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Reading Comey's book, A Higher Loyalty, A picture came to me.
I know, it's Comey's book. I didn't buy it. The hold list at our library was long and I just got it. Anyway, I wrote down some of my thoughts which I will share with all of you.
My Thoughts about James Comey's A Higher Loyalty
July, 2016
In relation to the Obama administration's deliberation about letting the American people know that Russia is attacking the USA through meddling in the 2016 election, Comey inserts his advice to belay any warning. He describes Obama 'wrestling' with the idea of telling the American people that a hostile foreign nation was meddling in the election. Comey helped dismiss any 'inoculation' by arguing that informing the people would actually help the Russians.
October, 2016
Also, that month Comey send out the message that the investigation into Sec. Clinton's emails was closed only to er-open it on October 27, just twelve days before the 2016 election as “hundreds of thousands” of related emails were discovered on Anthony Weiner's confiscated laptop. The reasoning for informing Congress and the American people that this investigation was re-opened was that Comey's team could not possibly read all those before the election. After the announcement it was as if a magical advancement suddenly appeared in the form of a new software program that could do this task and have it done before the election.
The re-opened investigation ended on the morning of November 6 and, once again, Comey informs us all that this investigation is closed.
Now tell me if I'm wrong, but what I am seeing here is a FBI Director giving advice not to warn the American people that a cyber attack is under way from a hostile foreign country. He closes an investigation that will be loud enough to overshadow most other news. Twelve days before the election he re-open that very same investigation, which is looking into the candidate that the hostile attacking nation wants defeated. That news is very loud and all eyes are on it, not the cyber attack. The candidate that Russia does not want to win loses the election.
July, 2016
In relation to the Obama administration's deliberation about letting the American people know that Russia is attacking the USA through meddling in the 2016 election, Comey inserts his advice to belay any warning. He describes Obama 'wrestling' with the idea of telling the American people that a hostile foreign nation was meddling in the election. Comey helped dismiss any 'inoculation' by arguing that informing the people would actually help the Russians.
Page 190, para 2
A few days later, to offer an option as the Obama team deliberated, I followed up on the idea of providing a “voice of inoculation” by drafting and sharing within the administration a newspaper opinion piece in my name. It laid out what the Russians were doing with dumping of stolen emails, highlighted hacking aimed at state voter databases, and placed those activities in the context of historical Russian election disruption efforts.
October, 2016
Also, that month Comey send out the message that the investigation into Sec. Clinton's emails was closed only to er-open it on October 27, just twelve days before the 2016 election as “hundreds of thousands” of related emails were discovered on Anthony Weiner's confiscated laptop. The reasoning for informing Congress and the American people that this investigation was re-opened was that Comey's team could not possibly read all those before the election. After the announcement it was as if a magical advancement suddenly appeared in the form of a new software program that could do this task and have it done before the election.
Page 202, para 2
In a new breakthrough, one that I had been assured was not possible, the wizards at the FBI's Operational Technology Division figured out a way to do some of the de-duplicating electronically so agents and analysts didn't need to read hundreds of thousands of emails. Commercially available software wouldn't work for us. But the custom software program cut it down to mere thousands, which they read night after night.
The re-opened investigation ended on the morning of November 6 and, once again, Comey informs us all that this investigation is closed.
Now tell me if I'm wrong, but what I am seeing here is a FBI Director giving advice not to warn the American people that a cyber attack is under way from a hostile foreign country. He closes an investigation that will be loud enough to overshadow most other news. Twelve days before the election he re-open that very same investigation, which is looking into the candidate that the hostile attacking nation wants defeated. That news is very loud and all eyes are on it, not the cyber attack. The candidate that Russia does not want to win loses the election.
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