2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumComey timed letter so that republican commitee members got it before Democrats.
http://shareblue.com/jason-chaffetz-tweeted-comeys-letter-before-democrats-even-saw-it/A senior Democratic congressional aide provided the following statement to Shareblue:
Democratic Ranking Members on the relevant committees didnt receive Comeys letter until after the Republican Chairmen. In fact, the Democratic Ranking Members didnt receive it until after the the Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Jason Chaffetz, tweeted it out and made it public.
Moliere
(285 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Several, in fact.
uponit7771
(90,362 posts)... and should be under investigation himself.
The GOP doesn't like Comey ... Comey could walk on water and they'll say he can't swim type of dislike... they've already made up their minds.
So nothing Comey has done protects him ... or ... protects the GOP from a dem selected FBI director from doing the same thing to a GOP candidate
groundloop
(11,522 posts)I can't believe that a Democratic selected FBI director would ever pull this shit because the vast majority of Democrats don't stoop to political stunts like this. It's always been repub politicians who've resorted to desperate, underhanded measures to gain and retain power. Nixon had Watergate. Bush/Rove had the Swiftboat lies against Kerry. Rove put out hateful half-truths about John McCains adopted daughter. Here in Georgia Saxby Chambliss spread sickening lies about how triple amputee and war hero Senator Max Cleland received his injuries. I just don't recall any cases of Democrats stooping to such levels.
uponit7771
(90,362 posts)... though to put out this type of fire.
The GOP has poisened politics in America
lark
(23,155 posts)Put this awbreaking partisan hack in jail, big jail so he gets to hang with others he put in there. See how that suits him, the fucking asshole.
dalton99
(781 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)If Comey had to inform congress,he should have marked his letter CONFIDENTIAL.
dalton99
(781 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)But leaking a confidential letter to accuse Clinton of mishandling confidential information would be damn funny.
ck4829
(35,090 posts)FraDon
(518 posts)Huma, Weiner, email. C'mon!
What if the Clinton CAMPAIGN knows exactly what is and is not in this so-called new information. Just feed the deliberately ambiguous and brief memo to the Congressional Republicans, and let them dig their own hole deeper.
First wave reaction as expected. As Kieth says, "Watch this space."
bucolic_frolic
(43,280 posts)I don't believe this was not planned months ahead
It ties in too nicely with the rigged election theme that
has been projected on America
I say projected because rigging the election is what they, the
GOP, is really up to!
-Steph-
(409 posts)Trump administration? Considering the things Trump and the Republicans had been saying about him? I can't figure out why Comey would send this letter and not only go against a long-held policy, but also go against the recommendation of his colleagues and the Department of Justice, even to the detriment of his own job security?
It makes me wonder if there was blackmail, bribes, or even threats involved.
I don't accept that he just did it because he somehow thought it was the right thing to do, seeing as to how he'd been advised not to do it.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Cheney's #1 enemy. Cheney is quoted as saying, "I would call in every chit I have to take down Comey". He prosecuted Scooter Libby on the Valerie Plame leak.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Maybe Comey is more concerned about down ballot repubs in Congress?
groundloop
(11,522 posts)Comey is a disgrace.
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)As if they were in cahoots with with the Republican machine and unleashed this fury in a predesignated time and manner.
I will continue to boycott mainstream media, as I believe them to be complicit in the rise of an American Fuehrer.
If convicted, what are the penalties levied against a violator of the Hatch Act?
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Giving her and her staff no time to prepare a response to the media once they landed.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...for this shameful and unethical --and possibly illegal-- attempt to sway the electorate. This was planned right down to the date and time for optimum media saturation with as little counter from Team Clinton as possible.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Jason Chaffetz, R-Hypocrite, Utah, has made it very clear that once Clinton is elected, he plans on doing nothing but investigating, obstructing and creating general havoc for the Clinton Administration. Those are his stated goals.
Once we look a bit deeper at Chaffetz we find: (1) Chaffetz has a very bad case of "big man on campus," in other words, Chaffetz sees bigger and better for himself, and not just a regular run-of-the-mill Republican Congressman; (2) Chaffetz has already let it be known that he will be challenging Paul Ryan for the House Speaker position; and (3) Chaffetz appears to have the backing of the Congressional Freedom Caucus, the "Teapublican High Command." This entire Clinton persecution is Chaffetz "making his bones," and proving to the Teapublican High Command that he is willing to do whatever it takes to earn their backing.
Incidentally, the Freedom Caucus is the real reason the Orange Boner resigned from his Speakership and they are the rabble leading the "Night of the Long Knives" challenge against Speaker Ryan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Caucus
The Freedom Caucus, also known as the House Freedom Caucus, is a congressional caucus consisting of conservative Republican members of the United States House of Representatives. It was formed by a group of Congressmen as a "smaller, more cohesive, more agile and more active" group of conservatives.
Many members are also part of the Republican Study Committee, another conservative House group. The caucus is sympathetic to the Tea Party movement. According to its mission statement, "The House Freedom Caucus gives a voice to countless Americans who feel that Washington does not represent them. We support open, accountable and limited government, the Constitution and the rule of law, and policies that promote the liberty, safety and prosperity of all Americans."
CrispyQ
(36,509 posts)Republicans don't want to govern, they want to rule. They are slimy bastards, every one. They claim they are not the party of Donald Trump but they are. Everyone of the other 15 assholes on stage were as bad as Trump, they just filtered their shit so it didn't seem so odious.
They can't win on merit, so they cheat.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)According to the letter, it was addressed to only Republicans - "Messrs. Chairmen!"
"Oh, I sent (a copy?) to some Democrats." OH, YEAH - definitely not political.
Ms. Yertle
(466 posts)were addressed on p. 2 of the letter. As I understand it, this is the proper way to address letters to Congress.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)What reasonable person would not look at this letter all over the news and not see it as a political notification to Republicans - which is how our campaign sees it!
Also, the point of the OP.
DU'ers repeatedly throwing shade for Comey? What's up with that?
We should be petitioning Obama to fire him right now!
Ms. Yertle
(466 posts)is that it's a two-page letter with the names of the Democratic committee members listed on the second page. Everyone who says, as if it is the unvarnished truth, that the R's were notified and the D's were not, is wrong.
Correcting a factual error is not "throwing shade." As for firing Comey, yeah, he needs to go. Should have been gone last week. The trouble is that firing him now would hark back to the Saturday Night Massacre, and I don't think the Prez wants that to be part of his legacy.