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FBI's Comey opposed naming Russians, citing election timing
FBI Director James Comey argued privately that it was too close to Election Day for the United States government to name Russia as meddling in the U.S. election and ultimately ensured that the FBI's name was not on the document that the U.S. government put out, a former bureau official tells CNBC.
  • The official said some government insiders are perplexed as to why Comey would have election timing concerns with the Russian disclosure but not with the Huma Abedin email discovery disclosure he made Friday.
  • In the end, the Department of Homeland Security and The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued the statement on Oct. 7, saying: "The U.S. intelligence community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations. ... These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the U.S. election process."
  • An FBI spokesperson declined to comment on Comey's role in the decision-making surrounding the Oct. 7 statement.
  • According to the former official, Comey agreed with the conclusion the intelligence community came to: "A foreign power was trying to undermine the election. He believed it to be true, but was against putting it out before the election." Comey's position, this official said, was "if it is said, it shouldn't come from the FBI, which as you'll recall it did not."
  • Comey took a different approach toward releasing information about the discovery of emails on a laptop that was used by former congressman Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife Huma Abedin, the official said.
  • "By doing a press conference, and personally testifying and giving his opinion about the conduct, he made this about James Comey and his credibility," the official said. "You can see why he did it, from his perspective, once he had had that press conference."
  • The official said FBI investigators can get a "preliminary read" of the newly discovered emails within a couple of days and come to an initial conclusion about whether there is classified material in the files. "The questions is whether they will decide to share that read or not," the official said. "Normally in the FBI we would not, but we're not in normal land anymore."
  • Comey's decision to announce the new investigative steps has come under severe criticism from Democrats, including Hillary Clinton who addressed the issue at a rally Monday.
  • "I'm sure a lot of you may be asking what this new email story is about and why in the world the FBI would decide to jump into an election with no evidence of any wrongdoing with just days to go. That's a good question," Clinton said. "I am sure they will reach the same conclusion they did when they looked at my emails for the last year. There is no case here."
  • The Donald Trump campaign, meanwhile, has praised Comey for continuing to investigate Clinton. "The right thing to do is whatever the FBI thinks," said Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on CNBC Monday morning. "It's not for us to say speed it up because of the election or slow it down because of the election."
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SueEllenRules! said:
You seem to be confused. It doesn't matter what you care about. Any more than it matters what I care about. It does matter, however, what the undecided voters will think when and if this story gets traction in the media.

I do find it amazing that the Trump campaign's ties to Russia don't bother you at all, although I'm not surprised in the least.
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If you seriously believe that undecided voters won't be swayed by the dangerous consequences of electing a candidate who will be too distracted by a criminal FBI investigation to carry out the duties of the presidency, you're the one who is "confused".
 
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Clinton holds five-point lead as FBI looks at more emails: Reuters/Ipsos poll
(Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton held a five percentage point lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday, down only slightly since the FBI said last week it was reviewing new emails in its investigation of the former secretary of state.
  • Some 44 percent of likely voters said they would support Clinton, while 39 percent said they would support Trump, according to the Oct. 26-30 survey. Clinton had held a 6 point advantage over Trump in the five-day tracking poll last Thursday.
  • In a separate poll that included alternative-party candidates, 43 percent supported Clinton, while 37 percent supported Trump, 6 percent supported Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and 1 percent supported Jill Stein of the Green Party.
  • The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online in English in all 50 states. It included 1,264 people who were considered likely voters under the assumption that 60 percent of eligible voters would participate. The poll has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 3 percentage points.
https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN12V2DI?client=safari
 
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SueEllenRules! said:
So the laws that apply to everyone else don't apply to him? But Hillary Clinton is supposedly the one who's above the law.
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Just did a quick Wikipedia search and if turns out the Secretary of State in 1973 was Henry Kissinger, not Donald Trump. Also, in 2005 Condoleeza Rice was Secretary of State. It turns out Trump was never Secretary of State. He never shared classified emails on a private server. He never compromised national security. And he never violated federal law by deleting those emails after receiving a Freedom of Information request (which applies to government, not private companies).
 
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Most of the filthy news media is still covering for the Clintons, their groupies are still hanging on to "Polls" but America still has millions and millions of "Real Americans" left who see right through all of this "dirty Clinton shit"

America just laughed and rolled their eyes when Donald Trump said he "was running for president of the USA" they aren't laughing anymore, Donald Trump, next week, is going to completely destroy The Horrible Immoral "Clinton Crime Family"

The Republican/Democrat gang of Deplorable Lying Grinning Immoral Dirty Politicians in Washington along with "Racism's Poster Boy" Hussein Obama don't know what hit them. A new day for America, the political pigs are getting their asses kicked.

The Clinton Legacy For The History Books
Billy = The Sex Pervert Joke
Pant Suit = The Horrible Criminal Monster From hell
REJOICE
The Wall will go up,
poor people will have jobs,
Gay People won't have to fear "roofs" children in Chicago can play on the sidewalks again,
FRESH AIR will sweep across America, the Clinton Criminal Perverts will slither down into their cesspool.......
AMERICA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN
GOD WILLING..
 
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Morality
Patriotism
Decency
Honesty
Pride
We're losing all of tham.
America Is Dying

Our Professional Politicians Are All Lying Grinning Dishonest Diosgusting Pigs.

In the end Islam is going to win, they are winning in Europe, if Hillary wins she will help them win in America.
Death To The Great Satan America

Liberal Fools Think It's Great
 
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