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FBI Director James B. Comey sent an ominously worded but content-free letter to members of Congress on Friday apprising them that additional emails had been found that “appear to be pertinent” to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. But wait: The FBI didn’t know what is in the emails. (A warrant to review their contents was reportedly obtained on Sunday.) One has to question then how he even knew they were pertinent to Clinton, let alone significant. They could all be duplicates of things we have seen. (Other reports suggest none of them came from her server.) After a weekend of FBI and Justice Department officials struggling via background leaks to make sense of the letter, we are no closer to figuring out why Comey chose to make such a big splash with so little information.
Pete Williams reported that Justice Department officials “cited long-standing policies against disclosing details of investigations that are underway or taking actions that could affect an election, especially in the period leading up to one.” He continued, “That was especially so, they said, given that FBI agents have not yet analyzed the newly discovered e-mails to see if they contain classified information, the central issue in the investigation of the Clinton private e-mail server.”
Comey defenders say that he was between the proverbial rock and a hard place. If it came out after the election that these emails were relevant he would have been accused of hiding the ball. That’s not a rock and a hard place — it’s Comey trying to protect himself from second guessing.
[Eric Holder: James Comey is a good man, but he made a serious mistake]
If he had not sent the letter and was asked after the election why the potential for more information was not disclosed, he would/should have answered as follows:
I literally had no idea what was in the emails. It therefore would have been impossible to determine if they were significant — or even related to Hillary Clinton at all.
BS, brainwashed functional moron/liar/bought off shill...lolFBI Director James B. Comey sent an ominously worded but content-free letter to members of Congress on Friday apprising them that additional emails had been found that “appear to be pertinent” to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. But wait: The FBI didn’t know what is in the emails. (A warrant to review their contents was reportedly obtained on Sunday.) One has to question then how he even knew they were pertinent to Clinton, let alone significant. They could all be duplicates of things we have seen. (Other reports suggest none of them came from her server.) After a weekend of FBI and Justice Department officials struggling via background leaks to make sense of the letter, we are no closer to figuring out why Comey chose to make such a big splash with so little information.
Pete Williams reported that Justice Department officials “cited long-standing policies against disclosing details of investigations that are underway or taking actions that could affect an election, especially in the period leading up to one.” He continued, “That was especially so, they said, given that FBI agents have not yet analyzed the newly discovered e-mails to see if they contain classified information, the central issue in the investigation of the Clinton private e-mail server.”
Comey defenders say that he was between the proverbial rock and a hard place. If it came out after the election that these emails were relevant he would have been accused of hiding the ball. That’s not a rock and a hard place — it’s Comey trying to protect himself from second guessing.
[Eric Holder: James Comey is a good man, but he made a serious mistake]
If he had not sent the letter and was asked after the election why the potential for more information was not disclosed, he would/should have answered as follows:
I literally had no idea what was in the emails. It therefore would have been impossible to determine if they were significant — or even related to Hillary Clinton at all.
How did they know they were pertinent to Clinton, the metadata showed they came form the hildabitches server, that's how. Huma told the FBI she had turned over all devices that could contain such information, she lied. What's in the emails, we'll know when they review the 650,000 contained on the laptop, it may take a while, look how long it took to review just 30,000.
BS, brainwashed functional moron/liar/bought off shill...lolFBI Director James B. Comey sent an ominously worded but content-free letter to members of Congress on Friday apprising them that additional emails had been found that “appear to be pertinent” to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. But wait: The FBI didn’t know what is in the emails. (A warrant to review their contents was reportedly obtained on Sunday.) One has to question then how he even knew they were pertinent to Clinton, let alone significant. They could all be duplicates of things we have seen. (Other reports suggest none of them came from her server.) After a weekend of FBI and Justice Department officials struggling via background leaks to make sense of the letter, we are no closer to figuring out why Comey chose to make such a big splash with so little information.
Pete Williams reported that Justice Department officials “cited long-standing policies against disclosing details of investigations that are underway or taking actions that could affect an election, especially in the period leading up to one.” He continued, “That was especially so, they said, given that FBI agents have not yet analyzed the newly discovered e-mails to see if they contain classified information, the central issue in the investigation of the Clinton private e-mail server.”
Comey defenders say that he was between the proverbial rock and a hard place. If it came out after the election that these emails were relevant he would have been accused of hiding the ball. That’s not a rock and a hard place — it’s Comey trying to protect himself from second guessing.
[Eric Holder: James Comey is a good man, but he made a serious mistake]
If he had not sent the letter and was asked after the election why the potential for more information was not disclosed, he would/should have answered as follows:
I literally had no idea what was in the emails. It therefore would have been impossible to determine if they were significant — or even related to Hillary Clinton at all.
How did they know they were pertinent to Clinton, the metadata showed they came form the hildabitches server, that's how. Huma told the FBI she had turned over all devices that could contain such information, she lied. What's in the emails, we'll know when they review the 650,000 contained on the laptop, it may take a while, look how long it took to review just 30,000.
FBI Director James B. Comey sent an ominously worded but content-free letter to members of Congress on Friday apprising them that additional emails had been found that “appear to be pertinent” to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. But wait: The FBI didn’t know what is in the emails. (A warrant to review their contents was reportedly obtained on Sunday.) One has to question then how he even knew they were pertinent to Clinton, let alone significant. They could all be duplicates of things we have seen. (Other reports suggest none of them came from her server.) After a weekend of FBI and Justice Department officials struggling via background leaks to make sense of the letter, we are no closer to figuring out why Comey chose to make such a big splash with so little information.
Pete Williams reported that Justice Department officials “cited long-standing policies against disclosing details of investigations that are underway or taking actions that could affect an election, especially in the period leading up to one.” He continued, “That was especially so, they said, given that FBI agents have not yet analyzed the newly discovered e-mails to see if they contain classified information, the central issue in the investigation of the Clinton private e-mail server.”
Comey defenders say that he was between the proverbial rock and a hard place. If it came out after the election that these emails were relevant he would have been accused of hiding the ball. That’s not a rock and a hard place — it’s Comey trying to protect himself from second guessing.
[Eric Holder: James Comey is a good man, but he made a serious mistake]
If he had not sent the letter and was asked after the election why the potential for more information was not disclosed, he would/should have answered as follows:
I literally had no idea what was in the emails. It therefore would have been impossible to determine if they were significant — or even related to Hillary Clinton at all.
Kind of like the rise of Hitler- bs propaganda overload...keep those guns loaded...FBI Director James B. Comey sent an ominously worded but content-free letter to members of Congress on Friday apprising them that additional emails had been found that “appear to be pertinent” to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. But wait: The FBI didn’t know what is in the emails. (A warrant to review their contents was reportedly obtained on Sunday.) One has to question then how he even knew they were pertinent to Clinton, let alone significant. They could all be duplicates of things we have seen. (Other reports suggest none of them came from her server.) After a weekend of FBI and Justice Department officials struggling via background leaks to make sense of the letter, we are no closer to figuring out why Comey chose to make such a big splash with so little information.
Pete Williams reported that Justice Department officials “cited long-standing policies against disclosing details of investigations that are underway or taking actions that could affect an election, especially in the period leading up to one.” He continued, “That was especially so, they said, given that FBI agents have not yet analyzed the newly discovered e-mails to see if they contain classified information, the central issue in the investigation of the Clinton private e-mail server.”
Comey defenders say that he was between the proverbial rock and a hard place. If it came out after the election that these emails were relevant he would have been accused of hiding the ball. That’s not a rock and a hard place — it’s Comey trying to protect himself from second guessing.
[Eric Holder: James Comey is a good man, but he made a serious mistake]
If he had not sent the letter and was asked after the election why the potential for more information was not disclosed, he would/should have answered as follows:
I literally had no idea what was in the emails. It therefore would have been impossible to determine if they were significant — or even related to Hillary Clinton at all.
.... and the walls came tumbling down.
Kind of like the rise of Hitler- bs propaganda overload...keep those guns loaded...FBI Director James B. Comey sent an ominously worded but content-free letter to members of Congress on Friday apprising them that additional emails had been found that “appear to be pertinent” to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. But wait: The FBI didn’t know what is in the emails. (A warrant to review their contents was reportedly obtained on Sunday.) One has to question then how he even knew they were pertinent to Clinton, let alone significant. They could all be duplicates of things we have seen. (Other reports suggest none of them came from her server.) After a weekend of FBI and Justice Department officials struggling via background leaks to make sense of the letter, we are no closer to figuring out why Comey chose to make such a big splash with so little information.
Pete Williams reported that Justice Department officials “cited long-standing policies against disclosing details of investigations that are underway or taking actions that could affect an election, especially in the period leading up to one.” He continued, “That was especially so, they said, given that FBI agents have not yet analyzed the newly discovered e-mails to see if they contain classified information, the central issue in the investigation of the Clinton private e-mail server.”
Comey defenders say that he was between the proverbial rock and a hard place. If it came out after the election that these emails were relevant he would have been accused of hiding the ball. That’s not a rock and a hard place — it’s Comey trying to protect himself from second guessing.
[Eric Holder: James Comey is a good man, but he made a serious mistake]
If he had not sent the letter and was asked after the election why the potential for more information was not disclosed, he would/should have answered as follows:
I literally had no idea what was in the emails. It therefore would have been impossible to determine if they were significant — or even related to Hillary Clinton at all.
.... and the walls came tumbling down.
Republicans are coming out also in criticism of Comey's actions.
"The deputy attorney general in the Bush Justice Department is among 100 former Justice Department officials who signed a letter criticizing Comey.
Thompson also wrote in a Saturday Washington Post op-ed with his Bill Clinton administration counterpart, Jamie Gorelick, that Comey is damaging America's democracy: “We now have real-time, raw-take transparency taken to its illogical limit, a kind of reality TV of federal criminal investigation. Perhaps worst of all, it is happening on the eve of a presidential election. It is antithetical to the interests of justice, putting a thumb on the scale of this election and damaging our democracy.”
And there's more at this link.
Even Republicans—including Karl Rove!—are slamming Comey for interfering in the election
Wait, is this post from July 5th?
Another lie, dupe.Wiener somehow got a hold of 650,000 emails of the Hildabeasts... I think you're sucking wiener
He ALWAYS has a big anti-Hillary mouth. Stupid GOP twit.Wait, is this post from July 5th?
Your RW media and pols are always a disgrace. Causing a 5 point Dem poll loss 11 days before the election- with nothing and total bs lies, is ridiculous.The most epic franco meltdown so far this election
It's SOP for repugs to trot out an October surprise during election time. Fling as much feces as possible and hope something sticks.Your RW media and pols are always a disgrace. Causing a 5 point Dem poll loss 11 days before the election- with nothing and total bs lies, is ridiculous.The most epic franco meltdown so far this election
He ALWAYS has a big anti-Hillary mouth. Stupid GOP twit.Wait, is this post from July 5th?
Go hitlery! Feel better now?Your RW media and pols are always a disgrace. Causing a 5 point Dem poll loss 11 days before the election- with nothing and total bs lies, is ridiculous.The most epic franco meltdown so far this election