Posted on 06/07/2018 2:17:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former FBI Director James Comey is about to get dinged in an internal Justice Department review of the agency’s Clinton email probe, and President Donald Trump says he can’t wait.
The Justice Department informed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday the report will be released on June 14. How both sides will likely spin the findings in their favor:
The inspector general is widely expected to criticize Comey and other senior leaders for their handling of the investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information as secretary of state.
The report is also expected to criticize two FBI officials who exchanged derogatory text messages about Trump during the course of the Clinton investigation and the presidential campaign.
Democrats already blame Comey for his handling of the Clinton investigation because they say it broke with longstanding bureau protocol not to insert itself into politics.
Robby Mook, Clinton’s former campaign manager, at one point declared “his credibility is gone” in reference to Comey after the election. But Mook and other Democrats were also in disbelief after Trump fired Comey.
“Twilight zone,” Mook tweeted at the time. “I was as disappointed and frustrated as anyone at how the email investigation was handled. But this terrifies me.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
June 14th and then Lucy will jerk the football away again. Fire Sessions now.
Released on Flag Day.
Donald J. Trumps birthday.
Double-scoops for all!
(nothing happens by accident)
Hah! They are releasing it on President Trump’s birthday.
A date certain.
That is a welcome development.
Hopefully there will be criminal referrals.
Will be hard to spin criminal referrals.
I would not get my hopes up.....
Hope Slippery makes lots of money off the book deal. Hope he needs those bucks, and a lot more, to pay for lawyers to defend himself.
“Comey has said he knew it would be unorthodox to alert Congress to a discovery of emails potentially connected to the Clinton case just 11 days before Americans picked a new president.
But while that option was “really bad,” concealing the new information would be “catastrophic,” considering he had testified under oath that the investigation was finished. He has said he felt compelled to advise them that was no longer the case.”
WaPo slips in that Comey discovered new emails 11 days before the election but they don’t bother to mention that they were found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, husband of Hillary’s personal assistant Huma Abedin...or that the emails had been discovered weeks earlier but Andrew McCabe was trying to keep them hidden...or that the only reason he found out about them was because NYPD was threatening to blow the whole thing open...and the FBI evidently took the laptop and it hasn’t been seen since, so who knows what else was on it?
Would have been nice if WaPo could have mentioned any of those things! But better to keep up the Russia, Russia, Russia story because if they can make it look like Trump is guilty of some kind of conspiracy then they can say that everybody was guilty of something so it’s time for us all to move on!
Obvious preemptive damage control.
I suspect that this level of spin indicates a great deal of damage.
.... My guess is that there will be a lot of wrists that will be in need of slapping after the report is released.
Wasn’t it the democrats who demanded this investigation?
Nobody seems to note that
Meanwhile Debbie Washerwoman Schultz and her Pahkeestani bros are walking free.
“I am sure the lawyers are pouring over the report ...”
What are they pouring over the report?
I suspect that they are instead PORING over the report...
According to the Compost truth does not exist, only “spin.”
After 25 years, we know what the Left will say
* Already been investigated
* This is old news
* They will get to the bottom of it
* No controlling legal authority
* It was just “insubordination”
* It was done for the good of the nation
* The IG is a sexist racist whose ancestor owned slaves
* A Trump drank a White Russian in the 90s
* Stormy
I think you are exactly right, antiyuppie. That was my first thought, as well.
Translation: here are media talking points. Coney is to be thrown under the bus to save the Clintons.
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