There are so many crimes here: setting up a secret government database; running national secrets through it; destroying evidence under investigation; making false statements to FBI agents; and on and on.
The claim by Comey that Lynch had no idea of what he was going to say is absurd. Comey had been circulating his proposed exoneration statement for weeks, and folks like Strzok were freely making changes in it. The FBI team was fully embedded with the DOJ lawyers working on the case and it defies belief that the FBI team to whom Comey circulated his draft exoneration statement did not share those drafts with DOJ lawyers as it was circulated.
Attorney-client privilege? What rank hypocrites, liars and corrupt scumbags.
That’s right. He didn’t.
30,000 emails destroyed. Government cell phones destroyed. Etc
Nothing to prosecute?
You were afraid, Comey. Afraid of what the Clinton Crime Family would do to you.
I have a strange feeling this book is going to backfire on the author, big time. The book just came out, and people are picking up on several contradictions, several veiled references describing himself as witness to questionable and unsavory methods.
What’s the old saying?
“Hoisted by his own petard!”
We shall see.
Huge concerns there about attorney-client privilege, attorney work product.
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You have to be sh*ting me. F*ck the FBI.
So he chose to 'screw around' with it on his own.
Those that predicted that he would only screw himself over and make him look more a fool and liar with his book and book selling tour were right.
Only if you re-write the law in question to require intent. Only if you ignore rampant lying to the FBI. Only if you ignore rampant destruction of subpeonaed evidence. Only if you are a partisan hack.
“The decision that there wasn’t a prosecutable case here was not a hard one.”
Yep. MONEY TALKS.
It was not his role to give that press conference, he’s a totally self impressed individual. I think more and more people are acknowledging that.
Comedy’s public statement about not charging her was, I believe, meant to be a band aid on his reputation many years from now. “He knew she was going to be the President,” he maybe imagined future historians saying, “and nothing was going to stop it, so he took the only option really open to him.”
Of course Trump won even with Hillary cheating to the nines, even though her operatives she and the DNC illegally colluded with were fearless and brash enough to admit that they were in collusion and admit that they were gonna bus voters in just as they had for the last 50 years.
When dealing with so-called “progressives” I have noticed that there is a tendency for them to treat the lack of convictions as the proof that there were no crimes committed. Bill Clinton colluding with the ChiComs and engaging in pay for play? No convictions so it didn’t happen. Algore taking money funneled through others? No convictions so it must not have been wrong. All the things Comey said Hillary had done? Ditto.
Progressives essentially disallow all evidence that can be given, or indeed can be had at all, with such a stance. Only when there’s a conviction will they begrudgingly allow wrongdoing and even then they compartmentalize everything from everything else so there is no sense with them that there could ever be anything like a long train of abuses that indicate a deeper and more profound corruption. This is why you cannot convince them: their defenses are perfect. The proverbial wagons circle themselves.
The see nothing. Their mascot should be Sgt. Shultz.
But if you are outside their “we”, if you are the “they” beyond their ranks, then every whiff of allegation is serious enough to demand investigation and they will in fact go after the rest of us when no underlying crime has been committed.
You see, Trump is guilty of a very serious crime in that in defeating Hillary he committed Obstruction of Just-Us ... with “Us” obviously being the progressives. For that not only must he pay and pay dearly but everyone who helped him must be made to pay and everyone he ever had business dealings with, even his family, must be made to pay.
People, don’t question why the gutless wonders in the RNC are against Trump! They know the DNC, that they are out for blood, even literal blood, and they maybe just don’t want to go to bed with their pillows on the wrong side of their faces so tightly that they cannot even push them away ... as happened to Scalia.
We have to defeat the Democrats. They may manage on account of a coming shit-storm of depredations to start a civil war even if they win in November, but if they lose they may just start it anyway. But the second option is way better than the first no matter how you cut it.
Comey talks like a 7th grader.
No challenge; instigate an FBI raid, silly!
Wow! Comey is, like, fer shure, a master wordsmith.
He’s a devious little dirtbag to rationalize away the injustice in all this. There have been a number of cases where people have been prosecuted for the very slightest and most innocent of security protocol transgressions. Those people were forced to plea down or were otherwise prosecuted and penalized with fines and prison time. The case against her was not ‘slight’. She left her server unsecured for extended periods to which Comey admits it was likely hacked by foreign intel services. She transmitted backups of her communications using insecure means onto at least 3 separate devices on at least 3 separate occasions. She explicitly rejected the advice and admonition of the government’s IT security people. She purposefully destroyed evidence under subpoena.
How could anyone with integrity, who spent a lifetime in the so-called justice system, who was head of the vaunted FBI, permit the injustice of letting her walk while prosecuting so many others for what were obviously innocent mistakes?
The very least of this decision was to prove to the citizens that there are at least 2 systems of justice, one for the wealthy and powerful and politically connected, and one for everyone else. Many people, usually but not always on the old left, have made similar claims; that there is an injustice in the justice system. That claim has not had much traction in the mainstream. As far as I am concerned it is now a proven fact.
DIRTY-COP-COMEYWow, what a honed and articulate speaker. He's clearly bound for bigger and better things. Maybe junior high school class president?