Comey defends handling of Clinton email investigation during 'challenging' US election year
Source: Reuters
05 JAN 2017 AT 13:30 ET
FBI Director James Comey on Thursday defended his handling of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clintons email investigation during the contentious U.S. presidential election, according to a message to FBI staff reported by ABC News.
Comey and the Federal Bureau of Investigation came under criticism from Republicans and Democrats amid its investigation into Democrat Hillary Clintons use of a personal email server while U.S. secretary of state.
I would be lying if I said the external criticism doesnt bother me at all, but the truth is, it doesnt bother me much because of the way we made the decision, Comey said in the New Years message, ABC reported. At every turn last year, we were faced with choosing among bad options and making decisions we knew would bring a torrent of criticism.
The most furious criticism came after Comey disclosed that the FBI was examining a trove of newly discovered Clinton emails just 11 days before the Nov. 8 vote.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/comey-defends-handling-of-clinton-email-investigation-during-challenging-us-election-year/
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Knowing they gave their Buddy a Presidential Election in return for bottom line profits.
LS_Editor
(893 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Freethinker65
(10,092 posts)trueblue2007
(17,243 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)on Election night.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)turbinetree
(24,745 posts)groundloop
(11,530 posts)turbinetree
(24,745 posts)and getting government paid health care courtesy of the taxpayers------amazing.
And the same bunch that is now in office are the same bunch that voted to do what he did and now they are going into overdrive to hurt human beings again, no empathy at all, none. It's about neo liberal capitalism-----again----- amazing
I wish I had that list and the votes, just to remind human beings
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)exposing the fact that Trump and Putin were indeed working together on fixing this election.. I mean he knew that and said nothing.
On the other hand who decides not to vote for Hillary because Comey says she had more emails but none of them meant anything?
Are there people this dense that they were on some "fence" over her emails? I assume you either knew there was no story here and she had done nothing wrong at least not on purpose or you believed the lies and thought she was the devil. One or the other.
Hard to imagine anyone in the middle on this, how dumb do you have to be?
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)who otherwise might have stayed home. It was timed for maximum impact. Even the later "sorry nevermind" was also timed for maximum impact. Given everything else going on, it was another brick in the wall. Take it away or the Wikileaks or the voter suppression or the suspected vote counting then Clinton would not have won. It was a perfect storm.
It was something he could have managed without putting his thumb on the scale. First of all they sat for weeks on the information. A meeting with the impacted parties before announcement might have led to a voluntary investigation of those emails. Then you announce that the emails are same as already been revealed.
Comey will not be judged favorably by history.
LisaL
(44,980 posts)First Comey letter didn't say that emails didn't mean anything. It got headlines that investigation into her emails was reopened and media didn't talk about anything else but her emails. Second letter didn't help either, because even though Comey admitted there was nothing new in the emails, the headlines it got is that Hillary avoided prosecution yet again.
Arkansas Granny
(31,539 posts)that letter just before the election.
IMO, that letter was the reason for Hillary's poll numbers dropping in the last days of the campaign. She had a solid lead and was steadily pulling ahead of Trump, but it all vanished in a matter of days.
lark
(23,185 posts)He did this with malice and aforethought and is guilty of violating the Hatch Act. Wish this were a sane world so he'd be in jail, or at least out of a job.
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)"We were faced with choosing among bad options and making decisions we knew would bring a torrent of criticism"
News flash for incompetent FBI Directors:
Your fucking JOB is to keep your fucking mouth shut and not say anything until your fucking investigation is COMPLETE, asshole.
deminks
(11,022 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)We have tremendous reason for distrusting its actions. If Congress won't properly investigate and Trump won't remove Comey, the FBI itself should require Comey to resign.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Skittles
(153,261 posts)YOU FUCKED AMERICA
2naSalit
(86,900 posts)riversedge
(70,419 posts)Comey is speaking broadly--He is a coward.
Comey defends FBI's decisions during 'contentious' election
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/312887-comey-stands-by-decisions-during-contentious-election
By Nikita Vladimirov - 01/05/17 02:40 PM EST
FBI Director James Comey said he stands by the bureau's decisions during "a contentious election cycle."
In a private New Years message to FBI staff, Comey praised his employees for a job well done during "a challenging year, ABC News reported.
He said criticism of the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of State does not bother him much.
I would be lying if I said the external criticism doesnt bother me at all, but the truth is, it doesnt bother me much because of the way we made the decision, he wrote.
At every turn last year, we were faced with choosing among bad options and making decisions we knew would bring a torrent of criticism.
He did not directly address the bureaus conclusion in the email probe or the decision to announce new steps in the investigation just before Election Day, instead offering advice for employees facing scrutiny...........................
turbinetree
(24,745 posts)but they sure as hell knew what was coming-------------f**king traitors
elmac
(4,642 posts)he is a filthy, rotten piece of decaying shit.
wolfie001
(2,297 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)I dare him.
Gothmog
(145,800 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Gothmog
(145,800 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)"Know why they use lawyers for lab experiments instead of rats?"
"Because there are some things rats won't do"
Maybe the same for pond scum?
Gothmog
(145,800 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)favorite lawyer jokes.
Blue Idaho
(5,065 posts)Can't come to soon.
trueblue2007
(17,243 posts)Guillotine like during the French Revolution.
MurrayDelph
(5,302 posts)I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to start his car for him.
2naSalit
(86,900 posts)go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut... as Kurt Vonnegut would say.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,085 posts)Cha
(297,935 posts)election results from Democracy to fascism. of course
he was a lying pos then and he is now
JHB
(37,163 posts)..."but my guy won! And since my guy won you can't do anything about it!"
Says the Comey-English translator.