SXSW Taps FBI Director James Comey

[Jimbo101]

http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/sxsw/2017-01-26/sxsw-taps-fbi-director-james-comey/

FBI chief will discuss privacy and cybersecurity at March fest

South by Southwest has a hot ticket to announce today: The Conference plans to bring James Comey to Austin for a sit-down in mid-March.

Comey, if you’ve been living under a rock in Zanzibar, is the FBI director best known now for his royal bungling of the 2016 presidential election via a late October reveal to Congress (and in turn the general public) that his agency was still investigating whether Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had used a private email server to do anything shady during her stint as U.S. secretary of state. Comey didn’t, you’ll remember, reveal at the time that Clinton’s central opponent, our current president, Donald Trump, was also under investigation by the Bureau for colluding with Russian forces to denigrate Clinton’s candidacy, an investigation that remains ongoing, and has perhaps expanded, today.

[blue cat]

1. Interesting n/t

[TexasTowelie]

2. A lousy recruit for the SeXShoW. nt

[Javaman]

3. once upon a time SXSW was something to attend..

now it's nothing but a money making juggernaut with no regard for it's roots.

the owners saw the dollar signs and ran with it.

now it's just a gigantic obnoxious overpriced hollywood glad-handing bullshit fest.

I have attended many times in the past and stopped going (about 11 years ago) when they started the price gouging insane attendance fee to pay for this ridiculous behemoth.

Anyone that lives in Austin, usually avoids it at all costs.

[Paladin]

4. Fuck this. SXSW should be ashamed to have this prick in attendance.

I hope the demonstrations are huge and out of control as a result.