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

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Mercury Fred said:
Would you like to explain what you meant by



Or are you going to continue to make bizarre, inflammatory, unsubstantiated claims then never follow up?
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You quoted my follow up.

The Clinton Russia comment was when there was a single anonymous source for this. Now there are more anonymous sources it's more likely legit and less likely a planted story.

It's also a jab at the whole Clinton linking Wikileaks and Russia. Russia didn't make her set up a private email server to avoid FOIA.
 
Even if the emails somehow produced something groundbreaking, Comey is about to get fucked here regardless.
This is a terrible fucking look for a man in his position.
 
diablos991 said:
You quoted my follow up.

The Clinton Russia comment was when there was a single anonymous source for this. Now there are more anonymous sources it's more likely legit and less likely a planted story.

It's also a jab at the whole Clinton linking Wikileaks and Russia. Russia didn't make her set up a private email server to avoid FOIA.
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Clinton setting up a private server now seems like the only reason her server wasn't hacked by Russia. I mean, if they had those mails, they would have been released by now.
 
studyguy said:
Even if the emails somehow produced something groundbreaking, Comey is about to get fucked here regardless.
This is a terrible fucking look for a man in his position.
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Not sure. Republicans have recently changed their minds and would prefer it if everybody just got along, especially Russia and the US.

Bringing up Russians now has become a Democrat Scare Tactic™.
 
EmCeeGramr said:
(turns toward camera) my grandpappy always said you gotta grab em by the hooha and I abide by that particular aphorism
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Steel said:
No, he was still doing his job investigating it and it's normal for stuff like this to not be public while it's still under investigation. The only thing he violated by not publicly announcing it while at the same time announcing the email stuff is the hatch act.

People jump to treason waaaaay too quickly in these situations.

Edit: Double beat.
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I guess I was asking more about the investigation side but that makes sense.

I was wondering, if we find out he purposefully shanking or hurting the investigation to ALLOW them to tilt the election because it benefits Trump. That would be treason correct?
 
The FBI is as dirty and meddling as it has always been.

It existed to do the President's dirty work. Nixon took over when Hoover couldn't after the scrutiny they faced following document theft.

These agencies have always been untransparent political entities that operated outside the public's consent.
 
At this stage I genuinely believe the Russians have infiltrated pretty much every layer of the federal government with double agents and informants. I really hope when Clinton is inaugurated the US begins taking Russia seriously as a threat to national and world security. Admitting the Cold War has resumed and adopting a security posture consistent with this reality should be the first step.
 
Oriel said:
At this stage I genuinely believe the Russians have infiltrated pretty much every layer of the federal government with double agents and informants.
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You are being paranoid and absurd.

Comey isn't a double agent. He's a Republican. Never attribute to malice what you could instead attribute to Republicans.
 
TestOfTide said:
Can we make a pseudo-exception for Bill Weld?

I kinda want Weld to become the next FBI Director.
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That's not the worst idea.

Weld does legitimately seem to be above party politics more than most.

I'd have to read how he did as an attorney and administrator.
 
Amir0x said:
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.
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This is some nasty shit.

I'm sure the FBI will have an unsatisfactory explanation for this.
My takeaway from all this is that all these agencies are mired in corruption and shit. They all need a light shined on them. Let all the dirty laundry fly for once.
 
animlboogy said:
Seriously. How do you get so far in your career and pull something like this? It's nonsensical unless he's doing somebody a favor.

Either that or he had a mental break.

Like, there's just no decent reason. Really, really, really, wanting Clinton to lose the election isn't a good reason to fuck up your career at his level unless there are other incentives waiting for you.
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I suppose he could have seen how he handled the Russian thing as a mistake and didn't want to repeat it.

Nah, I still think he's a partisan douchebag
 
Toxi said:
You are being paranoid and absurd.

Comey isn't a double agent. He's a Republican. Never attribute to malice what you could instead attribute to Republicans.
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Re-read my comment and you'll note I never said he was. Russia has for decades infiltrated the US government with its agents and continues to do so. This, along side pro Russia sympathisers in positions of power, represent a threat to US national security and it's interests. The same shouts of "paranoia" were labelled at those who were warning, some years back, of a resurgent and belligerent Russia once again threatening peace and stability in the world.

It's a shame there are those who still believe the US and it's allies can work with Russia, it can't.
 
Suikoguy said:
That's not the worst idea.

Weld does legitimately seem to be above party politics more than most.

I'd have to read how he did as an attorney and administrator.
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He was actually one of the people from Reagan's DoJ that testified against the corrupt attorney general. Many credit Weld as one of the reasons said AG (whose name escapes me) was forced to resign in 1988.
 
BobTheFork said:
I guess I was asking more about the investigation side but that makes sense.

I was wondering, if we find out he purposefully shanking or hurting the investigation to ALLOW them to tilt the election because it benefits Trump. That would be treason correct?
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Hurting the investigation itself? Hard to say. That'd be more than a violation of a hatch act, but it's very hard to prove treason.
 
I'm in the UK so as an outsider this really obviously looks to me like his political party affiliation has been a major factor in this, especially now! assuming I'm understanding the situation properly

If did this in my job (I work for local government), and publicised something detrimental to one political party and didn't publish something potential detrimental to another, I'd be out on my arse quicker than you can say fired. so for the head of the FBI to do this so publically is an outright joke its a simple matter to just not do anything that could be seen as favouring one party over another during an election period, if he isn't fired over this then it makes a mockery of the rules
 
Agent Gibbs said:
I'm in the UK so as an outsider this really obviously looks to me like his political party affiliation has been a major factor in this, especially now! assuming I'm understanding the situation properly

If did this in my job (I work for local government), and publicised something detrimental to one political party and didn't publish something potential detrimental to another, I'd be out on my arse quicker than you can say fired. so for the head of the FBI to do this so publically is an outright joke its a simple matter to just not do anything that could be seen as favouring one party over another during an election period, if he isn't fired over this then it makes a mockery of the rules
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Yea the assumption is Obama will do it after the election. I don't see Comey lasting through his appointment which goes through 2020's I believe
 
Local newspaper here in Scandinavia just had a news story that claims that Trump is leading now in the polls. hopefully this a mistake of some kind.
 
DasPenguin said:
Local newspaper here in Scandinavia just had a news story that claims that Trump is leading now in the polls. hopefully this a mistake of some kind.
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Depends on the polls, some have had him leading since day one. Is it state or national? those can be a world of difference
 
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