First on CNN: FBI director defends Clinton email probe, document releases

[William769]

Source: cnn

Washington (CNN)FBI Director James Comey is defending the bureau's Friday afternoon release of documents from the Hillary Clinton email investigation, saying "we don't play games" and that the documents were put out when ready.

In a memo to employees Wednesday, Comey said the decision to not recommend charges against the now-Democratic nominee wasn't a close call.

"At the end of the day, the case itself was not a cliff-hanger; despite all the chest-beating by people no longer in government, there really wasn't a prosecutable case," he said in the memo.

In recent weeks, Comey has met with groups of former FBI agents as part of his routine visits to field offices around the country. In at least one recent such meeting, according to people familiar with the meeting, former agents were sharply critical of the FBI's handling of the Clinton probe and particularly the decision to not recommend charges against Clinton. Comey gave the meeting participants a similar answer about the case not being a cliff-hanger.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/james-comey-hillary-clinton-email-probe/index.html

[yallerdawg]

1. Comey is a massive jerk who just keeps digging.

From his memo:

The hard part was whether to offer unprecedented transparency
about our thinking. I explain to our alumni that I struggled with that part, but
decided the best way to protect the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the American
people's sense of justice was to announce it in the way we did - with extraordinary
transparency and without any kind of coordination.

The individuals they cleared and the precedent of just closing a case and shutting the hell up - which Attorney General Lynch managed to do quietly and professionally - were given no consideration?

Comey is a massive jerk.

[Cryptoad]

4. Mark my words

this will be the big MSM story rest of the Week.

[yallerdawg]

6. Comey is an insufferable ass.

"At the end of the day, the case itself was not a cliff-hanger..."

Did he read his original speech where he ended with "no reasonable prosecutor?" Up until that point, it was a freakin' cliffhanger!

Comey is an ass. He could have quoted: "I come to bury Hillary, not to praise her." He just won't shut the hell up.

AG Lynch - arguably his boss - ought to issue a gag order.

[riversedge]

7. Problem with the announcement was that first he did the

annoucement-on national TV which was unusual and second--he kept insert his subjective opinion--the reckless crap.


He needs to retire!

[sheshe2]

10. IMHO he needs to be fired, sorry ass that he is.

[riversedge]

11. If Hillary gets her Dem Senate, I hope she does replace him. The FBI director is appointed

by the President but needs consent of the Senate. I do not know if the 50 votes would do or if they need the 67?????

[yallerdawg]

13. From history:

We have a "precedent."

"Clinton dismissed Sessions after the director rejected Administration entreaties to resign, contending that to voluntarily step down would violate the principle of an independent FBI. The FBI director is appointed to a 10-year term but serves at the pleasure of the President.

Sessions was appointed 5 1/2 years ago by former President Ronald Reagan."

[sarcasmo]

2. The more posts I see about CNN and the rest of cable news

The happier I am cutting the chord.

[still_one]

5. I haven't cut the cord, but I also haven't watched any of the so-called satellite and cable news

shows for several years.

[sarcasmo]

15. Vice News, Bill Maher and John Oliver are pretty much all I watch news wise.

[still_one]

16. They are not formal news stations. I do watch Bloomberg and PBS, but get most

of my information from reading

[sarcasmo]

19. John Oliver discusses the issues better than Fox, CNN and MSNBC

[Cryptoad]

3. OOOOle Comey

keeping the email talk going! It will be some little something every week for the next 8 years!

[jalan48]

8. Anybody know why Obama appointed him head of the FBI? He is a Republican.

[martin mike]

9. "If you're Jim Comey, and you're not going to indict Hillary Clinton,

then treat Hillary Clinton like every other American and shut your mouth!"

skip to the 2:08 mark to avoid Mark Hackperin's idiocy:

[shadowmayor]

12. Why?

Why hasn't this asshole been told to turn in his resignation? Repukes are so much better at this than democrats. His run on Hillary is classless, unprofessional, and purely partisan. Hit the road toad!

[brer cat]

14. I agree.

I would like for President Obama to fire him after the election to spare Hillary the grief she would get if she fired him. But either way, he needs to go!

[alp227]

17. related article

Lawmaker: Probe deleted Clinton emails cited in FBI report

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House committee investigating Hillary Clinton's email practices asked a federal prosecutor Tuesday to determine whether she or others working with her played a role in the deletion of thousands of her emails by a Colorado technology firm overseeing her private computer server in 2015.

The written request by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and obtained by The Associated Press, is based on recent revelations from the FBI, which decided not to press for criminal charges after its own yearlong investigation.

Clinton and her longtime aide and lawyer, Cheryl Mills, told FBI investigators during questioning that they had no knowledge of the deletions. Those occurred separately from the email deletions overseen by the former secretary of state's legal team last year before she turned over 33,000 work-related messages to the State Department. The FBI's recently released summaries of its investigation did not offer any evidence contradicting their statements.

In a separate letter also obtained by the AP, Chaffetz — the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman — warned the Denver-based tech firm, which hosted Clinton's server, that one of its engineers who deleted Clinton's electronic files last year could face federal charges of obstructing justice and destroying evidence for erasing the material. That's because the congressional inquiry into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, had issued a formal order on March 3, 2015, to preserve such records.

[Angel Martin]

18. "We don't play games..."

"FBI Director James Comey is defending the bureau's Friday afternoon release of documents from the Hillary Clinton email investigation, saying "we don't play games"..."


Document dump Friday afternoon before the Labour Day weekend?

Come on, buddy, why not wait until Christmas Eve ?