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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Question for James Comey - by the New York Times Editorial Board
Never mind.That was the message James Comey, the F.B.I. director, sent to Congress on Sunday in his latest headline-grabbing interruption of the 2016 presidential race.
Having dropped a bomb packed with innuendo on Oct. 28 when he informed Congress that there was a new stash of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation of Hillary Clintons use of a private email server, Mr. Comey had to dig himself out.
On Sunday, he reaffirmed his original decision in July to recommend against charging Mrs. Clinton for her careless handling of emails containing classified information when she was secretary of state. The new emails on the computer of Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Mrs. Clintons close aide Huma Abedin contain nothing except personal messages and duplicates of emails that had already been reviewed, investigators found. But you cant unring a bell. The damage Mr. Comeys back-and-forthing has done to the election, to his own reputation and to that of the F.B.I. is profound. Nine days of early voting passed after he made his rash announcement about the new emails, an announcement made when he and his investigators knew nothing about the content of those emails because they didnt even have a search warrant. That was nine days during which millions of voters went to the polls under the false impression created by Mr. Comeys action that there was new evidence against Mrs. Clinton, showing possible criminality.
Republicans who were full of gleeful praise for Mr. Comey only days ago are furious once again. Comey must be under enormous political pressure to cave like this and announce something he cant possibly know, Newt Gingrich, an adviser to Donald Trump, wrote on Twitter. Mr. Trump himself had cited Mr. Comeys courage last week, but on Sunday he told a rally: You cant review 650,000 emails in eight days. You cant do it, folks. (Memo to Mr. Trump from the average law firm associate: Yes, you can.)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/opinion/the-question-for-james-comey.html?emc=edit_th_20161108&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=57435284
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The Question for James Comey - by the New York Times Editorial Board (Original Post)
DonViejo
Nov 2016
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Comey's initial letter dominated the news for a week; the revelation that there was nothing was in
Chathamization
Nov 2016
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MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)1. I'm gonna' miss all this craziness......
but Madame President REALLY needs to send that guy walking (future mall cop?)
PS: Just kidding about "missing all the craziness!
Chathamization
(1,638 posts)2. Comey's initial letter dominated the news for a week; the revelation that there was nothing was in
the news for less than 24 hours (it's pretty much gone from the main news pages now). If someone was busy Sunday night they would have easily missed it.
This is a pretty common right-wing tactic - remember when they media was telling everyone that the FBI was targeting conservatives? That was all over the news, but the revelation that it wasn't true was just briefly in the back pages.
The news media is complicit, though. They're only more than happy to start putting up tons of articles about any Republican rumor, and having the articles that contain the actual facts only get a small fraction of the space.