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Dear FBI: ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING????
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What they said.
On Monday, the FBI records vault released heavily redacted files about the William J. Clinton Foundation, specifically about the former president and future First Cleniss pardon of financier Marc Rich, at the end of his second term in office. Its an old case in which investigators found no wrongdoing, and the newly released files themselves are
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which makes them approximately as vague as the love note James Comey sent to members of Congress about how he has a secret stash of Hillary Clinton n Huma Abedin emails in his office that he is (allegedly) whackin it to right now. The document release went relatively unnoticed until whoever works the Twitter machine at the J. Edgar Hoover building in DC decided to tweet it Tuesday afternoon:
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If you cant remember who or what a Marc Rich was (he died in 2013, but we dont think the Clintons body counted him), Talking Points Memo does the yeomans work of reminding us of what he did, how Bubba pardoned him, and who oversaw his case:
[James] Comey was at the heart of the scandal that erupted from Clintons 2001 pardoning of Rich, a financier who lingered on the FBIs most-wanted list for 16 years for criminal charges including tax evasion, wire fraud and trading with Iran during the oil embargo. Comey oversaw Richs prosecution between 1987 and 1993, before later taking over an investigation into then-President Clintons decision to grant Rich a pardon on his last day in office. He ultimately decided not to pursue that case.
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Maybe Comey has actually lost control of the institution he runs. As the Wall Street Journal reported this weekend, theres been a mighty feud a-brewin between FBI headquarters and the New York office, which has a ridiculous hard-on for going after the Clinton Foundation, even though its been told repeatedly that the case its pursuing is a big nothing. Maybe retired assistant director of the FBI James Kallstrom was right when he said Comey is throwing all this out his ass right now because the locals would have stepped in on this if he didnt, and by locals he means the New York office, which seems to be out of fucking control, to be honest.
Whatever it is, we think its time for Jim Comeys boss Attorney General Loretta Lynch (who reportedly had a nice coffee chat with Comey on Monday about everything thats been going on she even asked him afterward how he is doing overall, according to CBS, because SHE CARES) to pay a visit to the FBI and start diplomatically inserting her foot up folks asses.
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jcgoldie
(11,639 posts)I hope this isn't repeating some right wing talking point, if so I'll gladly self delete, but it seems to me Bill's meeting with Lynch on the tarmac is really biting us in the ass at this point. Lynch recused herself from HRC's case as a result and that has given Comey the latitude to seemingly do whatever destructive shit he has wanted to end this election cycle.
sarae
(3,284 posts)with any woman having power over them.
Tough shit! They'd better get used to it.
atreides1
(16,091 posts)Wasn't Giuliani the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York? And isn't it possible that some of the FBI agents he worked with, could be in supervisory positions, in the NY FBI office, now?
niyad
(113,527 posts)TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)Cenk Uygur played out a case against Clinton, yesterday. I'm totally freaking out. I'm not invested in Hillary (I was a Bernie supporter) but I'm 100% invested in beating Trump!
We have a great vice presidential candidate. Thankfully.