FBI Director James Comey Investigated

[Benvolio]

He was presented with a difficult question. Should he withhold information which could affect peoples' voting decision or should he reveal it and allow the people to decide the importance. Soppose, hypothetically, the FBI knew that a candidate was about to be indicted for a very serious crime; murder, perhaps, rape, bribery, treason? It seems obviously that it should not withold that fact and allow the possible election of the person. He would be subject to very serious criticism. Comey's delima was worse, because, although she seemed guilty of the crime, he, or the democrat DOJ or president, was deciding not to prosecute for no clear reason. How could they justify their inaction?
In that context, his decidion seems like s compromise: do not prosecute, but disclose the investigation and let the people decide the importance. If she had been clearly innocent or if they were going to prosecute, it would have been an easier decision.

 

[kallipolis]

This was an ongoing investigation that an FBI director would normally never comment upon, until the investigation had been completed. Comey had to have realised that his comments would influence a voter's, voting choice against HRC.

That later Comey confirmed that no prosecution was justified, indicates that he had second thoughts....however, the damage had been done....

I am waiting for the DOJ investigation result, rather than spend time speculating.

 

[Benvolio]

This was an ongoing investigation that an FBI director would normally never comment upon, until the investigation had been completed. Comey had to have realised that his comments would influence a voter's, voting choice against HRC.

That later Comey confirmed that no prosecution was justified, indicates that he had second thoughts....however, the damage had been done....

I am waiting for the DOJ investigation result, rather than spend time speculating.

It was not a normal situation; it was the election of a president. How could he justify withholding information which might influence votes? What would you say he should do if she were suspected of murder?

 

[gsdx]

It was not a normal situation; it was the election of a president. How could he justify withholding information which might influence votes? What would you say he should do if she were suspected of murder?

You can't compare the two. She was branded a criminal and a corrupt politician with only speculation and allegation as evidence. The first investigation was completed and closed. Damage had been done, but not enough to kill the election. Trump was still losing. So, why was the public announcement made a week before the election that the case was being reopened? There is only one answer to that one, and the answer was proved when the idiot admitted that he couldn't talk about a Trump/Putin investigation.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump had a hand in the whole situation. Remember, he doesn't like to lose. Trump should never have won that election, and he wouldn't have won without interference and, probably, a lot of money changing hands.

You cannot justify Comey's actions in light of the contradictions and hypocrisy.

 

[Benvolio]

You can't compare the two. She was branded a criminal and a corrupt politician with only speculation and allegation as evidence. The first investigation was completed and closed. Damage had been done, but not enough to kill the election. Trump was still losing. So, why was the public announcement made a week before the election that the case was being reopened? There is only one answer to that one, and the answer was proved when the idiot admitted that he couldn't talk about a Trump/Putin investigation.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump had a hand in the whole situation. Remember, he doesn't like to lose. Trump should never have won that election, and he wouldn't have won without interference and, probably, a lot of money changing hands.

You cannot justify Comey's actions in light of the contradictions and hypocrisy.

The situations are quite different. The imminent election of a person suspected of a serious crime forced Comey to a decision whether to reveal or not before the election. The possible, but improbable, investigation of Trump about Putin does not involve that time pressure. It is the normal situation in which the FBI does not discuss investigations or lack thereof. Perhaps four years from now a similar situation to HRC will arise but not now.

 

[Kabluey]

...Soppose, hypothetically, the FBI knew that a candidate was about to be indicted for a very serious crime; murder, perhaps, rape, bribery, treason? ...

Let's keep Trump out of it.

The guy released the statement saying there was potentially new evidence, then retracted saying there was no additional evidence.
The whole email debacle never looked like anything more than another blow job witch hunt.

 

[DantheManFL]

The situations are quite different. The imminent election of a person suspected of a serious crime forced Comey to a decision whether to reveal or not before the election. The possible, but improbable, investigation of Trump about Putin does not involve that time pressure. It is the normal situation in which the FBI does not discuss investigations or lack thereof. Perhaps four years from now a similar situation to HRC will arise but not now.

Bullshit. The FBI was investigating the Trump campaign for Treason as far back as June. Why didn't we get the courtesy of a letter and press conference about that? I'll tell you why, because they wanted Trump to win. Simple.

FBI was reportedly alarmed at Carter Page’s trip to Moscow and meetings with Russian officials, one week before the DNC was hacked. Counter intelligence agencies later reported to both Presidential candidates that Russia had carried out this hack; Donald Trump said publicly in the third debate that ‘our country has no idea’ if Russia did the hacking. The discovery of the Trump Tower private Russian server, however, communicating with Alfa Bank, changed matters, sources report.

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https://heatst.com/world/exclusive-fbi-granted-fisa-warrant-covering-trump-camps-ties-to-russia/

 

[gsdx]

The situations are quite different. The imminent election of a person suspected of a serious crime forced Comey to a decision whether to reveal or not before the election.

I can excuse the first announcement, but the second a week before the election was nothing more than panic to get Trump elected. That should be clear from his refusal to talk about a possible investigation into the Trump/Putin love affair. I hope there IS an investigation, and I hope it IS successful, and I hope there IS evidence that Trump orchestrated the whole thing, or he knew about it and did nothing to stop it. As I said earlier, the man hates to lose, and he was losing. He would stop at nothing to win.

It must get very tiring for you have to defend Trump more than you attack Obama and Clinton.

 

[smokeshadow]

The pertinent question is, should Director Comey finish out his term or should the Donald appoint someone to replace him? Remember that Comey is a President Obama appointee.

 

[gsdx]

^ Doesn't Trump already have him in his wallet... er... pocket?

 

[rareboy]

So the FBI sitting on the information throughout the entire campaign while gunning after Hillary may come back to bite the agency in the ass.

There's probably no question but that Trump already had been advised from someone within the FBI of the contents of the dossier.

There's no question that others would have known of the contents...McCain being one of those people.

It is a mystery why no one leaked the intel (pardon the expression)

Even a wee bit of it.

However, say security sources, Mr Steele became increasingly frustrated that the FBI was failing to take action on the intelligence from others as well as him. He came to believe there was a cover-up, that a cabal within the Bureau blocked a thorough inquiry into Mr Trump, focusing instead on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

What I would note though, is that the Brits love this kind of scandal and running it to ground.

So even if Trump and the GOP do their utmost to stifle it in the US....the involvement of the British means that this story could still have legs.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-hacking-christopher-steele-mi6-a7526901.html

 

[Kabluey]

^ it entirely undermines Trump's credibility overseas, regardless of how they might try to control the message inside America.

He'll be escorted by pee jokes and Russian innuendo wherever he travels. Bizarre.
The UK's PM lasted only a few months after similarly bizarre behaviour went public.