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IG investigation into FBI concludes that Comey sucks, but not biasedly

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    He sent the republicans a god damn life line and they published it and then he acted surprised they did so. It's the most blatant "I had no idea the scorpion would sting me" kind of thinking that we know James Comey is not that fucking stupid.

    Like he didn't send a similar letter to the democrats about Trump and Russia, and I fucking wonder why that is.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    To be fair, Comey did not release the Confidential letter he sent to congress a week or so before the election, and I 100% believe he was somehow naive enough to believe it wouldn't get leaked. Whoever was part of that leak should be in jail, but I doubt that will ever happen.

  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Heir wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    An October 5 email from Comey to Brennan:

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    Comey was so wrong.

    Wait he said that...and then literally did the same thing against Clinton right before the election?

    I need to lie down.

    Comey didn't actually make any statements to the public right before the election. He sent a letter to members of the intelligence committee and it was then released to the public by Devin Nunes.

    Comey was willfully blind and an asshole if he didn't think Nunes would leak anything and everything that might make Hillary look bad, but it wasn't actually him that did it.

    Which is all well and good but where's his letter about Trump and Russia for Adam Schiff to leak?

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  • ArdolArdol Registered User regular
    Yeah, Comey's actions may not have been (intentionally) partisan, but they were political as hell.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited June 2018
    Maybe Comey should have had second thoughts when almost everybody outside the FBI told him he was wrong before he sent the letter.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    He held a fucking press conference solely to castigate a presidential candidate while acting against explicit department policy. No charges, no nothing, he just didn't like how she'd acted. The idea that he's naive or nonpartisan is bullshit. He's clearly aware of the political consequences of his actions right there in that quote. It's just he chose not to care when it hurt Democrats, but cared very deeply when it hurt Republicans.

    And now we found out he was also using personal email for work business, just like he was shitting on Clinton for in a press conference he, again, had no business giving.

    There is no bottom to this pile of shit.

  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    Maybe Comey should have had second thoughts when almost everybody outside the FBI told him he was wrong before he sent the letter.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    He sent the republicans a god damn life line and they published it and then he acted surprised they did so. It's the most blatant "I had no idea the scorpion would sting me" kind of thinking that we know James Comey is not that fucking stupid.

    Like he didn't send a similar letter to the democrats about Trump and Russia, and I fucking wonder why that is.
    The biggest potential reason from the report is that he was a coward worried about what the GOP Congress would do to him if he failed to report it.
    Axelrod stated that Rybicki told him “that the Director believes he has an obligation to correct a misimpression that Congress has” that the Midyear investigation is concluded. Axelrod told us that this was “the key part” of their conversation. Axelrod stated that he asked Rybicki where Comey had promised to update Congress and Rybicki replied that it related more to the “overall tenor” of Comey’s testimony to Congress. Axelrod told us that he tried to convince Rybicki that Comey and the FBI would be better served following Department policies and procedures. Axelrod continued:
    [Rybicki] never said look, I don’t think that’s the policy or I don’t think that’s the procedure or I don’t understand.... [H]e was all like yeah, I get all that but this is different. This is separate. The Director has testified. The Director believes that Congress has, now has a misimpression and so it’s the Director’s you know, butt on the line. And he needs to do this. And you know, and if he doesn’t, you know, the concern [is] it’s not survivable for him.
    We asked Rybicki if he told Axelrod that failing to notify Congress would not be survivable for Comey. Rybicki told us that he did not “remember using that language.” Rybicki stated, “I certainly conveyed how seriously Director Comey felt about it. But I, I don’t recall, you know, the survivability of it. I just, sitting here I don’t.” We also asked Rybicki if he more generally conveyed that there would be “political heat and a call to resign” if Congress was not notified. Rybicki replied, “[N]ot that I can recall. I remember telling him the Director felt strongly. But I don’t remember sort of political heat, calls to resign, just that he felt strongly and that he, he himself felt he had the obligation.”

    We asked Comey if he expressed concerns at the time about not being able to survive as the FBI Director if Congress discovered post-election that he had not notified them of this development in the Midyear investigation. As previously noted, Comey stated that it would cause “catastrophic damage” to the FBI, the Department, and to a Clinton presidency. He said that he did not remember expressing his concerns in terms of survivability, but added, “I’m sure I said something like, if I chose conceal over speak, I ought to be fired, I ought to be hung out, I would be run out of town because of the damage it will have brought to this. I’m sure I said things like that.”
    Yates also told us that she remembered “being told that FBI doesn’t think it’s survivable for the Director for him not to” notify Congress. Yates stated that one of the reasons that the FBI “gave for why they felt like [Comey] had to go to Congress is that they felt confident that the New York Field Office would leak it and that it would come out regardless of whether he advised Congress or not.”
    Lynch continued:

    And then at one point, I think [Axelrod] relayed information again from Rybicki saying that the Director’s view was that he had to provide this information to Congress, that he was concerned about the information being leaked from the New York office in even more negative ways, that he was concerned about, he was very concerned about that. He expressed that to the FBI and Rybicki shared that.

    And that he also was concerned that if, if in fact he did not provide this information to Congress, and either it was leaked or later on we discussed it in some Department-approved way, that it was not survivable. And that was the phrase that was given to us. And both the DAG and I said, I think we both repeated the same, you know, what do you mean not survivable, one of those chorus things. And [Axelrod] said that was just the phrase that Rybicki had used. It was not survivable.... [W]e certainly took it as coming from the Director. It would not be survivable in his, in his view for either him or the FBI. I didn’t think that he was thinking of the Department at large at that point, so we never got, and [Axelrod] said he did, when he heard that he said the exact same question that anybody would have, for whom? But he just got it wouldn’t be survivable.

  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    Marty81 wrote: »
    There are plenty of people who think the Russians wanted Clinton to win, so that statement will be taken both ways by a lot of people.

    Who? The people who also think the deep state put spies in the Trump team?

    Everything I know about the dynamic between Putin and Hillary is that he hates her and would not have ever wanted her to win.

  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    Marathon wrote: »
    Marty81 wrote: »
    There are plenty of people who think the Russians wanted Clinton to win, so that statement will be taken both ways by a lot of people.

    Who? The people who also think the deep state put spies in the Trump team?

    Everything I know about the dynamic between Putin and Hillary is that he hates her and would not have ever wanted her to win.

    There are a lot of people who don't know things.

  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Marathon wrote: »
    Marty81 wrote: »
    There are plenty of people who think the Russians wanted Clinton to win, so that statement will be taken both ways by a lot of people.

    Who? The people who also think the deep state put spies in the Trump team?

    Everything I know about the dynamic between Putin and Hillary is that he hates her and would not have ever wanted her to win.

    The Uranium One deal was extremely hyped up by many people as evidence of Clinton being bought off by Russia.

  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    I might actually be wrong about Comey being a hack. By all accounts he may just be That Goddamned Incredibly Stupid, Oh My God.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    James Comey's ego may have doomed the god damned republic.

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor Registered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    I might actually be wrong about Comey being a hack. By all accounts he may just be That Goddamned Incredibly Stupid, Oh My God.

    "I may be wrong (and often am), but [WRONG THINGS]"

    Might be the best summary of his actions that summer.

  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    Man

    Are we sure Comey wasn’t/isn’t acting on Putin’s behalf?

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Captain Inertia wrote: »
    Man

    Are we sure Comey wasn’t/isn’t acting on Putin’s behalf?

    Oh he was. Just didn't realize it.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Captain Inertia wrote: »
    Man

    Are we sure Comey wasn’t/isn’t acting on Putin’s behalf?

    Nah. He's just a partisan hack.

  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    Also, "extremely careless"

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    Jesus fuck I’m going to weep-into-a-pillow myself to sleep tonight

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited June 2018
    Spoit wrote: »
    Also, "extremely clueless"

    Edit: How does someone in Comey's position get to be so god damned naive about just about everything?

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    Veevee wrote: »
    Spoit wrote: »
    Also, "extremely clueless"

    Edit: How does someone in Comey's position get to be so god damned naive about just about everything?

    He wasn't.

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    So, would it be fair to characterise this as "extremely careless" behaviour?

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  • Marty81Marty81 Registered User regular
    Marathon wrote: »
    Marty81 wrote: »
    There are plenty of people who think the Russians wanted Clinton to win, so that statement will be taken both ways by a lot of people.

    Who? The people who also think the deep state put spies in the Trump team?

    Mainly, yeah.

    Not saying they're right, just saying they're out there and there's a lot of them. So it would have been better if Comey had been more explicit.

  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited June 2018
    enlightenedbum wrote: »
    Veevee wrote: »
    Spoit wrote: »
    Also, "extremely clueless"

    Edit: How does someone in Comey's position get to be so god damned naive about just about everything?

    He wasn't.

    It's been said before, but I think given the evidence and the fact that Comey is smarter than believing it wouldnt get leaked, he thought Trump was going to get fucking annihilated so he wanted to throw a wrench at Hillary to keep her from sweeping up everything

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    That's still really fucking bad. "I wanted to damage the credibility of the incoming president, not prevent her from being elected" Well thanks James you're a bang up fuck up you clown.

    Honestly Comey comes across less like a top cop and more like a political stooge who used the FBI's rep for his own ends.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • MrVyngaardMrVyngaard Live From New Etoile Straight Outta SosariaRegistered User regular
    Hillary Clinton was, at one point, the Secretary of State of the United States of America.


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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited June 2018
    Preacher wrote: »
    That's still really fucking bad. "I wanted to damage the credibility of the incoming president, not prevent her from being elected" Well thanks James you're a bang up fuck up you clown.

    Honestly Comey comes across less like a top cop and more like a political stooge who used the FBI's rep for his own ends.

    Yeah to be clear I think Comey was being an indefensible partisan, and ended up being worse than that

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    Oh My God.

    Like, I can't even imagine the rage she must have at Comey from this. To be a fly on the wall when she found out about that...

  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited June 2018
    Styrofoam Sammich wrote: »


    Politico reporter

    Dumbest time to be alive

    Best response to that tweet:



    Hillary Clinton is a person who has a lot of reasons to be pissed today.

    Just...it really sums it up, doesn't it? I never want to hear about Comey's "integrity" ever again.

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    I can already hear the right wing media circuit buzzing into existence to show the parts of the IG report that said he benefited one side and they'll claim it was Hillary

  • ArdolArdol Registered User regular
    enlightenedbum wrote: »
    Veevee wrote: »
    Spoit wrote: »
    Also, "extremely clueless"

    Edit: How does someone in Comey's position get to be so god damned naive about just about everything?

    He wasn't.

    He just assumed Hillary would win despite his actions. He was arrogant, presumptuous, insubordinate and self serving.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Veevee wrote: »
    Oh My God.

    Like, I can't even imagine the rage she must have at Comey from this. To be a fly on the wall when she found out about that...

    Honestly probably beyond the rage level, like probably saw it and laughed. Like what the fuck else can you do at this point? You got fucked by people doing the exact thing they investigated you for doing.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • AstaerethAstaereth In the belly of the beastRegistered User regular
    Comey: “But if we confirmed that we know Russia is helping Trump, that might open us up to questions of what are we doing about that, and since we’re doing jack shit to protect the country from attack that might be awkward, so instead let’s just put our collective fucking heads in the sand”

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Veevee wrote: »
    Oh My God.

    Like, I can't even imagine the rage she must have at Comey from this. To be a fly on the wall when she found out about that...

    Honestly probably beyond the rage level, like probably saw it and laughed. Like what the fuck else can you do at this point? You got fucked by people doing the exact thing they investigated you for doing.

    She also probably could have snapped a grown man in half while chuckling in that moment.

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  • Desktop HippieDesktop Hippie Registered User regular
    I have to hand it to Clinton, or whoever she has handling her Twitter account. That was savage.

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    MrVyngaard wrote: »
    Hillary Clinton was, at one point, the Secretary of State of the United States of America.


    It seems clear at this point that Hillary Clinton is well within her rights to just tweet "Fuck all y'all" over and over again at, well, basically everyone.

  • tbloxhamtbloxham Registered User regular
    AngelHedgie wrote: »
    Styrofoam Sammich wrote: »


    Politico reporter

    Dumbest time to be alive

    Best response to that tweet:



    Hillary Clinton is a person who has a lot of reasons to be pissed today.

    Just...it really sums it up, doesn't it? I never want to hear about Comey's "integrity" ever again.

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    I think that this image represents the approximate intensity of the burn Hillary just laid down.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    Ardol wrote: »
    enlightenedbum wrote: »
    Veevee wrote: »
    Spoit wrote: »
    Also, "extremely clueless"

    Edit: How does someone in Comey's position get to be so god damned naive about just about everything?

    He wasn't.

    He just assumed Hillary would win despite his actions. He was arrogant, presumptuous, insubordinate and self serving.

    Also he fucking hates her, like most of the establishment press and definitely the Republican Party, of which he is a member.

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    If 1.5 years under a trump presidency hadn’t already destroyed my capacity for outrage I’d be so angry right now.

    Now it’s just a mixture of laughter and tears.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Knight_ wrote: »
    If 1.5 years under a trump presidency hadn’t already destroyed my capacity for outrage I’d be so angry right now.

    Now it’s just a mixture of laughter and tears.

    I am angry enough for the both of us

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