"My confidence has been shook": Dems furious after meeting with James Comey - but they can't say why

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory


TRAVIS GETTYS
13 JAN 2017 AT 12:33 ET

House Democrats walked out of a classified briefing sputtering with anger over FBI Director James Comey’s response to claims of Russian election hacking.

Several of the lawmakers who took part in Friday’s meeting said they’d lost confidence in Comey and had become convinced he’s unfit to lead the agency, reported The Hill.

“I was non-judgmental until the last 15 minutes,” said Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN). “I no longer have that confidence in him. Some of the things that were revealed in this classified briefing — my confidence has been shook.”

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said he was “extremely concerned” about what had been revealed, which was confidential.

Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) was so shaken by what he’d learned that he could barely complete a sentence. “I’ll just — I’m very angry,” Takano said.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/my-confidence-has-been-shook-dems-furious-after-meeting-with-james-comey-but-they-cant-say-why/

[KittyWampus]

1. Thank You for posting

[drray23]

2. They probably found out

That the fbi had known long before the election that russia was meddling and did nothing.

[Amaryllis]

92. And that the Trump campaign was in colllusion with Russian meddling.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

107. My thoughts exactly... WTF!! Where was this briefing MONTHS AGO?!?!

[global1]

3. What The Hell Is Going On?......nt

[Auggie]

6. Exactly

[Adrahil]

70. I have a feeling....

They discovered that Comey has been aware of quite a bit for a quite a long time, and now that the coup... I mean election is complete, he's revealing that he decided to sit on it.... ya know, so as not to "influence" the election.

WE. ARE. FUCKED.

[susanr516]

80. I fear you're correct n/t

[tomp]

129. why would that fact be classified? nt

[PatSeg]

148. No, you were right the first time

It WAS a coup.

[SunSeeker]

4. Wow.

[Raster]

5. So, Comey is an active participant in the coup, eh?

Comey cost us the Presidency AND cost us a Senate majority.

COMEY IS A FUCKING TRAITOR.

[DeminPennswoods]

14. You can keep saying that, but

the guy, who for the next week, is entrusted with protecting and defending the Constitution and against enemies both foreign and domestic, apparently isn't too worried about anything. Well, except making sure to go out like he went in, being Mr. Nice Guy.

[SticksnStones]

28. Because you know all that's going on behind the scenes

And President Obama seems....what....inept in your view?


Is it such a big deal to have just ONE place in the whole frigging internet where unfounded cheap shots at democrats are off limits.

Surely there's some other place for Obama bashing ?

Have a nice day.

[MFM008]

30. not inept.

Just TO devoted to that smooth transition.
The let maggot handle it attitude.

[demigoddess]

97. you can't spell

to
too
not the same.

[Chasstev365]

104. It's not bashing; don't use that as a crutch!

If the shoe was on the other foot, would the GOP be foucing on a smooth transition?

[SticksnStones]

106. If our goal is to be more like the GOP then we truly have lost our way.

[Chasstev365]

110. President Obama has been great on so many things, but

he has been too soft on Republicans !That is not bashing him; it's a legit point of view.

[Crash2Parties]

124. A: "in the spirit of cooperation" "working together" "conciliatory"

Q: What terms did the press use most often to describe President Obama's reaction to GOP cheating?

I'm still an extreme proponent of his, despite that flaw - specifically his intent to let the TPP go through, and not doing *anything* about the many crimes committed during the Bush-Cheney years.

[Tarheel_Dem]

116. +1

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Hard to argue with that.

[TeamPooka]

35. You're blaming Obama? I blame America. They let him down, what's he supposed to do?

[cstanleytech]

48. According to some hes supposed to institute martial law and deny Trump from being

sworn in regardless of the fact that it would be unconstitutional to do that.

[TeamPooka]

53. So he's supposed to defy Congress and the Electoral College and The Constitution? Sure.

The problem with a legal coup is that it's legal and the opposition would have to break the law to defy it.

[cstanleytech]

63. Ya I know, it would be doing what they fear the GOP is planning by getting into bed with Russia.

[bettyellen]

101. This is coming from the same assholes who hoped Comney would have Hillary arrested...

Amazing how people turn into facist dictators just because their guy didn't come close to winning a primary.

[TeamPooka]

105. I would rather have Obama go down as the last real President and have America destroyed by Trump and

the GOP than have him do what you mentioned above.
and it might actually happen.

[bettyellen]

108. Some here have been advocating all sorts of crazy destabilizing hijinks.....

Since the primary. They're working from some kind of moron script. Had a friend like that- she asked me why Obama never bothered to nominate a SC justice. She thinks she is well informed, lives Jill, and thinks the Russian stuff is people just being "anti-socialist". She is so clueless and hateful. Hates peaceful protests and feminists too. Clueless.

[dionysus]

142. Yay, once again.. THANKS BERNIE!!11!ELEVENTY1!

[Tarheel_Dem]

62. What an asinine suggestion. Being "Mr. Nice Guy" is exactly what America voted for, when it voted..

for Obama TWICE. We knew what we were getting then, and I don't want him to change because some dude on the internet has a sad. As Michelle Obama said, 'the presidency doesn't change who you are, it magnifies it'. And what Barack Hussein Obama is, is a student and professor of the Constitution of these United States. Get over yourself.

[DeminPennswoods]

93. I didn't vote for "Mr Nice Guy"

I voted for Obama twice because I believed him when he talked about hope and change. I've been disappointed, tbh, in his entire 8 years. He simply failed to fight for much at all until the very end of his 2nd term. He needed a shove from Josh Marshall to abandon his planned COLA cuts to social security and from Nancy Pelosi on the ACA. Otherwise, he'd have happily compromised with Republicans on the COLA and let the universal health care dream die. That discussion is for another day, though.

Anyway, what I think Obama owed, and still owes, all Americans is a clear explanation of everything that happened during the election concerning Russian interference. It was reported in the press, can't recall where I read/heard it, that Obama himself said the reason he didn't do more to tell Americans what Russia was doing was because he didn't want to influence the election. Imagine, a president thinking it's more important not to be seen as "helping" his party's candidate than to address the nation, as President, that a foreign country was trying to hijack our election process. I'll add he was concerned enough about it to pick up the "red phone" and call Putin. So why not tell America? Sure, there would've been plenty of people/rw media complaining of him trying to tip the election, but the seriousness of the crime demanded a serious address to the nation.

[Tarheel_Dem]

98. Yeah, I've run across a couple of you claiming to have voted for Obama "TWICE", and being.....

"disappointed". I can set my clock by you guys. There are some things that Obama and Democrats have been called on by the "activists" to do these past eight years that have come back to bite us all in the ass; getting rid of the 60 vote threshold being one of them.

I don't much care that you're disappointed. Those of us who actually voted for him twice, and would gladly do so again, knew exactly what we were getting, and are very proud of our two term president as he leaves office. It sounds like you prefer an honorable man behave like the buffoon who will soon be sworn in. That's not who Barack Obama is, and never will be. He has a duty to the constitution before any political party, and you'll be missing that characteristic in the very near future.

[Hekate]

109. Thank you for this, Tarheel Dem. What you said.

[Tarheel_Dem]

115. You don't become what you despise, and I'm reasonably sure PBO despises Donald Trump, as do I.

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[DeminPennswoods]

121. That's the default excuse

when you disagree with other posters/members. And, yes, I did indeed vote for Obama twice - even had an Obama sticker on my car in my very red area of western Pennsylvania. But believe what you want.

[dionysus]

143. You know whats not being a nice guy? Frowning at me! That's.. it...

Put up yer dukes!

[Blue_Roses]

119. So you're saying if Obama had been a

dick to the GOP all these years, they would have suddenly decided to work with him? Nice try, but you can't work with people who won't compromise or open their narrow view of the world.

[NewJeffCT]

26. Trump will pardon him

for any crimes he may have committed and then give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which will have been renamed to the Trump Medal of Freedom.

[blue cat]

41. I agree with you

Time will tell. He is a traitor.

[harun]

50. It was a Russian coup but because GOP will get to repeal ACA they will go along with

For them, a win/win.

[ladjf]

69. If there ever was one,he is one. nt

[Sunlei]

137. Not 'inner loop Republican Traitor', but he was used by them and he should have known he was.

Comey should go after all those 'retired agents' who did share classified information with Republican party 'agents', because he should know by now- that kind of 'leaking' IS a crime.

[Control-Z]

7. Whoa. What is this?

Of course, I'm thinking the worst. I'm sure it's hurtful to good people whatever it is.

[Alekzander]

8. Have my suspicians of things they learned but would have to say that a good indication is stuff is

going to hit the fan sooner or later over Comey.

[triron]

9. Hope some of the contents

get leaked.

[Jim__]

71. +1

[Rex]

10. IOW, those last 15 minutes Comey basically admitted to throwing the election.

So, now do we develop steel spines or do we let the GOP get away with another crime. It is obvious Rudy and Comey had some kind of communications going on during the entire election.

Stop with the drip drip drip...if you are pissed off and in Congress - do something about it!

[quakerboy]

38. Like what?

What legal avenue remains?
What effective avenue remains?

[itsrobert]

11. Too many got briefed. Details will get out.

And you can count on Donald and his army of Deplorables to attack any news agency that reports it.

[progressoid]

18. Yep. It's going to be an interesting "peaceful transition of power"

[Delphinus]

144. That's what

I agreed to on another thread ...

[Docreed2003]

12. So essentially what we feared is true?

We've only begun to scratch the surface of how deep this Russian corruption goes and how significant of an impact that it had.

[lark]

33. The impact drumpf has been ordered to create by his handler

Pootie Poot, is to destroy NATO and disrupt EU so Russia can do whatever it wants in Eastern Europe without their interference. Think this is the carrot and stick. IMO, the stick is the perverted videos of Drumpf, the carrot is Russian oligarchs buying overpriced mansions from orange fuhrer when sanctions are removed AND if he causes destruction or harm to EU, all bank loans forgiven. At least this is what makes sense to me based on a lot of reporting.

[Paladin]

13. Can't wait for the details on this.

Couldn't be happier that Comey apparently managed to wound himself.

[Stuart G]

15. I think you are correct, but we won't know till this comes out.

and it will.......

[Glimmer of Hope]

16. Wow. Makes me wonder if he is compromised too. The whole thing is just weird.

[PearliePoo2]

17. I'm getting serious chills and NOT the good kind.

Overwhelming sense of dread, doom and gloom.
You think each day it can't get worse, but yet it does.

[Stuart G]

19. Point of Information...this story is reported here at DU almost first..

Not now at NYT or Huffington Post...but I am sure it will be.. This one will be the number 1 story of the weekend and we will know what those last fifteen minutes were about...It will leak...as it almost always does..

[lark]

34. It was on Washington Post yesterday.

Pretty decent handling of it too.

[DonViejo]

37. Members of Congress held their meeting with Comey this morning...

The second paragraph in the OP:

Several of the lawmakers who took part in Friday’s meeting said they’d lost confidence in Comey and had become convinced he’s unfit to lead the agency, reported The Hill.

Do you have a link to the Washington Post article? Thanks in advance.

[lark]

39. Oops. sorry, I got lost on which thread I was on.

There was nothing in the Post about Comey, but there was a front page article on the Russian prostitute claims.

[Ilsa]

85. Wow. They are not "questioning" his his fitness, they are

declaring his unfitness.

When we get Congress and the WH back in 2 and 4 years, these people need to be arrested.

Maybe the CIA will take care of Comey quietly, like Putin took care of his opposition.

[ehrnst]

20. Betting that there were active attempts to throw the election with "comments"

released before the election on the part of the FBI.

[2naSalit]

46. I'll bet it far more than that...

And I'll bet, also, that he disclosed that he's been a mole for years... probably topped off with a tirade of nastiness about the Clintons.

[Bill Hansun]

21. A Fight to the Finish

Comey is behind a rock and a hard place. This should be interesting.

[LisaM]

22. Why didn't Obama DO something about him?

I'm sorry, Obama can take his Mr. High Road Goodbye Tour all he wants, but to me, this issue lingers. And if I'm this upset, how must Hillary Clinton feel?

This is just so, so wrong.

[2naSalit]

51. Because...

of threat to life and family? These guys play pretty dirty when it comes to insurance of confidentiality.

[LisaM]

54. I wouldn't go quite that far....

He's listing national monuments, issuing pardons, doing a number of good things. But in a way he has to, because this monster has been unleashed upon us. The moment came and Obama did not act, and I'm left scratching my head as to why.

[LenaBaby61]

52. Why didn't Obama DO something about him?

All these years later, and I was very disappointed then and mad NOW--yes mad @ Pres. Obama for appointing a rethug in Comey over the FBI, and I don't care HOW honorable people thought Comey allegedly was during the Bush Administration. He's still a rethug. I had a REALLY bad feeling about it THEN, and look what's happened to our country as a result of Comey's meddling into the election. Still more respect and admiration etc., for President Obama. But appointing Comey was one of the biggest mistakes of his presidency IMHO. Look what's become of that hire.

Comey was probably being blackmailed by putin, but whatever it IS that's shaken the confidence of those Democrats isn't good at ALL, and who here is surprised?

[Plucketeer]

61. "He's still a rethug."

Precisely! I agree with every word of your post. What the HELL was BHO thinking??????

[Nay]

66. Exactly. I knew back then that appointing Comey, and other Pubs, would have to

backfire on Obama, and here we are. It's backfired in such a gut-wrenching and horrific way that we can't not comment on it, no matter what else Obama has done well. Where it really counted, he didn't do that well and we are now up shit creek as a result.

[elmac]

76. Comey deliberately sabotaged the election

was the final nail in the Democratic coffin. He will get away with it. Things will get much worse. There is no civil or legal fix for this mess.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

86. Same here. I respect and admire President Obama for so many reasons,

but this was a mistake, a big one, and I too worried from the start. Bipartisanship only works if both sides employ it in equal measure. Not only do the Rs not appoint Ds to important positions in their administrations, they appoint extreme RW radicals every chance they get.

[JI7]

99. because the media would have reported it as Obama helping hillary

[Stuart G]

23. k and r....

[hopeforchange2008]

24. Please top this crazy carnival ride!!!

I so want to get off the damn thing!!!!!!

[riversedge]

25. Over to you, Mr. President. Time to explain what the hell is going on here.

umm. wonder what he can do???



Elliott Lusztig ‏@ezlusztig 8m8 minutes ago

Elliott Lusztig Retweeted Raw Story

Over to you, Mr. President. Time to explain what the hell is going on here.

Elliott Lusztig added,


Raw Story @RawStory
‘My confidence has been shook’: Dems furious after meeting with James Comey — but they can’t say why http://ow.ly/nzuc307YN7P
4 replies 41 retweets 71 likes

[Satch59]

27. Getting chills too...and a lot of them seemed angry coming out...

Either the FBI knew about collusion and did nothing or...knew of voting hacking? Seems plausible the first thought since stories are coming out about Trump team getting FISA warrants and Flynn's Russia calls...the pieces are coming together...but then what?? Martial law declared, Supreme Court gets involved?? Getting mighty freaky...

[RKP5637]

74. Really freaky, and likely runs far deeper than we suspect. n/t

[Augiedog]

31. Once again. That's Comrade Comey

[HoneyBadger]

32. Perhaps the last 15 minutes was the screening of the golden showers

[Eyeball_Kid]

47. No. It was something the Comey said about his "performance."

Here's my guess: Comey offered an opinion that contained his political bias, and used that bias as justification for slanting his presentation of the email case. He's an unabashed Republican/Trump backer who took it upon himself to mess with the election AS A MATTER OF (MISGUIDED, CORRUPT) "MORAL" RECTITUDE.

Usually, politicians leave themselves lots of room to equivocate. That didn't happen this time, and the logic of the situation points toward Comey being arrogant and unapologetic about his interference. That's likely why some of those who witnessed the meeting left with such anger on their faces.

[Fast Walker 52]

83. Agree, I bet he said something about not wanting Hillary to win because the email thing

[dflprincess]

127. At the very least he's violated the Hatch Act

at the worst, he's committed treason.

Either way he needs to prosecuted.

[brutus smith]

36. The right wingnuts are already blaming Obama

for letting this happen on his watch. Why is it we can never get in front of a story or issue? We are always chasing.😬

[Hekate]

112. Which right wing nuts would those be? All I see is an abundance of the usual suspects at DU ...

...taking yet another opportunity to say how much they voted for Obama but how they have a sad over his innumerable "failures" and are now furious because of the latest Republican outrage. Last month they were furious that he went on a family vacation to the US state where he was born, where the sun was shining on the flowers, because that meant he had already "handed the keys of the White House over to Trump," and it was "bad optics."

Et tu, Brute?

Meanwhile, very quietly and without fanfare, he is signing something into law every single day even while on vacay (afaict), commuting US prisoners' sentences, and trying like hell to get the last men out of Guantanamo (other countries have to agree to take them; he can't just put them on a boat). Some of the EOs he is signing will be overturned; a bunch more will be very hard to overturn; and at least one of them cannot be overturned. That last had to do with invoking the 1953 law about permanently voiding unused oil leases on the Continental Shelf.

So what else is Obama up to? Is he up to no good because you and I can't see everything? Both Obama and Biden, when asked about the full measure of retaliation against Russia, have commented that they hope we never find out. Biden smiled.

[Progressive dog]

118. "right wingnuts" are blaming Obama

This is supposed to be something new. No one other than a "right wingnut" sympathizer gives a rat's ass.

[brutus smith]

151. We need to stop them from setting the narrative all the time.

We need to be in front of the issues. Or we can just put our head up our arse.

[Progressive dog]

154. Can you post a picture of

someone "putting our head up our arse."

[ffr]

40. coup d'etat, democracy circumvented by republicans to maximum effect.

There's no reason why Hillary Clinton isn't our president-elect right now, other than all the meddling and master performances put on my Rethugs, like James Comey, to tarnish her stellar image to maximum effect 11 days before the election.

Giuliani was in on it as well on behalf of the tRump conspiracy within the FBI.

My friends, we are in the presence of an installed representative of the republican coup against our democracy.

[fleur-de-lisa]

42. I think you're right.

This is some scary shit!

[Eyeball_Kid]

49. You've got it right.

[colorado_ufo]

58. Damn right he was.

In fact, G could hardly contain his giddiness over the campaign nor keep his facts straight. Several times he let incriminating statements slip.

[Hekate]

114. The GOP nearly redeemed itself when it engineered Nixon's resignation. In the intervening years....

...the GOP has become rotten to the core.

It will be the GOP that impeaches Trump, but not before he does untold damage.

[BigDemVoter]

43. I could have told them that BEFORE the hearing.

That son-of-a-bitch should be in fucking JAIL.

[riversedge]

45. This morning, I received a classified briefing. I call on @SpeakerRyan to create an independent comm

I am becoming very alarmed at this point!!



Elliott Lusztig ‏@ezlusztig 2h2 hours ago

Wow, Americans. We need to have a serious talk about the concept of government secrecy, its logic and limits, the purposes it serves.
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Elliott Lusztig ‏@ezlusztig 2h2 hours ago

Elliott Lusztig Retweeted Nanette D. Barragan

Well the Californians aren't messing around. Another call for an independent commission in light of Confidential briefings never explained.





Nanette D. Barragan
‏@RepBarragan

This morning, I received a classified briefing. I call on @SpeakerRyan to create an independent commission on #russianhacking


https://twitter.com/RepBarragan/status/819952632202723328



KT ‏@kattracy 50m50 minutes ago

@RepBarragan @anon6116 @SpeakerRyan It should be bipartisan @NancyPelosi @WhipHoyer Pls work with Rs. This is no time for bickering
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Marcus S. ‏@goodwillfiction 2h2 hours ago

@RepBarragan @SpeakerRyan I wonder what Comey said in the briefing for her to say this.
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[CanonRay]

55. I feel like I'm in the middle of a bad movie

and they won't let me leave. This is a slow motion coup, and there ain't shit we can seem to do about it except watch it happen.

[get the red out]

56. Politicians too angry to complete sentences

Damn, it really feels like a hurricane of some kind is blowing in fast. Cat-5.

[Texin]

64. Exactly!

When a professional politician (most of whom are lawyers who have argued cases before the bench, FFS!) can't complete a sentence coherently because they're so shaken by what they've been briefed with, it renders me horrified and deeply alarmed.

We're all seriously fucked here, folks. This is bad on a level I don't think we've ever experienced in the last hundred years or more. This is bad approaching a level that the poor GIs faced when entering Auschwitz for the first time or walking in the nuclear debris following Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These guys had seen and been through their own personal hell during the conflict, but what they saw was nightmarish beyond description (based on personal observations made by my own father and uncles). Again, when members of congress are so shaken to their core, you know that this briefing contained information that they themselves had never thought imaginable in a president-elect, and the prospect of this abomination actually taking office next week must scare the shit out of them. God knows it scares the shit out of me! And I don't think there's anything for it either! The goddamn rethugs are certainly not going to lift a finger to do anything about it, you know that everyone, right?

[Texin]

57. Read David Corn's piece in Mother Jones

It's from back in October (and it's linked in a tweet from DC a little earlier today). He's been talking about this since October. The British intelligence officer (retired MI6) who did the report actually handed off the report to the FBI (which was commissioned by a rethug candidate who has since been identified as Jeb Bush - and no wonder the Bush family didn't back this orange sack of shit, I mean Pappy was the director of the CIA for fuck's sake!). I can't recall if the former agent handed his report directly to Comey or someone the agent was familiar with within the agency or not. This article itself is enough to raise the hairs on your neck, but combined with the allegations of the golden showers from earlier this week, it's absolutely terrifying and outrageous.

I find myself sometimes struggling to complete a coherent sentence when confronted with some fresh outrage reported about or said by this abomination. In DC's article, the agent said he was forced to call the FBI contact to inquire about what if anything was being done about this information because he was growing more and more concerned. Turns out Comey was sitting on it whilst he lowered the boom on HC and Dems ten days before the ... I refuse to call this an election. More like an installation to be followed by a coronation.

Comey should be fired. Forcing him to "resign" is too good for him. He and Trump both, along with all their Russian handlers should be rounded up and given the choice between a firing squad or a public hanging. They are traitors of the first magnitude.

I shudder to contemplate anything else that might be in that report that would render a politician momentarily unable to form a coherent statement (like Takana of California). I can't say that I haven't been rendered teeth-chatteringly mute at what I keep hearing about and from these throwback to the Stalin era.

[NBachers]

59. Whatever we think it is, it's worse than we think it is.

[jalan48]

60. Our secret government says be quiet!

[Danascot]

65. This article from The Guardian (UK press, not ours) says

(Members of congress were apparently angered that)

"Embattled FBI director James Comey has refused to clarify whether his organization is investigating Donald Trump’s ties to Russia in a closed briefing Friday for members of Congress, angering legislators

"One source in the meeting said Comey would not answer “basic questions” about the FBI’s current investigative activities. The FBI chief was grilled “over and over again,” according to the source, about his standards for acknowledging FBI investigations, with legislators repeatedly bringing up Comey’s dramatic public confirmation that the bureau was revisiting classification issues with Hillary Clinton’s private email server days before the election, as well as his summer press conference announcing that he would not seek indictment."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/13/fbi-investigation-donald-trump-russia-james-comey-congress

[get the red out]

87. In other words

They aren't investigating. IOKIYAR.

[mercuryblues]

67. My guess is they

found out the voting machines were indeed hacked. There is no fucking way Michigan would go complete republiklan after what happened in Flint.

[crosinski]

72. That's my thought too. From Michigan here. n/t

[mountain grammy]

82. My thoughts exactly.

[benld74]

68. I posted THIS 2 days ago MY thought on the matter

1) THIS information was known since MID summer. ALL have copies.
2) ALL expected HRC to WIN
3) Once THAT happened, ALL this would get swept away, with nobody the wiser. AND HRC FBI and CIA would take care of the mess out of site from the public.
4) THAT didnt happen.

SO now we have this. The DEMS in shock as is the country. PEETUS acting like a POTUS. FBI and CIA being called losers by PEETUS
IF due diligence was given back in the Summer, we would NOT be here. Guaranteed.
Due diligence cannot be given NOW. Drump knows this. GOP knows this. GOP doesnt care. THEY never do.

[RKP5637]

75. I think your thoughts are likely pretty correct IMO. n/t

[Amaryllis]

96. I believe Repubs (at least key people like McConnell) knew the election was in the bag,

between voter suppression, vote tampering, and Russian collusion. This is why they didn't let Garland have a hearing even though from the polls it looked like Hillary would win. It wasn't just Russian collusion; there was enough other shenanigans going on even without that to seriously impact the election. They have stolen three out of the past five presidential elections.

See Greg Palast:
http://www.gregpalast.com/election-stolen-heres/

The Election was Stolen – Here’s How…
Friday, November 11, 2016
Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives.

[BigBearJohn]

117. PEETUS

LMAO

[bucolic_frolic]

73. My guess

'We're all partisan on one side or the other, and when the time comes,
do what we can to help our party. You'd all do the same.'

[leanforward]

77. My respects to the Gentlemen included in the briefing.

I trust David Corn and the Fifth Estate

Comey needs to go. His choice of how. Of all the news items that surfaced in October, he sat on dRump negatives. Yet, he had to say something about Madam Clinton. If the AG recused herself, who were his advisers on this issue. There was some kind of high level briefing in October. Did he receive some kind of advice/implication of action from those participants? Was not mitch and paul in those high level meetings?

dRump has some kind of business relationship with the Russian oligarch companies. Of which Putin is a shareholder. In my opinion, the Russians have him by the short hairs. Everything I see, hear, and read is he could care less about any citizen of these United States and territories.

Some might say let him stay if he discloses the details of his Russian business details. At this point, I don't care, because something else will come up.

Citizen dRump needs to go. Lets not forget: the handicapped journalist, the McCain slur, the Gold Star family, and the how to on sexual assault if you are notorious.

A member of the loyal American opposition.

[riversedge]

78. Joan Walsh: Even Steve King seemed a little shaken on MSNBC. Asked if evidence of contact bet Trump

Something very serious and scary is going on.



Joan Walsh ‏@joanwalsh 33m33 minutes ago

Joan Walsh Retweeted Jesse Taylor

Even Steve King seemed a little shaken on MSNBC. Asked if evidence of contact bet Trump campaign and Russians, he said he couldn't say


Jesse Taylor
‏@jesseltaylor

What's interesting about the Dem response to the Comey meeting is that no Republicans have come out to belittle them.

[obamanut2012]

79. If it's this big a threat to national securuty, they need to tell us

I understand some things have to stay classified, but the American people need to know.

We have a right to know.

Contact your Senators and Reps now.

[Peachhead22]

81. I've wanted Comey gone for months...

I'm sure most if not all of us feel the same. But the thing that sucks most to me? If Comey gets canned by Pres. Obama now, then Trump gets to hand pick the next head of the FBI. Yikes!

[Cosmocat]

122. I would have beaten his partisan posted ass

After his hit job on hillary in June...

[Skittles]

84. my guess, he told them, yeah we fucked you over

what are you going to do about it?

[FreeStateDemocrat]

88. Leak it!!! We the people have every right to know what is going down with this fucker.

Forget national security that boat has already sunk.

Right now there is a complete meltdown in trust in every aspect of our national institutions, the press was our last hope and they are either badly compromised or totally inept.

[Generator]

89. Because Comey knew Trump was compromised by Russia months ago

And still won't even tell them about any investigation. Traitor.

[angrychair]

90. Something wicked this way comes.

[christx30]

91. Hopefully some anonymous source

leaks the details of the briefing. Probably only classified because it would embarrass members of the government. Probably nothing national security related in there at all.

[HoneyBadger]

141. The Guardian leaked it

Basically Comey treated them like the public, would not tell them what he was working on, would not answer questions that I suppose he considered loaded questions.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/13/fbi-investigation-donald-trump-russia-james-comey-congress

[forgotmylogin]

94. You know the congresspeople are steamed...

They're using the hip street lingo like all the kids: "My confidence has been shook."

(No, Grammarly, leave that alone...)

[Bill Hansun]

95. Mr Comey

Comey has been in the middle of this mess and his decisions are keeping him there. What's next for Mr Comey?

[neeksgeek]

100. A few years ago...

The Reich-wingers were up in arms about "black helicopters" and "the new world order."

Well, this is the new world order. And they must not win.

[RiverStone]

102. If Comey, other rethuglicans, tRump's team, or some combo colluded to throw the election...

This would be a high crime of unprecedented order.

Next a constitutional crisis.

Then some kind of re-do to recalibrate the balance of power.

The American people (at least the majority of them) won't stand for an illegitimate presidency!

[Cosmocat]

123. Correct until the last sentence

This country has rolled over ...

[MontanaMama]

103. Two things...

First, to Rep. Tim Walz. The term should be "My confidence has been shaken". Not "shook". Grammar 101.

Second, and more importantly: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT????!!!"

No more head shaking and hand wringing. We need our leadership to come out swinging. Your country demands it.

It's time to whip and ride folks. Make no mistake. This is what a coup looks like.

[GliderGuider]

111. I wondered about "shook" too at first

Then I realized that when people are really shaken their grammar goes pear-shaped. Some of them could barely even speak when they came out, they were so shook.

Yes, it's a coup. It has been many years in the making, and here it is.

[MontanaMama]

113. Yeah...I kinda felt like a jerk even saying anything.

Gah! My mom used to charge me a penalty from my allowance for grammatical errors.

I wish we could know what they heard. It must have been awful. I hope there's more going on behind Dem closed doors than we know about. My confidence is indeed, quite shaken.

[thearchive]

125. Shook is fine now

In 1995 mobb Deep came out with the song "Shook Ones" and it's been a pretty common term.

Shook means scared in this context.

Shaken means astonishment.

Maybe he was booth shaken and shook?

[MontanaMama]

149. Hmmmm. Was not aware of this.

Learn something every day!

[dflprincess]

126. I think it may have been as you said - Walz was a teacher before running for Congress

(geography, not English).

He generally comes off as a pretty even keel kind of guy. I can't imagine what they heard that left them all sputtering and worse. I really thought Maxine Waters was ready to smack someone.

I have to wonder if this really is a security issue or one of those "for the good of the country" things that really isn't anything but a cover up to keep some prominent heads from rolling (figuratively).

[MontanaMama]

150. Agreed. Maxine seemed more pissed than anything.

I'd love to know what they heard, however. For the good of the country...how convenient. Time to inconvenience some of these fools.

[Tanuki]

130. According to Elvis.....

https://m.

[YOHABLO]

120. So is Comey going to take one for the "Gipper'' or do the Repugs have something on him?

[still_one]

128. Then someone should be enough of a patriot to reveal it, classified or not, before

inauguration

[rumdude]

131. Let's not ever forget that Obama

Nominated Comey. What was Obama thinking?

[cstanleytech]

133. Probably that Comey could be trusted to be impartial and not shit all over the Constitution

and Comey sure showed him how he actually could not be impartial and how to properly shit all over the Constitution.

[rumdude]

134. Comey was a known Republican

And looking back at Comey's record at Wake Forest - the signs were all visible that he would likely be a partisan hack. Obama should have nominated a Democrat. He should have known better. But no, he always had to try in vain to reach across the aisle.

[cstanleytech]

135. *shrug* Well it is what it is, all we can do now is keep moving forward and work to fix

the problems Trump and the GOP are going to probably cause the nation.

[rumdude]

132. By the way it should be "shaken"

Not "shook" - right?

[Stand and Fight]

139. Have you ever been so shaken that your grammar slips in the process?

I suspect that whatever they heard in there shook them to the core.

[Sunlei]

136. Republicans used stolen files & colluded with Russian government propaganda agencies.

Republican party people ALL colluded with-directly met with Russians based at those two USA "Russians only resorts" . The two resorts Obama EVICTED, all 200? Russians booted out of America on 72 hour Guarded eviction warrant.


Was a "classified briefing" so I have to 'guess' what info was revealed, and that's my best guess. Sunlei 1/14/2017

[UCmeNdc]

138. The FBI knew last summer

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512679150

[UCmeNdc]

140. Former MI6 agent Christopher Steele's frustration as FBI sat on Donald Trump Russia file for months

Former MI6 agent Christopher Steele's frustration as FBI sat on Donald Trump Russia file for months

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-dossier-file-investigation-hacking-christopher-steele-mi6-a7526901.html

[milestogo]

145. President Obama appointed Comey to be FBI Director.

What a colossal mistake that turned out to be.

[yurbud]

153. in most cases, "reaching across the aisle" with appointments seem to bite Democrats on the ass

and who are they trying to impress?

If you win the American said they trust you and your party to govern, so do it.

[Raster]

146. So this is what living in a Tom Clancy novel is like.

[qanda]

147. Something is going on

[yurbud]

152. the time for secrecy is long past. Unless its about agents names or collection methods...

it should be public.

Dems are getting played on this stuff day in and day out.