Posted on 09/08/2016 8:32:33 AM PDT by Nachum
FBI Director Comey wrote a memo to employees Wednesday defending the decisions he has made with regard to the Hillary Clinton email investigation. One of those decisions was his choice to release materials generated by the investigation on a Friday before a holiday weekend. Speaking of the information prepared for release by the FBI, Comey writes:
We finished that process Friday morning with respect to the 302 of Secretary Clinton’s interview and our Letter Head Memorandum summarizing the investigation. I almost ordered the material held until Tuesday because I knew we would take all kinds of grief for releasing it before a holiday weekend, but my judgment was that we had promised transparency and it would be game-playing to withhold it from the public just to avoid folks saying stuff about us. We don’t play games. So we released it Friday.
CNN reports that Comey has recently met with some former FBI agents who were not happy with his decision in the Clinton email case:
In recent weeks, Comey has met with groups of former FBI agents as part of his routine visits to field offices around the country. In at least one recent such meeting, according to people familiar with the meeting, former agents were sharply critical of the FBI’s handling of the Clinton probe and particularly the decision to not recommend charges against Clinton.
Comey explains his decision not to recommend prosecution of Clinton saying there “wasn’t a prosecutable case.”
At the end of the day, the case itself was not a cliff-hanger; despite all the chest-beating by people no longer in government, there really wasn’t a prosecutable case. The hard part was whether to offer unprecedented transparency about our thinking. I explain to our alumni that I struggled with that part, but decided the
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Lying bastard lies like a rug. He is a disgrace to his office and his agency.
Yesterday Fox News Catherine Herridge suggested that this memo indicates a defense of Comey against criticism within FBI. “I think the big takeaway here is that there is internal dissent, within the FBI, about Comey’s decision and he’s trying to quell that . . .”
he got 3.5 million a million more than his boss got.
what a jerk....he just sounds worse and worse......
Is there ANYONE in this current administration that DOESN’T hate America?
*SPIT*
This guy trashed his reputation to cover Hillary’s ass.
It’s too late to change that perception. It will be his legacy.
Comey is a Pawn and he knows it.
Anyone familiar with public relations knows that information sent out on Fridays gets buried under weekend activities and especially holidays. How’s this manipulation ‘not playing games’?
That is one lie that he did not have to tell. Hillary Clinton is walking proof that they do play games.
But, as some on here have swore to, he is straight as an arrow and can’t be bought.
Imagine a Politically Weaponized FBI in Clinton’s Hands
Agents actively avoided catching Hillary lying and didn’t want the media to catch her either
by Eddie Zipperer | Updated 08 Sep 2016 at 10:09
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Imagining a politicized FBI ready to do the bidding of another President Clinton is scarier than a stack of Stephen King books. Here are three signs the FBI is already putting politics before justice for Clinton:
1) The FBI tried not to catch Hillary in a lie.
If you’re ever the target of a criminal investigation, don’t bank on law enforcement believing whatever everything you tell them — unless you’re a Clinton.
The narrative Hillary sold the FBI holds water about as well as a slice of swiss cheese. She told them she thought a bracketed “C” was “referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order” which would make perfect sense if it weren’t for the total absence of A, B, and D-Z.
Julian Assange blew this nonsense out of the water on Sean Hannity’s show last night, saying Wikileaks has released “thousands of examples, where she [Clinton], herself, has used a c in brackets, and signed it off, and more than 22,000 times that she has received cables from others with this c in brackets. So, it’s absolutely incredible for Clinton to lie. She is lying about not knowing what that is.”
Not only did the FBI try not to catch her in a lie, they didn’t want the media to catch her in one either. Why else is there no transcript or recording of her FBI interview? Comey said he wanted to treat her like anyone else — so where’s the recording? Everyone else’s interview was recorded.
Now, all the media can do is wonder what exactly she said to the FBI special agents. One thing’s for sure, if she told them any of the nonsense she’s been telling us about her emails all year, she likely committed a felony or two.
2) Does Obama have ESP?
It was almost like President Obama somehow knew how this would all turn out.
When Comey delivered his “non-indictment indictment” of Hillary Clinton, he stated, “I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government.” That seemed questionable given that at the same moment, Hillary Clinton was aboard Air Force One with President Obama about to make a triumphant, I’m-not-going-to-jail landing in North Carolina. Would President Obama be plane-pooling with someone if he thought there was a chance she might be indicted for mishandling classified information?
In June, when President Obama decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for president — even though she was under criminal investigation — did that not send a message to the FBI regarding how he’d like to see the case decided?
What if the president had endorsed a candidate who turned out to be a criminal?
There’s no question that the president would have wound up looking supremely ridiculous if Hillary had been indicted.
He sure got lucky.
3) The FBI uses holidays as human shields.
Remember when the FBI interrog- er, I mean, “interviewed” Hillary Clinton? It was the Saturday morning of July 4 weekend. Americans were on boats, at fireworks stores, prepping for cookouts, and engaging in other holiday weekend activities. Nobody was paying attention. News shows were stuck with backups to the backup hosts covering gigantic election news for only a tiny slice of the people who would normally be paying attention.
Then, Comey announced two days later there would be no charges. They must have done a real deep analysis of the answers she gave.
Jump cut to last weekend where the FBI used another holiday as a human shield. This time it was Labor Day watering down the news from the FBI’s data dump. Even House Speaker Paul Ryan was floored by how political the move seemed, saying, “I can’t believe that they would do what is such a patently political move.”
Nothing is scarier than government institutions serving political agendas, but it seems to be a core principle of progressive leadership. Are #NeverTrump Republicans really so obsessed with philosophical purity that they’ll allow Hillary Clinton to become president and continue to the politicization of our bureaucracy? What if voting against Trump means an America where we can’t see where the FBI ends and the Clinton Foundation begins?
Read at:
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/imagine-a-politically-weaponized-fbi-in-clintons-hands/
I saw a former director assistant (Kallstrom? Kollstrom?) interviewed on Kelly the other night.
He said MANY are very angry at what Comey did, and what it has done to the integrity of the FBI. He says he’s heard from over 50 agents.
there “wasn’t a prosecutable case.”
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This is exactly true! The Federal Government is so corrupt now that there isn’t a single prosecutor who would take the case. They all want to live, and crossing Hillary is not healthy.
He wishes it were over: “I will be up on Capital Hill the last week of September to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. This is our regular annual oversight hearing, so I’m hoping to cover many aspects of the Bureau’s great work. Of course, I’m guessing folks will want to ask about the email investigation. . . . I will try not to bother you with this any longer.
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Kallstrom has his own problem with integrity. Many believe he ran interference for Bubba on the TWA crash.
You mean center fuel tank Jimmy?
FBI Director Comey: I released Clinton docs on Friday because ‘we don’t play games’
There. That's better...
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