So turns out HRC didn't lie about emails, James Comey however did lie under oath

[La Lioness Priyanka]

Link to tweet

https://www.propublica.org/article/comeys-testimony-on-huma-abedin-forwarding-emails-was-inaccurate?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1494298184

[Atman]

1. Oh, look! A link to a tweet!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. there's a propublica article link too. literally not sure what you are rolling your eyes about.

[Atman]

5. So, you had access to the tweet, AND the Propublica article, but...

...it wasn't worth your time to give us the slightest synopsis what your post was about?

At least there was an actual link this time, I give you credit for going that far.

[MineralMan]

6. And what do you think of that tweet and article?

I can see that you're irritated about a Twitter link. But what about the content?

People use the tools provided by DU. Tap the link if the post interests you. That's my advice.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. +1. also maybe anger management classes are in order.

[MineralMan]

11. I don't know about that.

I do know that when someone posts something that isn't useful to me for some reason, I just click on another thread.

[rufus dog]

41. What an asshole!

You mean when you click on a thread and it doesn't interest you, you just close it and move on?

You can't take the time to post a response regarding how lame you think a thread is, thus moving it back up to the top of the page, thus causing more views?

Of all the nerve!

[yardwork]

58. This thread has the potential to become a DU classic!

[True Dough]

61. You have mastered the art

of sarcasm. I like that!

[90-percent]

81. sarcasm

sarcasm is the language of the gods and the most effective form of human communication short of mental telepathy.

It's the only art form that truly inspires my creative juices.

-90% Jimmy

[barbtries]

88. there's a coffee cup somewhere you need to have

it belongs to a co-worker and says, "I'm sarcastic. What's your Super Power?"

i totally love that cup and i am not being sarcastic.

[ehrnst]

80. +1000 (nt)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. LOL. i don't work for you. i posted a tweet which clearly states what the issue is and the link to

the article.

i don't what the issue is here with your anger, but it's really not my problem.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

78. Head of the FBI lying under oath is causing much unwanted stress. Especially as he helped elect 45.

I get it. The spin continues as well as the Great Screwing of America.

[Javaman]

12. someone just tried to alert this post of yours.

I was on the panel.

ridiculous alert.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. Alert on what?

[Javaman]

26. I know...

I have no idea either.

must of someone who couldn't stand the heat of someone pointing out the obvious LOL

[MoonRiver]

52. WTF??

[LanternWaste]

14. I can only imagine the hardship clicking on link must cause.

I can only imagine the hardship clicking on link must cause. The trials and persecutions involved in the particular travesty of a mere click is beyond measure. Your self-sacrifice is both noted and given all the consideration it in fact, warrants.

[Atman]

21. On my phone, it causes Twitter to launch, then...

...doesn't necessarily go to the actual link. Then I have to navigate back to DU, without know one damn thing about the original tweet, although I wanted to know.

It's really, really simple; if you feel a tweet is important enough for people to see, give us SOMETHING...a sentence, a paragraph, SOMETHING to let us know that it is as important as you believe it is. I'm not sure why that is too much to ask.

[ret5hd]

27. .

[moda253]

44. Why not long press it and then open ina new tab/window on your phone?

NT

[spooky3]

64. If you have an iPhone you may be able to change a Safari setting to avoid this.

I had problems with images and videos and tweets not showing. I went into Settings>Safari>General>Content Blockers and found that Firefox Focus was allowed to block content. I turned this off. I also turned of the Block Pop-Ups in the General settings under Safari. One or both of these made a difference.

[Atman]

71. Thank you.

I do use Firefox Focus on my phone, and have ad blockers and tracking blockers on my desktop. Thanks for a breath of sanity. WTF is with DU users, anyway? Nice to hear some advice towards a solution instead of people calling me an idiot because their links aren't showing up.

[spooky3]

72. you're welcome!

[stonecutter357]

70. are you could just skip the OP..

[Ninsianna]

85. That's kind of what the tweet did, so why the need to spend so much time

berating the poster? Zero credit for failing to go far enough to actually read the post one has posted so many angry and rude responses to.

[Orrex]

35. No one's been a bigger loudmouth about "Link to Tweet" posts than I...

But you included a link to the story, which is really all anyone can ask.

[yallerdawg]

8. "You can now embed Tweets directly into DU posts"

If all you see is 'link to tweet' it's on you - not us.

EarlG - "People have been asking for this for a while now, and since Twitter is President Cheetoface McShitgibbon's preferred method of communication we decided it was finally time to program our software to allow automatic embedding of Tweets."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10138150

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. +1. plus the dramatic roll of eyes is completely unnecessary.

[yallerdawg]

13. Hey - if I have to upgrade my hardware every ten years or so...

everybody else gets to!

[Atman]

24. I have an iPhone 7.

I guess I need something more up-to-date in order to enjoy your tweets?

Half the time I get a subject line with NOTHING in the text. No link, no nothing. And you're telling me it's because my iPhone 7 isn't up to date enough to handle your tweets? I call BULLSHIT.

[yallerdawg]

28. If you can't see what everyone else sees...

again - it's on you, not us!

We can't change how we post based on how your equipment works - obsolete or not. It's up to you to keep up!

These comments are to let you know - and others know - that you have a problem.

[Atman]

37. Funny how that works...

I see NOTHING. I see "link to tweet." How the bloody hell am I even supposed to have a clue what anyone else is seeing or what I should be seeing? Post a screen cap! Show me what you get when you have "link to tweet" on your screen. I'd like to know so I can trouble shoot. Point being, again, I have a brand new phone, and I have no problem with ANY of this except for twitter links on DU. Are you telling me that when people post "link to tweet" there is actually content in the DU window, and not just a link to a tweet? If you're an iPhone 7 user, tell me the magic secret and stop saying I'm a douchebag because I only see "link to tweet." Help a brother out!

BTW, I get the exact same thing on my desktop Mac, which is also up to date. How is it just me?

[moda253]

46. Is it a work issued iphone and do they block twitter and other sites? EOM

[Atman]

55. It's my personal phone and my personal desktop Mac.

No restrictions. All I ever see is "Link to tweet." I'm still not clear if there is supposed to be other content in the screen, because no one has yet answered that question. Is it supposed to be an image, or something like what you get when you post a link in Facebook? Because I see nothing except "Link to tweet." I'm not tech challenged! I'm just tired of reading captivating subject lines, only to find the body text is just "Link to tweet."

BTW, thanks for being the first person to actually be civil, and not call me out for being some computer noob who has never seen a Twitter link.

[moda253]

63. Then you have twitter blocked somehow

Because that's what I see at work where they block twitter.

Yet at home I see the posts with twitter fine.

As was said it is something on your end.

[Atman]

69. I have a Twitter account. I can see Twitter just fine.

But in DU I only see the "Link to Twitter" underlined in blue. On any browser, on my phone and on my desktop.

At least you've helped clarify. Apparently there is supposed to be an image? A picture of the tweet? Something other than the link? No one else has answered that one, they just call me an idiot because my DU only shows "Link to Twitter" on any browser and any device. I'm such an idiot!

[barbtries]

89. you see the tweet

in the DU post. i mean you should.

[radical noodle]

57. Here's how it works for me...

I see a blue "link to tweet" but if I wait a few seconds, I see the tweet right there. I don't actually have to click that link. Try that.

[SaschaHM]

29. I have an Iphone 5 and can view these post...

and click on tweets without any of the hassles that you are describing.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

31. Lol. I have an iPhone 6 and it works fine

[tammywammy]

33. I have an iPhone 6 with the latest software

Clicking the area under the photo goes direct to the article.

[spooky3]

66. please see my post #64 for a possible solution.

[Atman]

38. So, I'm not wrong at all.

When you post a link to a tweet, the DU post will only say "Link to tweet."

That's my point! I'm not saying I can't get the tweet. Most of the time the link will work. Many times there is not even a link, but people are commenting about it.

What I am saying is, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO LAUNCH TWITTER in order to read your post! Tell me what I'm linking to before I have to leave DU and launch another site! Why is that so difficult?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

42. I don't exist to solve your tech woes or make your life easier

Why is that so hard for some people to get?

Fix your own issues or don't, but don't demand things from me to make your life easier. That's not my role here.

[Atman]

45. Good thing I never thought that you did.

What, exactly, did I demand from you? I have no "tech woes." I'm just asking why people can't have the decency to post a synopsis or even one little sentence telling us what we're supposed to be so amazed about/interested in. You took the time to open the tweet and read it, and copy the link. You can't take five more seconds and tell us what your link is about before we click away from DU only to find we don't give a shit about your link?

[Amaryllis]

54. The thread title was quite informative...and there was a link to an article.

[Orrex]

74. I'm with you in principle, but you're picking the wrong fight

This OP is one of the very rare few that actually includes content in addition to Link to Tweet, so there should be no issue here.

[stonecutter357]

68. So?

[underpants]

4. Mission Accomplished Comey - they got their headline

They (really no one) will see the correction.

[yardwork]

18. THIS.

[TheFrenchRazor]

87. yep; the "correction" is always too little, too late. nt

[pnwmom]

15. I'm not so sure it was a deliberate lie -- though it was clearly false.

He had nothing to gain from lying, since he's now going to have to correct the record -- which would have been predictable.

So I think he just mucked things up by mistake.

[yardwork]

17. The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation can't get facts straight under oath.

That's not worrisome or anything.

[pnwmom]

19. It's understandable, after hours of testimony. Not everyone is as smart as Hillary and Sally.

[yardwork]

23. So, I disagree that this was an error. I think Comey said it on purpose.

The entire narrative is premised on the FBI being worried that national security was at stake. If they didn't have reason to worry, then their actions in reopening the investigation were obviously partisan.

[pnwmom]

25. Remember that Guiliani knew about the Huma emails from his cronies in NY, and he was about to spill?

So some believe that Comey felt he had to get ahead of that and frame it as best as he could -- while continuing with the investigation that he didn't want to tip the targets off about.

Time will tell.

[yardwork]

47. I remember and I'm familiar with this argument, but I don't believe it.

Personally, I think that Comey and the NYC FBI are in deep. I think Comey acted on purpose to try to prevent Hillary's election.

[barbtries]

39. i agree.

i respected him once but now he reminds me of Condoleeza Rice. he's not out for anyone but himself and his party and damn the consequences to the nation.

[True Dough]

65. I too thought he was getting a bad rap in the early going

I had pegged him as someone with integrity who had to make some tough decisions. Then it became known that there were simultaneous investigations into Clinton (emails) and Trump (Russian interference) and that Comey only made the former known publicly. That sunk him in my eyes. Now the lies about Huma Abedin are just another nail in the coffin.

[moda253]

51. He lied. And the reeason we know he lied is because

Of the time estimate that they said it would take to go through the emails. He lied. he created a fabricated story that made it seem as though there was so many emails that they couldn't get through the dupe checking of them for days. When almost anyone in IT knows that was complete bullshit.

[Cosmocat]

82. This is consistent with what I have repeatedly posted about Comey

He may, or may not be a decent or honorable man in other ways.

But, he cut his teeth as a special prosecutor for the whitewater witch hunts and has Clinton derangement like any other republican.

It was visceral in his editorializing the way he did a year ago when he did his first hit job on her, and is was at the root of his teeing up the POS Chavetz a week before the election in November.

[gratuitous]

16. Rep. Chaffetz? Hearings scheduled?

We all know how horrible, terrible, no-good, and very bad it is to lie under oath. Can we look forward to the Government Oversight Committee convening hearings, and putting Director Comey under oath for an 11-hour live grilling? If not, why not? This would appear to be a rather serious matter.

[ismnotwasm]

22. K&R

[OliverQ]

30. You guys do realize that...

If Comey gets discredited, the Trump/Russia investigation goes out the window and Trump will probably get away with it right? I can assure you the Republican Trump appoints to take Comey's place will make no efforts to get to the bottom of Trump's treason.

[OnDoutside]

40. 100% on the money. Comey isn't the best, but he is the best of what we can get.

[yardwork]

48. Neither will Comey or thus Congress. Nothing will be done, period.

[barbtries]

90. we cannot lay down for this.

RESIST. write, call, march, organize. if nothing is done, a lot happens and none of it good. the people must rise now.

[Cosmocat]

83. It can be both

This fits in and is consistent with the point I made about him all along.

He cut his teeth as a special prosecutor for the whitewater witchhunts, and VERY clearly had Clinton derangement syndrome like every other repubilcan. It was clear as day when he editorialized the way he did a year go when he did his first hit job on her, and why he so willingly teed up Chavetz a week before the election in November.

We can only hope that it is a partisan blind spot for a man with integrity in past that ..,

[Hekate]

32. Thank you, Lioness!

[LexVegas]

34. I have a Commodore VIC 20 and can't see your post. Can you send it by snail mail? nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

36. Luv ya

[yardwork]

56. Why are you so exclusivist? You exhibit clear 21st century biases.

[yardwork]

49. ROTFL

[True Dough]

67. Facetious!

And funny!

[genxlib]

50. Confirmation Reporting in the Washington Post

I can't for the life of me get links to show up right but I will give it a shot.

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/09/james-comey-just-stepped-in-it-big-time/?utm_term=.40a97adf27c4|

[GallopingGhost]

53. Now I want you to go home and write

"I am very, very sorry for what I did to Hillary," a hundred zillion times, and maybe, just maybe, mind you, you'll wake up tomorrow morning and be able to tell the truth.

These Repubs wouldn't recognize honesty if it slithered up their butt and crawled out their nostril as a banana slug.

[LAS14]

59. Wow!! Until now I was willing to believer that Comey may have just exhibited...

... incredibly bad judgement, but was maybe not politically motivated (based somewhat on statements of colleagues and Obama), but if he can make a mistake like this (see replies 5 and 7 to find out what THIS is), then it really does betray deep seated antipathy towards Hillary.
Add t

[ucrdem]

60. Every word including "and" and "the."

Or to borrow another phrase, every inch a partisan hack.

[yodermon]

62. The whole Weiner laptop thing is FREAKING WEIRD.

Comey's quotes from testimony:

"somehow, her emails are being forwarded to Anthony Weiner, "
...
"appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding emails to him,"

Those are weasel words, he is giving himself an out.
The reason?

Huma's lawyer:

Abedin’s lawyer issued a statement after Comey’s Oct. 28 letter, saying Abedin had no idea how her exchanges with Clinton got on Weiner’s laptop, and no idea that they were there.

If Huma DIDN'T ACTUALLY FORWARD THEM, then how did they actually get there?

*IF* Russian hackers and/or the Trump campaign had something to do with it, could/would Comey *say so*, out loud in this testimony? OF COURSE NOT.
He couldn't even fall back on "this is classified information pertaining to an ongoing investigation" because this whole Weiner/laptop/email "thing" is supposed to be over & done with, case closed, move along.

So he said what he said, with weasel words in force.

oh, and just for kicks:
https://patribotics.blog/2017/01/17/dear-mr-putin-lets-play-chess-louise-mensch-trump-russia/

Mr. Putin, it is my surmise that some of the Russian moles inside US counter-intelligence work within the FBI’s criminal division, and particularly, within the New York field office.

It is my surmise that your hacker, Nikulin, sent a command buried in a virus earlier transmitted by Formspring to ‘wake up’ that old computer and either find, or place, emails from Huma Abedin on to it, and that you then contacted your moles inside the NYPD/ FBI NY and told them to “suddenly find” emails that, the expectation was, could not possibly be combed through in time before the election.

[yardwork]

73. I think that this has been explained before. It has to do with email syncing.

Abedin's emails got dumped onto Weiner's computer when she used his computer to access her email. It was automatic and she didn't know it happened. Weiner didn't know either and couldn't access them unless he went into his wife's email account.

By the way, this is all a lot MORE secure that Donald's iPhone.

[yodermon]

76. Thanks. So why didn't Comey say that? "somehow" he says instead.

I wished senate panel had followed up on specifics.

Also, do we know this (re email syncing thing) or is it speculative? I'll admit it's more plausible than the emails being planted by Russian hackers, but the timing was just *too* perfect to be coincidental.

[yardwork]

77. I don't know. I'm not an expert. I assume it's speculative.

[mackdaddy]

86. I understand that the emails were automatic backups from Huma's Smartphone.

I do not have a current source for this, and the story is so muddled that even Comey does not know what he is talking about.

But I understood that these "new" emails were actually just an automatic backup copy of the emails on Huma's smartphone (a blackberry?). The software on the Laptop would update the backup of the Blackberry every time it was plugged into the laptop to be charged. Huma and her hubby were not even aware that this was being done which is why they did not know about the files. This was discovered during the October surprise Comey week, and why they came back within a few days to say "oops, nothing new here, just copies, carry on" even though the damage was done. The Pro-publica article even says this about the backup files on wiener's computer.

No more than a "hand-full" of emails were directly forwarded to this laptop for physical printing. And none of those forwarded were indicated to be classified from any of these articles.

So Comey's latest testimony is totally wrong and is the most screwed up yet when compared to the actual facts.

[JHan]

75. Fuck Comey, again. Ten thousand times, and not in a pleasurable way.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

79. Yup

[librechik]

84. he also said "including classified material" in that paragraph--BIG lie. n/t