FBI Director Comey will be giving a statement today at 11am et

[NWCorona]

And will supposedly take questions afterward.

Maybe the reports are right because it seems almost anticlimactic in a way.

[B2G]

1. Unless he's resigning.

Now that would be interesting...

[NWCorona]

2. Definitely!!!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. Why would he resign?

Thank you in advance.

[Hortensis]

24. Why on earth would he resign?

Btw, he's no angel, certainly, but this is the guy who rushed to AG John Ashcroft's hospital bed to keep W from renewing the infamous warrantless wiretapping program. He's no demon either.

[Agschmid]

3. Let's see what he says...

[rusty fender]

4. I read a tweet that

said that Comey will take questions off the air? Never heard of that

[Jitter65]

5. He won't resign. But he still wants to do as much damage to HRC as possible.

We will know by 11:30

[PJMcK]

10. Please explain why Director Comey wants to damage Secretary Clinton

I don't understand your post. Thanks.

[riderinthestorm]

6. Really odd timing with Obama starting to campaign for her today

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-obama.html?_r=0

[Hortensis]

7. Obama was scheduled to start a month ago,

after all, but then Orlando and other stuff intervened. The FBI said at least 6 months ago that no crime was committed. Way past time to get this out of the way.

[NWCorona]

9. That's exactly what I thought. Isn't Hillary supposed to be with Obama on Air Force 1 today?

[Hortensis]

17. That's right, NW. :) Wouldn't it be STRANGE

for a sitting president to endorse or be seen in public with Hillary Clinton if he believed there was anything to this extremely well-funded swiftboating campaign?

The simple answer is he would not.

Conspicuously, the president didn't attend Scalia's funeral. There's a BIG CLUE in all this.

[riversedge]

34. Hillary to talk to NEA in DC at 11 am. Link here... Rally in NC at 3pm ET....

http://www.msnbc.com/live-online/watch/live-hillary-clinton-nea-remarks-718638659922

[DCBob]

8. Finally this is coming to an end!

[NWCorona]

11. Let's hope it's not another "The FBI doesn't have a timetable" statement.

[randome]

13. Well, where are they? How can we expect justice if the FBI can't even find their timetables???

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[DCBob]

16. Yeah.. I hope so too... however I am fairly certain this is it.

There is a possibility he is just going to tamp down the rumors that have come out recently and then announce the date the report will be complete and released to Lynch.

[joshcryer]

20. Minds are going to be blown.

The biggest revelation will be that Clinton was never the target of the investigation and that she was quite low on their radar.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

28. I don't have a clue what he will say but I am certain it won't be inculpatory.

For a host of reasons.

[NWCorona]

21. I didn't think about him addressing the rumors. Good point. nt

[DCBob]

22. I hope not but it would fit Comey's style.

[NWCorona]

25. Indeed!

[DCBob]

27. However, the fact he is taking questions suggests something significant coming in his statement.

[NWCorona]

29. I think the same happened last time where he gave a statement and then took questions off camera.

We will find out what's up in a few minutes hopefully.

[DCBob]

30. Do you have a link for a live feed?

Thanks.

[NWCorona]

31. I'm trying to find one. I'll post if found.

[NWCorona]

33. FYI incase you haven't found a feed.

http://www.cbsnews.com/live/

[DCBob]

36. Got it. Thanks.

[Adrahil]

19. Yeah, I personally think it might be...

...another "we'll finish when we finish. Ignore the rumors." statement.

Hopefully I'm wrong. We have a fucking racist fascist that is going to be the GOP nominee. Enough already. If you have something, recommend charges. If not, finish it already.

[randome]

12. Oh, this is gonna be good.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[OKNancy]

15. Twitter folks on the right ( and a fraction on the left)

are going ape-shit crazy... declaring beforehand that it's all rigged for Clinton and if she is cleared... blah blah blah, you can guess.
It's like they are expecting her to be cleared. Haven't seen a single one say oh boy, she is in trouble.

[Igel]

26. There are two ways of looking at it.

1. Obama wouldn't be campaigning if he had been told there was even a reasonable chance of HRC's being accused of doing something illegal. This claim assumes Obama isn't primarily motivated by party politics and is motivated by integrity or, at worst, personal politics.

2. Obama wouldn't allow the person he was campaigning for to be officially accused of doing something illegal. This claim assumes Obama is primarily motivated by politics, party and personl, and not by integrity.

Which you choose at ths point is entirely based on your assumptions. If you choose (1), even if it came out that there were internal discussions over adjusting the finding to make the Boss happy, you wouldn't be swayed. One would need a signed, notarized document from Obama ordering Comey to make a finding of "no accusation". Even if you choose (1), it remains the case that Comey would have to have balls of titanium steel to make an accusation against HRC--disloyal to former patron, contrary to personal politics, political defamation of his boss; the pressure, even if none was explicitly applied, would still be rather intense. If you choose (2), the FBI's releasing all the documentation wouldn't matter because there could be a claim that not all the documentation was released or that some was faked. Hard to argue against an argument from silence that's not just discussing form and fallacy--"the argument's not valid" is not the same as "the argument is false." And there's always the fall-back "the implicit pressure was enough, so no explicit pressure was needed."

It's an equal opportunity game, sadly.

[MineralMan]

18. Ah, OK, then.

We'll see how it goes then.

[Alfresco]

32. Harry Enten on Twitter: "Someone better be monitoring HA Goodman today."

[B2G]

35. Twitter saying it will be a 15 minute statement. nt

[DCBob]

37. Not intentional deleted.

[Johnny2X2X]

38. Recomendation

No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case!

[uponit7771]

39. Splodey heads are slpoding !!!!!