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Baitball Blogger

(46,752 posts)
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 11:58 AM Sep 2020

If the FBI thought that Trump, as a candidate in 2016, was a Manchurian candidate,

why did Comey take down Trump's opponent?

Peter Strzok's new book, Compromised, reveals that the FBI wondered if Trump was a Manchurian candidate. If the FBI thought that Trump was compromised, why did James Comey go rogue and take down Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton?

And we know that Comey went rogue because that's what Sally Yates said in testimony.

Is Comey a mole?

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Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
1. Because FBI is like any other organization, it consists of people with many different beliefs
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 12:12 PM
Sep 2020

Some, or even most, might think Trump was a Manchurian candidate. But there is definitely sections, like the NY FBI, that were pro-Trump and against Hillary. Also, Gulliani was working with that NY FBI for the Hillary stuff at the time.

I don't exactly know if Comey was a mole. But he forced his own hand back in June 2016 to promise to update the Senate about any news about the Hilary investigation. Then the NY FBI and the republicans in Senate was ready to cook up the BS about Hilary's "reopen" investigation in October.

brush

(53,802 posts)
7. IMO Comey wimped out and allowed himself to be played by...
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 02:08 PM
Sep 2020

the NY FBI office which was in cahoots with Ghouliani with their hatred of Hillary. He should've taken charge of the rogue NY agents instead of going along their phony "discovery" of new material on Anthony Weiner's laptop, as that alleged new material could've been analyzed quickly as to whether it was new or just the repetitious info it turned out to be, before going to Rep. Chaffetz who immediately went public with it. As Comey had to know would happen.

There is much blame to go around, the most falling on Comey for being weak director for failing to reign in rogue subordinates working with Ghouliani out of the NY FBI office. There are of course the agents, Ghouliani and Chaffetz who also shared the blame of failing the nation by bestowing the worst, and wannabe fascist, most inept, white supremacist president to ever step foot in the WH.

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
11. I always thought Chaffetz was compromised
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 03:44 PM
Sep 2020

early on, and was a useful errand boy. He bowed out pretty fast I remember.

brush

(53,802 posts)
12. Yes, as soon as he could as he thought there would be blow back on him.
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 03:52 PM
Sep 2020

trump "won" though so he escape without much scrutiny. He gave up his political career though.

The Magistrate

(95,248 posts)
2. The Short Answer, Sir, Is that Comey Is A Sanctimonious Prick
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 12:16 PM
Sep 2020

He values nothing above his self-image as the great incorruptible, the one honest and impartial man in law enforcement and in Washington.

Republicans in Congress were going to criticize him if he treated their nonsense about 'Hillary's crimes' as it deserved, and indeed as a truly honest and impartial official would do. Namely give their fantasies the back of his hand.

But since criticism would damage his belief in his own perfection (for after all, the perfect will never be criticized), and there was a danger people might believe the criticism, so that there might then be people out there unconvinced he was the one honest and incorruptible man, he just had to show he was being fair by being unfair to someone he knew would not engage in the virulent criticism he could expect from the Republican bomb-throwers in the House and Senate.

It is probably best if I do not declare what punishment for the wretch strikes me as just and fair....

Midnight Writer

(21,778 posts)
8. I totally agree. I think he was afraid of blowback from the GOP if this came out after the election
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 03:14 PM
Sep 2020

and proved to be damning to Hillary.

He seems to me a man of weak character.

brush

(53,802 posts)
13. He was weak for not reigning in his subordinate, rogue agents...
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 03:57 PM
Sep 2020

in the NY office. And the alleged "new info" found on Weiner's laptop could've been analyzed easily within a couple of days before going to Chaffetz with his letter, as it turned out the info was just a repeat of what had already been examined. Comey handled the situation poorly, jumped the gun with the letter to Congress and bestowed upon the nation the worst president ever—a wannabe dictator and probable traitor.

He's been on a redemption tour ever since. Fuck him.

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
4. Even if it were proved he was working for Russia,
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 12:40 PM
Sep 2020

it wouldn’t matter. Trump exploits a loophole in our system. Presidents can do anything. Maybe outright 1st degree murder, recorded, verified, witnessed, etc. might get a President in a bind.

BComplex

(8,058 posts)
6. This needs to be changed, just like state sanctioned murder by police.
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 01:43 PM
Sep 2020

NOBODY in America should be above the law. NOBODY. Especially not the Atty. General.

We have a lot of laws that we now see need to be changed. It's going to be hell getting there, because those who ARE above the law will not give up that immunity easily, nor will those who hope some day they might be the ones who enjoy that immunity.

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