“Give us what we want or we’ll destroy you personally.”
Once it reaches that stage, it’s just a lynch mob, not an investigation.
It’s also candidate suppression. Know that the Russians, Wikileaks, and even the FBI will expose your entire life of any Dem who tries for the POTUS.
The GOP political extortion and intimidation machine.
Oh, COMEY DOES’T WORK FOR FUCKING CONGRESS!
his number one concern is his reputation
Because keeping your job is more important than doing your job…
This is a polite, gentle deep twisting of the knife. Pity for Comey for being unable to stand up to republican pressue.
So Mr. Comey is not a profile in courage, choosing to protect his personal reputation while eroding that of the FBI.
In “fariness,” it’s always been a lynch mob…
Ironically his reputation is now in the shitter.
Comey, Comey, Comey…Who got to you?
What I find interesting about this is that Comey was Obama’s selection.
Comey did not have the integrity to handle the Republican dictators or the wisdom to see the bigger picture.
I don’t see the word “misstep” in the actual text, and I think Cummings may refer to anything, which can be seen as a missstep on Comey’s part, not a missstep of HRC (The HRC !).
Comey had promised to keep the Congress up to date on any new developments during the hearing in the Senate/Congress, so he had to do something.
I would like Harry Reid and others to dial the anguish back a bit and treat this as grown-ups (as Cummings do), they are behaving like Hillary actually is guilty of something, which I don’t believe…in a day or two it will peter out…
So does the Hatch Act apply here? He knew he was being watched closely, so he sent the letter purely for political reasons. Hatch Act violation!
Where it will remain until flushed by his resignation or firing.
I believe it was one of Frederick the Great’s generals who was ordered to commit a military action he deemed dishonorable–break a truce, commit reprisals–refused to do it, and was stripped of his rank. He said he preferred disgrace to dishonor.
A pity that Comey was not of that stamp.
This one’s on us.
Comey’s action wasn’t just the bad judgment it might have seemed at first. It now appears that he sought approval for his letter from DoJ, the AG herself, was informed that sending the letter would violate the relevant ethics standards, and then went ahead and did it anyway. He should not still be the FBI Director. The fact that he hasn’t been fired yet means that this administration will not enforce written, standing DoJ ethics standards. That’s even worse than what Comey did.
Sure, there are the political consequences. Firing Comey would risk making him look like a martyr, and risk making irrelevant e-mails appear to be somehow so relevant that our side fired Comey over this matter. But there are long-term political consequences to subordinating bedrock principles to short-term political advantage. Our side always seems to choose short term over long term when such choices present themselves. One consequence is that we have stopped thinking long term at all, stopped thinking in terms of political combat with the Rs because we always avoid that. So our AG’s first and immediate response to Comey telling her what he planned to do was not a memo documenting that this would be a firing offense, and a call to the president so that he could issue Comey a direct order against sending the letter.
Our side decided to handle this matter, as it decides to do everything, in a no drama, no conflict kind of way, for political reasons. We have no room to criticize Comey and his fellow Rs, for a blatantly political move in sending the letter and in their reaction to the letter. Both sides do it, only our side does it incompetently.
I think this is the key paragraph in the Comey letter. Someone he didn’t trust (Chaffetz?) knew of the finding and couldn’t be trusted not to leak it, so he had to get out ahead of it:
“Of course, we don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record. At the same time, however, given that we don’t know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails, I don’t want to create a misleading impression. In trying to strike that balance, in a brief letter and in the middle of an election season, there is significant risk of being misunderstood, but I wanted you to hear directly from me about it.”
When Comey uttered his “extremely careless” comments during his July press conference, I suspected he was attempting to appease the GOP vipers in Congress and protect himself from a metaphorical lynching. It didn’t work, because nothing short of Hillary Clinton behind bars will appease them. If it’s true, as Rep. Cummings said, and I believe, that Comey’s “number one concern is his reputation”, his reputation is now in tatters. He mishandled the investigation of Clinton’s emails from the beginning. He should step down.