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itd be good if some other news source or person could corroborate.

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this part here:

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itd be good if some other news source or person could corroborate.

seems to be lost amidst the comrades' "indignant" source frothing doesn't it?

either way---casting doubt on the messenger is always best when there is no forthcoming answers as to the message isn't it?

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Clinton is noted for being fearlessly loyal to Clinton.
Nixon went down because he was fearlessly loyal to his people.

Watergate occurred because Nixon was being loyal to his people? Shouldn't he have been loyal to the fucking country?

Yes, but that wasn't the point of our exchange now was it?

I don't think Clinton is loyal to anyone except Clinton. When it comes right down to it, she'll throw anyone under the bus... up to and including the entire country.

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this part here:

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itd be good if some other news source or person could corroborate.

seems to be lost amidst the comrades' "indignant" source frothing doesn't it?

either way---casting doubt on the messenger is always best when there is no forthcoming answers as to the message isn't it?

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Ed Klein says that FBI Director James Comey "jumped at the chance" to reopen the Hillary Clinton email probe because he was "overwhelmed with regret" after initially recommending no charges for the Democratic presidential nominee in July.

Citing sources within the FBI, Klein revealed on "Fox & Friends" that the FBI rank and file were furious with Comey and the atmosphere at the bureau has been "toxic."

"There's a sense that he disgraced the institution and brought it down. And he has been suffering," Klein said, noting that many agents reportedly submitted their resignation letters after Comey's announcement in July.

Klein said that why after the FBI uncovered additional Clinton-related emails on the laptop of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner - the husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin - Comey "jumped at the chance" to renew the Clinton investigation.

"He's hoping that he can undo the damage," Klein said.

He added that this has caused an uproar with top officials at the Justice Department, including Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who are actively "trying to get Hillary Clinton elected president."

"This is a complete mess at the very top of our criminal justice system," Klein said. "I would call it a constitutional crisis in the making at this very moment."

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FBI Director James Comey reopened the agency's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails last week because "almost 100" agents threatened to resign before next week's election, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told Newsmax TV.

"A few weeks ago, almost 100 agents were threatening Comey that they were going to resign — and that kind of pressure is what turned him around," DeLay, 69, the majority leader from 2003 to 2005, said on Tuesday's "The Steve Malzberg Show." "It wasn't Comey or his integrity.

"I know he made a huge mistake when he indicted Clinton — though not indicting her — but now he's trying to turn that around.

"He had to do it now or have all these FBI agents resign," he added. "That would have probably been a bigger story than what Comey did.

"He got the pressure. He got the notice.

"He understood as far as his own job and being able to go forward in his own job and his reputation," DeLay said.

"If 100 FBI agents resigned before the election, he would have been toast."

DeLay — whose new book is "Revival! Revolution! Rebirth!" — said even though Comey announced his findings in July, "those FBI agents didn't stop working.

"It's taken them this long, a few months, to get to this point. They didn't stop working.

"The investigation, he said it was closed, but as far as those FBI agents were concerned, it wasn't closed.

"They were going forward, because they knew that they had to come up with some new information or some new evidence in order to get Comey to open up — particularly when he has this kind of pressure coming from his own agents."

DeLay said the Obama administration now is attacking Comey — Attorney General Loretta Lynch advised him against telling Congress of his intentions — because "we're not going to defend him or deny that he did it.

"But the end of that quote is: 'We're not going to go down with the ship. Hillary, you're on your own!'"

Clinton probably knew what Comey was going to do right after he told Lynch, DeLay told Malzberg.

"We do know that he went to the attorney general — and you don't think the attorney general didn't pick up the phone and call Clinton? Come on."

President Barack Obama?
"Oh absolutely," DeLay said. "They've been talking all along."

He then referenced the June meeting between Lynch and former President Bill Clinton on her private plane at a Phoenix airport. The session lasted 39 minutes.

"That's why Clinton met the attorney general on the tarmac. They've been talking all along," DeLay said. "We just haven't had an opportunity to prove it."

Looking to next week's election, the former Texas congressman told Malzberg even if Clinton won, "I would start impeachment hearings immediately," if he were still in the House, "whether she's pardoned or not" by the president.

"Absolutely," he added. "You can't have a criminal serving in the White House as president of the United States and commander-in-chief.

"It's impossible. So let's try her in the Senate."

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different person, very similar story:

"Tom DeLay: 'Almost 100' Agents Threatened to Quit Over Clinton Email Probe"

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/tom-delay-email-probe-fbi-agents/2016/11/01/id/756491/

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different person, very similar story:

"Tom DeLay: 'Almost 100' Agents Threatened to Quit Over Clinton Email Probe"

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/tom-delay-email-probe-fbi-agents/2016/11/01/id/756491/

So they rushed to interview a convicted money launderer who is dirtier than Hillary and Trump put together?
Interesting.

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So much for James Comey’s supposed recklessness. While his critics have accused the FBI director of acting recklessly and attempting to influence the election, the Washington Post reports this morning that Comey and senior FBI leaders waited to inform Congress for verification that the new e-mails found in the Anthony Weiner investigation had significance to Hillary Clinton’s case. And the reason Comey went to Congress is because of the need to get a warrant.

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The people familiar with the investigation said that senior officials had been informed weeks earlier that a computer belonging to former congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) contained emails potentially pertinent to the Clinton investigation. Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, shared the computer with her husband, from whom she is now separated.

Comey did not notify Congress as soon as he learned about the emails because officials wanted additional information before proceeding, the officials said. …

It is unclear what FBI agents have learned since discovering the emails in early October. But officials say they gained enough information from the email metadata to take the next step, seeking a warrant to review the actual emails. That legal step prompted Comey’s letter to Congress, which has made him a central figure during the stretch run of the presidential campaign.

So now let’s put the horse before the cart and annotate this timeline. In early October, investigators tell senior FBI leadership that they have found what appears to be a massive repository of evidence in a previous investigation, some of which might very well be new and pertinent, but they have no authority to access it directly. Rather than run to Congress at this point, FBI execs told then to check the metadata — the “pen register” sort of information that law enforcement can legally analyze without a warrant — to determine whether it was significant enough to proceed.

Two weeks later, the investigators reported back that their analysis showed the data to be pertinent and substantive enough to get a warrant directly relating to the Hillary Clinton investigation. Comey decided to proceed with the warrant, which could have easily become public knowledge. With that in mind as well as his earlier testimony to Congress, Comey decided to keep the judiciary committees in the loop rather than risk blindsiding them and raising questions about his earlier testimony to them.

Seems like a reasonable, even cautious process, does it not? Clearly, Comey didn’t just jump at the chance to run to Congress and throw the election. As I pointed out yesterday, Comey had ample opportunity to throw the election to the GOP in July when he could have recommended prosecution or even a grand-jury probe into the evidence uncovered by the FBI. Was his master plan to wait until late October on the off chance that Anthony Weiner would sext a 15-year-old girl and indirectly give the FBI access to Clinton’s e-mails hidden on his laptop? (As it turns out, it would have been a safe bet, but still …)

Instead, this looks like the portrait of a law-enforcement executive who’s been reluctant all along to be in the middle of an election, and arguable too reluctant. And it’s clear that his critics are the very people who want him there — as a distraction from the corrupt candidate who created the problem in the first place.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-says-does-not-think-fbis-comey-trying-003817617.html?ref=gs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday that he does not believe FBI Director James Comey was trying to influence the presidential election when he decided the agency would examine newly discovered emails in its probe of Hillary Clinton's private server.

"Now I've said before and I'll say again, Jim Comey is a good man," Obama said in an interview on MSNBC.

"And I do not believe that he is in any way trying to influence the election one way or another. I think he is a serious public servant who wants to do the right thing," Obama said.

(Reporting by Eric Beech)

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LOL Now he is a liar? LOL