Hand in the cookie jar.
Trying to reframe it now.
Tell it to the hangman.
Posted on 05/28/2019 4:39:14 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
(This OP ED was in the Washington Post behind a firewall. This is an excerpt from HotAir):
And there’s the first problem with Trump’s whole “treason” narrative. If we were “deep state” Clinton loyalists bent on stopping him, why would we keep it secret? Why wouldn’t the much-maligned FBI supervisor Peter Strzok — the alleged kingpin of the “treasonous” plot to stop Trump — tell anyone? He was one of the very few people who knew what we were investigating.
We investigated. We didn’t gather information about the campaign’s strategy. We didn’t “spy” on anyone’s campaign. We investigated to see whether it was true that Americans associated with the campaign had taken the Russians up on any offer of help. By late October, the investigators thought they had probable cause to get a federal court order to conduct electronic surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser named Carter Page. Page was no longer with the campaign, but there was reason to believe he was acting as an agent of the Russian government. We asked a federal judge for permission to surveil him and then we did it, all without revealing our work, despite the fact that it was late October and a leak would have been very harmful to candidate Trump. Worst deep-state conspiracy ever.
But wait, the conspiracy idea gets dumber. On Oct. 28, after agonizing deliberation over two terrible options, I concluded I had no choice but to inform Congress that we had reopened the Clinton email investigation. I judged that hiding that fact — after having told Congress repeatedly and under oath that the case was finished — would be worse than telling Congress the truth. It was a decision William Barr praised and Hillary Clinton blamed for her loss 11 days later. Strzok, alleged architect of the treasonous plot to stop Trump, drafted the letter I sent Congress.
“If we were “deep state” Clinton loyalists bent on stopping him, why would we keep it secret? “
Because they knew what they were doing was wrong? Just a guess.
He doesn’t mention they were forced to reopen the Hillary investigation, and Stzrok almost immediately killed the investigation. Very selective revelations by Comey.
I concluded I had no choice but to inform Congress that we had reopened the Clinton email investigation.
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It wasn’t an investigation, it was a “matter”.
Keep digging Jim
Because it was a post election “insurance policy”.
Perhaps because you could be hung for treason. Just a wild guess.
And while they were looking into this “matter” they took about an hour and a half to go through 650,000 emails found on the Weiners laptop and declared nothing was wrong.
..... Geeeeeez .... This guy really is as dumb as a box of rocks ....
He had the right to remain silent, just not the ability.
Hat Tip Ron White.
If Hillary would have won....would this have happened? Of course not.
I would prefer he is hung up like a piñata and we get to beat him with bats.
Tell it to the hangman.
Comey is nuttier than an outhouse rat. He really thinks what he did was all just normal stuff.
On the other hand, in a court of law things change drastically.
In there it's the truth and nothing but the truth.
It's not your version of the truth as you interpret it to be.
See you in court, Mr. Comey. I'm really looking forward to seeing
the evidence against you that will put your lies to the test.
He really thinks what he did was all just normal stuff.
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It is normal stuff. They have most likely been doing this stuff for years.
Professor ethics
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