Comey’s comments may have contributed to HRC losing, but she will never admit how damaging it was for her to never reveal what she told Goldman-Sachs in those infamous speeches. The fact that bankers were not prosecuted when Holder had the chance is a huge reason why Democrats got beaten. If Obama/Holder had done the right thing and prosecuted big banks’ massive mortgage fraud, that would have shown average Americans that Democrats were truly on their side.
While it was between a rock and a hard place in some views
That Train had left the station long before that point.
The Russian influence, Republican cooperation and Clinton refusing to go to the blue collar states had pretty much set the mold , despite numerous cable talking heads assuring us that there was no way Trump could win .
Something about a blue firewall Yada yada yada
Sometimes you wake up and it’s not a nightmare
It will come back to bite us all in the ass. The bankers have no fear and know they will always be able to pulll shit with no consequences. They are dismantling Todd Frank and have Mulvany in charge of the Consumer Protection agency as we speak. I’m selling a rental property real soon … the market is pretty strong right now but it’s coming again and I don’t have another 10 years to wait for the economy to recover
I won’t pretend to know what Comey should have done when presented with his (alleged) dilemma. What I think is important would be to know those he consulted before making the decision to proceed as he did. Were ethics lawyers involved? What other departments gave advice? Was the Attorney General consulted? I don’t see Comey mentioning the participation, input or advice of others as cover or justification for what he did. Which leads me to believe this was essentially a solo venture. As smart as he is, and as fraught with peril was the decision to make these public pronouncements, I find it odd he didn’t do more to stamp his actions with the buy-in and seal of approval from others.
Consider this. People in the Trump campaign were also under investigation by the FBI.
If Comey had sent a letter to Chaffetz saying they were looking into HRC emails found on Weiner’s laptop AND there was an active investigation into the Trump campaign as well, Chaffetz would have hidden that letter so NOBODY could ever find it.
But Comey instead sent the letter only talking about HRC. Which he knew Chaffetz would leak. And Chaffetz did, immediately.
This defense is as empty as every other he has offered up for the Clinton letter. He had plenty of options for handling that situation, including following the Department rules, guidelines and precedentn on the matter, which are setup to provide cover for decisions like that. Or he could have informed them of both investigations. He chose neither of those options, and instead went with writing a letter that would only be damaging to HRC, and thus influenced the election in Trump’s favor.
I have little doubt that he did think Hillary would win the election. But his actions had nothing to do with “protecting the legitimacy of her election”. He was trying to curry favor with republicans on the Hill, because he was drooling at the opportunity of spending the next 4 years investigating a Clinton, and he would need republican backing and cover for such a task.
What utter self-serving bullshit. His actions, along with Russian amplification of targeted nonstop propaganda warfare made the election illegitimate. That he is in such utter and self-serving denial of that reality is just pathetic.
Sorry Comey, your Republican brethren will never ever love you again. You sold your soul and credibility to try and protect yourself from the unhinged and inevitable attacks from the GOP which has waged nonstop jihad on all things Clinton for three decades.
That you knew there was nothing there to honestly prosecute, and your admission that it was all in response to GOP tainted “optics” proves this.
Especially because he knew Trump was already under investigation for much more serious things. When did J. McCain bring him the dossier?
Complacency wasn’t/isn’t our friend.
but she will never admit how damaging it was for her to never reveal what she told Goldman-Sachs in those infamous speeches.
Couldn’t agree more but let’s remember the timeline on what Comey never revealed:
July, 2016
The FBI opens an investigation into members of the Trump campaigns’ contacts with the Russian government.
March 20, 2017
Comey acknowledges for the first time during testimony before the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI is investigating connections between members of the Trump administration and the Russian government.
Get bent. Your crap is just as disingenuous bullshit as Comey’s. And that faux-left fuckhead narrative and bullshit reflected in your comment is just as responsible for giving us Trump.
Yes, but you didn’t say that Trump was being investigated at the same time.
Meh. He could have simply reported the findings and stood behind DOJ policies of not commmenting beyond it. And that would have been the end of it.
His self-serving nonsense about how he was so torn is so much rationalizing as to make me want to puke.
She gave a speech to Goldman Sachs. You have no evidence that she said or promised anything to tmem, which is exactly what is wrong with the political debate in this country. She gave a speech which one of the conditions of the speech was that the contents not be made public. That does not mean there was sokething nefarious going on.
It could have been a bunch of chatter at the time but I recall something about Noun-Verb-911 having some of his buddies in the New York FBI office threaten to leak the info of the email investigation reopening if Comey didn’t announce it.
Hillary lost because a vast number of Americans hate black people and don’t consider women to be equal. All the rest of this is you projecting your own definition of liberalism on the rest of the country.
Exactly. And his whole schtick that he needed to break DoJ policy because he didn’t want an imagined post-Clinton win to not seem illegitimate, while an actual hostile propoganda war by Russia was actually making it illegitimate, is just pathetic self-serving crap from Comey.
The GOP would never, and will never, accept they are wrong about their greviences and insane hatred of Clinton. They are too invested in it and have been trained, as a generation, to hate anything and everything about her.
So thinking that he needed to and be free to inject the FBI into the election by commenting publicly about the GOP calls to investigate her for the emails, was truly a fool’s errand.
He was simply wrong to go down that path, but will never admit it to himself or in public.
Indeed . They forget that the anti Hillary ads started about a nanoseceond after the second Obama election .
Not may…all data clearly shows that his letter had a direct impact on the election, conservatively of about 3%…which flips WI, PA, and MI, and thus changes the entire outcome.
Ah, but that is why you wanted to couch it in “may”. You needed to push some more of that Bernie bullshit out there.
Her speech at GS was dumped on youtube, and the entire transcript was passed around. But people like you had no desire to see what she actually said, it was (and apparently still is) much more valuable to paint it as some nefarious plan with shadows and clouds.
The fact that you are living through the Trump Presidency, and STILL want to run with that bullshit meme is quite staggering to me.
And btw, her speech was including women in the global economy. Which is actually a pretty fucking progressive concept that Progressives should already be behind. But instead you chose to blindly follow a Senator who has repeatedly worked with the NRA, including to destroy the best chance we have had in decades of holding gun companies and dealers accountable. Because apparently letting people get shot and killed is how you define “progressive”
Exactly. Comey was simply trying to cover his own ass with the corrupt Giuliani gang.
That is what drove his thinking and post-fuckup rationizing of this.
It’s pathetic.