I’m afraid we’ve all grown accustomed to hearing Jim Comey try to pass off stupid things as legitimate.
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This is ridiculous. There’s absolutely no reason members of Congress, the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees in particular, shouldn’t have access to the full, unredacted Report. At least they came by their Security Clearances on the up and up.
Moreover, without the Report, they can’t perform their Constitutionally obligated duty of assessing it for purposes of Impeachment. After all, the President apparently can’t be indicted, so Congress must serve as Judge and Jury.
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Nonsense. Barr’s ethics and intentions are irrelevant. His job is to provide the information, not filter it. Josh’s response is the only one that makes sense. Release the whole, unredacted report to Congress and allow Congress to approve any redactions. Barr is not the decision maker in this instance, and any attempt on his part to intercede is prima facia evidence of malicious intent.
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How the hell are we going to see if we can not see the report. His comment makes no sense.
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“Give him a chance to show us what he feels like he can’t show us,” Comey said."
More GOP doubletalk.
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Well if his only interest is in preserving his reputation he sure decided on an odd way of pursuing that interest with his fig leaf of a “summary.” Editorial suggestion: “The only thing he has to lose is his reputation with Republicans.”
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More nails in door # 2!
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Isn’t he dead? Oh, that’s right—he’s dead to me. Bye, Felicia.
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There is ONE thing that I agree with Comey about. Comey states that the only thing Barr has to lose is his reputation.
I believe that.
Before Trump, Barr was just a Poppy Bush enabler (along with other similar misdeeds). Most people outside of politically wonky people had never heard of Barr.
But now, Barr is in the Big Time. In two days millions of people across America “will have heard” of Bill Barr…and virtually none of it will be good…and the good part is that Quislings are remembered past their own miserable lives.
Panda Barr…Trump hack and betrayer to his Office, entrusted with protecting us from a criminal in the Oval Office and doing his best to protect the criminal.
ETA this is a pet peeve of mine… I get so sick of “establishment types” with suits gangstering and devastating more people than the toughest hood. It is truly sickening and if Barr gets away with this, no matter what Comey or anyone says, we will have One Branch of Government. The Trump Branch
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Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people’s necessities.
—Bernard Shaw
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The report needs to be published precisely because the public has well-founded unresolved doubts about what’s in it and, more critically, the integrity of the democratic process and the loyalty of the president. This is not a time to give anyone the benefit of the doubt–particularly a political appointee of the president who auditioned for and got his job on the basis of his willingness to protect the president.
Comey’s reflexive propriety and professional courtesy is completely out of sync with the moment. Doubt is exactly why we’re all here.
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Comey did not show any courtesy towards the DOJ clearing of H. Clinton from all charges.
Was is critical that she was a woman or was it that she was a Dem?
In any case, Comey was guilty of violating DOJ policies.
Lock HIM up.
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“The only thing he has to lose, at this point in his career,” Comey said, “is his reputation.”
Wow. Even now he remains the naive Boy Scout who assumes everything will work out. He personally experienced that bonehead trying to pressure him repeatedly into being loyal and drop an investigation, yet still thinks we can trust whoever Trump hired. Same guy who thought Obama’s Attorney General was biased for wanting to follow FBI guidelines on Crooked Hillary. Go figure.
At the end of the day, no one would be a Republican if they didn’t fall for propaganda. He thinks Trump is the problem and doesn’t realize the party is rotten to the core.
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He lost the benefit of the doubt when he gave out his BS summary.
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And when he played judge and jury and told us he decided that Trump wasn’t guilty of obstruction. He doesn’t have that power. He just took it.
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Had Comey said this before the Barr Notes to the Mueller Report came out, I might agree with him, but to still be asking that we give Barr a chance after that is just asinine. He’s been given a chance. He blew it. At this point, he reminds me of the people who were asking that we give PP a chance a year into his presidency.
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Barr can have all the fun he wants with redactions to the public.
He has NO right to redacting things from Congress.
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Maybe he’s hoping that Barr will redact the section of the report that showed the Rosenstein memo was spot on regarding Comey’s behavior (even though it wasn’t the real reason for his firing).
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What Barr did with his 19-page job application letter to the DOJ prejudging the Mueller Report and declaring the absolutism and perfection of the Unitary Executive free of all possible obstruction possibilities is EXTREMELY DISQUALIFYING for a benefit of the doubt. Why should he have it both ways, especially now as an employee judging his boss?
For example, if I were a prospective juror in voir dire, and I claimed that “I want to be on this jury because I know what a guilty person looks like.” I would be dismissed in 1.5 seconds by the judge and both lawyers. What Barr did to become AG is practically the same thing. Both ridiculous and bad law.
Plus, where is the check on his objectivity? Who is to say he won’t redact something incriminating under the cover of being something else, like a grand jury item?
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Is that the part of the memo that says Comey was too hard on Hillary?
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