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Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 03:31 AM Nov 2016

So Comey's goin' rogue, eh? So, does President Obama say enough is enough?

Releasing more documents about the Clintons days before election. Come on, man.

I found this comment by Steve Ryan, former Reagan prosecutor, to be quite useful to help persuade Independent voters, and undecideds that Mr Comey is trying his hardest to throw the election to Trump, which begs to ask, why would he do this twice?

Comey is “acting like he’s trying to throw the election,” says Steve Ryan, a prosecutor in Ronald Reagan's Justice Department who worked on organized crime, referring to the FBI director’s “trifecta”—comments about the Hillary Clinton email probe over the summer; his shocking letter last week announcing new evidence related to that case; and now this out-of-the-blue FBI document dump.

“It looks worse and worse each day. He’s out of his swim lane.… There’s no precedent for this. I think it’s the most troubling thing I’ve seen out of law enforcement,” he adds.



http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-releasing-documents-clinton-marc-rich-515921


What do you think the president will do now, since many felt he would stay back after the Friday letter? More of the same, and leave it to Team Hillary? We're clearly in very turbulent waters here, because if nothing is done, another couple points off the Clinton lead shown on 538's website would make it a tie, and put the Electoral College at risk.

And I'm far from the first to say this, as I've seen many articles and comment about it before the release of today's Rich/Clinton documents, but, I wish the President would fire Comey for two very direct lobs at the Clinton camp just days before the election, and explain he doesn't know why the director has followed up an all-around criticized move on Friday, with another broadside at our Democratic process, but for the protection of what remains of this election, he must replace him. That would be huge, so it's unlikely. I think if the polling continues positively for Hillary in internal polling tomorrow and Thurs, they'll just wait until after the election and the president will ask for Mr Comey's resignation - and then Congress will go after him. But, nothing would surprise me.

ps - I just saw Angry Dragon's post saying the IRS should release his tax documents. If they were going to do that, they better hurry up so people can look at them for a week. My brother predicted chaos months ago, in the final days of the election, man was he right.
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