Comey not only broke long standing protocol but the Hatch Act of 1939 also

[AntonToo]

Yeah, because why should the American people know that the person they may be about to elect a president is under investigation by the FBI for the second fucking time during the campaign. Yeah, nobody needs to know that in order to make an informed decision

The implicit LIE in this insinuation is that there is some new evidence that FBI found against Hillary based on which the FBI is refocusing on the investigation. But reality is FBI had no idea what is in the emails due to lack of warrant to look at them and had ZERO new implicating evidence at the time of the announcement.

By releasing his vague statement Comey set in motion a barrage of MISINFORMATION AND SPECULATION onto the public, that goes exactly contrary to making informed decisions and I hope he gets the full extent of of the law to answer for it.

 

[AntonToo]

Hint to the freaking clueless, sending a notification to congress is not political activity.

Amazing to watch you accuse someone of being clueless while stating your lunacy.

Comey's letter had very real political impact. You have to retarded to argue otherwise or pretend that Comey was too stupid to realize the implications and how his vague statement will be used against Hillary.

"FBI re-opened case on Hillary! They wouldn't if they didn't have good evidence to say that? that would be crazy!"

And yes it is crazy, yes it is blatant politics from Comey.

 

[P@triot]

I wonder if we could find a single day in the past several decades where Hitlery Clinton did not commit a crime...

Hillary Clinton failed to declare $400k in private jets and vacations gifted to Bill | Daily Mail Online

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Yeah, because why should the American people know that the person they may be about to elect a president is under investigation by the FBI for the second fucking time during the campaign. Yeah, nobody needs to know that in order to make an informed decision

The implicit LIE in this insinuation is that there is some new evidence that FBI found against Hillary based on which the FBI is refocusing on the investigation. But reality is FBI had no idea what is in the emails due to lack of warrant to look at them and had ZERO new implicating evidence at the time of the announcement.

By releasing his vague statement Comey set in motion a barrage of MISINFORMATION AND SPECULATION onto the public, that goes exactly contrary to making informed decisions and I hope he gets the full extent of of the law to answer for it.

The metadata confirms Hillary's state department emails are on Huma and Weiners shared computer when they should not be.

 

[NLT]

Hildabeast is toast

 

[TooTall]

As you know Comey sent a letter to congress, (after being advised NOT to by the Department of Justice. With their explanation that long standing protocol is that you don't make those kind of announcements within 60 days of an election). This in an effort to insure that U.S. Government agencies are not looked at, as trying to deliberately sway an outcome of an election. Comey ignored that advise and sent a very vague letter to congress, that was in effect opening a door shouting more emails, and then slamming it shut again, just 11 days before a National election.

CNN confirms James Comey violated FBI policy today by trying to sabotage Hillary Clinton
FBI Director James Comey under fire from Democrats and Republicans after Clinton email announcement
DOJ Complaint Filed Against FBI Director James Comey For Interfering In Presidential Election

Keep in mind that Comey is the investigator, not the prosecutor. It's his job to find and deliver evidence to the Justice Department, and it is the Justice Department's responsibility to review the evidence, and it's their decision, and their's alone to decide if they will file charges or not.

Comey may have also broken the Hatch ACT of 1939. "The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials of that branch, from engaging in some forms of political activity.

Agencies and employees prohibited from engaging in partisan political activity
Employees of the following agencies (or agency components), or in the following categories, are subject to more extensive restrictions on their political activities than employees in other Departments and agencies:

• Administrative law judges (positions described at 5 U.S.C. § 5372)
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Contract Appeals Boards (positions described at 5 U.S.C. § 5372a)
• Criminal Division (Department of Justice)
• Defense Intelligence Agency
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Federal Election Commission
• Merit Systems Protection Board
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• National Security Agency
• National Security Council
• Office of Criminal Investigation (Internal Revenue Service)
• Office of Investigative Programs (Customs Service)
• Office of Law Enforcement (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives)
• United States Office of Special Counsel
• Secret Service
• Senior Executive Service

Hatch Act of 1939 - Wikipedia

Comey PROBLEM one WARNING: We know that Comey was advised against sending this vague letter to congress 11 days prior to a National Election. He did it anyway.
Justice officials warned FBI that Comey’s decision to update Congress was not consistent with department policy

Comey PROBLEM two INTENT: Comey made a statement to his aids via "email" when he was questioned about his motive for doing this that stated: "Of course, we don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. "I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record." The last sentence being intent on intervening into a National Election to inform the American public.
Read the Letter James Comey Sent to FBI Employees Explaining Clinton Email Decision

It's clear that Comey has committed an illegal act to intervene or sway a National Election. Be assured that a full investigation will proceed.

Hint to the freaking clueless, sending a notification to congress is not political activity.

It's considered political activity when you're trying to sabotage a National election, which is why protocol states you do not make those kind of announcements, within 60 days of an election.

I bet you were really pissed when this happened in 1992.

"On the eve of the 1992 presidential election, on October 30, Mr. Walsh obtained a grand jury re-indictment of Weinberger on one count of false statements. One phrase in that superseding indictment referred to President George H.W. Bush. Some believe that Bush had been closing the gap with Bill Clinton, and that this event stopped his momentum. Clinton administration attorney Lanny Davis called the decision to indict a week before the election rather than after the election "bizarre." Judge Thomas Hogan dismissed the October indictment two months later for being outside the statute of limitations."

Tell me one more time about protocol.

 

[AntonToo]

Yeah, because why should the American people know that the person they may be about to elect a president is under investigation by the FBI for the second fucking time during the campaign. Yeah, nobody needs to know that in order to make an informed decision

The implicit LIE in this insinuation is that there is some new evidence that FBI found against Hillary based on which the FBI is refocusing on the investigation. But reality is FBI had no idea what is in the emails due to lack of warrant to look at them and had ZERO new implicating evidence at the time of the announcement.

By releasing his vague statement Comey set in motion a barrage of MISINFORMATION AND SPECULATION onto the public, that goes exactly contrary to making informed decisions and I hope he gets the full extent of of the law to answer for it.

The metadata confirms Hillary's state department emails are on Huma and Weiners shared computer when they should not be.

What metadata and wtf does that have to do with Hillary? Did she hand-copy them to this computer? Is there evidence she knew about this computer and personally permitted it's use?

There is NOTHING from FBI saying that they have found something on Hillary. NOTHING. But the public has been misinformed to the contrary.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Not too long ago you Dims loved Comey. Now you treat him like he's a Russian spy.

 

[TooTall]

For those of you that want to keep talking about emails, you may get your opportunity if Democrats take over the house. You'll be up to your email eyeballs in scandals an investigations into Colin Powell's emails when he was Secretary of State.

"The bottom line: Democrats may try to turn the revelations about the email accounts used by Powell and Rice’s staff into a scandal. They may release press statements condemning the former secretaries of state; they may call for scores of unnecessary congressional hearings; they may go to the press and confidently proclaim that crimes were committed by these honorable Republicans. But it would all be lies. Powell and Rice did nothing wrong. This could be considered a scandal only by ignorant or lying partisans.

So there is no Powell or Rice email scandal. And no doubt, that will infuriate the Republicans who are trying so hard to trick people into believing Clinton committed a crime by doing the exact same thing as her predecessors."
The shocking truth: Colin Powell’s emails don’t matter

And YES Colin Powell also received classified documents on his personal AOL email account.
Rice Aides, Powell Also Got Classified Info on Personal Email Accounts

The FBI is still looking for Powell's and Rice's private servers but can't seem to find them.

 

[oreo]

As you know Comey sent a letter to congress, (after being advised NOT to by the Department of Justice. With their explanation that long standing protocol is that you don't make those kind of announcements within 60 days of an election). This in an effort to insure that U.S. Government agencies are not looked at, as trying to deliberately sway an outcome of an election. Comey ignored that advise and sent a very vague letter to congress, that was in effect opening a door shouting more emails, and then slamming it shut again, just 11 days before a National election.

CNN confirms James Comey violated FBI policy today by trying to sabotage Hillary Clinton
FBI Director James Comey under fire from Democrats and Republicans after Clinton email announcement
DOJ Complaint Filed Against FBI Director James Comey For Interfering In Presidential Election

Keep in mind that Comey is the investigator, not the prosecutor. It's his job to find and deliver evidence to the Justice Department, and it is the Justice Department's responsibility to review the evidence, and it's their decision, and their's alone to decide if they will file charges or not.

Comey may have also broken the Hatch ACT of 1939. "The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials of that branch, from engaging in some forms of political activity.

Agencies and employees prohibited from engaging in partisan political activity
Employees of the following agencies (or agency components), or in the following categories, are subject to more extensive restrictions on their political activities than employees in other Departments and agencies:

• Administrative law judges (positions described at 5 U.S.C. § 5372)
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Contract Appeals Boards (positions described at 5 U.S.C. § 5372a)
• Criminal Division (Department of Justice)
• Defense Intelligence Agency
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Federal Election Commission
• Merit Systems Protection Board
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• National Security Agency
• National Security Council
• Office of Criminal Investigation (Internal Revenue Service)
• Office of Investigative Programs (Customs Service)
• Office of Law Enforcement (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives)
• United States Office of Special Counsel
• Secret Service
• Senior Executive Service

Hatch Act of 1939 - Wikipedia

Comey PROBLEM one WARNING: We know that Comey was advised against sending this vague letter to congress 11 days prior to a National Election. He did it anyway.
Justice officials warned FBI that Comey’s decision to update Congress was not consistent with department policy

Comey PROBLEM two INTENT: Comey made a statement to his aids via "email" when he was questioned about his motive for doing this that stated: "Of course, we don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. "I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record." The last sentence being intent on intervening into a National Election to inform the American public.
Read the Letter James Comey Sent to FBI Employees Explaining Clinton Email Decision

It's clear that Comey has committed an illegal act to intervene or sway a National Election. Be assured that a full investigation will proceed.

Hint to the freaking clueless, sending a notification to congress is not political activity.

It's considered political activity when you're trying to sabotage a National election, which is why protocol states you do not make those kind of announcements, within 60 days of an election.

I bet you were really pissed when this happened in 1992.

"On the eve of the 1992 presidential election, on October 30, Mr. Walsh obtained a grand jury re-indictment of Weinberger on one count of false statements. One phrase in that superseding indictment referred to President George H.W. Bush. Some believe that Bush had been closing the gap with Bill Clinton, and that this event stopped his momentum. Clinton administration attorney Lanny Davis called the decision to indict a week before the election rather than after the election "bizarre." Judge Thomas Hogan dismissed the October indictment two months later for being outside the statute of limitations."

Tell me one more time about protocol.

Weinberger was not a Presidential nominee, nor was he on ANY ballot running for an election.

But nice try anyway--LOL

 

[TooTall]

As you know Comey sent a letter to congress, (after being advised NOT to by the Department of Justice. With their explanation that long standing protocol is that you don't make those kind of announcements within 60 days of an election). This in an effort to insure that U.S. Government agencies are not looked at, as trying to deliberately sway an outcome of an election. Comey ignored that advise and sent a very vague letter to congress, that was in effect opening a door shouting more emails, and then slamming it shut again, just 11 days before a National election.

CNN confirms James Comey violated FBI policy today by trying to sabotage Hillary Clinton
FBI Director James Comey under fire from Democrats and Republicans after Clinton email announcement
DOJ Complaint Filed Against FBI Director James Comey For Interfering In Presidential Election

Keep in mind that Comey is the investigator, not the prosecutor. It's his job to find and deliver evidence to the Justice Department, and it is the Justice Department's responsibility to review the evidence, and it's their decision, and their's alone to decide if they will file charges or not.

Comey may have also broken the Hatch ACT of 1939. "The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials of that branch, from engaging in some forms of political activity.

Agencies and employees prohibited from engaging in partisan political activity
Employees of the following agencies (or agency components), or in the following categories, are subject to more extensive restrictions on their political activities than employees in other Departments and agencies:

• Administrative law judges (positions described at 5 U.S.C. § 5372)
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Contract Appeals Boards (positions described at 5 U.S.C. § 5372a)
• Criminal Division (Department of Justice)
• Defense Intelligence Agency
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Federal Election Commission
• Merit Systems Protection Board
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• National Security Agency
• National Security Council
• Office of Criminal Investigation (Internal Revenue Service)
• Office of Investigative Programs (Customs Service)
• Office of Law Enforcement (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives)
• United States Office of Special Counsel
• Secret Service
• Senior Executive Service

Hatch Act of 1939 - Wikipedia

Comey PROBLEM one WARNING: We know that Comey was advised against sending this vague letter to congress 11 days prior to a National Election. He did it anyway.
Justice officials warned FBI that Comey’s decision to update Congress was not consistent with department policy

Comey PROBLEM two INTENT: Comey made a statement to his aids via "email" when he was questioned about his motive for doing this that stated: "Of course, we don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. "I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record." The last sentence being intent on intervening into a National Election to inform the American public.
Read the Letter James Comey Sent to FBI Employees Explaining Clinton Email Decision

It's clear that Comey has committed an illegal act to intervene or sway a National Election. Be assured that a full investigation will proceed.

Hint to the freaking clueless, sending a notification to congress is not political activity.

It's considered political activity when you're trying to sabotage a National election, which is why protocol states you do not make those kind of announcements, within 60 days of an election.

I bet you were really pissed when this happened in 1992.

"On the eve of the 1992 presidential election, on October 30, Mr. Walsh obtained a grand jury re-indictment of Weinberger on one count of false statements. One phrase in that superseding indictment referred to President George H.W. Bush. Some believe that Bush had been closing the gap with Bill Clinton, and that this event stopped his momentum. Clinton administration attorney Lanny Davis called the decision to indict a week before the election rather than after the election "bizarre." Judge Thomas Hogan dismissed the October indictment two months later for being outside the statute of limitations."

Tell me one more time about protocol.

Weinberger was not a Presidential nominee, nor was he on ANY ballot running for an election.

But nice try anyway--LOL

Try reading the whole paragraph. "One phrase in that superseding indictment referred to President George H.W. Bush. " Wienberger was on Bush's staff, just as Huma is on Hillary's staff.

And, Huma or Anthony are not running for office either.

Try again.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Disclosing a crime by a presidential candidate is not a violation of the Hatch Act.

 

[oreo]

Not too long ago you Dims loved Comey. Now you treat him like he's a Russian spy.

Nice stretch there, apparently Comey didn't even have this new batch of emails in his possession when he sent out the letter. He needed to Subpoena those emails.

I don't think any of you Reich wingers understand the legalities nor the magnitude of what Comey has done. Right now a judge may deny his subpoena for more emails, and IF they ever find anything "significant", the Justice Department would be extremely reluctant on moving forward with them because of Comey's actions.

Since Comey is the lead investigator in this case, it wouldn't take long for a Federal District Court, or even the U.S. Supreme Court to say BURN IT ALL on any evidence that Comey has collected.

The Justice Department may even close this case immediately.

 

[AntonToo]

Disclosing a crime by a presidential candidate is not a violation of the Hatch Act.

LOL wtf? What crime did Comey disclose?

 

[TooTall]

Not too long ago you Dims loved Comey. Now you treat him like he's a Russian spy.

Nice stretch there, apparently Comey didn't even have this new batch of emails in his possession when he sent out the letter. He needed to Subpoena those emails.

I don't think any of you Reich wingers understand the legalities nor the magnitude of what Comey has done. Right now a judge may deny his subpoena for more emails, and IF they ever find anything "significant", the Justice Department would be extremely reluctant on moving forward with them because of Comey's actions.

Since Comey is the lead investigator in this case, it wouldn't take long for a Federal District Court, or even the U.S. Supreme Court to say BURN IT ALL on any evidence that Comey has collected.

The Justice Department may even close this case immediately.

Comey got permission this morning. LOL The Justice Department can not close the case. The I in FBI stands or Investigate and that is what they do.

 

[TooTall]

Disclosing a crime by a presidential candidate is not a violation of the Hatch Act.

LOL wtf? What crime did Comey disclose?

Hey didshit, that was not posted by me.

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Yeah, because why should the American people know that the person they may be about to elect a president is under investigation by the FBI for the second fucking time during the campaign. Yeah, nobody needs to know that in order to make an informed decision

The implicit LIE in this insinuation is that there is some new evidence that FBI found against Hillary based on which the FBI is refocusing on the investigation. But reality is FBI had no idea what is in the emails due to lack of warrant to look at them and had ZERO new implicating evidence at the time of the announcement.

By releasing his vague statement Comey set in motion a barrage of MISINFORMATION AND SPECULATION onto the public, that goes exactly contrary to making informed decisions and I hope he gets the full extent of of the law to answer for it.

The metadata confirms Hillary's state department emails are on Huma and Weiners shared computer when they should not be.

What metadata and wtf does that have to do with Hillary? Did she hand-copy them to this computer? Is there evidence she knew about this computer and personally permitted it's use?

There is NOTHING from FBI saying that they have found something on Hillary. NOTHING. But the public has been misinformed to the contrary.

Why does the metadata indicate Hillary's emails are on Weiners computer?

 

[OKTexas]

Hint to the freaking clueless, sending a notification to congress is not political activity.

Amazing to watch you accuse someone of being clueless while stating your lunacy.

Comey's letter had very real political impact. You have to retarded to argue otherwise or pretend that Comey was too stupid to realize the implications and how his vague statement will be used against Hillary.

"FBI re-opened case on Hillary! They wouldn't if they didn't have good evidence to say that? that would be crazy!"

And yes it is crazy, yes it is blatant politics from Comey.

Note to another clueless regressive. Comey didn't release the letter to the public, someone in congress did.

BTW you're the last person to call anyone retarded, you seem to have a habit of letting your little fingers out run your even smaller brain. Do you ever bother to proof read your posts before hitting the post reply button? Me thinks you're missing a word or two.

 

[AntonToo]

Hint to the freaking clueless, sending a notification to congress is not political activity.

Amazing to watch you accuse someone of being clueless while stating your lunacy.

Comey's letter had very real political impact. You have to retarded to argue otherwise or pretend that Comey was too stupid to realize the implications and how his vague statement will be used against Hillary.

"FBI re-opened case on Hillary! They wouldn't if they didn't have good evidence to say that? that would be crazy!"

And yes it is crazy, yes it is blatant politics from Comey.

Note to another clueless regressive. Comey didn't release the letter to the public, someone in congress did.

BTW you're the last person to call anyone retarded, you seem to have a habit of letting your little fingers out run your even smaller brain. Do you ever bother to proof read your posts before hitting the post reply button? Me thinks you're missing a word or two.

Of course they did and Comey would be RETARDED to not well know that it will be made public by Republicans and used as political tool.

I don't think he is retarded so I therefore have to believe that he knowingly did this.

 

[oreo]

Hint to the freaking clueless, sending a notification to congress is not political activity.

Amazing to watch you accuse someone of being clueless while stating your lunacy.

Comey's letter had very real political impact. You have to retarded to argue otherwise or pretend that Comey was too stupid to realize the implications and how his vague statement will be used against Hillary.

"FBI re-opened case on Hillary! They wouldn't if they didn't have good evidence to say that? that would be crazy!"

And yes it is crazy, yes it is blatant politics from Comey.

Note to another clueless regressive. Comey didn't release the letter to the public, someone in congress did.

BTW you're the last person to call anyone retarded, you seem to have a habit of letting your little fingers out run your even smaller brain. Do you ever bother to proof read your posts before hitting the post reply button? Me thinks you're missing a word or two.

Of course they did and Comey would be RETARDED to not well know that it will be made public by Republicans and used as political tool.

I don't think he is retarded so I therefore have to believe that he knowingly did this.

After being warned by the Justice Department to NOT send this letter he did it anyway. Clearly he knew he was over stepping his boundaries.

Right now there are millions of people on the "fence" that are thinking--maybe Hillary Clinton has been telling us the truth for the last 25 years. There is a VAST Reich wing conspiracy against her.

Dear Hillary: How Very Dare You!

They sure did it with Benghazi--and it really couldn't be better stated than this: "Herein lies a lesson for Republicans who are perpetually trying to appease the far right: It’s a fool’s errand. They went to the tea party – and now they’re taking Donald Trump to the prom.Likewise, then-House Speaker John Boehner named the Benghazi committee because activists were dissatisfied that seven previous congressional investigations had failed to uncover major scandal material. Now an eighth has produced more of the same – and the agitators are as agitated as ever.

There’s a certain twisted logic to this. The unhinged right starts with the ideologically satisfying answer – President Obama and Hillary Clinton are guilty of horrible Benghazi-related wrongdoing – and then works backwards, looking for “proof” that matches the conclusion. When their ostensible allies fail to tell these activists what they want to hear, they could reevaluate their bogus assumptions, but it’s vastly easier to believe Republicans have let them down.

This is what it’s come to: Benghazi conspiracy theorists are so creative, and so unmoved by evidence or reason, that they can convince themselves that congressional Republicans are in on the conspiracy.
With Clinton exonerated, conspiracy theorists turn on Trey Gowdy