Posted on 09/08/2016 11:14:14 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
The day after the Director of the FBI claimed that Hillary Clinton received classified emails on her personal email server before concluding that she violated no laws and would face no charges, a State Department spokesman contradicted him, stating that the emails in question had been improperly marked to begin with and therefore she did nothing wrong (something we reported last night). This morning, as the Director was being interrogated by House Republicans over his findings, one of the Democrats on the committee pointed out the discrepancy. This prompted him to revise his stance on the matter.
Even as the Republicans spent the day suggesting to FBI Director James Comey’s face that he either failed to properly look into Hillary Clinton’s use of email or outright rigged the matter in her favor, he confidently shot down their conspiracies one after another, likely causing them to regret having hauled him in to begin with. But it was a House Democrat who finally asked Comey about the new State Department assertion that the emails in question were improperly marked.
The FBI Director responded by revising and clarifying his assessment, acknowledging that of the three email in question (originally reported as two emails by the New York Times), there were errors their classification markings which had nothing to do with Hillary Clinton and therefore could not have been her fault. This came as he also made that clear Clinton voluntarily cooperated with every aspect of the inquiry, and that to the best of his knowledge, she was truthful throughout the matter.
And now suddenly it appears that the House Republicans have grossly overplayed what hadn’t been much of a hand to begin with. Rather than giving the Director a stage for repeating and amplifying his personal criticisms of Hillary Clinton, they instead challenged his integrity, effectively forcing him to defend her character and behavior while defending his own. MSNBC has more details on the classification non-issue.
Comey-the-Clown is Co-Conspirator in the Clinton Crime Cover-up.
Comey has zero credibility any more.
Some animals classified e-mails are not classified.
If I understand the State Department correctly, I can discuss classified information at McDonalds PROVIDED I don’t stand up first and announce to everyone that I’m going to discuss classified information...
The Clinton defense boils down to this: She’s a powerful Democrat politician who can do whatever the hell she wants. But if YOU do it, your butt will be tossed in jail!
Who was responsible for erroneously marking such information? Was the person using this method to prevent public knowledge of this information?
Comey now open to assault by Assange and criminal charges himself.
J Edgar Hoover must be spinning in his skirt to see the agency and what it devolved into.. much like the DoJ..
Goes further than that. Obama and the Lynch are pulling the strings on all of this.
Has this been confirmed anywhere else? I could not find it. I suspect that this is a questionable website. One tipoff was the comment that the committee would regret calling Comey and that he refuted them point by point. That is opinion presented as fact.
Trump needs to end his swearing in with, “Comey, you’re fired!”
That is what Hillary is counting on. The country should be disgusted that all of these powerful and supposedly intelligent people are behaving like this isn't a simple matter of Hillary brazenly breaking the law and putting national security at risk.
If Killery had instructed staff to remove the "classified" headers from the emails prior to being sent to her 'private server',
then the staff is as culpable as she is!!
Which explains why the entire Dept. of State has been so OBSTRUCTIONIST for the last two years !
Thank you for your kind words. Lord willing Comey along with EVERYONE INVOLVED IN BILL AND HILLARY’S MASSIVE CRIMES AND EQUALLY MASSIVE COVER UP WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW once Mr. Trump becomes POTUS.
Comey is Hillary’s b***** now.
All one has to do is skim their home page to see this site is pure BS . . . and by extension - so it appears, are you.
No, it was wanting to stay alive that prompted him to change his stance on the matter.
Circular firing squad.
And everything is just fine now....Right
I recently saw a long list of fake “news” sites. It started with the Onion which was more obvious so-called satire. Now there are many of them, presented as news, but totally fake. I wish I still had the list. People should know crap when they see it. Maybe I’ll search and find that list. More such bogus crap sites start all the time, a new fad. Just to fool people and distract from the real crap.
Translation: “Even I, the director of the FBI, am afraid of being snuffed out ...”
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