FBI "warned" about influencing election

[p12]

Drudge is reporting that there are 630k emails on the laptop.


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[Hawkmoon]

Of which 625,000 are probably pictures of Weiner's weiner being sent to underage girls.

[griz]

We're hearing a lot of complaints regarding the email news "influencing the election" and being against policy.  You know what we're not hearing?  The same claims that we heard when the campaign knew the emails were deleted, "nothing but personal communication" was the cry back then.  I think there's something there.

[RoadKingLarry]

I would so like for there to be game ender for Hillary in this but I just can't see it.
I am however betting that it's going to be an interesting news day.
Assange has announced a new dump with info that should send Hillary to jail.
Again, pleasant daydream material but I'm not gonna holde my breath.

[Fly320s]

I would so like for there to be game ender for Hillary in this but I just can't see it.
I am however betting that it's going to be an interesting news day.
Assange has announced a new dump with info that should send Hillary to jail.
Again, pleasant daydream material but I'm not gonna holde my breath.

I agree with RKL.  The majority of the MSM has gone all-in for Hillary.  At this point Hillary could sacrifice a child on live TV and still get elected.

[Perd Hapley]

Heaven forbid the FBI nab a candidate for multiple felonies, and endangering national security. That may keep her from winning the highest office in the land! Can you imagine a world where we don't elect someone Commander-in-Chief, just because they criminally mishandled sensitive information? It's crazy.

[KD5NRH]

Assange has announced a new dump with info that should send Hillary to jail.

These days, everybody's releasing info that should send Hillary to jail.  Daily.

[birdman]

Heaven forbid the FBI nab a candidate for multiple felonies, and endangering national security. That may keep her from winning the highest office in the land! Can you imagine a world where we don't elect someone Commander-in-Chief, just because they criminally mishandled sensitive information? It's crazy.

Agreed, how is -not- revealing that a candidate is under criminal investigation also not influencing an election...seems like hiding that fact is just as bad as revealing it...to a non-existent neutral observer.

HRC and Ilk in July: see, the emails aren't a big deal and the FBI said so and they are Unpolitical and independent and tell the truth always, so we just agree with them, and Comey rocks.

HRC and co now: the FBI is prejudiced against Hillary, and women, and is influencing the election and being political, and Comey should hang.

Comey: F-this, and F-you all.  <letter to congress>

[RevDisk]

Allegedly, FBI didn't want to reverse itself because of epic excrement storm expected. But NYPD has the data off the laptop, not just the FBI. If/when the NYPD leaked said data, it would not look good for the FBI if they were caught sitting on this. Comey already admitted that Ms Clinton essentially broke the law, but the DOJ wasn't interested in prosecuting.

My prediction? Clinton still wins the election, and there is an epic excrement storm of whether the President can be prosecuted for criminals acts committed before becoming President. Proper answer is that the President can issue themselves a pardon, but Congress can still impeach. Who knows what we'd actually do. Presidents have tried to pull the "sovereign immunity" defense, but it hasn't been actually tested.

[Ron]

My prediction? Clinton still wins the election, and there is an epic excrement storm of whether the President can be prosecuted for criminals acts committed before becoming President. Proper answer is that the President can issue themselves a pardon, but Congress can still impeach. Who knows what we'd actually do. Presidents have tried to pull the "sovereign immunity" defense, but it hasn't been actually tested.

Sadly I concur.

At least four years of business as usual, with the continual stench of Clinton corruption always in the air.

[RevDisk]

Come'on, admit it, it'd almost be worth all of this headache for a chance to say both Clintons had impeachment trials.   

[MechAg94]

Maybe y'all could save the depression posts for after the election.  If Trump loses, it will likely be because too many people have already conceded. 

[RocketMan]

Maybe y'all could save the depression posts for after the election.  If Trump loses, it will likely be because too many people have already conceded. 

No, Trump will lose because he never had a chance in the first place.  No Republican would have stood a chance as the Democrats have a permanent lock on the White House.  There will be no more Republican presidents between now and the fall of the republic. That is the reality we find ourselves in.

[Hawkmoon]

Come'on, admit it, it'd almost be worth all of this headache for a chance to say both Clintons had impeachment trials.   

The operative word there being "almost." It might "almost" be worth it, but not quite. It will be far better if Trump wins in a landslide.

[zxcvbob]

No, Trump will lose because he never had a chance in the first place.  No Republican would have stood a chance as the Democrats have a permanent lock on the White House.  There will be no more Republican presidents between now and the fall of the republic. That is the reality we find ourselves in.

You might be right.  So what have we got to lose by at least *trying* to win?

[Ron]

Maybe y'all could save the depression posts for after the election.  If Trump loses, it will likely be because too many people have already conceded.  

I don't have a lot invested in Trump so my expectations are low.

On the book of faces I've been working hard to depress the Hillary vote, very very hard.

It is up to Trump to win over people and get support for himself. I will not be a cheerleader for him and maybe not for any other candidate ever. Our access to the truth and true data on the candidates is so limited, filtered and spun into narratives that I don't think we can actually make a truly educated choice.

On stated policies between the two the choice is obvious. Whether stated policies and positions will reflect the way he would govern is where it becomes problematic.

Look at all the rhetoric from GWB and then compare to how he governed. He was a disaster IMHO. Now we know but it's too late.  He wasn't even considered a wild card. Everyone thought we were getting a somewhat conservative guy who would be somewhat fiscally conservative and stated clearly he was opposed to nation building. We ended up with a guy who did little to nothing for so-cons, grew the government exponentially with new entitlements and embarked on a neocon nation building project that destabilized the whole middle east.

Shows you what we "know", and he was the best candidate the Republicans had put up for us since Reagan!  

[Ben]

One great sideshow to this is the focus on certain hypocritical dem leadership. I just saw back to back video clips on several of them commenting on Comey the first time, and then now. It's so blatant, I would hope it sways independents. Not just on the presidential election, but on other tickets on their ballots.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/31/flip-flopping-dems-once-big-comey-fans-now-piling-on.html

[RocketMan]

You might be right.  So what have we got to lose by at least *trying* to win?

It doesn't hurt to try.  I suppose we might get lucky one day.  But it would have to be a fantastic bit of luck, like the Democrat candidate being kidnapped by aliens on national TV two days before the election.

[RevDisk]

It doesn't hurt to try.  I suppose we might get lucky one day.  But it would have to be a fantastic bit of luck, like the Democrat candidate being kidnapped by aliens on national TV two days before the election.

Na, luck would be a giant meteor. Or better yet, General Mattis declaring his run for Presidency and all other candidates wisely surrendering.

http://terminallance.com/2016/04/08/terminal-lance-election-season-2016/

[mellestad]

Comey was screwed in this the moment he was assigned the case. No matter what he did/does, 50% of the government is going to hate him. Getting this assignment was a career ending event for him.

[birdman]

Comey was screwed in this the moment he was assigned the case. No matter what he did/does, 50% of the government is going to hate him. Getting this assignment was a career ending event for him.

But honestly, what next job could he have?  He never was political enough to be tapped for AG...so D-FBI is kinda the brass ring for him.

[roo_ster]

Na, luck would be a giant meteor. Or better yet, General Mattis declaring his run for Presidency and all other candidates wisely surrendering.

http://terminallance.com/2016/04/08/terminal-lance-election-season-2016/

The dying/dead republic longs for a Caesar to run the empire.

[Scout26]

It's "Efrem,"  not "Ephraim."   

You can tell it to autocorrect...

[mellestad]

But honestly, what next job could he have?  He never was political enough to be tapped for AG...so D-FBI is kinda the brass ring for him.

Soon, he'll be retiring to, "Spend more time with his family."

Maybe he's clever enough to have let both sides bribe him, then neither side will be willing to tattle, and he can buy a small island somewhere.

(White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Monday that President Barack Obama does not believe Comey is attempting to influence the election.
"The President doesn't believe that he's secretly strategizing to benefit one candidate or one political party," Earnest said. "He's in a tough spot, and he's the one who will be in a position to defend his actions in the face of significant criticism from a variety of legal experts, including individuals who served in senior Department of Justice positions in administrations led by presidents in both parties.")

From CNN. Too bad Hillary will be the one to have him killed, err, retired, after she's the prez.

[RevDisk]

The dying/dead republic longs for a Caesar to run the empire.

Hardly. Moreso looking for a candidate that is competent, has the appropriate amount of guts to handle modern politics, the proper mentality and still a decent human being. Not looking to elect a king, which is what most people seem to want from their Presidential candidate.

No sane person can look at Clinton or Trump and say either of these people are competent, reasonably intelligent and decent human beings. Three hundred million Americans and this is what we got? In fairness, I'm aware that dealing with the media during a long grueling campaign is what drives off any sane person. 19 months of campaigning is flat out insane, and advantageous to no one except the media.