FBI's Comey opposed naming Russians, citing election timing: Source
Source: CNBC
FBI Director James Comey argued privately that it was too close to Election Day for the United States government to name Russia as meddling in the U.S. election and ultimately ensured that the FBI's name was not on the document that the U.S. government put out, a former FBI official tells CNBC.
The official said some government insiders are perplexed as to why Comey would have election timing concerns with the Russian disclosure but not with the Huma Abedin email discovery disclosure he made Friday.
In the end, the Department of Homeland Security and The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued the statement on Oct. 7, saying "The U.S. intelligence community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations
These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process."
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According to the former official, Comey agreed with the conclusion the intelligence community came to: "A foreign power was trying to undermine the election. He believed it to be true, but was against putting it out before the election." Comey's position, this official said, was "if it is said, it shouldn't come from the FBI, which as you'll recall it did not."
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/31/fbis-comey-opposed-naming-russians-citing-election-timing-source.html
SHRED
(28,136 posts)So he did.
Kber
(5,043 posts)livetohike
(22,124 posts)This better be all over the MSM tonight.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,425 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Whether he's fired or not
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red dog 1
(27,783 posts)(From Webster's New World Dictionary)
HYPOCRITE
"A person who pretends to be good, kind, honest, loyal, sympathetic etc. without really being so."
K&R!
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,928 posts)Fahrenthold451
(436 posts)History will not be kind to that man.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)Since he could have fried her last Summer.
I think he's building a case that the Russians are working or has worked (Paul Manifort) with the Trump campaign to influence the election. Re-read Sen Reid's letter indicating that Comey has the goods on the Russians, but Comey is holding it back. The question is what is Comey holding and when will he reveal it.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)And, thus, will be his downfall. When he refused to allow asswipe Alberto Gonzales, another sleaze ball rethug, to question AG John Ashcroft, you know, the same man who lost to a corpse, just after surgery I had much respect him. No more!! 😡👺👿👹
world wide wally
(21,739 posts)The same way they made Huma's emails a much bigger deal than it is.
Either force Comey to talk about it, or make Trump out to be a KGB agent!
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)it figures.
MontanaMama
(23,296 posts)This tool loses his job, right? If HRC is elected - he is out. If the Annoying Orange wins - he's done because he didn't make things harder on the Clinton campaign early in the game. Does anyone really know Comey's angle?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)ananda
(28,837 posts)It makes me wonder seriously whether Comey is a sleeper agent
or, at the least, also in Putin's little pocket with Twump.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)red dog 1
(27,783 posts)More proof that by sending that letter to Congress last Friday, Comey violated the Hatch Act, and should be prosecuted for it.
This also makes it clear, imo, who Comey supports in the coming presidential election.
Texin
(2,590 posts)I can't be the only one left alive who can remember a time when ANY public official of any stripe or any prominent American citizen would be allowed to loudly, proudly and vociferously sing the praises of a Russian dictator - and let's be clear here, that is EXACTLY what Vladimir Putin is - and be allowed to keep saying it without significant consequence. I know the Cold War was thought to be over since 1989, but I've never in my lifetime seen anyone trying to run for POTUS do this, and much, much much more, suffer no blowback, no outraged, incredulous outcries by the conservative right or any other political party, in addition to the MSM and sitting members of the Senate, Congress, the US Military and the defense department acting as if they've been collectively struck dumb and deaf. What the fucking hell is actually going on here?
Unbelievable. How can anyone allow a rethug lackey like James Comey be allowed to demur like an eyelash-batting southern belle on making an announcement that the Russian government and one wingnut orange baboon (apologies to all primates) are in bed together, because "I don't want to cause any 'influence' on the US elections so close to the election, yet be frothing at the mouth to run like a town crier to Jason Chaffitz on Twitter and drag the Russian oligarch's opponent into the mud. yet. again. What kind of sweetheart deal did Comey actually make to the House rethugs anyway? I can't imagine a rock deep enough to crawl under if this what he's done and allowing our country to be co-opted to the Russians by one of Rasputin's sock puppets.