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politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 09:56 PM Mar 2017

Watching repeated parts of Comey's testimony from yesterday, has just made me angry all over again.

Knowing that Comey opened up his investigation as far back as July of last year, and never felt a need to mention it to the public, while publicly announcing that he was opening up a new investigation of Clinton in late October due to the newly discovered Anthony Weiner files, just blows me away.

If Comey had enough information in July to open up an investigation of possible coordination/collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russia, but didn't think the Congress or the public had a right to know about that before the elections, than why did he feel that the public needed to know that he was notifying Congress that he was reopening the case against Clinton's emails. Assuming the worse case scenario, which would have been the bigger 'crime'? The common thread in both of these situations is Comey, and if the public deserved to know about Hillary, we deserved to know about Trump and his cohorts actions.

Even though we already have the Hatch Act, which Comey definitely violated, I think the Democrats in Congress should not let Comey off the hook this easily. Comey mentioned in his testimony yesterday, that Putin's hatred of Clinton was the motivation behind Putin's actions, but it would appear to me that perhaps Comey may have been guilty of harboring that same hatred of Clinton for risking his own violation of, and the possibility of prosecution for, violating the Hatch Act, for actions which he knew could have and subsequently did affect the outcome of an election, over a much less serious offense, i.e. the possibility of Clinton's use of an unauthorized server in her home.

Had Comey simply obeyed the Hatch Act, we wouldn't have the corrupt fool in the White House, whose actions make this nation less safe seemingly each passing day. Comey's actions were reckless, and who knows what the ultimate damage to this nation will be, before we are finally rid of the reckless, narcissistic fool in the White House.

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Watching repeated parts of Comey's testimony from yesterday, has just made me angry all over again. (Original Post) politicaljunkie41910 Mar 2017 OP
Yesterday's hearing was enCouraging to me.. furtheradu Mar 2017 #1
Well said. At least, there is some attention now. Alice11111 Mar 2017 #2

furtheradu

(1,865 posts)
1. Yesterday's hearing was enCouraging to me..
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 10:22 PM
Mar 2017

Today, I had to leave Work early, with a sick headache.
Today, I realized exactly what You wrote here.

Tonight, I feel if Hillary had been ELECTED, we'd be subject to nonstop bs investigationS & hearings over NUTHIN. Let 's keep that in mind as we deal with TODAY'S REALITY.
Stay strong, pist, and vocal.

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
2. Well said. At least, there is some attention now.
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 10:56 PM
Mar 2017

We knew it. The NYT, WaPo had guessed at it.

Fucking pissesme off all over again though.
Lock him up...after this investigation.

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