Posted on 10/29/2016 12:29:44 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
According to the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer and the Washington Post, F.B.I. Director James Comey acted on his own when he, 11 days before the election, disclosed on Friday that new emails had been discovered which may or may not be relevant to the agency’s closed investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State. Comey, by informing Congress of the evidence, apparently disregarded the opinions of Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Justice Department officials, who had reminded him of the department’s policy of not commenting on ongoing investigations nor acting in such a way as could influence an upcoming election.
Comey apparently understood we was violating these guidelines, but felt he was obligated to do so because he had promised members of Congress he would inform them of any further developments related to Clinton’s email server misuse, as well as because of the proximity of the impending election. In a letter he sent to F.B.I. employees after alerting Congress of the new evidence, Comey acknowledged that it was unprecedented for him to inform Congress of an incomplete investigation, but explained that:
"I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record. At the same time, however, given that we don’t know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails, I don’t want to create a misleading impression. In trying to strike that balance, in a brief letter and in the middle of an election season, there is significant risk of being misunderstood, but I wanted you to hear directly from me about it."
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According to the WaPo and New Yorker, with the word “apparently” being thrown around a lot. What a load of drivel.
Comey has enough on Obama and Lynch to protect him and his job.
It would be incredibly stupid of them make Comey a martyr. They wouldn’t be so thick as to make him a symbol for us to rally round, would they? They wouldn’t do that.
Read that first sentence.
“According to TWO HILLARY-SLOBBERING MEDIA OUTLETS.....”, Comey is a rogue! Oh noes!
What crap. But I guess this is the meme they’ll run with. Comey was their hero when he was part of the cover-up. Now, well hell, he’s on Trump’s payroll, he’s probably working with the Russians, etc. Good gawd, what a bunch of filthy liars!
Looks to me like the presstitute who wrote this swill is trying to convince Obama to do something.
Let us keep our intellectual powder dry for a couple of days, and watch the panic more fully develop.
Yea, but he violated Justice Department procedure the way he handled it the first time.
...not to mention one of the lead investigators being a beneficiary of a very large contribution via the Clinton Foundation.
Comey has done everything to help Clinton. Unrecorded interviews, never empaneling a grand jury, no subpoenas, asking the devices be turned over, an (unheard of) non-prosecution recommendation.
Comey is only doing this now because people under him want to skin him and put his pelt on the wall!
So, she's already fled the country...
For anyone following this saga, Lynch trying to squash this new information just reinforces the view that the Attorney General meeting with Bill Clinton was not a chance meeting. So now the FBI director that Hillary herself repeatedly refer to as her exonerator, is now the problem?
He has some independence, because he can only be impeached convicted, and removed by Congress, or fired by the President for cause. Lynch cannot fire him. She's more like a line supervisor of the FBI Director in that regard.
Exactly. How in the world is covering up facts NOT an action that influences an election?
Expect a cue of women who will now accuse Comey of groping and assault them.
Gotta go by the playbook don’t ya know.
Unless what he has implicates the boss as well????
Piss on you, New York Magazine. Maybe one good violation (not prosecuting) deserves another.
They are focused on Comey while and Lynch violated Justice Dept. policy by meeting with Bubba on the Tarmac.
He’s not at-will. 0bama would need to fire him for cause, and I doubt violating a DOJ guideline is enough. Anyway, 0bama is not going to do a Saturday Night Massacre.
Huma is changing safe houses faster than Pablo Escobar!
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