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    Sep 2, 2017, 06:25 AM
    Exonerate then investigate
    Documents given to the Senate Judiciary Committee suggest that James Comey had made up his mind to clear Hillary Clinton well before the FBI investigation was finished .
    According to the unredacted portions of the transcripts, it appears that in April or early May of 2016, Mr. Corney had already decided he would issue a statement exonerating Secretary Clinton. That was long before FBI agents finished their work.
    https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo...Statement).pdf

    Comey prepared the draft exoneration for Evita ,before conducting interviews with top Clinton aides who were offered immunity for their cooperation .Included were Bryan Pagliano, who set up the personal server where Evita hosted and shared top secret information, and Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills .Comey distributed his draft inside the FBI in May 2016 .How that influenced the investigation is anyone's guess.

    According to Newsweek ;Justice Department veterans from both Democratic and Republican administrations said Comey’s actions strayed from agency rules and norms. The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General launched a review of his conduct, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote in a memo to Trump before Comey’s firing, “Almost everyone agrees that the director made serious mistakes; it is one of the few issues that unites people of different perspectives.”

    Did James Comey Break Rules by Drafting Hillary Clinton Statement? FBI Experts Are Divided
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    Sep 2, 2017, 07:06 AM
    I am no Comey fan, as you well know, but that unreleased DRAFT he ran by a few of his colleagues really means NOTHING unless you BELIEVE it was a wink and a nod to not find anything.

    Ron Hosko, who was an assistant FBI director under Comey until he retired in 2014, says drafting statements is common practice, as long as the drafts stay internal and avoid drawing conclusions. “When you have a significant case that is in the public domain and certainly in the public’s interest, in the public’s eye, I think that it could be expected that both the FBI, and the prosecutors that they’re working with, are beginning to draft a statement of facts that could be used later, as the case is developing,” he says. “I think the content of the statement is going to be important. Did it purport to essentially acquit her actions way prematurely, or was it simply a running statement of what they knew?”

    Others believe Comey did nothing wrong in drafting the statement, regardless of additional factors. Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of the national security blog Lawfare, tweeted that he does not find it surprising that Comey started writing the statement in advance. “By May, after nine months of investigation, unless HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] lied to the FBI or it found something new, this was headed for a declination,” he wrote. “This may come as a shock to [Senator Chuck] Grassley and [Senator Lindsey] Graham and Trump, but judges sometimes do a memo/draft about an opinion before oral argument.” Wittes has described Comey as “a personal friend.”
    Did he stop the investigation? NO! Did they find something new and different? NO! Get over it already!
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    Sep 2, 2017, 08:26 AM
    Well since we know that he was taking marching orders from Lynch ,I'd say Trump should get Sessions to appoint a prosecutor to see if there was any obstruction of justice and collusion regarding Comey's decision. He also needs to appoint one to investigate the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz ,and her Pakistani IT crime family server scandal .
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    Sep 2, 2017, 08:50 AM
    He got FIRED, and Clinton is out of politics. You want to tie up even more taxpayer resources on this old news dead horse? Neither is high enough on the priorities list to justify the money, or drama.
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    Sep 2, 2017, 01:10 PM
    Should politicians crimes have a statute of limitations the day they leave office ? I think the emperor ordered the whole thing ....so yea ;the investigations should continue .
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    Sep 2, 2017, 04:52 PM
    So why doesn't Trumps' order an investigation?
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    Sep 2, 2017, 06:45 PM
    Trump has more important things on his mind, at last he may be learning you don't respond to every crackpot idea. This is really small cheese in the scheme of things, he needs to get his economic reforms up, and he will spend a lot of political capital on that. Things are changing , the balance of power is shifting in the Senate
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    Sep 3, 2017, 03:04 AM

    1. So why doesn't Trumps' order an investigation?
    Jeff Sessions has resisted . But the House and Senate are still investigating .
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    Sep 3, 2017, 06:51 AM
    Investigating the Clintons has been going on for how many decades? So what's new?
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    Sep 3, 2017, 07:34 AM
    Hello tom:

    Yeah, Comey sucked.. But, he repaid his debt when he gave you Trump. What??? Would you rather have Hillary???

    excon
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    Sep 3, 2017, 09:56 AM
    Yes he is non-partisan in the J Edgar Hoover mold. Had Evita won he would've held the info he gathered about her like a sword of Damocles .

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