I am fine with Comey going public but he could've explained so much better. Finding "evidence" and not informing congress potentially much worse than what he's done here.
Matthew Miller, who served at the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder, blasted Comey's move in a 14-post spree on Twitter Friday afternoon, ripping the FBI director for his practices throughout the entire Clinton investigation
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The Justice Department does that, he said, “because voters have no way to interpret FBI/DOJ activity in a neutral way.” Miller wrote that the new information being reviewed by the FBI “might be totally benign & not even involve Clinton. But no way for press or voters to know that. Easy for opponent to make hay over.”
That's my point, wtf. He adds that one assumes the FBI is investigating Russia, Wikileaks, and links to Trump, but we don't even know if that is going on.
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Comey’s behavior has been especially suspect, Miller wrote, because the FBI has chosen not to comment on or even confirm the existence of other campaign-related investigations. He said the bureau is “undoubtedly” investigating any connection between Russian hacking into the email accounts of powerful U.S. political figures and the Trump campaign, but has rightly refused to publicly confirm whether or not an investigation is underway.
“Comey refused to even tell Congress if FBI was investigating Trump camp for Russia hack, but regular updates on Clinton are apparently A-ok,” Miller wrote, adding in the final post from his Twitter flurry that “they shouldn't be commenting on investigations! But that should apply to all. Instead Clinton consistently treated differently/worse.”
Pretty sure part of that letter was a little CYA on Comey's part, reads like a guy who wants to make sure he's clear of obstruction charges by Rep. Chafed
yeah, but if it's only 3 emails, he could have asked his investigators to check them quickly, and include in his letter whether or not they were actually relevant.
I mean what does this have to do with Clinton email investigation?
Not sure since the details are scant, but I would guess maybe there was some potentially classified info (which is being looked into?) sent or cc'd between Huma/Weiner/Clinton? Just speculation of course on what would have prompted Comey doing this 'with abundance of caution'.
Probably nothing of course, just some bad optics.
It's not like the 1000+ emails between Clinton and Patreus that she had deleted are seeing the light of day or something of that degree.
It is legitimately terrifying to think that this guy is only 318 million heartbeats away from the presidency.
Perhaps the most astonishing part of this video, re: Johnson's lack of awareness of the world around him, is that he said Evan McMullin is ensuring Hillary Clinton will win Utah.
Dude you're RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT yet so far removed from who's actually winning states that you think Utah's turning blue because of McMuffin?
I feel kinda bad for Johnson though. He seemed like a good guy in 2012, seems like he's just starting to go crazy/break under the stress of constantly running for office in a pointless campaign that deep down he knows is pointless.
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Originally Posted by anatta
otoh, "Rurals" are, as expected, probably gonna be better for Trump than for Mitt. But it's NV, so Vegas, Reno are it, but yeah the rednecks can vote too.
There are Mormons in Nevada, right? Where do they live? That area will skew less GOP for Trump than for Mitt.
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Originally Posted by bobman0330
Pretty naive. If anything, you should be mad at primary voters for not picking O'Malley or other replacement-level Democrats.
I think this is the right take. Did anyone on the left not think this is exactly what the GE campaign against Hillary would look like? 24/7 EMAILGHAZI? Everyone who voted for Hillary in the primary voted for this, don't be mad at her this late in the game because she is who we thought she was.
I mean what does this have to do with Clinton email investigation?
Weiner does not have security clearance, FBI seized phones and electronics belonging to Huma and Anthony. If any of the emails are classified and on electronics with inappropriate pictures that Anthony used it's something they need to look at.