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

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If only we didn't all chicken little ourselves to death on bullshit.

After all the socialism and terrorist talk, we have the FBI Director directly trying to influence an election that will enable a literal fascist to take over.


What in the fuck happened.
 
If only we didn't all chicken little ourselves to death on bullshit.

After all the socialism and terrorist talk, we have the FBI Director directly trying to influence an election that will enable a literal fascist to take over.


What in the fuck happened.

But what about the DNC favoring Clinton, huh, huh? That's the only kind of election "influence" I care about!
 
He did know the consequences, because he explained that in his internal letter to the bureau. My question is more what he hoped to accomplish if he was partisan, or what was his reasoning if it was just plain ineptitude.
Comey may have thought that he understood the consequences, but he didn't seem to really grasp the magnitude of what he was doing. He will be a very good object lesson for future FBI directors (and anyone else in a similar position). Unfortunately for Comey, he will be playing the role of the dissection specimen.
 
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Suffice to say Clinton campaign is not happy.
 
17 government agencies have said Russia is trying to interfere in our elections.

Also a bunch of private investigations have shown evidence of Russian hacking of not only the DNC and Clinton campaign personnel, but also of organizations like the NYTimes.
 
He actually said that an FBI director trying to alter the results of an election is somehow less damning than someone giving Hillary an easy debate question?

Refuse to believe it. Nope.

It's on this very page. Though he's saying that he doesn't believe a single source, not that the story is less damninh, despite multiple federal agencies saying the same thing.

Clinton sure does hate the Russians.
A single anonymous FBI source speaks less to me than shitloads of emails and video showing the Clinton machine in action.

I'll hold out for more FBI sources to corroborate on this one.
 
Just imagine what his numbers might look like if he didn't have Russia(and by extension, wikileaks) going all in exclusively for him. Rigged, indeed.
Unfortunately, they probably wouldn't be much lower than they are, but still... It's insane how many people are going to bat and risking it all for a guy like this. The good thing is it won't make a difference, but still...
 
It's on this very page. Though he's saying that he doesn't believe a single source, not that the story is less damninh, despite multiple federal agencies saying the same thing.

Ah... You must be one of those 100 ppp people.

But yes, there it is. That's certainly something.
 
Any other peeps want to argue we need to give Comey the benefit of the doubt? No? Oh!

Destroy. Every. Aspect. Of. His. Life. Hillary and Obama. Make it so he cant see straight he is mired in so much shit. Make it so he cannot so much step foot in a government agency and he has to work at Aldi's to make ends meet.
 
Why did Obama apppoint a Republican head of CIA.

It should be assumed that all republicans are cunts, and they should not be appointed by Democrats. Hopefully the Democrats finally learned this lesson

It's really really sad if we're at the point where even a position that's supposed to be unaffected by political bias is one you can't afford to offer to the other party.
 
Any other peeps want to argue we need to give Comey the benefit of the doubt? No? Oh!

Destroy. Every. Aspect. Of. His. Life. Hillary and Obama. Make it so he cant see straight he is mired in so much shit. Make it so he cannot so much step foot in a government agency and he has to work at Aldi's to make ends meet.

If anyone should be locked up it's Comey
 
It's crazy that it's a real possibility at this point.

Not sure the "Hatch Rule" has jail time associated with it. But depending on what an investigation uncovers, there may be something else. Someone who would do something so overtly political within 11 days of the election probably did something else wrong too.
 
Yo, I realize this stuff happened before many of us posting were even born, but let's not act like the FBI has a long history of being impartial.

They tried to get Martin Luther King Jr to kill himself: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/...er-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance

And read up on COINTELPRO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Not to mention there is tons of blatant open support for Trump in the general Law Enforcement community.

All that is to say, Comey's fucked up here but it's really not unprecedented in the slightest that the FBI would try to manipulate national politics.

His actions are extremely unethical and unprofessional, but Comey hasn't done anything illegal yet.

Probably a violation of the Hatch act.
 
Yo, I realize this stuff happened before many of us posting were even born, but let's not act like the FBI has a long history of being impartial.

They tried to get Martin Luther King Jr to kill himself: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/...er-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance

And read up on COINTELPRO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Not to mention there is tons of blatant open support for Trump in the general Law Enforcement community.

All that is to say, Comey's fucked up here but it's really not unprecedented in the slightest that the FBI would try to manipulate national politics.

Thats was J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, I think today's FBI is a different organization
 
Not sure the "Hatch Rule" has jail time associated with it. But depending on what an investigation uncovers, there may be something else. Someone who would do something so overtly political within 11 days of the election probably did something else wrong too.

His actions are extremely unethical and unprofessional, but Comey hasn't done anything illegal yet.

True, hence the possibility. I imagine he'll resign, but that alone is a crazy turn in this election.
 
Yo, I realize this stuff happened before many of us posting were even born, but let's not act like the FBI has a long history of being impartial.

They tried to get Martin Luther King Jr to kill himself: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/...er-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance

And read up on COINTELPRO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Not to mention there is tons of blatant open support for Trump in the general Law Enforcement community.

All that is to say, Comey's fucked up here but it's really not unprecedented in the slightest that the FBI would try to manipulate national politics.



Probably a violation of the Hatch act.
J Edgar Hoover was a prick. But even he had the good sense of keeping his trap shut before elections.
 
Yo, I realize this stuff happened before many of us posting were even born, but let's not act like the FBI has a long history of being impartial.

They tried to get Martin Luther King Jr to kill himself: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/...er-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance

And read up on COINTELPRO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Not to mention there is tons of blatant open support for Trump in the general Law Enforcement community.

All that is to say, Comey's fucked up here but it's really not unprecedented in the slightest that the FBI would try to manipulate national politics.



Probably a violation of the Hatch act.

This isn't, to the best of my knowledge, a criminal matter.
 
Thats was J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, I think today's FBI is a different organization

It's the same FBI; obviously the personnel is different as it's 50 years later. It's not remotely unprecedented for the FBI to meddle in national politics and it's naive to think otherwise.

They haven't done anything this blatant in a while tho, that comes to mind at least.
 
Holy shit, now even Chuck Grassley is on the anti-Comey bandwagon:



I'm even seeing national media here in Mexico with headlines of "FBI accused of violating law to hurt Clinton"

Yea Comey is fucked. When people on both sides of the political spectrum are calling you out. You fucked up.

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Senate judiciary committee chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, tells FBI Director Comey that "without additional context, your disclosure is not fair to Congress, the American people, or Secretary Clinton"
 
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