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Interesting take by Scott Adams on the FBI investigation. If his accuracy on this is even close to his usual standards, and given that we are talking about 650,000+ emails, we're going to need a lot more popcorn.
1 posted on 10/31/2016 6:52:45 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
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What Adams does not anticipate in his analysis is the possibility that Comey is getting the squeeze from two or more directions, and is responding based on who has the upper-hand.


2 posted on 10/31/2016 6:56:12 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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It is the whole dang gone email DB from the secret sever. 650,000 emails is everybody’s stuff not just Huma. Too many, order of magnitude beyond one person. More like 5-10 people. Let that number sink in for a minute and how many emails HRC handed over and deleted and how many Podesta emails Wikileaks has and will release. Lot less than 650,000


3 posted on 10/31/2016 6:56:54 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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Tortured logic on this one.

Straightforward explanation is that, having read the cards on Trump winning the race, Comey is trying to keep himself out of jail.

Comey’s “protect Clinton” gambit lost, and he’s salvaging what he can of his position.


6 posted on 10/31/2016 7:08:14 AM PDT by thoughtomator (This election is a referendum on the Rule of Law)
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Clinton/Epstien sex slave paradise island?

650k emails will have some stuff likely on both Clintons, Huma, 0bama, Sor0s, Chelsea, Weiner, others.

I wonder if some FBI “true patriot truth seekers” will leak a few prior to the election just to ensure she isn’t elected and to ensure Comey/FBI isn’t blamed for her loss.


7 posted on 10/31/2016 7:09:38 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (To liberals, lying is like breathing. Believe what you cannot see.)
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I’ve always had a difficult time swallowing the “Comey is a traitor” opinion. It didn’t make any sense considering how he laid out in July all of the crimes that were committed.

Scott Adams does a really good job here explaining what I believe to be closest to the truth.


8 posted on 10/31/2016 7:13:10 AM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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The tarmac meeting..........a deal was made that Hillary would withdraw from the race at an appropriate time, due to health issues, in return they would not prosecute, knowing her failing health would make her sympathetic.

Waiting, waiting, waiting........the Clinton’s reneged on the deal and THIS is payback.


9 posted on 10/31/2016 7:13:29 AM PDT by Toespi
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10 posted on 10/31/2016 7:13:57 AM PDT by justlurking
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11 posted on 10/31/2016 7:15:15 AM PDT by justlurking
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He’s missing alternate explanations of behavior.

Comey still wants a good career and suppressing info can taint his reputation. especially if Trump wins. Better to put it out now than lose his job and be disgraced.


12 posted on 10/31/2016 7:18:00 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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The simplest explanation is the Huma was using this laptop to send all emails forwarded to the laptop to the Muslim Brotherhood.


13 posted on 10/31/2016 7:21:13 AM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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There's another possibility.

A Freeper posted a summary of a conversation he had with a staffer in Martha Roby's (R-AL, I think) office.

According to this staffer, Comey had no choice -- or he would have been impeached by Congress.

Some of you may remember Comey being grilled by Chaffetz (I think) about whether the discovery of new emails (i.e. the 33,000 deleted ones) would be grounds for reopening the investigation. Comey agreed.

But there's apparently an additional wrinkle that wasn't made public: The committee instructed Comey in writing that he was to notify them if more emails were found, and explain why or why not he was reopening the investigation.

Now, you can make the case that the FBI director doesn't take instructions from Congress, and you'd be right. But, if he sat on this until after the election and then told Congress, Comey knows that Republicans would have moved to impeach him -- protocol be damned.

Despite all of this, I think Comey will resign in January, no matter who wins the election. Neither Trump or Clinton will have any confidence in him. But, this way he gets to take the honorable way out, rather than being impeached.

16 posted on 10/31/2016 7:25:13 AM PDT by justlurking
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COMEY IS A SCUMBAG

Let’s see what happens before saying anything


20 posted on 10/31/2016 8:00:22 AM PDT by zzwhale (no way)
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I think Adams is pretty close to the mark. If the director was protecting Clinton, he wouldn’t have said all the things he said when he announced that they weren’t going to prosecute. I think his boss, Lynch, forced him to drop the investigation and he had too much integrity to just let it go.


23 posted on 10/31/2016 9:47:39 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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