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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 01:10 PM Apr 2017

Lest we forget, it was Chaffetz who...

FBI Director James Comey alerted Republican members of Congress on Friday that bureau investigators would review some additional emails that might relate to Hillary Clinton’s email server. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee who has already vowed to spend the next several years investigating Clinton should she be elected president, quickly rushed to announce the news, falsely claiming that the case had been “reopened.”


Minutes later, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan repeated Chaffetz’s incorrect assessment and demanded that Clinton’s classified intelligence briefings — something provided to both major party nominees — be ceased.


In a rally in New Hampshire, an ebullient Donald Trump told supporters, “The FBI has just sent a letter to Congress informing them that they have discovered new emails pertaining to the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s investigation and they are reopening into the case into her criminal and illegal conduct.”

NEVER FORGET HOW WE GOT HERE:
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-chaffetz-fbi-investigation-lies-e9fff5359102


all of which makes THIS even MORE interesting:


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Lest we forget, it was Chaffetz who... (Original Post) kpete Apr 2017 OP
Could it be that Comey expected this to be confidential at the time? Kablooie Apr 2017 #1
As I have said many times before... Raster Apr 2017 #2

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
1. Could it be that Comey expected this to be confidential at the time?
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 01:16 PM
Apr 2017

They often inform committee members of confidential material expecting that it won't be released to the public until it's cleared.

Perhaps Chaffetz's kompromat situation encouraged him to blab the confidential info immediately.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
2. As I have said many times before...
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 01:17 PM
Apr 2017

...Exactly WHAT did Rep. Chickenshit* know, WHEN did he know it, and WHO told it to him?

#jasoninthebighouse

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