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fallout87

(819 posts)
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 09:20 PM Apr 2018

Since some on here are praising Comey as some sort of hero..

Just read what he is writing about AG Loretta Lynch....

He's inferring that there is classified information on her that would make her look like she tainted the Hillary email investigation..

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Since some on here are praising Comey as some sort of hero.. (Original Post) fallout87 Apr 2018 OP
You have the book? n/t rzemanfl Apr 2018 #1
No, I have an internet connection. fallout87 Apr 2018 #4
That was very helpful. n/t rzemanfl Apr 2018 #6
You mean this? rzemanfl Apr 2018 #11
A hero? No. He's writing what he saw and what he thought about it. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #2
He's the reason tRump is in office fallout87 Apr 2018 #5
That isn't the best term (there really are very few heroes), but he is providing a useful service The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #8
Ahhh...he announced he re-opened the Clinton investigation 11 days before the election but... brush Apr 2018 #13
Fall for what? Comey isn't running for anything. He wrote a book The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #14
My point is Comey is just as responsible for trump being in the WH as the Russians. brush Apr 2018 #16
Maybe so, but that doesn't make his observations about Trump any less true. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #17
If there was no email server, there wouldn't have been an announcement to make mythology Apr 2018 #21
He is, like most of us, a complex person. EffieBlack Apr 2018 #12
we aren't going to like a lot of what he says, but I wasn't expecting to. hlthe2b Apr 2018 #3
Okay, that's enough. Iggo Apr 2018 #7
You will not divide and rule here malaise Apr 2018 #9
Divide and rule? oberliner Apr 2018 #15
I'd like to see what his explanation for releasing the Comey letter a week before the election is. sandensea Apr 2018 #10
Her poll numbers. fallout87 Apr 2018 #22
Sounds like someone pressured him to do so, sandensea Apr 2018 #23
Look, I have no love for Comey. But when someone comes down on Trump, I am smirkymonkey Apr 2018 #18
He's not a hero Bettie Apr 2018 #19
Throughout this whole mess, Mr.Bill Apr 2018 #20

rzemanfl

(29,565 posts)
11. You mean this?
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 09:33 PM
Apr 2018
"Comey is critical of then-Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, saying she had a “tortured half-out, half-in approach” to the Clinton investigation and that he considered calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor.

One day shortly before the election, Lynch and Comey met privately. Comey writes that the attorney general wrapped her arms around him and implied that she thought he had done the right thing.

But as their meeting ended, Comey writes, “She said, with just the slightest hint of a smile, ‘Try to look beat up.’ She had told somebody she was going to chew me out for what I had done. What a world.”

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,706 posts)
2. A hero? No. He's writing what he saw and what he thought about it.
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 09:23 PM
Apr 2018

But a lot of it has to do with what a loathsome piece of crap Trump is, and seems to be the fundamental message of the book. He can be a hero and a villain; both things can be true.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,706 posts)
8. That isn't the best term (there really are very few heroes), but he is providing a useful service
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 09:32 PM
Apr 2018

by describing in great detail, from the perspective of an eye- and ear-witness insider, how absolutely debased and degraded Trump really is. I'll take it.

And I thought the Russians were why Trump is in office?

brush

(53,780 posts)
13. Ahhh...he announced he re-opened the Clinton investigation 11 days before the election but...
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 10:07 PM
Apr 2018

neglected to disclose that he had been investigating trump since the summer.

He's as much responsible for trump being in the WH as Putin, vote suppression and other repug cheating.

He's nothing but a partisan repug hack trying to redeem himself.

Don't fall for it.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,706 posts)
14. Fall for what? Comey isn't running for anything. He wrote a book
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 10:11 PM
Apr 2018

in which he describes his impressions of and interactions with Trump, and not positively. I don't know what his motivations were for writing the book but I will accept those descriptions as accurate.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
21. If there was no email server, there wouldn't have been an announcement to make
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 11:11 PM
Apr 2018

Clinton was told that her communications weren't secure and opted to continue to use them for the sake of convenience and didn't provide legally required document preservation. Yes others have done so, but that doesn't actually make it correct, especially given she was all but certain to run in 2016. With the stupid mad-on Republicans had for her, not doing everything by the letter of the law was plain stupid.

I work in a job that sometimes has me viewing personal health information. I'd be fired if I were using a personal email address to send any of that information, regardless of if that information was intercepted.

On the Comey announcement, I think the ultimate blame is on Clinton for having the stupid server in the first place. If she doesn't have that, she almost certainly wins the election. Clinton couldn't control any of the intervening steps, but she could have prevented them in the first place.

hlthe2b

(102,282 posts)
3. we aren't going to like a lot of what he says, but I wasn't expecting to.
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 09:26 PM
Apr 2018

That doesn't mean it isn't worth discussing. And, I have seen NO ONE even IMPLY that he was a hero.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
15. Divide and rule?
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 10:14 PM
Apr 2018

Pretty much everyone here feels the same way about Comey and what he did vis-a-vis Hillary Clinton.

sandensea

(21,635 posts)
10. I'd like to see what his explanation for releasing the Comey letter a week before the election is.
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 09:33 PM
Apr 2018

It had better be good.

 

fallout87

(819 posts)
22. Her poll numbers.
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 03:41 PM
Apr 2018

Can you believe this shit?

However, Mr. Comey acknowledges that he thought Mrs. Clinton would win the presidency and said it is “entirely possible” that he decided to reveal that the email investigation had started up again 11 days before the election because he was primarily concerned that if he concealed the renewed investigation, it would make her an “illegitimate president.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/us/politics/trump-comey-book.html

sandensea

(21,635 posts)
23. Sounds like someone pressured him to do so,
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 03:45 PM
Apr 2018

and he's now trying to conceal that.

Nevertheless, I'm glad to have him on our side on the Cheeto issue - even if it is out of spite for his being fired. The man has much to tell.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
18. Look, I have no love for Comey. But when someone comes down on Trump, I am
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 10:42 PM
Apr 2018

not going to waste my time tearing them down for their past transgressions. As long as they are bashing Trump NOW is all that I care about. The more damage they can do to him, the better. I get really tired of people who never forgive and forget. As far as I am concerned, if someone is anti-Trump at the moment, they are on our side.

Mr.Bill

(24,294 posts)
20. Throughout this whole mess,
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 10:53 PM
Apr 2018

I've never been comfortable that the future of our country is in the hands of a bunch of republicans at the FBI and the DOJ.

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