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(172,813 posts) Wed May 24, 2017, 04:21 PM May 2017

Bad intel from Russia influenced Comey's Clinton announcement: report [View all]

Bad intel from Russia influenced Comey's Clinton announcement: report
By Katie Bo Williams - 05/24/17 04:03 PM EDT

Former FBI Director James Comey’s controversial decision to detail the FBI’s findings in the Hillary Clinton email case without Justice Department input was influenced by a dubious Russian document that the FBI now considers to be bad intelligence, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

The secret document, which purported to be a piece of Russian intelligence, claimed that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch had privately assured someone in the Clinton campaign that the investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information would go nowhere.

But according to people familiar with the matter, by August the FBI had come to believe the document was unreliable — and in fact may have been planted as a fake to confuse the FBI.

Comey made his announcement in July.

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http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/334990-bad-intel-influenced-comeys-clinton-announcement-report

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Bad intel from Russia influenced Comey's Clinton announcement: report [View all] babylonsister May 2017 OP

. geek tragedy May 2017 #1

Kick... yallerdawg May 2017 #4

What you said Hekate May 2017 #14

Bastard russians & republican turncoats piss all over America Achilleaze May 2017 #2

Worse than that maxrandb May 2017 #15

Yep... IthinkThereforeIAM May 2017 #28

Fucking incompetent asshole. JTFrog May 2017 #3

Yes, he can't get off the hook with this flamingdem May 2017 #24

Fucking incompetent assholes! Initech May 2017 #33

Explains a lot and is another nail in Trump's coffin marylandblue May 2017 #5

Can you link to the Washington Post article? It has much more detail and the original authors seaglass May 2017 #6

WAPO: How a dubious Russian document influenced the FBIs handling of the Clinton probe emulatorloo May 2017 #9

Thank you emulatorloo, I guess I should just break open the wallet and buy a subscription. :-) n/t seaglass May 2017 #10

Yep, I bought when they were having a sale. It's been worth it to keep up with emulatorloo May 2017 #12

Russian fake Intel planted at the FBI. MAGA. emulatorloo May 2017 #7

Hope Comey never forgets they set him up to be the patsy from the very beginning. Tommy_Carcetti May 2017 #8

Classic KGB trick dalton99a May 2017 #11

DU thread with the original WAPO story: emulatorloo May 2017 #13

Another WTF newblewtoo May 2017 #16

Big-ass smokescreen.... now the House and Senate hearing will have to address this.... 4139 May 2017 #17

What about his announcement in October? world wide wally May 2017 #18

I don't have any intention of murielm99 May 2017 #19

Exactly. Even if it HAD been true, that would have been an indictment of Lynch, not Clinton. deurbano May 2017 #36

This makes me a bit more than mildly nauseous. Glimmer of Hope May 2017 #20

K & R FailureToCommunicate May 2017 #21

I expect better from the head of an agency like the FBI. Tatiana May 2017 #22

What, do you think that this purportedly bogus . . . MousePlayingDaffodil May 2017 #29

From the Post: creeksneakers2 May 2017 #35

This seems consistent with the (admittedly speculative) premise . . . MousePlayingDaffodil May 2017 #39

Holy Crap!!! PatSeg May 2017 #23

Horrible! gademocrat7 May 2017 #25

I'm not a Comey fan. How he handled everything during.. mvd May 2017 #26

Wow, the Russians were heavily involved in cultivating the GOP narrative surrounding StevieM May 2017 #27

K&R radical noodle May 2017 #30

Did this come from Wikileaks? kentuck May 2017 #31

Kick orangecrush May 2017 #32

So, Comey did this to be vindictive? Goodheart May 2017 #34

I never watch Greta but stumbled on the program while she was discussing this. erinlough May 2017 #37

I don't see how that email would have influenced Comey. Honeycombe8 May 2017 #38