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The numbers say it is hard to believe that Comey came to an honest conclusion
vanity | Nov 6, 2016 | Kevin "Coach" Collins

Posted on 11/06/2016 3:16:13 PM PST by jmaroneps37

Even if FBI Director James Comey had 100 agents reading collating and considering the 650,000 emails in the new investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified material, it is hard to see how this much material could have been properly digested and done justice in the ten days he had to work on this investigation.

But even if he did have these agents completely dedicated to this new investigation the numbers say this was a Herculean task that does not pass the smell test.

Research shows “The average college graduate stops 75 times to read each of his 100 words. Great compared to the 3rd grader, but slow and boring, and inefficient.”

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/HOLMAN1.html

Assuming that each email is one hundred words (which is might be a low number) that comes to 65 million words to read. FBI agents are college graduates and most are lawyers; but it is hard to imagine them speed reading through material as critical to the nation’s wellbeing as these 650,000 emails.

If we allow for turnover time, handling these emails, whether printed out in the worst case or on a computer screen at the best, the time we can reasonably assign to reviewing each email has to be two minutes for those considered frivolous and much more for those immediately deemed important. Anyone who has done this type of plodding searching research, requiring sifting through mountains of words, knows this is the case.

Reason says, some even the shortest emails of fifty words, might require an extended period of say three minutes to weigh their contents for relevance in a larger context.

Thereafter those deemed suspicious would require a “Stop the presses” conference which would eat up more time. When such an inevitable stoppage occurs everyone at the table – another logistic impossibility – would necessarily have to stop and listen to the finding and consider whether what was just found is valuable to a pattern he or she is mentally building given the emails before him/her.

The average number of words on a page in a novel which presumably has a coherent flow and is therefore easier to read and digest, is 300 words. This means the equivalent of 21,000 pages of flowing text which is not broken by changes in subject and mental construction to be weighed against possible federal law violation.

Using the most generous allowance for Comey and his FBI team to have reexamined the 650,000 emails involved in the new investigation, and assuming they worked every minute of every hour they were at it, the crew worked for 14,400 minutes on this project just reading without interruption for reconsideration, stretching bathroom breaks etc.

http://www.readingsoft.com/

The records show the longest known book in the English language is L. Ron Hubbard’s The Invader’s Plan which is 1.2 million words. So the 65 million words of emails are the equivalent of 54 of Hubbard’s books. Does it seem logical to believe they read all that material happened?

Properly investigating this pile of emails would require 100 agents putting in 3600 man hours with no stopping for consultation with other agents when a pattern was detected.

This does not include the coordination of original FBI notes with newly discovered findings.

It is simply not reasonable to believe the FBI did justice to a review of 650,000 emails it had to collate for subject matter and consider in an overview while weighing it all for violations of federal law.

Woody Allen once said this about speed reading “I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/woodyallen122359.html

Woody Allen is a comedian; what Comey did is not at all funny.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: MotorCityBuck

again, its not the “best election ever” if the witch steals it...


41 posted on 11/06/2016 4:18:09 PM PST by cherry
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To: Arm_Bears
Comey came out like a slimey little worm when he quietly wrote the letter to Congress on a Friday, late in the day IIRC...

now, he says there is nothing to see, on a Sunday....

I think he was forced to do something initially and now he has covered himself for his owners...

I really think there was some threat to expose the witch early on and he successfully delayed that...

and if I am right, something big will happen tomorrow....

any bets?

42 posted on 11/06/2016 4:26:23 PM PST by cherry
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To: kaehurowing

Headline of the Day Poll

Why won’t the FBI recommend charges over the Hillary emails?

FBI Director Comey is a coward (38%)
FBI Director Comey is corrupt (33%)
There has been no crime committed (29%)

Read more: http://www.headlineoftheday.com/#ixzz4PHHvRp00


43 posted on 11/06/2016 4:26:30 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?)
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To: A_perfect_lady
> Comey probably backed off to avoid being murdered.

Then he's more stupid than he looks. He knows how the Clinton Crime Network works. He's dead either way this rolls out. People that have insider knowledge are not allowed to live. The guy might have had a chance if he'd done his job and he would have received support and protection. Now he's ensured his own death in the near future.

44 posted on 11/06/2016 4:29:33 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jmaroneps37

they didn’t close the case, it was a review of only Hillary to and from emails, which can mean many things. Based on the review, nothing so far has changed. They are not done going through the emails, they haven’t answered if the emails they reviewed were from a specific time period and included the coverup congressional hearings.... so we are back to where we were.... Until further notice, but not before Tuesday lol


45 posted on 11/06/2016 4:31:24 PM PST by Katya
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To: jsanders2001

He’ll probably get so upset he’ll take off his clothes, shoot himself in the back of the head twice, and then curl up and fall into a suitcase that snaps closed automatically.


46 posted on 11/06/2016 4:31:37 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: jmaroneps37

EXACTLY ..!!!

THE IDIOT DEMOCRATS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY HAVE JUST DONE.

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS SEEING THE POTENTIAL OF THIS LATEST SLAP BY THE LEFT.


47 posted on 11/06/2016 4:33:16 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: Meet the New Boss

A presumption of classification by pro-Clinton FBI/DOJ operatives isn’t enough to deter NYPD from transferring them.

If they were so loosely guarded in the first place (ended up on Wiener’s laptop) then they’ll eventually end up in the public domain.


48 posted on 11/06/2016 4:36:07 PM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: Vehmgericht

HMMMMM ..?? I WONDER HOW MANY OF THOSE FBI RESIGNATIONS WILL BECOME OFFICIAL OVER THIS ..??


49 posted on 11/06/2016 4:36:48 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: jmaroneps37

This makes no sense to me to make the announcement on Sunday. Why not Friday...when the media has all weekend and the Sunday morning news shows. It sounds like desperate move. The timing seems off.


50 posted on 11/06/2016 4:36:55 PM PST by PaulZe
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To: windsorknot

More than likely killery sent one of her business associates to visit his wife and or kids to send a “message”.


51 posted on 11/06/2016 4:38:22 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Arm_Bears

“... MEANT TO DEFLATE AND DISPIRIT ...”

NOT ME .. I’M MADDER THAN I WAS BEFORE.


52 posted on 11/06/2016 4:40:29 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: CyberAnt

53 posted on 11/06/2016 4:40:38 PM PST by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: CyberAnt

From what I’ve seen on various sites, you’re not alone.

Methinks this is another DIM miscalculation.


54 posted on 11/06/2016 4:42:43 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: zipper

YEAH, WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE IMPENDING ARRESTS; INDICTMENTS ..????

POOOOOFF ..!!! I GUESS THEY DISAPPEARD TOO.


55 posted on 11/06/2016 4:43:48 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: sport

. . But, now Comey is all A-OK (he thinks); having thrown
a bone to TRUMP and a larger bone to Hitler-y. He took
the spotlight off “Wikileaks” for a few days, which should
earn him some high fives from the Clintons.

RETIRE THE CLINTONS!!!


56 posted on 11/06/2016 4:47:04 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: jmaroneps37

They had digital versions. They most likely used software to evaluate most of them.


57 posted on 11/06/2016 4:49:12 PM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 16 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I’ve never seen such lunacy except vikingkitties.blogspot.com The guy wastes whole days excerpting quotes from here to share with other losers and wonders why he can’t keep a job...
but the best part is he continuously proves liberals are a mental disorder for us for FREE...;)

Win any way you look at it.


58 posted on 11/06/2016 4:49:50 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jmaroneps37

Comey got the message: (Horse’s head from “The Godfather”) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cwns7tIXEAIZbHY.jpg:large


59 posted on 11/06/2016 4:50:03 PM PST by combat_boots (I no longer know what to say to put here. Pray for us.)
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To: GreenHornet

‘... not that big of an impact ...”

Oh really .. Hmmmmm ..?? I’m guessing it will have the exact opposite the LEFT was counting on.

They think we’re going to stay home and let Hillary win .. but that’s where they always make their mistake. When you dangle a steak in front of a hungry elephant .. you’re likely to get trampled.


60 posted on 11/06/2016 4:50:37 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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