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Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody
This is not about James Comey trying to save his a$$. If anything opening a case two weeks away from the Presidential election does the exact opposite. The FBI is a professional organization that must be able to complete an investigation without the pressure of political partisanship.
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It is 100% about Comey trying to cover his ass. It is simply unprecedented to do what he did (comment publicly about an investigation) so close to an election. There's nothing wrong with re-opening the case. There's everything wrong with going public with that fact. It's all about politics at this point.
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In this case, the politics are already very much a part of this process, the investigation was already known about and either decision Comey made could have had far-reaching political implications — in this election and beyond. What's more, there were just 11 days left in the election when Comey made the announcement Friday. That is certainly an “extraordinary” set of circumstances that Comey had to wrestle with, so he made an extraordinary — in the truest sense of the term — decision.
The alternative for Comey here was to say nothing about the newly discovered emails. That would certainly have been the easier course in the near-term, because it wouldn't have inserted the FBI into the final days of the campaign.
But what if there did turn out to be something of real substance that altered his evaluation of this case, and what if it didn't come out until after the election and after Clinton was elected president? Imagine the scandal that would arise if and when it was discovered that the Justice Department had these emails before the election and chose to sit on them.
If that had happened, the Justice Department could certainly defend itself by citing that long-standing policy of not commenting on ongoing investigations. Just following protocol, it would say. But that defense almost definitely wouldn't pass muster with half the country.
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https://www.justice.gov/sites/defaul...sitivities.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939
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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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