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FBI Director James Comey Sacked
The Washington Post reports that:
FBI Director James B. Comey has been dismissed by the president [...] a startling move that officials said stemmed from a conclusion by Justice Department officials that he had mishandled the probe of Hillary Clinton's emails.
Previously:
Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material
FBI Recommends No Prosecution for Clinton
F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump
President Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey:
President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, over his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, the White House said Tuesday.
[...] Under the F.B.I.'s normal rules of succession, Mr. Comey's deputy, Andrew G. McCabe, a career F.B.I. officer, becomes acting director. The White House said the search for a new director will begin immediately.
I never liked Comey (see this cluster of stories), but I doubt there will ever be an FBI Director I like.
Related:
We're Stuck With Comey
Earlier in the day...
FBI Director Comey Misstated Huma Abedin Evidence at Last Week's Hearing
ProPublica reports that most of FBI Director James Comey's testimony to Congress last Wednesday related to Huma Abedin's mishandling of classified emails was inaccurate, and that FBI officials are privately acknowledging the mistake(s) but are still considering their next move:
FBI director James Comey generated national headlines last week with his dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, explaining his "incredibly painful" decision to go public about the Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
Perhaps Comey's most surprising revelation was that Huma Abedin — Weiner's wife and a top Clinton deputy — had made "a regular practice" of forwarding "hundreds and thousands" of Clinton messages to her husband, "some of which contain classified information." Comey testified that Abedin had done this so that the disgraced former congressman could print them out for her boss. (Weiner's laptop was seized after he came under criminal investigation for sex crimes, following a media report about his online relationship with a teenager.)
The New York Post plastered its story on the front page with a photo of an underwear-clad Weiner and the headline: "HARD COPY: Huma sent Weiner classified Hillary emails to print out." The Daily News went with a similar front-page screamer: "HUMA ERROR: Sent classified emails to sext maniac Weiner."
The problem: Much of what Comey said about this was inaccurate. Now the FBI is trying to figure out what to do about it. FBI officials have privately acknowledged that Comey misstated what Abedin did and what the FBI investigators found. On Monday, the FBI was said to be preparing to correct the record by sending a letter to Congress later this week. But that plan now appears on hold, with the bureau undecided about what to do.
[...] According to two sources familiar with the matter — including one in law enforcement — Abedin forwarded only a handful of Clinton emails to her husband for printing — not the "hundreds and thousands" cited by Comey. It does not appear Abedin made "a regular practice" of doing so. Other officials said it was likely that most of the emails got onto the computer as a result of backups of her Blackberry.
Also at Washington Post (alternate analysis), The Hill, The New York Post, and USA Today.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 10 2017, @05:04AM (5 children)
> reversing popular opinion with Superdelegates.
Your delusions are hardcore dude.
Clinton won the primary by a margin of almost 4 million votes. [wikipedia.org]
That's more than her popular vote margin in the general out of like 1/5th the total voters.
No superdelegates were necessary.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 10 2017, @03:42PM
Must have been all those illegal votes Trump is always talking about.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Wednesday May 10 2017, @03:49PM (3 children)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/16/clinton-does-best-where-voting-machines-flunk-hacking-tests-hillary-clinton-vs-bernie-sanders-election-fraud-allegations/ [counterpunch.org]
Basically all the superdelegates pledging for Clinton early also had the obvious effect of tilting support to her from the bandwagon.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 10 2017, @07:13PM (2 children)
Basically all the superdelegates pledging for Clinton early also had the obvious effect of tilting support to her from the bandwagon.
If that were the case it would have caused voter suppression during the primary - why vote if it won't make any difference?
And yet they were only marginally down from the 2008's historically high numbers (easily explained by Obama's popularity) and more than double the 2004 primaries.
Yours is the logic of conspiracy - any fact in isolation that "proves" your predetermined outcome is highlighted, everything else is ignored.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday May 10 2017, @08:01PM (1 child)
If that were the case it would have caused voter suppression during the primary - why vote if it won't make any difference?
Oh really? You're sure? People vote for lots of different reasons, not all of them rational. Maybe the set of people who didn't bother to vote were balanced out by a different set that were driven to vote for some other reason.
Yours is the logic of conspiracy - any fact in isolation that "proves" your predetermined outcome is highlighted, everything else is ignored.
I know it must be really difficult for you when somebody disagrees with you. So much easier to just call them all haters and conspiracy theorists. After the DNC got caught blatantly throwing Bernie under the bus in their own leaked communications, it's hardly inconceivable that there was indeed collusion in regards to primary votes. Next you'll say that Snowden and the repeated admissions that they still kept doing it after being told multiple times to stop is no reason to distrust the NSA that they've stopped domestic spying.
As I've pointed out before, you don't have a leg to stand on with slinging mud about people being "conspiracy theorists" when you won't even put a pseudonym behind *your* words. Anonymous Coward indeed.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @02:35AM
After the DNC got caught blatantly throwing Bernie under the bus in their own leaked communications,
Yet another example of your conspiracy logic. They did no such thing. A couple of people were talking shit about Bernie in what amounted to office gossip. JFC, if that qualifies as "throwing Bernie under the bus" then you have never seen a bus.
Quite acting like a hysterical little girl.