Posted on 06/03/2017 1:57:07 AM PDT by blueplum
Full title: 'None of it makes much sense': Experts are baffled by Comey's use of a fake Russian document to skirt the DOJ
Former FBI, CIA, and Justice Department officials say they are baffled by reports that a fake Russian document affected former FBI Director James Comey's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
CNN reported Friday that Comey knew the document a memo purporting to show collusion between Loretta Lynch, who was then the attorney general, and the Clinton campaign was fake. That has raised questions about why he used it as justification to skirt the Department of Justice and hold a press conference last summer in which he skewered Clinton for her "extremely careless" use of a private email server while she was secretary of state and defended the bureau's decision not to recommend charges.
{snip} Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN on Sunday that Comey "never once told a member of the House or the Senate that he thought the email was fake" and would have been "incredibly incompetent" to act on a document he knew to be fraudulent.
"I can't imagine a scenario where it's OK for the FBI director to jump in the middle of an election based on a fake email generated by the Russians and not tell the Congress," Graham said.
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I still don’t get it. Comey’s famous diatribe on Clinton was DEVASTATING! That it didn’t meet the standard for being “illegal” (so HE says), doesn’t wipe away all the rotten, campaign ending stuff you just said.
Why did he essentially DESTROY Clinton? Because he thought she was going to WIN? NOT!
It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
It’s never “enough.”
It makes perfect sense if you start with the assumption that Comey was running a private espionage ring out of his FBI office.
BREAKING NEWS
CNN discovers that the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Gettysburg address are Russian fakes!
Whoever is behind this is trying to strengthen the case that Hillary was wronged in the election.
They are trying to keep her viable as a leader of the party and a possible candidate for another run in 2020...
While working for Hillary?
$35 million?
Shoot for that kind of money old Podesta leaked his personal emails to WiliLeaks and has been playing double agent with Putin and the gang.
Wait til Hubba Bubba gets a load of this!
True that. But he was not struggling $185,000 civil service salary!
The memo isn’t fake, CNN is....
He is a funny guy. I am sure he was tired of being under Clinton’s thumb, and the more public his inept ‘defense’ of her(”sloppy and negligent, but not criminal”), the safer for him and his family.
And maybe he feared for her as leader of the free world.
That’s my take.
Reports surface in Spring 2016 that the FBI has completed its investigation into Clinton's misuse of her private email server while SoS.
Public pressure builds for the results of the investigation to be announced.
Lynch announces she will follow the recommendation of the FBI. That declaration (from a strictly PR viewpoint) takes the political appointee out of the loop and throws the weight of the decision on to the nonpartisan (!!) Director of the FBI, Mr. Comey.
Public pressure builds for the results of the investigation to be announced.
Lynch has her chat with Bill on the tarmac at Phoenix International.
Public pressure builds for the results of the investigation to be announced.
Clinton needs this problem to go away before the DNC convention in July.
Party pressure builds for the results of the investigation to be announced that does not damage Hillary so badly she cannot recover and get elected President.
Comey has his "extremely reckless behavior but prosecution not recommended" news conference. He also promises Congress at subsequent hearings to reopen the investigation if new information about the emails comes to light.
Clinton enemies seize on the "extremely reckless" part of the press conference while Clinton supporters focus on "no indictment recommended" part.
Although bruised by the "extremely reckless" criticism, Clinton can now go forward to claim the nomination paving the way to her inevitable election.
MSM press attention shifts to full throated support for Clinton. Talk about the emails dies down.
In early October, the NYPD as part of an underage sexting investigation, seizes the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the husband of Clinton's close aide, Huma Abelin. In addition to incriminating sexting evidence, they find many thousands of Clinton's emails.
Word is leaked to the press.
In late October, Comey, caught in his earlier promise to reopen the investigation if necessary, is compelled to notify the Congress (and the press through leaked documents) that the FBI has reopened the case to see if the new evidence will change his earlier recommendation.
Although the agency somehow manages to got through thousands of emails and determine they cause no change in its earlier findings and recommendation, the damage is done. It reawakens the controversy in the minds of an already less than unenthusiastic public.
The fake Russian memo - if it existed at the time and if it was not, in fact, cooked up by the FBI itself - is simply cover for Comey to justify direct announcement of the findings. Findings that were already precooked by Democratic insiders who knew there had to be very significant (but not fatal) criticism of Clinton's behavior to counterbalance the no prosecution recommendation.
fake news? fake documents? pure lies?
All ComDem SOP.
Remember the Killion Letters on “W”, Dan Rather’s fake but real?
ComDems always lie. They must, if they told the truth no one would ever elect them. Headshake.
Reality leak?
Comey needed to be fired. Nobody seems to understand what his intentions were, and now it has to investigated for the next 10 years. Need to fire more of them.
WOW! Lot’s of moves! When first we practice to dec....
Only DemoKKKrat shills are “baffled”Ru
>>The public was
spoon fed Monica back in the 90s to cover
the Chinese dumping millions in the White House.<<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
And “fixer” Ken Starr was brought in to play the role of Comey.
Starr finally got what he deserved when his gig at Baylor University blew up over yet another coverup.
Graham is calling it an email. Anybody have any idea what the actual document(s) is ? Is it an email ? an attachment to an email ? Where did it come from ?
so i found this, which is not quite clear to me as the time line seems fuzzy...
could all the header information in an email be faked, if it was an actual sent email ?
So you're saying he had a New York Times subscription?
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