Who made James Comey (R) God?!

[NewsCenter28]

And arbiter of universal justice?😡

[Thinkingabout]

1. He wasnt god when he said Hillary would not be indicited, a good clue she did

Not break any laws.

[TeddyR]

2. Dunno about God

But Obama made him head of FBI

[lapucelle]

3. The Daily Howler (Bob Somerby) has been asking this question

for the past month.

Everything Comey has said has been taken at face value by the press, including the liberal press. Nobody questioned why the man mentioned so many numbers when it sounded damning, thundering "110 emails in 92 email chains", but could bring himself to say the number 3 when he pontificated that some emails were (mis)marked classified? Why did the press neglect to mention Comey's long standing animus against the Clintons, which he learned at Ken Starr's knee as an investigator?

Why didn't any of the Villagers notice that Comey chose to present the the bizarre assertion "we have no evidence that the server WASN'T hacked", rather than the more reasonable wording, "we have no evidence that it WAS hacked"? Suppose you applied for a job at a bank, and your prospective employer refused to hire you because you hadn't provided evidence that you are not an embezzler?

If the Republicans had not over played their hand by hauling Comey in front of Congress to explain how it could be even possible that an innocent citizen wasn't going to be prosecuted anyway, we wouldn't even the extent to which Comey had managed to spin 3 emails out of 30,000 and a difference in classification standards between the FBI and the State Department into such thundering umbrage

Why didn't the press question the very special (and possibly gendered) treatment that Hillary got at Mr. Comey's hands? He could recommend that Clinton be charged, so he broke with standard procedure in order to vilify Hillary for...wait for it... breaking with standard procedure.

How quick Mr. Comey was to point out that "security review" is not a term in the FBI lexicon, and how gleefully the press reported that rebuke to Clinton campaign's characterization of the investigation as such. Where was our vaunted press when Comey the god used and then couldn't define "extremely careless", a term also not in the FBI lexicon?

Comey reserved all this special treatment for a woman, THAT woman and the guardians of our democracy the ladies and the gentlemen of our much vaunted press, not only stood by and watched, but helped and applauded.


http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2016/08/did-clinton-email-secret-stuff.html

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2016/08/did-clinton-email-secret-stuff.html#uds-search-results

[Cosmocat]

9. Ive been making these points all along

It was clearly a partisan hitjob, if it happened like that to an R it would be called as such.

[Skidmore]

4. The purpose of this thread is

What exactly?

[skylucy]

8. It is showing that this is nothing but a witch hunt. It actually shows

hypocrisy on the part of the Hillary haters.

[NWCorona]

5. Why are you bringing Comey and the FBI up?

Has he said something new? I'd let that dog sleep if not.

[unitedwethrive]

6. Exactly! He clearly made a partisan statement since he could not recommend charges, but

wanted to try and do the most damage to her as possible. Because he did not recommend charges, people think he was being fair, so put more weight on his statement. Obviously, there was no foul play, so there was no way he could ever have justified legal charges.

He clearly was a partisan hack, trying to bring down Hillary with his statements, and when pressed further in the congressional hearings we find out the truth, which is that she did not knowingly send any classified emails. And even then, he tried his hardest to parse his words to avoid making any newsworthy statements.

[Cosmocat]

10. Agreed

Spot on.

[skylucy]

7. Some good points in this OP. I was shocked that Comey did not mention that

only three out of thousands of emails were supposedly "classified"...and those were not marked classified in the header as they should have been. This only came out when he was questioned by Dems on the congressional committee. I think in his original statement to the press, he wanted so badly not to have his finding of no criminal intent questioned by the Republicans. So he tried to show that he was not partisan by using harsh rhetoric...and actually came across VERY partisan favoring the GOP. Guess he didn't understand that no matter what he said, anything short of "LOCK HER UP" wasn't going to be good enough for the Repubs. He got hauled before Congress anyway.