Posted on 06/08/2017 4:00:12 PM PDT by nodwam
During the Senate Intel hearing Thursday, former FBI director James Comey revealed that during the 2016 election, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch ordered him to downplay the investigation into Hillary Clinton by calling it a "matter" instead of a criminal investigation and Comey obliged.
Comey mislead the entire country to go along with the Clinton campaign talking points. He's a democrat shill that bowed down to political pressure to protect Hillary Clinton.
Senator Lankford probed Comey saying," And then you made a comment earlier about the Attorney General, previous AG [Lynch] asking you about the investigation on the Clinton emails, saying that you were asked not to call it an 'Investigation' anymore, but to call it a 'Matter.' And you said that confused you. Can you give us additional details on that?"
Comey replied, "Well, it concerned me, because we were at the point where we refused to confirm the existence of an investigation --as we usually do-- for months,. And it was getting to a place where that looked silly, because the campaigns were talking about interacting with the FBI in the course of our work.
The Clinton campaign at the time was using all kinds of euphemisms, 'security review,' 'matter.' Things like that.
For what was going on. We were getting to a place where the Attorney General and I were going to have to testify and talk publicly about it, and I wanted to know if she would authorize us to confirm we had an investigation. And she said yes, but don't call it that, call it a 'Matter.' And I said why would I do that? And [Lynch] said just call it a 'Matter.'
And again, you look back in hindsight, should I have resisted more? I just said this wasn't a hill worth dying on, so I said, okay, the press is going to completely ignore it, and that is what happened. When I said we opened a matter, they all reported the FBI had an investigation open. And that concerned me because the language tracked the way the campaign was talking about the FBI's work, and that is concerning... It gave the impression that the Attorney General was looking to align the way we talked about our work with the way a political campaign was describing the same activity, which was inaccurate. We had a criminal investigation open... And so that gave me a queasy feeling."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCY0pB2f3o4
Where is Sessions? Once again asleep at the wheel!
what doesn’t hang for me is that today Comey said it wasn’t for him to decide on whether Trumps actions warrant prosecution, but last summer he it was his duty to tell everyone that Hillary’s actions didn’t rise to the level warranting prosecution........
I read somewhere that someone (I believe it was a Senator) said to him after the hearing that he was head of the FBM, the Federal Bureau of Matters!
What a joke this is. Unfortunately it is NOT funny, just sad.
Quote: “Agree with everything except the Dems losing seats in 2018. THey wont. Theyll win seats, hopefully not a majority. They are organized and passionate. And that is all they need. On the flip side. We are not.”
No offense, I hear the same damn thing about the democrats every election. Organize, passionate. No, they are unhinged and violent. That never ever wins.
As a matter of fact they only elections they have won are when Obama and his cult of personality were at the top of the ticket. The democrats are learning the hard way that they won because of him not the other way around. The democrats are also realizing that Obama took much more from the democrat party than he gave back.
It all boils down to this, do the American people care more about the issues Trump ran on or Russia? If they care more about the issues, and I think they do or Trump doesn’t even smell the White House, then all this Russia stuff is not playing well in the heartland and the Dems will pay for it and badly.
Therein, by the way, is the real and true irony. By bringing forth this Russia meme and riding it to death the Dems are providing the RINO GOPe with cover for their ineptitude. Nobody is talking about the fact that Trump can’t get his agenda through because his own party are inept. Instead the story is that Russia is keeping him from getting it through.
We see what's in YOUR personalized SpellCheck dictionary...
(Got a few myself! ☺)
Should’ve use spell check! I typed and posted to quickly. Prolly a freudian slip. Still accurate though! ;)
Here was the white knight ready to take down George Bush over the diseased body of John Ashcroft...how brave and strong he was as he ran up those hospital stairs...
Now he cowers in the face of blatant ugly politicking by Loretta Lynch. But the sick thing is Comey has the balls to say it didn’t matter because Hillary was innocent - well she she wasn’t innocent, until Comey declared her so. Second- by Comey freeing her, he exonerates himself from not reporting on Loretta Lynch being an obstructionist. This is incredible!
So self serving, so convenient and so full of shit. Republicans should have roasted him.
Most accurate analysis of the day
Dims are likely to lose seats! Here, for example, is the Senate map:
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/306210-10-senate-seats-that-could-flip-in-2018
Besides that—every time there is an AntiFa riot, a muslim attack, or a massive, violent Black Lives Matter “protest”—voters get sicker and sicker of leftists. More whining from Hillary, or threats against the Trump family, will only add to Americans’ antipathy to the Dims.
If Trump’s program start succeeding so all that they improve the situation for large numbers of Americans, the Dims go down even more, as they deserve!!!!
Well, this Show Trial was looking for an example of Collusion.
Looks like they just found it.
Yes, but not President Trump, that collusion was AG Lynch, James Comey, and probably the Clintons!
Yes, but not President Trump, that collusion was AG Lynch, James Comey, and probably the Clintons!
So, are the Media Elites camped outside of Loretta Lynch’s House waiting for her to deny what Comey said under OATH?
Bovine Scatology
Slow down. You are operating inside your own OODA loop. You were right the first time. LOL!
Where the Clintons are involved, "dying on that hill," is not just a turn of phrase.
rgr
I mean, she was AG. OK, folks - is Loretta Lynch legally allowed to interfere in an official FBI investigation like that?
I have no idea.
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