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@Comey
Thats it? Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.
Link to tweet
pbmus
(12,422 posts)He screws Hillary.
How soon we forget.
His tweeting will not make him the hero he thinks he is in his own mind.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)to tip the scale in favor of trump. Whether you think he succeeded or not, that is a fact
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Being politically motivated to tip any scale. I believe his motivation was simply to state what was happening inside FBI before it became politically used by repukes...to undermine investigators...
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)doesn't make any sense.
And thanks for the hat tip. I know that what I wrote deserves it because it is the truth
helmedon1974
(92 posts)Seems I read somewhere that Russia had a hand in that as well. Not to mention McConnell flat out telling him not to mention it.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)The way he behaved in June after a conclusion had been reached and no charges were recommended against Hillary? That's all he needed to say. It was not part of his job to go on calling her "careless" and everything else he said that day. He was completely out of line there, and his agenda was obvious.
He did everything to harm Hillary and protected trump. He played a big role in getting us into the nightmare we are living now.
tomp
(9,512 posts)at some level he may be trying to make amends, but that's too little too late from my perspective.
His motivation was that he was afraid of the GOP and their Clinton smear machine, and broke longstanding FBI protocol to scold her in public while deciding not to indict. He allowed politics and his own hubris into the FBI's protocols.
yonder
(9,666 posts)...I like your GOP's "Clinton smear machine" term: truthful, simple and succinct.
tomp
(9,512 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)The cumulative effect of Russian media bots and targetted social media strikes by the web brigades in St. Petersburg, aided and abetted by the Mercers' data on 163 million voters, plus Wikileaks interference, ... was all bigger than a last minute shuffle mishandled by Comey.
Skittles
(153,164 posts)Comey reminds me of Sandra Day O'Connor - nothing he says will ever be enough to make up for this damage
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Democrats instead of head of FBI releasing and then discounting email investigation...?
You do realize that the Hillary email investigation would have been used by repukes just as they are trying to do with current Mueller probe.
Skittles
(153,164 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)And repukes have the leaked Hillary email information(which they did) that the FBI was not going to investigate any further... do you believe it was worse for Comey to state the investigation was ongoing or the repukes coming out with the FBI is covering up Hillary email investigation??????
I believe it was decided at much higher levels than Comey to come clean_
and this explains why nothing was said about COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA? You're really equating the BULLSHIT EMAIL 'scandal' with COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA?
pbmus
(12,422 posts)You are equating email with collusion...I am not...
So what exactly is Comey supposed to say about an ongoing fragile, not yet vetted collusion investigation, possible conspiracy . If he had said anything about that investigation before it broke, we would not have a special investigation.
beaglelover
(3,486 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Of integrity and honor, and Comey...well, he is not.
Why are you thanking the universe for Comey? Why? Because he is writing some tweets you like?
beaglelover
(3,486 posts)I'm glad he's on our side here.
romana
(765 posts)Where has he repented publicly? Has he admitted what he did in July 2016 was wrong?
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Make him sick to his stomach if he was involved in Hillary loss...
rkleinberger
(155 posts)Comey has caused great harm to the country directly or indirectly.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)murielm99
(30,742 posts)after what he did to Hillary.
You are complicit, Comey. Until you admit it and apologize, I will not forgive you.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)gibraltar72
(7,505 posts)Where's the beef. This is a nothingburger.
dchill
(38,502 posts)With nothing on the side.
gibraltar72
(7,505 posts)dchill
(38,502 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)bdamomma
(63,868 posts)like 4 pages and just total BS being spewed?
blaze
(6,362 posts)Worked pretty well I think.
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)I bet that Stephen Miller is part of all this too.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)They could have pulled out a piece of used toilet paper and said it was proof that Donald Trump was the victim of a witch hunt, and his slobbering base would have eaten it up. Where this memo will ultimately fail is in stopping Mueller or protecting Trump, because it's nothing but smoke and mirrors. That might work on gullible Americans in an election year. It's not going to work against the FBI and the Justice Department. Trump has seriously miscalculated here.
gibraltar72
(7,505 posts)Devin Nunez!!
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Saw that term, loved it, keeping it!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2left4u
(186 posts)I apologize again ahead of time for the post from a right wing publication.
This shows just how far off from reality the GOP and King Cheeto are even within their own "safe space", no wonder the massive retirements.
Run, Forest! Run, RUN!
https://www.redstate.com/patterico/2018/02/02/significant-inaccuracy-thememo-calls-credibility-question/
I think the above should be used in all our campaigns to remind everyone that the choice is simple. Either elect principled politicians that come from the people wanting to work for ALL people....or get more of the reality TV stars bullshit on the tax payers (YOUR) dime.
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES...AGAIN!
Grins
(7,217 posts)...and let the Intel agencies of friendly govt's know their secrets aren't safe with us...
Trump has helped to blind us.
I am not a fan of James Comey because I believe he violated the law by publicly commenting on The email case in 2016. However his tweet is spot on. The Trump Administration is trying to destroy the Carter Page investigation. Something big is brewing here and the Trump people know It. Comey spelled it out they just violated the privacy of an American Citizen who was under investigation for possible crimes discovered as the result of a lawfully issued FISA warrant. What the hell did Carter Page do?
SunSeeker
(51,563 posts)Former FBI Director, current husband and father, writing and speaking about ethical leadership, taller and funnier in person.
BigmanPigman
(51,607 posts)and not enforcing Russian sanctions.
rkleinberger
(155 posts)Dude, not sure you (Comey) should be showing so much outrage. It's not like you didn't give America Trump with your antics! Right?!
bluevoter4life
(787 posts)Is it just me, or does that line right there show an admission of guilt?
Kristofer Bry
(175 posts)Come on, you were thinkin' it!