It Wasnt Comeys Decision to Exonerate Hillary It Was Obamas
National Review ^ | 09/02/2017 | Andrew C. McCarthy /FR Posted by For Your Children
The thing to understand, what has always been the most important thing to understand, is that Jim Comey was out in front, but he was not calling the shots. On the right, the commentariat is in full-throttle outrage over the revelation that former FBI Director Comey began drafting his statement exonerating Hillary Clinton in April 2016 more than two months before he delivered the statement at his now famous July 5 press conference.
The news appears in a letter written to new FBI Director Christopher Wray by two senior Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans, Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Lindsey Graham. Pundits and the Trump administration are shrieking because this indicates the decision to give the Democrats nominee a pass was clearly made long before the investigation was over, and even long before key witnesses, including Clinton herself, were interviewed. It shows, they cry, that the fix was in! {..snip..} (Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
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(HAT TIP WULI) Obama.....abetted by Comey & Lynch..... short-circuited a Hillary indictment, and because she was not indicted, she could not be pardoned by Obama (a move for which the Clintons probably paid Obama plenty). So completing the investigation means indicting her by the Trump DOJ--b/c she is not in double jeopardy.
As an aside, I was literally amazed when that “Southern Fried Corpse,” Sessions, was able to stand in front of a microphone for a minute or two and string together a few meaningful sentences. You will have to pardon my cynicism today.