of State, a Democrat, and the presidential ..

But the passage of time has brought the two into a similar orbit. Both are Democrats now. Both dislike President Trump. Both have expressed discontent with being the subject of congressional oversight.

And both now have given flip answers to lawmakers that history likely will regard with disdain.

In 2013, Secretary Clinton infamously snapped, “What difference at this point does it make?” when pressed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) during a committee hearing about whether the attack on the State Department’s Benghazi compound was prompted by planned terrorism or spontaneous protests over an anti-Muslim video.

The facts brought forth by congressional oversight would later show that 1) the attack was pre-planned by terrorists; 2) the tragedy was preceded by security concerns that the Benghazi compound was vulnerable; and 3) that Clinton knew, early on, that the attack was terror-related, even as her United Nations ambassador suggested otherwise on national TV.

The “difference,” lawmakers concluded, was clear.

Clinton’s department should have been better prepared for the attack and safeguarded the compound. Instead, it rejected multiple requests for more security and left in place inadequate protections, according to the State Department’s own accountability assessment.

Fast-forward to this past Monday. That’s when Comey gave two answers similarly dripping with contempt.

The FBI director answered “Who cares?” when pressed by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) on whether the FBI should have used a Democratic-funded dossier in 2016 to justify a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)..

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: clinton; comey; jamescomey; lisapage; peterstrzok; robertmueller

1 posted on 12/22/2018 9:02:14 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/22/2018 9:02:29 AM PST by bitt
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To: bitt

Just what a weasel would say.

Comey is a weasel.

Weasel weasel weasel

Comey eats Weasel waffles for breakfast.


3 posted on 12/22/2018 9:17:58 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: bitt

Democrat tactic: “I am totally without remorse. Therefore, I must not have committed a crime.”


4 posted on 12/22/2018 9:21:19 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: bitt

Comey was NOT a Republican. He registered as one as a cover. But he was NEVER a real Republican.


5 posted on 12/22/2018 9:24:26 AM PST by Twotone
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To: bitt

And it confirms that the son-of-a-bitch is no good.


6 posted on 12/22/2018 9:26:04 AM PST by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: bitt
"The FBI director answered “Who cares?” Who cares?....The American people care, that's who cares!

Corrupt, arrogant, over-indulged public servants is what you wind up with when the populace cares less about who they put into office.

Comey is a conceited, braggadocios, intolerable government employee, who in like manner of those before and after him, continued to corrupt that seat in the FBI.

Who does the FBI answer to?

7 posted on 12/22/2018 9:43:39 AM PST by yoe (Are the eliets playing hard ball with our freedoms and our Constitution?)
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To: Twotone
Comey was NOT a Republican. He registered as one as a cover. But he was NEVER a real Republican.

Anyone who is OK with a DemoKKKrat president appointing a screaming DemoKKKrat Leftist to the Supreme Court is a Democrat.

By definition.

8 posted on 12/22/2018 9:43:52 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: blueunicorn6

In your face! Big disgrace!

A masterful diss, that.

Schoolyard retort of a bully. Now, if that is the level of the dialogue, most of us above a certain age already know how this is going to go.

Generally ends in getting physical. Rational discourse is out the window.


9 posted on 12/22/2018 9:47:54 AM PST by alloysteel (Man does not live by bread alone. He needs chocolate cake too.)
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To: Twotone

Remember, he failed to indict Hillary in the Whitewater deal.


10 posted on 12/22/2018 9:58:19 AM PST by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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......Remember, he failed to indict Hillary in the Whitewater deal.......

And the bank scam in NY with loretta lynch.


11 posted on 12/22/2018 10:19:18 AM PST by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: bitt

I care that all those creeps aren’t serving time.


12 posted on 12/22/2018 10:55:51 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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