When Comey sent that letter to Congress about Clinton emails ...

[SummerSnow]

this so pleased Trump that he decided to keep him on as FBI Director.


Now fast forward... Comey investigating Trump and Russia relationship

[unblock]

1. he's more than capable of blowing any prosecution, quite possibly on purpose

my optimism in this case is very, very cautious, so excuse me if i hold my applause.

[world wide wally]

8. Trum must be a good kisser

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10. Not sure it has much to do with him personally

My take on comey is simple: party hack.

Whatever his opinion of donnie may be, I think he'll protect the republic can party.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Sure would have been nice

if we had this information about Trump during the election. I would imagine that more than a few people would have rather voted for a candidate with "questionable" e-mail habits than one who is potentially compromised by/in league with a foreign power. Why does it always keep happening that our candidates get punk'd by BS like this before elections, so then the Republican wins, but then after the election all of this (much) more damaging information inevitably comes out- but by then it's too late and there's no do-overs and we're stuck with the results for at least 4 years. Maybe we need to implement some kind of recall system into our Constitution to be triggered by certain circumstances? We have the impeachment mechanism but the party in power can't do anything without, well, power, so, ultimately, the party in power- if there the same as the President- won't do anything.

[poli3]

4. Oh, this info was available, Comey just refused to comment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/10/30/harry-reid-says-comey-may-have-broken-the-law-by-disclosing-new-clinton-emails/

He didn't care, he just wanted to help out the GOP.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. That's what I'm saying

We need to figure out a way to keep stuff like this from interfering with our electoral process. It's bad enough that Russia was involved. It's even worse that there were government agents (i.e. Comey) sitting on this potentially explosive information and depriving we the people of having this information in order to make an informed decision at the polls, not to mention leaking potentially explosive information on the opposing candidate in order to sway the election in his/her preferred way. The information obviously didn't affect my decision to cast a vote for HRC but there is evidence that Comey's letter two weeks before the election caused some people to vote for Trump (or not vote for Hillary). Evidence that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia during the election season might have caused some people to re-think their vote for Trump but they weren't able to make that informed decision. Now, it's too late. And matters are worse.

[poli3]

3. Harry Reid confirmed the investigation was already under way even before the election

Comey just sat on what he had.

[cilla4progress]

5. Yes

I believe he said started the investigation around July.

[milestogo]

6. Comey has a 10 yr appointment and he's a Republican.

So its not like Trump decided to 'keep him on'. The job is his, thanks to Obama.

[TexasProgresive]

7. He can be fired.