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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Fri Apr 13, 2018, 06:48 PM Apr 2018

You can read Comey's recollection of the HRC email thing 100 times, it still ends in "I fucked up."

HuffPost obtained a chapter of the book, A Higher Loyalty, which is set to be released Tuesday, that focuses on Comey’s handling of the Clinton email probe. In the book, Comey writes that he’s replayed the way he handled the Clinton email investigation in his mind “hundreds of times” and that he understands Democrats were “baffled” and “outraged” at the actions he took.

I was surprised when Donald Trump was elected president. I had assumed from media polling that Hillary Clinton was going to win. I have asked myself many times since if I was influenced by that assumption. I don’t know. Certainly not consciously, but I would be a fool to say it couldn’t have had an impact on me. It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in all polls. But I don’t know.

Assuming, as nearly everyone did, that Hillary Clinton would be elected president of the United States in less than two weeks, what would happen to the FBI, the Justice Department, or her own presidency if it later was revealed, after the fact, that she was still a subject of an FBI investigation? What if, after the election, we actually found information that demonstrated prosecutable criminal activity? No matter what we found, that act of concealment would be catastrophic to the integrity of the FBI and the Department of Justice.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/james-comey-memoir-hillary-clinton-emails-donald-trump_us_5ad0ba6ee4b077c89ce7f4a6

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You can read Comey's recollection of the HRC email thing 100 times, it still ends in "I fucked up." (Original Post) Miles Archer Apr 2018 OP

And how did things work out subsequently, James ? Just shows what can happen if you don't do it by OnDoutside Apr 2018 #1

I don't see "I fucked up" anywhere. former9thward Apr 2018 #2

In many ways he's a simpleton Awsi Dooger Apr 2018 #3

Sure, he fucked up for whatever reason BigmanPigman Apr 2018 #4

Comey, less ethics than tRump if that's even possible SammyWinstonJack Apr 2018 #5

OnDoutside

(19,956 posts)

1. And how did things work out subsequently, James ? Just shows what can happen if you don't do it by

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 06:52 PM

Apr 2018

the book.

former9thward

(32,012 posts)

2. I don't see "I fucked up" anywhere.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 06:52 PM

Apr 2018

It is the opposite. It is a doubling down defense of what he did.

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)

3. In many ways he's a simpleton

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 07:13 PM

Apr 2018

I posted that at the time. Everyone was trying to read sinister or devious methods in Comey's release. There were threads here proclaiming he knew exactly what he was doing. Nope, the timing and the words before and since indicated he was a hard trying sincere guy who had moved up the ranks, but lacked special ability and was somewhat simplistic. His book reveals as much. He assumed Hillary was going to win so nothing he said would matter to the outcome.

Meanwhile, Hillary was 81% likelihood, according to Nate Silver's compilation of polls. That is hardly an absolute. It is a 9.5 point favorite in an NFL game.

I would argue Hillary was never actually 81% likely, due to the Shy Tory factor and all the working class white male SAMs who idolized Trump and were never going to stay away from the polls. But that's another matter. The 81% is good enough.

If you've never dealt with variables and outcomes with actual money on the line, that type of 81% favoritism holds a markedly more concrete perspective than deserved. Then Comey's input plunged Hillary's likelihood down to 65%, as I posted the other day by linking Nate Silver's column from election eve.

Dropping from 9.5 point favorite to 4.5 point favorite is like the Patriots with Tom Brady or without him. There are many examples of exactly that type of pointspread shift when Brady is out. Nobody would be stupid enough to believe it doesn't matter if Brady is playing. Yet somehow nobody wanted to believe Hillary's opportunity was severely damaged by Comey and what it did to the polls.

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)

4. Sure, he fucked up for whatever reason

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Fri Apr 13, 2018, 07:27 PM

Apr 2018

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so now the entire country is suffering and will suffer for 20 years due to it! Thanks a lot ass hole! YOU DID THIS! Live with that. We have to live with it now...and it's all because of you.

I know, I know, the Russians, Hillary ran a poor campaign (she didn't realize there were so many stupid Americans out there), social media and Fakebook, MSM giving the moron all the free air time and publicity, Obama could've done more, etc. Comey is what did it. Period!

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)

5. Comey, less ethics than tRump if that's even possible

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Fri Apr 13, 2018, 08:18 PM

Apr 2018

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