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niyad

(113,323 posts)
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 01:56 PM Nov 2016

Dear FBI: ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING????

business as usual if your business is Clinton-hatin'


Dear FBI: ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING????


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What they said.

On Monday, the FBI records vault released heavily redacted files about the “William J. Clinton Foundation,” specifically about the former president and future First Clenis’s pardon of financier Marc Rich, at the end of his second term in office. It’s an old case in which investigators found no wrongdoing, and the newly released files themselves are … ??? … which makes them approximately as vague as the love note James Comey sent to members of Congress about how he has a secret stash of Hillary Clinton ‘n’ Huma Abedin emails in his office that he is (allegedly) whackin’ it to right now. The document release went relatively unnoticed until whoever works the Twitter machine at the J. Edgar Hoover building in DC decided to tweet it Tuesday afternoon:

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If you can’t remember who or what a “Marc Rich” was (he died in 2013, but we don’t think the Clintons body counted him), Talking Points Memo does the yeoman’s work of reminding us of what he did, how Bubba pardoned him, and who oversaw his case:
[James] Comey was at the heart of the scandal that erupted from Clinton’s 2001 pardoning of Rich, a financier who lingered on the FBI’s most-wanted list for 16 years for criminal charges including tax evasion, wire fraud and trading with Iran during the oil embargo. Comey oversaw Rich’s prosecution between 1987 and 1993, before later taking over an investigation into then-President Clinton’s decision to grant Rich a pardon on his last day in office. He ultimately decided not to pursue that case.
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Maybe Comey has actually lost control of the institution he runs. As the Wall Street Journal reported this weekend, there’s been a mighty feud a-brewin’ between FBI headquarters and the New York office, which has a ridiculous hard-on for going after the Clinton Foundation, even though it’s been told repeatedly that the case it’s pursuing is a big nothing. Maybe retired assistant director of the FBI James Kallstrom was right when he said Comey is throwing all this out his ass right now because the “locals would have stepped in on this” if he didn’t, and by “locals” he means the New York office, which seems to be out of fucking control, to be honest.

Whatever it is, we think it’s time for Jim Comey’s boss Attorney General Loretta Lynch (who reportedly had a nice coffee chat with Comey on Monday about everything that’s been going on — she even asked him afterward “how he is doing overall,” according to CBS, because SHE CARES) to pay a visit to the FBI and start diplomatically inserting her foot up folks’ asses.

Read more at http://wonkette.com/608161/dear-fbi-are-you-fcking-kidding#UtOWKKJRXh0g24Hp.99

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Dear FBI: ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING???? (Original Post) niyad Nov 2016 OP
Regarding that last paragraph jcgoldie Nov 2016 #1
Sounds like these guys have a real problem sarae Nov 2016 #2
A theory! atreides1 Nov 2016 #3
now THAT would be something very interesting to find out. niyad Nov 2016 #5
It's scary. TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2016 #4
This brings back memories of Bush politicization of the DoJ. How many Bush operatives still there? Coyotl Nov 2016 #8
The vault just went all Vince Foster NWCorona Nov 2016 #10
Dec 1969 #

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
1. Regarding that last paragraph
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 02:00 PM
Nov 2016

I hope this isn't repeating some right wing talking point, if so I'll gladly self delete, but it seems to me Bill's meeting with Lynch on the tarmac is really biting us in the ass at this point. Lynch recused herself from HRC's case as a result and that has given Comey the latitude to seemingly do whatever destructive shit he has wanted to end this election cycle.

sarae

(3,284 posts)
2. Sounds like these guys have a real problem
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 02:01 PM
Nov 2016

with any woman having power over them.

Tough shit! They'd better get used to it.

atreides1

(16,079 posts)
3. A theory!
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 02:12 PM
Nov 2016

Wasn't Giuliani the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York? And isn't it possible that some of the FBI agents he worked with, could be in supervisory positions, in the NY FBI office, now?

TexasMommaWithAHat

(3,212 posts)
4. It's scary.
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 02:16 PM
Nov 2016

Cenk Uygur played out a case against Clinton, yesterday. I'm totally freaking out. I'm not invested in Hillary (I was a Bernie supporter) but I'm 100% invested in beating Trump!
We have a great vice presidential candidate. Thankfully.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
8. This brings back memories of Bush politicization of the DoJ. How many Bush operatives still there?
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 02:36 PM
Nov 2016
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