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James Comey: "Dangerous time..." (Original Post) triron May 2018 OP
From the guy who went out of his way NOT to tell what he knew about rump when he had the Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #1
Unfortunately, most investigations are private. Blue_true May 2018 #5
Comey took A NUMBER OF ACTIONS that could ONLY Hortensis May 2018 #6
Like him or hate him, he's not wrong. bearsfootball516 May 2018 #2
Agree. He clearly was wrong at least twice re HRC. spooky3 May 2018 #3
No, he's not wrong gratuitous May 2018 #7
agree... i listened to his book.... samnsara May 2018 #8
Couldn't have put it better myself. janx May 2018 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. From the guy who went out of his way NOT to tell what he knew about rump when he had the
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:14 PM
May 2018

chance but just could NOT help himself to tell something MEANINGLESS in reality about HRC, but to the morons it was HUGE.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
5. Unfortunately, most investigations are private.
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:24 PM
May 2018

I fault him for going public with the October email investigation, they should have simply checked to see whether the emails were dupes and if they were, issue a letter to congress saying that checked emails that were dupes and the case remains closed.

One of the unfortunate things in our society is that women in any role get held to a more difficult standard to meet than men are. I would love to see that duality end this minute, but the reality is it won't end without a long grueling fight and maintenance of discipline during that fight.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Comey took A NUMBER OF ACTIONS that could ONLY
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:54 PM
May 2018

be expected to hurt Democrats and to help Republicans, Blue, not just that last, deadly one. None of them were necessary. Most we know of were severe, obvious breaches of long-established ethical standards that shocked colleagues around the nation. Comey didn't have to collude with Russia to know the effects of his actions were much the same kind of thing the Russians were trying to accomplish.

Btw, three days after the severe ethical breach you mention, in a "Halloween surprise" the NYT published a seriously misleading article that effectively reassured readers that little was being found in the Trump-Russia investigation. Te truth was buried in a brief, bland tenth paragraph that said as little as possible.

The NYT now admits that particular unthinkable betrayal was done at the request of authorities. The only agency that had information about the very closely kept investigation at that point, and thus could have told the NYT what to say and what not to, was the FBI.

Yet another severe ethical breach regarding the FBI giving information about an ongoing investigation to the Wall Street Journal, which resulted in immediate OGI and internal FBI investigations and recommendations that Assistant FBI Director McCabe be fired, also happened right before the election.

This was all public as these two ramped up their seditious activities. We don't know what they, and others, did more secretly. Giuliani probably could shed some light. We don't know why both Comey and McCabe committed what they must have known might well be career suicide. And very importantly, we don't know if they conspired with others, and if so with who. Did Comey just wake up one morning and all by himself decide to betray his nation that day and see if he could get away with it?

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As for Hillary, and ourselves, I'm with you. But also let's give credit by remembering that Hillary did fabulously before intensive illegal,seditious, and profoundly dishonest efforts over two years by many enemies finally damaged her support so badly that she won by only 3 million votes, thus losing. We were so proud of her at all those debates as she explained all the wonderful things we intended to do.


spooky3

(34,303 posts)
3. Agree. He clearly was wrong at least twice re HRC.
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:20 PM
May 2018

And he was wrong not to take responsibility and apologize. But that does not make him incapable of being right about other things.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. No, he's not wrong
Wed May 23, 2018, 01:02 PM
May 2018

But he has conveniently left out his own contribution to making this time so dangerous. He can't change the past, but he has a long way to go to atone for his sins.

samnsara

(17,572 posts)
8. agree... i listened to his book....
Wed May 23, 2018, 01:39 PM
May 2018

...i was riveted. Not by the political stuff but stories from his past are very interesting.

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