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Hillary Clinton is Done: part 3

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Clinton emails: Officials advised FBI not to reveal inquiry

The FBI was advised by the US justice department not to inform Congress of a new inquiry into Hillary Clinton's email use, officials say.

Justice department officials said the move would be inconsistent with rules designed to avoid the appearance of interference in an election.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37815558
 
Fast Eddie B said:
At the same time, might not withholding information possibly relevant to criminal wrongdoing by one of the candidates also carry the appearance of interference in an election?
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Nope. No revelation = no appearance. Comey should have kept his mouth shut until they actually got a warrant and examined the emails.
 
thaiboxerken said:
Nope. No revelation = no appearance. Comey should have kept his mouth shut until they actually got a warrant and examined the emails.
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Pretty much. As this is more likely than not more of nothing, all this revelation does is give Trump and his minions a chance to lie about Clinton.
 
uke2se said:
Pretty much. As this is more likely than not more of nothing, all this revelation does is give Trump and his minions a chance to lie about Clinton.
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Corney is looking less and less impartial as this goes on. Wouldn't be ironic if far from giving Clinton a pass on the original investigation he had in fact overstated her mistakes? And how are the Republican's who have been bashing Corney going to handle it if he still comes up with nothing after this dubious act that only benefits Trump?
 
Fast Eddie B said:
At the same time, might not withholding information possibly relevant to criminal wrongdoing by one of the candidates also carry the appearance of interference in an election?
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Maybe to idiots.

In the real world, not commenting about emails they haven't even read yet (you know standard practice) cannot reasonably seen as interfering.
 
Tony Stark said:
Maybe to idiots.

In the real world, not commenting about emails they haven't even read yet (you know standard practice) cannot reasonably seen as interfering.
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Maybe.

But imagine Hillary winning, then a "smoking gun" email being found amongst whatever trove was just found, albeit unexamined to date.

Do you really think no one would then criticize Comey for sitting on a bunch of emails without even disclosing their existence?

I'm pretty sure he would be roundly criticized for withholding a fact that "reopened" a criminal investigation into one of the candidates - and not just by idiots.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
Maybe.

But imagine Hillary winning, then a "smoking gun" email being found amongst whatever trove was just found, albeit unexamined to date.

Do you really think no one would then criticize Comey for sitting on a bunch of emails without even disclosing their existence?

I'm pretty sure he would be roundly criticized for withholding a fact that "reopened" a criminal investigation into one of the candidates - and not just by idiots.
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Their criticism would be unreasonable. He has no obligation to inform Congress or the public that the FBI has emails that they haven't even begun to review and in fact should not have done so. This wouldn't retroactively change in the unlikely event that there later turns out to be a bombshell. And certainly he should not be trying to shield himself from the slim possibility of unreasonable criticism at the expense of appearing to interfere with the election.

I hope Obama fires his ass after the election.
 
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Fast Eddie B said:
Maybe.

But imagine Hillary winning, then a "smoking gun" email being found amongst whatever trove was just found, albeit unexamined to date.

Do you really think no one would then criticize Comey for sitting on a bunch of emails without even disclosing their existence?

I'm pretty sure he would be roundly criticized for withholding a fact that "reopened" a criminal investigation into one of the candidates - and not just by idiots.
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The investigation isn't reopened. That's one of the problems. This allows the liars of the GOP to claim it is reopened and stupid people will buy it.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
Maybe.

But imagine Hillary winning, then a "smoking gun" email being found amongst whatever trove was just found, albeit unexamined to date.

Do you really think no one would then criticize Comey for sitting on a bunch of emails without even disclosing their existence?

I'm pretty sure he would be roundly criticized for withholding a fact that "reopened" a criminal investigation into one of the candidates - and not just by idiots.
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What part of DOJ advised Corney not to send a letter to Congress are you having a problem with? And this notion there's some smoking gun on Anthony Wiener's computer is laughable, unless that's a euphemism for 'dick pics'.
 
Garrison said:
What part of DOJ advised Corney not to send a letter to Congress are you having a problem with? And this notion there's some smoking gun on Anthony Wiener's computer is laughable, unless that's a euphemism for 'dick pics'.
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Well Huma's emails are on the computer. So technically maybe there is something in them. Maybe Hillary sent Huma an email confessing that she murdered Ben Ghazi.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
I suppose being dismissive and sarcastic about potential new evidence is one tack to take.

I'm willing to wait and see if there's anything there.
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You're doing a great job of demonstrating why Comey screwed up. Innuendo isn't transparency. That's all we have from him; innuendo to intentionally not be transparent.
 
What criminal wrongdoing are people speculating about? Clinton used a private email server because it was compatible with her smart phone and the State Department server wasn't. That was wrong, she has apologized.

Meanwhile the other candidate, The Don, is facing a civil trial for fraud but the judge in that case -- the 'Mexican' -- agreed to delay it until after the election out of fairness to Trump.

The whole thing is becoming insane.
 
The findings meeting (that's not the right term) for the Trump rape case is a couple weeks after too. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, let's get this crap all out in the open Monday. All of it.
 
newyorkguy said:
What criminal wrongdoing are people speculating about? Clinton used a private email server because it was compatible with her smart phone and the State Department server wasn't. That was wrong, she has apologized.

Meanwhile the other candidate, The Don, is facing a civil trial for fraud but the judge in that case -- the 'Mexican' -- agreed to delay it until after the election out of fairness to Trump.

The whole thing is becoming insane.
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The coverage and reactions make sense if you assume the that people affected by it are working from the bias which presupposes that Clinton will win and Donald is a distraction. This also helps explain why the stolen Podesta/DNC emails are mined for stories with virtually no thought about the ethics. Hell, Jill Stein has built her campaign round her voters being able to claim they were a protest vote against the inevitable President Clinton.
 
The reactions don't make sense. On one hand you have a candidate who is recommending a series of military actions that he himself will direct, claiming he "knows more than the generals." What is his military experience? He has none. What is his foreign policy experience? He has none.

On the other hand you have a candidate who used a private email server because it was compatible with her smart phone and the government server was not.

It's just insanity.
 
uke2se said:
The investigation isn't reopened.
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Oh? I thought it was. What step are they on now, then?

newyorkguy said:
What criminal wrongdoing are people speculating about? Clinton used a private email server because it was compatible with her smart phone and the State Department server wasn't. That was wrong, she has apologized.
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Man, you just don't get it. She's EVIL. It doesn't matter what the facts say. They just know there's something, somewhere.


Man, I don't like her at all and I have to keep defending her against accusations like this all the time.
 
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