CNBC: FBI's Comey opposed naming Russians, citing election timing

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FBI Director James Comey argued privately that it was too close to Election Day for the United States government to name Russia as meddling in the U.S. election and ultimately ensured that the FBI's name was not on the document that the U.S. government put out, a former FBI official tells CNBC.

The official said some government insiders are perplexed as to why Comey would have election timing concerns with the Russian disclosure but not with the Huma Abedin email discovery disclosure he made Friday.

In the end, the Department of Homeland Security and The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued the statement on Oct. 7, saying "The U.S. intelligence community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations…These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process."
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http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/31/fbis-comey-opposed-naming-russians-citing-election-timing-source.html
 
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Totally not partisan though guys.

In before "you all loved him before when he didn't send Hillary to jail, hypocrites!"
 
TestOfTide said:
So does this mean Harry Reid wasn't full of shit about the FBI knowing of some Russia/Trump connections?
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The only ones that didn't "know" that are the kind of deplorables you see popping up on NeoGAF from time to time when things are going negatively for Clinton. You might possibly get to witness their spin in this very thread, lets wait and see.
 
To me this pretty much proves his Clinton letter was an effort to influence the election.

Or at the very least he didn't consider the effects of it on her campaign versus the Russians with Trump.
 
His ass needs to be fired. Like Obama dropping him with a Stone-Cold Stunner and giving him the double middle finger fired.
 
flkraven said:
So if all this is true, there is no way he keeps his job, right?
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This basically confirms that he's going to be forced out if Clinton wins. Hell, maybe Obama does it after the election at this rate.

Because ain't this some motherfucking shit.
 
Comey fucked up, bad. But honestly it's looking more and more like he either owes someone a favor or whoever it is has compromising pictures of him. Because there's no way this makes sense and he takes the fall for something so obviously stupid.
 
This stupid motherfucker. I really can't tell if he even has an angle. He seems like an oblivious partisan piece of shit. I was gonna defend him a bit as maybe just having idiotic timing, but this is just fucking nefarious.
 
Kyzer said:
how would you have known this was true already without evidence though? confirmation bias?
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? That he's partisan or that people will be saying that? Because people are saying that now in the other FBI thread. Sorry guess I don't get your point. There were the accusations by Reid and already enough to assume he was partisan before this.
 
PantherLotus said:
Comey fucked up, bad. But honestly it's looking more and more like he either owes someone a favor or whoever it is has compromising pictures of him. Because there's no way this makes sense and he takes the fall for something so obviously stupid.
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Chaffetz. He probably pressured him into sending a letter otherwise he would leak the Huma Abedin warrant. Get an investigation into Chaffetz.
 
DontBeThatGuy said:
The only ones that didn't "know" that are the kind of deplorables you see popping up on NeoGAF from time to time when things are going negatively for Clinton. You might possibly get to witness their spin in this very thread, lets wait and see.
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I mean specifically hard evidence that the FBI is holding onto, because that's what Reid was suggesting.
 
I hate to be that poster, but is there a summary of WTF is going on since I haven't kept up with the most recent FBI/Weiner email things?
 
Escape Goat said:
Who is pulling Comey's strings? The guy is falling apart.
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See

This dumb motherfucker thought HE was pulling the string. "Im gonna send congress a letter and theyll leak it cause killary ahee hee hee". But that backfired.

Now Reid is firing back, saying "givr us the russians".

So this dumb motherfucker is starting to break. "Bu-bu-bu-but its election season".

Man. Such incompetent stupidity.

FinaruDensetsu said:
Wow so Comey is a Trump supporter huh? How messed up when the Dems supported him for his position and Obama hired him. WTF.
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Dems need to stop playing bipartisan. Burn the damn bridge already.
 
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