Comey defends handling of Clinton email investigation during 'challenging' US election year

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters

05 JAN 2017 AT 13:30 ET

FBI Director James Comey on Thursday defended his handling of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email investigation during the contentious U.S. presidential election, according to a message to FBI staff reported by ABC News.

Comey and the Federal Bureau of Investigation came under criticism from Republicans and Democrats amid its investigation into Democrat Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server while U.S. secretary of state.

“I would be lying if I said the external criticism doesn’t bother me at all, but the truth is, it doesn’t bother me much because of the way we made the decision,” Comey said in the New Year’s message, ABC reported. “At every turn last year, we were faced with choosing among bad options and making decisions we knew would bring a torrent of criticism.”

The most furious criticism came after Comey disclosed that the FBI was examining a trove of newly discovered Clinton emails just 11 days before the Nov. 8 vote.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/comey-defends-handling-of-clinton-email-investigation-during-challenging-us-election-year/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. And the Media White Wash begins.

Knowing they gave their Buddy a Presidential Election in return for bottom line profits.

[LS_Editor]

2. Piece of shit, that man.

[madokie]

42. I agree with that

[Freethinker65]

3. There were no NEW fucking emails and he knew it

[trueblue2007]

27. Comey is a Lying, Stinking TRAITOR. I say Locking him up for 20 years is too good for him.

[BeyondGeography]

4. I assume he left out the part about wetting his pants with joy and relief

on Election night.

[hrmjustin]

5. I detest Comey almost as much as Trump!

[turbinetree]

21. I also put Joe Leiberman in this crowd when he alone screwed people out of Medicare

[groundloop]

32. Joe had some help screwing us out of Medicare, but he was certainly the gangleader

[turbinetree]

34. Just amazing how this man is sitting at home

and getting government paid health care courtesy of the taxpayers------amazing.

And the same bunch that is now in office are the same bunch that voted to do what he did and now they are going into overdrive to hurt human beings again, no empathy at all, none. It's about neo liberal capitalism-----again----- amazing

I wish I had that list and the votes, just to remind human beings

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. On one hand it is maddening the way he handled everything inlcuding not

exposing the fact that Trump and Putin were indeed working together on fixing this election.. I mean he knew that and said nothing.

On the other hand who decides not to vote for Hillary because Comey says she had more emails but none of them meant anything?

Are there people this dense that they were on some "fence" over her emails? I assume you either knew there was no story here and she had done nothing wrong at least not on purpose or you believed the lies and thought she was the devil. One or the other.

Hard to imagine anyone in the middle on this, how dumb do you have to be?

[exboyfil]

20. I think it stoked some

who otherwise might have stayed home. It was timed for maximum impact. Even the later "sorry nevermind" was also timed for maximum impact. Given everything else going on, it was another brick in the wall. Take it away or the Wikileaks or the voter suppression or the suspected vote counting then Clinton would not have won. It was a perfect storm.

It was something he could have managed without putting his thumb on the scale. First of all they sat for weeks on the information. A meeting with the impacted parties before announcement might have led to a voluntary investigation of those emails. Then you announce that the emails are same as already been revealed.

Comey will not be judged favorably by history.

[LisaL]

33. People were already voting when first letter was send.

First Comey letter didn't say that emails didn't mean anything. It got headlines that investigation into her emails was reopened and media didn't talk about anything else but her emails. Second letter didn't help either, because even though Comey admitted there was nothing new in the emails, the headlines it got is that Hillary avoided prosecution yet again.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Well, of course he does. However, he knew exactly what he was doing when he released

that letter just before the election.

IMO, that letter was the reason for Hillary's poll numbers dropping in the last days of the campaign. She had a solid lead and was steadily pulling ahead of Trump, but it all vanished in a matter of days.

[lark]

8. Lying Repug scum is all he is.

He did this with malice and aforethought and is guilty of violating the Hatch Act. Wish this were a sane world so he'd be in jail, or at least out of a job.

[world wide wally]

9. So, incompetent Trump aid, Comey said,

"We were faced with choosing among bad options and making decisions we knew would bring a torrent of criticism"

News flash for incompetent FBI Directors:
Your fucking JOB is to keep your fucking mouth shut and not say anything until your fucking investigation is COMPLETE, asshole.

[deminks]

10. I see he is back from in vacay in the Urals???

[Hortensis]

11. The FBI must be considered corrupt as long as that man is heading it.

We have tremendous reason for distrusting its actions. If Congress won't properly investigate and Trump won't remove Comey, the FBI itself should require Comey to resign.

[Va Lefty]

12. What can you expect from an Organization that call it's HQs The J. Edgar Hoover Building?

[Hortensis]

17. :) Yes, renaming would be a good step.

[Skittles]

13. FUCK YOU COMEY, YOU PARTISAN HACK

YOU FUCKED AMERICA

[2naSalit]

14. What Skittles said!

[riversedge]

16. REC

[riversedge]

15. He did not directly address the bureaus conclusion in the email probe or the decision to announce

Comey is speaking broadly--He is a coward.


Comey defends FBI's decisions during 'contentious' election

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/312887-comey-stands-by-decisions-during-contentious-election


By Nikita Vladimirov - 01/05/17 02:40 PM EST


FBI Director James Comey said he stands by the bureau's decisions during "a contentious election cycle."

In a private New Year’s message to FBI staff, Comey praised his employees for a job well done during "a challenging year,” ABC News reported.

He said criticism of the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of State does not bother him much.

“I would be lying if I said the external criticism doesn’t bother me at all, but the truth is, it doesn’t bother me much because of the way we made the decision,” he wrote.

“At every turn last year, we were faced with choosing among bad options and making decisions we knew would bring a torrent of criticism.”

He did not directly address the bureau’s conclusion in the email probe or the decision to announce new steps in the investigation just before Election Day, instead offering advice for employees facing scrutiny...........................

[turbinetree]

22. Did this fascist look into what Roger Stone and Giuliani did-----------------nope

but they sure as hell knew what was coming-------------f**king traitors

[elmac]

18. Comey is Putins agent

he is a filthy, rotten piece of decaying shit.

[wolfie001]

19. If he had ANY self respect, he would've hung his lame self. nt

[ThoughtCriminal]

23. Discuss this under oath

I dare him.

[Gothmog]

24. Comey is pond scum and lacks any professional or other ethics

[COLGATE4]

31. Unfair to pond scum.

[Gothmog]

36. You may be right

[COLGATE4]

39. Made me think of the old lawyer joke

"Know why they use lawyers for lab experiments instead of rats?"

"Because there are some things rats won't do"

Maybe the same for pond scum?

[Gothmog]

40. I am a lawyer and I appreciate that joke

[COLGATE4]

41. I am, too. It's one of my (few)

favorite lawyer jokes.

[Blue Idaho]

25. News of his untimely death

Can't come to soon.

[trueblue2007]

28. I agree. THAT IS WHAT THEY DID TO TRAITORS IN THE OLDEN DAYS!!!

Guillotine like during the French Revolution.

[MurrayDelph]

38. I've said it before

I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to start his car for him.

[2naSalit]

26. Hey James,

go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut... as Kurt Vonnegut would say.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

29. Fuck.HIM!!!!!!!!

[Cha]

30. Of course, he's going to defend his asshole actions that changed the

election results from Democracy to fascism. of course

he was a lying pos then and he is now

[JHB]

35. "I'd be lying if I said openly interfering with an election bothered me"...

..."but my guy won! And since my guy won you can't do anything about it!"

Says the Comey-English translator.

[SunSeeker]

37. Fuck that lying piece of shit. He gave Trump the election and ruined our country.