James Comey owes a big apology to Hillary Clinton and the 65 million Americans who voted for her

[lunamagica]

He owes an apology to Canada.

He owes an apology to the children who were torn from their parents arms and are now being treated like prisoners.

He owes an apology to the women who are victims of domestic violence and who can no longer apply for asylum. Same thing for victims of gang violence.

He owes an apology to those who will lose their health coverage due to pre-existing conditions.

I could go on, and on, and on and on and on and on and on.....

[cbreezen]

1. We are the resistance...we don't need their apologies.

They are empty.

[leftofcool]

2. He certainly does and so do a few others whose names shall not be mentioned.

[duforsure]

3. He was a small part of making

Us have an illegitimate president.

[Hortensis]

5. Oh, yeah? Who were the other parts? BIG question.

Who was Comey conspiring with?

[ehrnst]

8. DOJ Watchdog Report Takeaway: FBI Hurt Hillary Clinton, Not Donald Trump

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doj-fbi-clinton-not-trump-inspector-general_us_5b044190e4b003dc7e46e1e7

[MrsCoffee]

13. Said no sane person paying attention ever.

[Tipperary]

16. Bull crap. eom

[StevieM]

21. Comey dominated the election from start to finish. (eom)

[ck4829]

35. +1

[tomp]

4. No need.

He has already forgiven himself.

[dem4decades]

6. For someone who was so concerned about protecting the integrity of the FBI, he owes them a big

apology. And I'll take one too.

[BlueJac]

7. I just want to take the traitors down...

and imprison them all, no need for apologies. I want justice!!!!!!!

[lunamagica]

22. So do I, BlueJac, so do I! I dream about it. But real justice would be to declare trump's victory

a fraud and give Hillary her rightful place as POTUS. Impossible.

And I'd love to see all the traitors in prison, including Comey. I Doubt it will happen.

[Augiedog]

9. He owes an apology to America and the constitution he swore an oath to.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. His mea culpa tour has been going well. He's buffed his image to nice shine.

But history will not reflect well on him, I hope.

[Gothmog]

11. Rachel did a great job on this issue

Link to tweet

[brush]

38. Not to mention that the bastard kept completely quiet about the trump investigation

And it came out a couple of days ago that Comey actually found out about the allegedly "new" emails on Weiner's laptop in September of 2016 not late October.

I don't know about anyone else but I don't believe for a second that Comey sat on that info for a whole month without having that laptop examined. Are we supposed to be that stupid that we believe he didn't have those emails checked?

IMO he found out way before his Oct. 28, 2016 letter to Chaffetz that the emails on the laptop were duplicates and he bided his time until late October to spring this info on the country so it would have maximum impact on the election.

Remember how quickly after the resumption of the investigation it was found they were duplicates? That means even if he did find out on Oct. 28 he still could've had the laptop examined, found the emails were duplicates in a few days and kept his fucking mouth shut about the so-call "new" emails.

No, he planned the news of the resumed investigation purposely to tilt the election to trump, all the while remaining silent about the concurrent investigation of trump's campaign.

Comey deserves to be in jail for palying ahuge part in installing the worst president we've ever had. And we thought
w was bad.

[Gothmog]

12. From Ari Melber

Link to tweet

[liberalla]

14. Excellent tweet by Ari.

His contribution to any discussion is invaluable and I always like to get his 'take' on things...
I've felt a vague disccomfort re:Comey and now it makes more sense to me.
Thank you.

[KatyMan]

15. he can go rot

fuck him. he's the main reason we have Trump thanks to that stupid letter.

[lunamagica]

18. Your "logic" doesn't make any sense. It is an absurd and ridiculous

comparison.

James Comey violated FBI norms when he chose to discuss publicly an investigation related to a political candidate just 11 days before an election. He broke protocol. His actions were deemed "extraordinary and insubordinate" and he for deviated from FBI and department norms.

When Hillary up her email server it was a common practice. Condolezza Rice, James Powell, and others did it.

So Comey thought his reasons were good. Of course he did. His good reason was to push trump over the finish line. It's hard to come to a different conclusion when the man had been sitting on the information for least since September, but waited so he could drop a bombshell in October, a real October surprise.

Your comparison doesn't hold water. Apples and oranges.

[AtomicKitten]

24. Not exactly.

When Hillary [up] her email server it was a common practice. Condolezza Rice, James Powell, and others did it.

Source: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/09/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-said-my-predecessors-did-same-thin/

There’s a couple problems with Clinton’s talking point that her State Department predecessors used email practices similar to hers.

First of all, there’s the fact that most of Clinton’s predecessors did not regularly use email. Just four former secretaries of state have held the job during the prominence of electronic communications: Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright.

According to MSNBC, an aide for Albright said she "did not use email while she was in office" from 1997 to 2001. And Rice, head of the State Department from 2005-09, was not a habitual emailer either, according to multiple reports.

So that leaves Powell, a regular email user, as Clinton’s only predecessor who serves as a useful comparison. When we reached out to the Clinton campaign, they pointed us to Powell.

Like Clinton, Powell used a personal email address. However, there’s a big difference: Clinton hosted her email on a private server located in her home. Powell did not.

[lunamagica]

25. Hillary was cleared, did you know that? And how does this equals Comey's interference with the

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election?

You are really grasping at straws, trying to prove who knows what

[Cha]

32. Gracias Luna for bringing logic and common

sense into the equation!

So needed around here at times..

We need a little Mexican Flag, too

[Hortensis]

41. It doesn't. I'm stunned by Mythology's spin,

and disgusted.

As for Comey's apology, I do not believe the conclusion that there was no anti-Democrat motivation. That would make Mr. "I'm not sure/It could be that/I don't remember/I believe/It's possible that" the stupidest FBI director in history by far. Far too stupid to keep careful notes about why he was taking each step.

[KitSileya]

31. No, Powell used a public email account - aol or yahoo I can't remember which

So much more secure than the server in the home of a former President, natch. The proof is in the pudding - Clinton's server wasn't hacked, while pretty much everyone else's was. Colin Powell's emails? Who seriously believes they weren't read by foreign powers, both friendly and not?

[ehrnst]

34. She was exonerated, and her server ended up being WAY more secure than the State Department servers.

servers. Senior State Department staff at the time would not use their government issued laptops to discuss highly sensitive information, because of fears of hacking, which were well-founded.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/significant-cyber-attacks-federal-systems-2004-present

https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/politics/state-department-hack-worst-ever/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/new-details-emerge-about-2014-russian-hack-of-the-state-department-it-was-hand-to-hand-combat/2017/04/03/d89168e0-124c-11e7-833c-503e1f6394c9_story.html?utm_term=.fe8d088927b4

[brush]

39. Bs. You forgot to mention that it just came out Comey himself used his own...

personal email to conduct FBI business,

In other words, it was pretty common practice in high gov. circles to do just what Comey and Rice, and Powell and Clinton did—find a workaround for the clunky, slow and highly vulnerable-to-hacking government email system.

Comey did it his fucking self and publicly chastised Clinton in July 2016 for it, then purposely trashed her campaign in late Oct. 2016
for something he himself had done.

Guess he didn't think that would ever come out, or the fact that he found out about the alleged "new" emails on Weiner's laptop in September 2016 and sat on the info until late Oct.

And why would he sit on that info for a month? People are not stupid, and neither are you. He did it to swing the election to trump.

That sanctimonious-acting, but really partisan hack ass belongs in jail for helping to install the lying disaster we have in the WH now.

[LisaM]

29. She already had a secure home server.

She didn't create it to hide email.

[NY_20th]

19. No.

It was blown way out of proportion.

[StevieM]

20. I disagree that there would have been no investigation. The FBI was always going to find some reason

to place her under investigation, and to publicize it.

[ehrnst]

37. The GOP will find a reason to investigate ANY democratic candidate...

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No exceptions.

[oasis]

26. The entire e-mail investigation was a bunch of weak ass shit that

sprang out of the Bengazi manufactured bullshit.

So, no.

[ehrnst]

36. At the time government-issued Blackberry phones were unable to access multiple

multiple email accounts.

And then she was excoriated when she destroyed her phone, as per State Department protocols.

[Wiseman32218]

23. I totally agree, he screwed us over!!!!

[sprinkleeninow]

27. "Stuff it, James." eom

[Rollo]

28. I just finished reading Comey's book "A Higher Loyalty"....

i found it well written and interesting... until he got to the part about the late election reveal about the emails on Weiner's notebook.

Then his constant argument that he, and FBI, were apolitical, wore a bit thin. It was a very unusual election, what with the Russian hacking and Trump's bald faced constant lying. I get that Comey thought he was doing the right thing; I just think he could delayed his announcement until after the election. He says he was trying to get ahead of the leaks he feared would happen anyway. I say he should have waited until they happened and withheld comment. That simple. As it happened, his last two announcements about the email investigation cancelled each other out; but the timing was devastating to Clinton's campaign. I am reminded of the truism: discretion is the better part of valor. If Comey had been more discreet, it might have eventually reflected poorly on himself and the FBI, but it would have better safeguarded our electoral process and our democracy, and those should take precedence over any government agency or individual.

[oberliner]

30. Almost 66 million

[noncliqer]

33. And on!

If I ever have the displeasure of meeting the pompous asshole, I have taken a vow to punch him in the face.

[milestogo]

40. And that is something we will never hear from this pompous asshole.