I am making no such assumption. I think all commenters here at TPM have the same opinion of the first 100 days. The fact that Comey would take the same action to, in your words, “throw the election,” speaks volumes about Comey.
If he thinks the first 100 days have been a disaster but would do it again anyway then he is, again in your words, “Truly a fucking idiot.” If he thinks the first 100 days have been Nirvana, then he is “Truly a fucking idiot.”
QED
Thank you
I am not sure it is most accurate to think of Comey as partisan as much as purely self-serving. If Democrats could generate 1/10th the outrage over real problems that Republicans can generate over complete garbage, I feel that Comey would be just as pleased to kiss their collective asses. In the end, Comey did what he thought was best for Comey - and he will keep doing just that because it works. Until doing his job in the best interests of the US becomes what is also best for Comey, nothing will change.
Shorter version - we have a spineless person in charge of the FBI.
Comey, just like rethugs, thinks his duty is to his agency (party) before his country.
Totally worthless.
ETA. Auto correct changed Comey to Comedy. I wish it were funny.
Takes a very big man to admit a very big mistake.
Comey did right by his people but has damaged his own reputation beyond repair.
He’ll never be able to reconcile affecting the election in a partisan way. He could’ve exposed both sides if he felt he just had to or he could’ve waited as per the norm and the policy and let the truth come out.
IMO, he made two mistakes, going against protocol and in choosing sides. He fucked up and he’s not exactly making a big effort to repair that now.
He can keep claiming that he did it all to protect the FBI’s integrity but that horseshit doesn’t fly and his own legacy is now shit.
He made the decisions, now he gets to live with the consequences, like a big boy.
Message from here forward to any agent of this political organization (FBI) on any question asked.
“I don’t recall”.
For the good of our Democracy…
I hate to say it but for me this is another legacy of Barack Obama’s tragically misguided efforts to act in good faith and bipartisanship with Republicans during his first term and as part of that appoint Republicans to important positions.
Comey likely can’t even see how biased he is despite it being ridiculously obvious to the rest of us watching him spin the most absurd logic to explain his partisan torpedoing of Clinton. Not just in that last letter but the whole lecture back in June which left many voters convinced that she had committed some crime and he “decided not to prosecute”. Trump took that to the bank the rest of the campaign, and then Comey just finished things off with the letter.
Comey acted like the Republican scorpion he is in other words, it was in his nature, a tragic mistake by Obama that only became apparent years later when he reached out from an otherwise unremarkable tenure and in one or two partisan acts put an insane clown in the White House.
Bullshit. What Comey is describing as conceal equals the Justice Dept.’s and the FBI’s standard protocol of not commenting on ongoing investigations. His choice to speak broke with protocol and that is the choice for which he has no legitimate justification.
And facts bore out that what Comey did was wrong. When Comey notified Congress that he had ‘new information’ he actually didn’t. No one had any evidence that would implicate Hillary Clinton in wrongdoing; they only had the possibility that evidence might exist. And this is why the policy of non-comment exists. A cloud of suspicion was unfairly cast over Hillary Clinton and, in this case, it swayed a Presidential election.
There is absolutely no logical defense that supports disclosure in Clinton’s case and non-disclosure in Trump’s. The logical conclusion that comports with Justice Dept. protocol is non-disclosure in both cases.
Well that makes us even, James. Seeing your face makes me feel mildly nauseous. And while you were falling over yourself to announce new (but non-existent) emails on the creep’s laptop, what were you thinking about the critical information concerning Trump, his cronies and Vladimir Putin upon which you were sitting? You naïve bastard.
You are right. Excellent point
He had two investigations related to the election. One he decided to conceal, the other reveal. Along partisan lines. There’s no escaping that, and I don’t understand why the press continues to give this political hack cover.
Comey and his boss Loretta Lynch talked to each other many times about how to proceed on releasing emails which only proved there was no there, and each of them dithered about what to in order to avoid the appearance of partisanship. Her name will surely come up and I hope they take her to task as well.
https://twitter.com/Shareblue/status/859795760422014977
Kallstrom Jim Kallstrom.
Breaking: Comey confirms FBI is investigating internal leaks to Trump campaign
FBI Director James Comey confirmed during a Senate hearing Wednesday that there is an ongoing investigation into leaks from the FBI to top Trump campaign surrogate and ally Rudy Giuliani during the presidential campaign.
LEAHY: Did you know of anything from Jim Kallstrom?
COMEY: Same answer. I don’t know yet.
LEAHY: Do you know anything about from other former agents?
COMEY: I don’t know yet. But it’s a matter that I’m very, very interested in.
LEAHY: But you are looking into it?
COMEY: Correct.
He couldn’t find a door labeled “no action?”
Comey is just like Trump - when you are wrong, when you lie, double down and lie even more.
Comey is disgusting and absolutely worthless in his job!
And what a liar! Totally dishonest.
Total CYA bullshit by Comey here. He clearly learned nothing from the blowback from the first time he publicly revealed the investigation of Clinton’s email server which included a scolding by Attorney General Loretta Lynn who castigated him for breaking longstanding FBI protocol not to discuss ongoing investigtions including even if there WERE any such investigations.
Meanwhile he never gave an inkling that there were also ongoing investigations into the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia, something that he should have done as a matter of balance once he decided to comment on the Clinton email investigations the first time. And he had the opportunity to repair that “oversight” with the second Clinton announcement and he failed to do that as well.
He can takes his “Lordy, Lordy [I’m soooo distraught about being put in this situation]” and shove it you know where.
I agree but I also think that’s just another form of partisanship. Being more afraid of what FOX News will say about you than what someone on MSNBC will say about you is not just because FOX is louder, it’s because you know more people who share affinities with them and you feel more fear of being ostracized from the right than from the left.
Republicans constantly complain about “political correctness” from the left, so it’s not like they don’t think there’s outrage from that direction, they’re just not afraid of going against it. The right wing outrage is the one they’re afraid of, and that says as much about them as about the outrage.
Mildly naseous? That’s it?
“I can’t consider for a second whose political fortunes would be affected in what way.”
Not surprisingly, Comey confirms yet again that he’s a disingenuous lying sack of completely partisan shit. If anything truly damaging to Trump or any other Republican comes out of Comey’s FBI before January 2021, nobody will be more shocked than me.
And instead gave America the catastrophe of Donald Trump.
Why did you think concealing Donald Trump’s and the Trump Campaign’s ties to a hostile foreign government, and the FBI’s investigation into that was better than speaking about it?
Semantics matter. The fact that he presents this as ‘speak’ vs. ‘conceal’ shows that he was scared of the wrath of congressional republicans. I’ve never heard a law enforcement official refer to not releasing information related to an investigation as ‘concealing’ it, but I do imagine ‘conceal’ is precisely the word republicans would use while losing their shit when this information eventually came out.