Don't disagree in the least.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
WaPo: Dubious Russian document influenced the FBIs handling of the Clinton probe
- Thread starter giga
- Start date
Don't disagree in the least.
Emphasis on "inch by inch."
Come on, Tide. We were both there that day. The Comey letter hit like a freakinh wrecking ball. No way would a leak have had the same effect, especially since the shit had already been leaking out of the FBI by that point.
Vicetrailia
Banned
This world is so unfair.
the electoral college itself is a subversion of democracy created by slave owners to make their votes count more, without letting their slaves vote for themselves.
Honestly, I think a leak such as that would have been much worse as far as fanning the flames for the GOP. They posture now that leaks are awful but they would have eaten it up. On top of that, a leak would have forced Comey's hand regardless. There was no good solution to the situation and it's hard to assume any other way would have had a better outcome election wise.
Randolph Freelander
Member
Republicans be like "Russia did NOT interfere in our elections. This is a made up non-story. In other news, we would like to thank Mother Russia for providing crucial information regarding the Hillary Clinton email investigation and how it was doomed by the DOJ from day one."
Hello? This is Hailun!
Member
So does this mean that Comey's BS announcement about HER EMAILZ! was based on bad info?
The GOP would have complained regardless. They were complaining before, they're still complaining now.
Seriously, if we're weighing in what will make the GOP complain when deciding the right thing to do, we might as well just go home. They're the GOP.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
A leak would have arguably played even harder into the "crooked Hillary" persona. It was a no-win situation.
BlastProcessing
Member
Not just bad info, bad info that the FBI didn't even try to verify. They didn't interview or investigate anyone involved. It feels like part of the Bureau saw the document as completely fake and not worth investigating and Comey saw it as actionable. That combination proved disastrous.
Uhh, how about no. If anything, an earlier election with hopefully different candidates.
This shit pisses me off. I almost don't want to hear anymore about how Putin played the US.
Well, there is kind of a way it could happen. But it's not going to happen.
Well, there is kind of a way it could happen. But it's not going to happen.
Yep. That's the only way it could happen. But it's inconceivable to think it would actually happen that way.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Seems like a pretty bad oversight indeed. What are you doing, FBI?
Captin Quacker
Member
FBI: lets just do it and be legends
Dude Abides
Banned
Why would leakers the NY criminal field office (which I assume was investigating only Weiner's sexting) have known that the emails meant the Clinton server investigation had been reopened?
TestOfTide
Banned
And then what would that leak have promopted? A letter from congress to Comey to tell them if the leak is true or not. And even if Comey tried to keep the answer the behind closed doors, the news story would eventually be "Comey admits that FBI is reopening Emails investigation".
I'm not saying that what Comey did was legal. I'm not even saying he did any of this for the Dems. I'm saying that if he didn't do what he did, there is a very good chance that Hillary would have still lost only instead Comey wouldn't get an extra 4 months to investigate Trump.
The NY Crimnal Field Office have strong ties to Christie and Giuliani, they clearly were the ones that told Comey about what they "found" on Weiner's laptop, and they had already given Giuliani a heads up about what was coming up a week before Comey sent the letter.
This is something Mensch posted some months back didn't she? That this whole email business was an orchestrated op by the Russians.
EDIT: Found it.
https://patribotics.blog/2017/02/14/the-carolina-conspiracy-putin-catfished-weiner-louise-mensch/
She corrected some stuff in it, but still seems to stand by it.
EDIT: Found it.
https://patribotics.blog/2017/02/14/the-carolina-conspiracy-putin-catfished-weiner-louise-mensch/
She corrected some stuff in it, but still seems to stand by it.
Dude Abides
Banned
But that does not mean that NY agents would have known that the presence of emails on Weiner's laptop means that the Washington office would have reopened the Clinton investigation, unless people in the NY office were involved in the Clinton investigation. All someone in the NY office would have known was that Clinton emails were found on Weiner's laptop. It does not follow that they would have known whether they were new emails or that they would prompt DC to reopen the Clinton inquiry.
TestOfTide
Banned
The whole point is that they knew that the Washington offices wouldn't know yet whether or not they were new emails either and thus would HAVE TO look into them. All they have to do is wait for Comey for send a letter to congress and if he doesn't do that then people from the NY Field Office will just leak claims about finding the emails themselves.
jack_package_200
Banned
Ya'll better not be posting Louise Mensch
Patribiotics?
BrassDragon
Member
We're going to be studying this one for centuries to come.
Sergej Viktorovitsj Lavrov loves his damn job.
I always suspected the Russians had a hand it in the Clinton probe getting as out of hand as it did, but god damn now we're getting actual real evidence. Russians played our dumb asses, this shit is embarrassing. This is going to change how the FBI handles investigations forever.
We're going to be studying this one for centuries to come.
Sergej Viktorovitsj Lavrov loves his damn job.
The guys behind The Americans should do a TV series based on this in some years.
Similar threads
- Locked