Posted on 04/19/2018 5:13:25 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
(snips) -- Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of Lawfare, wrote at length Wednesday about the backstory of Comey's new tell-all memoir ........
..............said the consideration of other decision-makers, "particularly Lynch," paint a full picture for those people who believe the probe was a "train wreck" that cost Clinton the 2016 presidential election.
Noting the "selective outrage" against Comey for announcing the case was reopened less than two weeks before the election, Wittes said, "Lynch was a compromised figure with respect to the emails 'matter.'" The mention of a "matter" is a reference to Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last year, in which he said Lynch requested he minimize Clinton’s email investigation, urging him to call it a "matter" instead of an "investigation."
Wittes described how Lynch appeared to be "only too happy to have Comey fall on this particular grenade," in reference to how, according to Comey's book, Lynch told him, "Try to look beat up" about the renewed email probe. "Comey told me this story shortly after it happened ...... and for a lot of reasons, it has bothered me ever
Wittes also decried how Lynch and her deputy, Sally Yates, appeared to finesse the situation so that Comey remained the face of the investigation, even though Lynch never recused herself, even after her controversial tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton.
"Yet Lynch refused to recuse herself, even as she also said she would accept the recommendations of her investigative team — a kind of non-recusal recusal that all but guaranteed that the investigation would not close credibly," Wittes wrote. "Her deputy, Sally Yates, did not persuade her to step aside. In October, when Comey decided to inform Congress of new investigative steps, both women contented themselves with staff-level messages objecting."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
He simply knows too much about too many powerful, corrupt people.
The rats are definitely turning on each other.
The rats are definitely turning on each other.
Comey needs to get more life insurance.
Comey’s book is nothing more than a diseased mind’s fantasy, and I will treat it as such.
Needs Klintooon insurance ...
He simply knows too much about too many powerful, corrupt people.
There is no honor among thieves.
DemoKKKrats may actually have a more serious problem than most of us ever dreamed.
Were Brennan and McCabre Russkie agents?
Where is Joe McCarthy when you really need him?
In regard to the article, I'll believe it when I see it.
“”Yet Lynch refused to recuse herself..”
Too bad Sessions didn’t have her stones.
Fake post
He simply knows too much about too many powerful, corrupt people.
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You may be right.
He most likely won't drop a bar with heavy weights on his neck like Former UN General Assembly president John Ashe. And he probably won't be shot in "a botched robbery" like Seth Rich. So maybe he could just go out in an old rowboat or canoe like ex-CIA dude William J. Casey.
;-)
What a surprise.
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Yep.
The other day, someone very accurately described Comey as "an emotional basket case due for a prolonged meltdown".
I'd say the meltdown has long ago begun.
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Brennan (as much as Mueller) is "a slimeball".
;-)
I think I meant Comey............ with the "slimeball" comment.
;-)
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PS ---- Yesterday, my wife and I watched the Elvis show you referred to the other day ...... "Elvis Presley The Searcher"
Very, very good!
People think he's trying to get back at Trump but it could be that he's really just trying to get back into the good graces of his old patrons. After all, due to his actions both sides hate him. He'll never ever get in good with Tumps side after what's come out, his best chance to not be a pariah for the rest of his life is to throw his own reputation under the bus, admit he was in the tank for Hillary the whole time (which he does in this book and subsequent interviews) and hope she and the dems accept that and let him back in as an insider.
Yeah, revived my interest in Elvis.
Also, watch “The Greatest Showman’-—great movie, good values.
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