I thought perhaps their preferred phrase when referring to him, might be
кожаный колбаса
At one time it might have been
полезный идиот
But he’s even proving useless to them, lately. but if he would betray us, why wouldn’t he betray them TOO?
In his defense, everyone really is out to get him.
I do wonder if russian banks have cut off some of the easy financing for his family’s company, and this is why he is suddenly not so much Putin’s bestie.
No. Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova did. Toensing particularly was intimately entwined with the Scooter Libby case back in the day.
The Libby pardon makes me sick. Everyone talking about poor Scooter and how he was constrained from practicing law until his law license was restored to him. I wonder what Valerie Plame’s employment options were after Libby and Richard Armitage blew her cover as a covert operative of the CIA.
Comey’s involvement was simply to assign Patrick Fitzgerald as the US attorney to handle the case against Libby. An excellent choice who did an outstanding job – all for naught, now. I guess it’s ok to blow an agent’s cover for political purposes nowadays.
Fuck these assholes.
The toddler is having another tantrum:
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“Unbelievably, James Comey states that Polls, where Crooked Hillary was leading, were a factor in the handling (stupidly) of the Clinton Email probe. In other words, he was making decisions based on the fact that he thought she was going to win, and he wanted a job. Slimeball!”*
Now, I’m not sure that I understand the logic here. Comey saw that Clinton was leading the polls, and wanted to have a job with her. OK, so far I’m with you. And in order to ingratiate himself with the future president, he reopened an investigation into her emails. I lost you on that last part.
There is also this tweet:
“Slippery James Comey, a man who always ends up badly and out of whack (he is not smart!), will go down as the WORST FBI Director in history, by far!”
Which doesn’t actually seem to mean anything.
On the contrary. It means that the fat orange bastard is worried that between the Comey hit job and the Cohen raid, the shit he’s not fit to shovel is getting deeper and deeper.
And yet, he needs the Intelligence agencies and other folks in government for stuff like bombing Syria
But that’s his whole life’s pattern: Use people for his own ends, then dump them in the garbage when their usefulness is over.
Could be, but then he has turned on people AFTER he got their money, in the past. That is why he deals with Russian banks and gangsters… Other banks got sick and tired of his bullshit.
So just because they give him money, doesn’t mean he feels any loyalty to them. To him, everybody is just a “mark”. They must have something on him.
Comey is a large part of WHY Trump is the prez, so fuck him. As long as he is useful against Trump, good. After that he can go get fucked. He can take his phoney self righteous crusader bullshit with him. He blew it.
QFT
Preach. And I have my doubts about his usefulness, actually. His political instincts are the worst.
I don’t really blame Comey for Clinton’s loss. I agree that his infamous letter was an error in judgment and it certainly didn’t help Clinton, but she was in inexplicably in danger of losing throughout the entire campaign. What doesn’t get talked about enough is that the Republicans were desperate to criminalize Clinton in any way they could. The real problem is that the GOP has been politicizing criminal justice system and using it as a weapon for some time, and indeed, we’re seeing that now with their attacks on the FBI. But before they attacked the FBI and Mueller, they were simultaneously attacking Obama’s AGs and trying to use the FBI to their advantage.
Another thing that doesn’t get talked about is that there were partisans within the Bureau and my conclusion is that Comey made decisions with that in mind. I agree he shouldn’t have, but when you consider the environment we’re in now, it makes sense in some way. The thinking is, Clinton’s going to win, and she’s going to have a Republican congress that will undoubtedly try to find ways to delegitimize her victory. There were partisans in the Bureau who wanted him to push harder on the Clintons and he knew that if he didn’t, then he would be facing Republicans who would want to know why he didn’t. We can blame Comey but the real issue isn’t Comey; it’s Republicans who have politicized criminal justice and used it as a weapon to cast doubt on elections that they lose.
I understood it to mean that since it looked like Hillary was winning, he wanted to ensure that there was no way the Republicans could say afterwards that she had only won because the email matter was hushed up.
He may have had the purest of motives, but so what? His actions should have been guided by the evidence- not his psychic predictions. At the time Comey made his big announcement, the fbi hadn’t even examined the data. A simple analysis showed that it was just a backup of emails they’d already looked at. There’s no reason on earth why he couldn’t have waited half an hour while they checked. Instead he let himself get stampeded by the gop. That’s all on him.
To hell with James Comey.
Actually, Comey didn’t announce it. He sent a letter to Congress advising them of the new development.It was Chaffetz who ran to the press with a false story that the investigation was re-opened.
Granted, he should have known it would be[del] leaked[/del] shouted from the rooftops. Maybe he should have classified it.
I am surprised nobody has commented on this beauty yet
Well, maybe all the lawyers who you know are deflated and concerned…because they are crooks like you.
I think he was also concerned that if he didn’t do something, it would be leaked behind his back by anti-clinton factions in the FBI.
Then it looks even worse for both Clinton and Comey.
Chaffetz is the one who announced it to the press but it was Comey who sent Chaffetz a letter, announcing it to Chaffetz that they were looking into some emails that they’d found on Abadin’s laptop. They hadn’t even looked at the information at that point! It would have taken less than an hour for Comey to have had someone actual examine the emails before he hit the send button.
Yes of course, Comey was being pressured by the Republicans to go public about the emails, but Professional G-Men are supposed to be a little tougher than that. He could have easily stalled them for an hour while someone compared the data in the backup with the data they’d already put in their investigation (really - merge the two databases of info > search for duplicates. That’s all there was to it.)
Comey should have told Chaffetz to pound sand while the investigation was ongoing. Then he should have hunted down the people who leaked the existence of the Abadin laptop to Chaffetz (you know, his actual subordinates) and eaten their livers.
Now Comey wants us to believe that he sent Chaffetz that letter because he wanted to protect Clinton from charges of helping her? Yeah, we don’t need any more “help”, James, thanks - why don’t you take a seat. And take Huma Abedin with you!
That link you posted is just quibbling about the words “reopening the case”. It’s true that Comey never used those words but I don’t think it would have made any difference if he had. It’s a reasonable idiom for “taking another look at something.”
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Excellent summing-up. And I don’t buy for an instant Comey’s story that he was deeply concerned that Clinton’s win might not look “legitimate.” That smells of after-the-fact rationalizing, or worse, after-the-fact PR spin.
Comey is an able guy whose reputation for intelligence and competent management may well be earned. But he’s also Mr. Ego. And he disliked Hillary Clinton, deeply. That he did not choose to take a half hour to look at what was on the Weiner laptop, prior to writing his letter, is all down to his wanting to put her in her place (in my opinion).