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Comey intervened to keep Obama intelligence officials (Original Post) BainsBane Feb 2017 OP
Putin's tentacles to keep Hillary out of the White House reached far and wide. He was successful. NBachers Feb 2017 #1
That SOB belongs in prison Hekate Feb 2017 #2
Yes, he does. Cha Feb 2017 #7
Yes he goddamn does! What a freaking ass-hat! Akamai Feb 2017 #32
I guess that answers the "who's next?" question. meadowlander Feb 2017 #3
Lol. Remember that blog post a few weeks ago LibraLiz1973 Feb 2017 #4
If Louise Mensch is correct, then maybe he was worried about that. pnwmom Feb 2017 #5
Worried about what? BainsBane Feb 2017 #8
She is a UK reporter with a very long, but interesting theory. pnwmom Feb 2017 #9
Not a reporter - ex Tory MP muriel_volestrangler Feb 2017 #10
She has been a reporter for Heat Street. pnwmom Feb 2017 #11
And 'News Corp', 'Sun on Sunday' and 'libertarian' don't ring any alarm bells for you? muriel_volestrangler Feb 2017 #12
I don't think a British libertarian is necessarily the same as in the US. pnwmom Feb 2017 #13
No, it said that was only because she hates Trump so much muriel_volestrangler Feb 2017 #14
I did find odd her reference to Fox BainsBane Feb 2017 #18
Interesting article BainsBane Feb 2017 #20
Shocked AM is reporting on it. Cha Feb 2017 #6
Traitor. Granny M Feb 2017 #15
Comey, Ghouliani, and a bunch of NY operatives need to be rooted out. annabanana Feb 2017 #16
+1 uponit7771 Feb 2017 #17
and why are Turtle and Paulie Ryan so quiet? wordpix Feb 2017 #25
I think Comey is bought and paid for by Russia fun n serious Feb 2017 #19
I won't go that far BainsBane Feb 2017 #21
Comey, appointed by Obama, is still our best hope to bring them down. yodermon Feb 2017 #22
Trump will implode before 2018 elections along w/the charade of legitimacy wordpix Feb 2017 #27
where was Loretta Lynch? Comey was under her, right? wordpix Feb 2017 #23
Showing Bill Clinton her plane? eShirl Feb 2017 #31
We need to get each and everyone of them. BSdetect Feb 2017 #24
Comey making chess moves to slide his boy, Pence into the Oval Office? oasis Feb 2017 #26
Though, I'd rather have Flynn go down in flames now than before the inauguration MrPurple Feb 2017 #28
What a miserable POS. He sure was doing everything he could to keep his job, wasn't he? catbyte Feb 2017 #29
Wow Comey has done everything except yell a the top of his lungs he has been compromised. Rex Feb 2017 #30

NBachers

(17,120 posts)
1. Putin's tentacles to keep Hillary out of the White House reached far and wide. He was successful.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 04:29 AM
Feb 2017

He had plenty of help.

LibraLiz1973

(8,197 posts)
4. Lol. Remember that blog post a few weeks ago
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 04:35 AM
Feb 2017

Where the author opined that Comey is actually a good guy doing good work to save our country?

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)
9. She is a UK reporter with a very long, but interesting theory.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:05 AM
Feb 2017

She has said that Comey might have been concerned that some evidence wouldn't be admissible in Court if it wasn't obtained properly through warrants. She was speaking of a different situation, but the same principle might apply here -- I don't know.

The article is here, the second one on this page, "Dear Mr. Putin. . . "

https://patribotics.wordpress.com

Hillary Clinton correctly noted that Putin rigged his own election in 2011. This, apparently, is when he started to hate her.

By the 2012 election, Russia’s desire to interfere with American democracy was already there, but it as yet didn’t have the tools to succeed in that aim. I deliberately omit some of the timeline here in order to get to the bigger points in the story, but I will return to it later.

Russian moles placed inside the NSA recruited Edward Snowden. A letter between the FSB in Cuba and SENAIN in Quito held in a file marked ‘Assange’ in London, dated 4th April 2013, the day before Snowden sent his only email on legalities, April 5th 2013, and before Snowden took his uppermost level documents during the rest of the month of April, proves conclusively that Mr. Snowden is a Russian agent who acted on instructions from Moscow. After Snowden fled to Hong Kong, he escaped from there by an Ecuadorean travel document arranged by Julian Assange, and tried to get to Cuba.

Snowden is a low-level IT idiot. He had help taking what he took from the NSA. I recommend the NSA review their case files and pick up the Russian moles within their agency. Snowden used stolen credentials, but it is almost certain that he received a piece of removable media like a memory card from his Russian handlers. He took military secrets. And by “he” I mean the FSB.

SNIP

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)
11. She has been a reporter for Heat Street.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:40 AM
Feb 2017
http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-louise-mensch-and-heat-street-2016-10

Indeed, Mensch has written Heat Street's best performing story to date. Mensch used her French to wade through 14 hours of testimony on the Paris terror attacks last year to produce a story headlined 'France 'Suppressed Reports of Gruesome Torture' at Bataclan Massacre.'

http://heatst.com/?s=louise+mensch

Some stories at the link above.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
12. And 'News Corp', 'Sun on Sunday' and 'libertarian' don't ring any alarm bells for you?
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:07 AM
Feb 2017

She's a politician. She's not a reporter. She might pass as a columnist.

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)
13. I don't think a British libertarian is necessarily the same as in the US.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:11 AM
Feb 2017

For one thing, she strongly supported Hillary in the election.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
14. No, it said that was only because she hates Trump so much
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:17 AM
Feb 2017

It also points out she was keen to link up with Fox News, since they're also owned by Murdoch. She was a Tory MP - and the 'libertarian' is in the American sense.

I see she is now no longer at 'Heat Street', though still working in Murdoch's News Corp: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/01/louise-mensch-no-longer-leading-heatstreet-233235

I do think her mistrust of Trump is genuine. But she's not an experienced reporter with proper contacts, and the rumours passed to her should be treated as completely unproven.

BainsBane

(53,035 posts)
18. I did find odd her reference to Fox
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:55 AM
Feb 2017

as "innocent" in contrast to The NY Times. The Murdoch paycheck explains that.

BainsBane

(53,035 posts)
20. Interesting article
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 03:26 PM
Feb 2017

I read part of it last night and will finish it later, but I don't see why she gives Comey a pass for the letter about Clinton's emails. He had to know that would impact the election.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
16. Comey, Ghouliani, and a bunch of NY operatives need to be rooted out.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:32 AM
Feb 2017

Get Peter King too, while you're at it.

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
25. and why are Turtle and Paulie Ryan so quiet?
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 11:20 PM
Feb 2017

Get them, too, we need a big van while we clear these people out

yodermon

(6,143 posts)
22. Comey, appointed by Obama, is still our best hope to bring them down.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 11:16 PM
Feb 2017

Only Nixon could go to China; only Darth Vader could bring balance to the force.

Would you really want trump appointing an FBI chief?

I'll put my stock in Mensch's theories upthread, at least for now.

At the very least, we pound away mercilessly so we can retake Congress in 2018 and then impeach the bastards, I hope we can at least agree on that!

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
27. Trump will implode before 2018 elections along w/the charade of legitimacy
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 11:22 PM
Feb 2017

They cannot keep this up for much longer. Trump of Oz's strings are fraying

MrPurple

(985 posts)
28. Though, I'd rather have Flynn go down in flames now than before the inauguration
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 11:31 PM
Feb 2017

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This is more destructive to Pol Potbelly.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
30. Wow Comey has done everything except yell a the top of his lungs he has been compromised.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 11:33 PM
Feb 2017

Traitor Comey.

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