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Joe's avatar

How do you explain Comey’s announcement about re-opening the Clinton email investigation right before the election? How does that fit the narrative of an Obama conspiracy against Trump?

The simple answer is the self-important FBI bumbled it’s way through it all on both sides.

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Pacificus's avatar

Joe, that was a CYA move by Comey to protect him and the FBI from criticism for going easy on Clinton at a time when everybody expected her to win. And he did go easy on her.

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josh's avatar

Comey expected Clinton to win and went hard on her, so that no one could accuse him of showing her any special treatment. He made a big public splash announcing 'new' e-mails although nothing had substantially changed in the nothing-burger investigation. There was never any reason to think that the additional e-mails were qualitatively different from the previous ones.

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Pacificus's avatar

"Bullpucky" huh? Well that's an interesting argument.

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Matthew Schilling's avatar

Well, Comey was and remains a fool who was completely out of his league. So there's that. But being a fool is obviously not mutually exclusive to being an oily slime, as Comey demonstrated.

Appointing a lawyer to run the FBI was one of the low points of a singularly unimpressive presidency. It wasn't the lowest point, obviously, though it probably makes the Bottom Ten. (Accepting the Nobel Prize "awarded" for literally no reason whatsoever by a handful of Eurotrash Socialists and cashing the check would be the low point, if Obama hadn't executed an American citizen with a drone strike, but without due process.)

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Tom Hogan's avatar

Comey's no fool.

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Joseph F Smith's avatar

The FBI had no choice. The NYPD was in on the raid and they threatened to make public that additional e-mails were acquired during the raid of Carlos Danger's laptop. Comey was simply trying to get on top of the situation and control the narrative.

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eclecticmn's avatar

I was amazed as Comey pissed off both sides. If he had done his job he would have kept his mouth shut. He was so smug and self important that agents called him "The Cardinal" behind his back.

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