Reid: Comey should be investigated in wake of Russia report

[mitty14u2]

Source: thehill

Retiring Sen. Harry Reid on (D-Nev.) on Saturday blasted FBI Director James Comey, calling for him to be investigated in light of a report that the CIA secretly concluded Russia was trying to help Donald Trump win the presidency.

"I think [Comey] should be investigated by the Senate, he should be investigated by other agencies of the government, including the security agencies," Reid told MSNBC.

"You look at the accounts we have just in the press the last few days its stunning, stunning, the conclusions reached by the press. Thank goodness we've got them still around ... this is not fake news, okay?" he added.

The Washington Post on Friday reported that the CIA concluded Russia was intervening in the election specifically to help Trump.


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/309803-reid-fbi-head-comey-should-be-investigated-in-wake-of-russia

[TomCADem]

1. Breitbart, The Blaze, Drudge Respond, "No, You Are Fake News!"

Perhaps even the National Enquirer will weigh in.

[LisaL]

2. And don't forget bored teenagers in Macedonia.

[pangaia]

3. McConnell too.

That fucker knew exactly what was going on..

[Jacob Boehme]

12. Mich: Mr. Tin-Foil

As the man in the funny looking Republican tin-foil hat, McConnell tells it: “You people can check out anytime you like….but you can never leave.”

[trueblue2007]

22. GET RID OF TURLEMAN NOW !!! How can he be removed? He is a criminal.

[pangaia]

24. Get on the phone.

Type type type but not here.

Get out and contact your reps and tell them to fight against this coup d'etat and every single nominee il duce puts up for his cabinet same with tRump and Mc Connell, Comey,, add to the list....

Call the White House
Call Attorneys General
Write letters to editors.
Contact broadcast media.
Join groups fighting the coup.
Contribute $$ if you can.
Post on social media.
Join protests, marches, strikes, boycotts.
any other type of civil disobedience. .
PROTEST any way possible...

Anything else you might think of...

[riversedge]

30. Yes. PLEASE contact your congresscritters--no mater what stripe!! This is wrong. so wrong!

[SunSeeker]

4. Yup, Comey was in that meeting where McConnell refused to issue a bipartisan report.

Once Comey knew the hacking would never be confirmed to the public by Congress, he knew Wikileaks would soften Hillary's support enough that one FBI letter saying she was criminal investigation would take her out. So that is what he did.

[riversedge]

29. I read last night that Comey went along with McConnell and said no to telling the public.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

5. Comey will be bigly rewarded for the rest of his life for intentional actions to get asswipe elected

[Equinox Moon]

6. Russia has proven who they are with the Olympics doping mess.

[jpak]

7. Lock Him Up!

Lock Him Up!
Lock Him Up!
Lock Him Up!
Lock Him Up!

[keithbvadu2]

8. Fat chance of the republican Senate investigating the republican FBI.

[world wide wally]

13. The silver lining is the involvement of the CIA

This is an "international" incident.

[elmac]

9. Big words

little action, this has been known for months. Its too late, people don't care or are too occupied with newstainment, sports, reality TV to notice. Its done, fascism is here to stay.

[agalisgv]

34. You are right

Our country has been sufficiently dumbed-downed.

[Blue Idaho]

10. Comey should be jailed. nt.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Harry has some splaning to do.

He was at those briefings,and he did not expose a Coup attempt.

[SHRED]

15. Where can I find out who was there? Link?

[Wellstone ruled]

25. Wahington Post

did not do names,but,referred to House and Senate Leaders. Reid,McConnell,Ryan,as well as their Majority and Minority leadership persons,Pelosi and Stieny Hoyer,and the Committer chairpersons of the Intelligence Committees. Should be twelve people in all. And in that lies the real story.

[pangaia]

33. Maybe that is why the dems didn't say anything.

They were just as implicit at the fuckers in what they knew...

[Wellstone ruled]

37. Complicicity of the D.C. Cocktail Circuit.

This helps to explain the attacks on Clinton,just a diversion when they had the story the whole time.

[suffragette]

27. Trying to figure that out, too. See my post #21

[dhill926]

19. this is what I don't get....

why the hell didn't some dem stand up and scream about this....

[suffragette]

21. Do we know who was in the "Gang of 12" that WAPO stated was at the meeting?

I would like to know who was there.

I found this on Wikipedia about "Gang of 8" so maybe that's eight of the twelve?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Eight_(intelligence)
The Gang of Eight is a colloquial term for a set of eight leaders within the United States Congress who are briefed on classified intelligence matters by the executive branch. Specifically, the Gang of Eight includes the leaders of each of the two parties from both the Senate and House of Representatives, and the chairs and ranking minority members of both the Senate Committee and House Committee for intelligence as set forth by 50 U.S.C. § 413(b).

The President of the United States is required by 50 U.S.C. § 413(a)(1) to "ensure that the congressional intelligence committees are kept fully and currently informed of the intelligence activities of the United States." However, under 50 U.S.C. § 413(b)(c2), the President may elect to report instead to the Gang of Eight under "extraordinary circumstances", when he thinks "it is essential to limit access" to information about a covert action.

United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:
Devin Nunes (R): (Chair)
Adam Schiff (D): (Ranking member)
United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:
Richard Burr (R): (Chair)
Dianne Feinstein (D): (Vice Chairman)
Leadership in the United States House of Representatives:
Paul Ryan (R): (Speaker of the House)
Nancy Pelosi (D): (Minority leader)
Leadership in the United States Senate:
Mitch McConnell (R): (Majority leader)
Harry Reid (D): (Minority leader)

From WAPO:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.1d0d56f199ab

Instead, officials devised a plan to seek bipartisan support from top lawmakers and set up a secret meeting with the Gang of 12 — a group that includes House and Senate leaders, as well as the chairmen and ranking members of both chambers’ committees on intelligence and homeland security.
~~~
The Democratic leaders in the room unanimously agreed on the need to take the threat seriously. Republicans, however, were divided, with at least two GOP lawmakers reluctant to accede to the White House requests.

According to several officials, McConnell raised doubts about the underlying intelligence and made clear to the administration that he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.

Some of the Republicans in the briefing also seemed opposed to the idea of going public with such explosive allegations in the final stages of an election, a move that they argued would only rattle public confidence and play into Moscow’s hands.

[Wellstone ruled]

28. Thank you thank you for the list.

Last paragraph nails the truth once again. This all hangs around Mitch McConnell's neck. Explains why certain people went silent in the last weeks of the Campaign,what a feckless Group of Humanity. Complicit in a Coup. Bill Maher was dead nuts on!

[suffragette]

38. It sounds like there was a majority who agreed on taking action - all of the Dems and some

Of the Republicans.

Why not go with the majority instead of bending to the will of the Republicans who disagreed?

They could have still noted bipartisan agreement to do so.

[Wellstone ruled]

39. Everyone was looking for cover.

Most politicians have so many sticky fingers and shady acquaintances in their circle of friends. There are a few Politicians that are squeaky clean,but that is the abnormal.

[suffragette]

40. Good point. Sad, but apt.

[hollowdweller]

14. Interesting Comey made a big deal about the emails that supposedly were duplicates on Aberdin's

computer to sort of keep the suspicion up about Clinton but then decided not to say anything about the hacking.

If the shoe was on the other foot, and it looked like the Russians were helping Bernie win against trump, I feel like it would have been a difft story.

[C Moon]

16. Can you IMAGINE???? if this happened in the Democratic party?

There would be HUGE front page headlines in every newspaper; social media would be on fire with people screaming non-stop about it; neighbors would be on lawns shaking their heads; TV news would dedicate endless hours to the topic; the FBI and CIA would be doing immediate investigations...

But no, it's just a Republican party coup. Never mind. No news here. Yawn.

[meow2u3]

17. And lock up Tinfoil Turtle and the Orange Menace along with him

The Traitor Trio belong behind bars, not calling the shots as Putin's puppets. Lock them up NOW!!!!

[ucrdem]

18. Ya think?

Better late than never I guess. Let's do it.

[AlexSFCA]

20. Hopeless

We can scream all we want but, unfortunately, I don't think this news will get us anywhere. Voters who supported Trump do not care and would vote for him again. Not to mention, Russia is retaining RNC emails as collateral. I can only imagine what kind of dirt in those emails so the GOP will do anything in their power to please Russia. The new administration is decidedly alt-right for which pro-Russia is a key element. By the way, Russia has lended over 20M euros to Marine Le Pen campaign and Bannon is it's consultant.

[LiberalLovinLug]

23. More likely he'll get the Medal of Freedom put around his neck by the Orange Emperor

[think]

26. Needs to be done /nt

[SHRED]

31. Reid should be investigated also

Along with all the other Dem leaders who sat on their hands this summer.

[phleshdef]

35. They aren't allowed to disclose classified info.

If they had it would have been a crime. Perhaps you should go learn why someone gets investigated before calling for someone to get investigated.

[SHRED]

36. This is an extraordinary event

As a block they should have came forward.
They took an oath to uphold the Constitution.

Soldiers have died for our country.

[hughee99]

42. Reid does not have the authority to disclose this information on his own

but Comey does have the authority to declassify CIA information and release it publicly?

[agalisgv]

32. Yes. And convicted & thrown in jail

But it'll never happen.

[Hekate]

41. KnR