Trump never believed his own wiretap claim. He knows there’s no evidence for it. He’s misdirecting from the real issue, the same way the return of Hillary’s email “scandal” was right on cue to distract everyone from “grab 'em by the pussy.”
He made the wiretap claim to distract from the real issue, which is conspiring with Russia to undermine American democracy. He would much rather talk about fake wiretap nonsense than the actual issues. Comey hammering Trump about it buys him credibility when he comes around in two weeks to make a very public announcement that Trump is an awesome dude who totally didn’t conspire with Russia. It’s all theater. The only reason for Comey to go public about the “investigation” is so that it makes sense when he goes public to announce that there’s nothing to see here.
Giuliani knew what some FBI agents in New York were going to do (release info about Hilary in a way that made it look like she had done a Very Bad Thing), and so did Comey–and Comey tried somewhat ineptly to get out in front of that.
I think Comey kind of bumbled the situation, but as far as I can tell everything he did he did in order to maintain a “by the book” attitude, even the Hilary info release–which was an attempt to mitigate rogue non-by-the-book actions.
Well, her colleague Mr. Podesta claimed to have been fooled into granting his GMail password in the separate DNC > Wikileaks hack by one of those ‘ResetYourPasswordHere***’ emails.
I rather doubt that myself.
However he also used the password ‘password’ for all his accounts.
Since Mrs. Clinton didn’t use a computer as Sec of State, relying on her trusty Blackberry for all her email goodness, I imagine her technical knowledge was about half of Podesta’s.
Yeah. The impression I get is of a man who is primarily concerned with the public perception of his own righteousness. Which is a very different thing from actually being righteous.
I would rate Polifact as much as Snopes or Fox, however it wasn’t his GMail account Mr. Assange claimed to be ‘password’, but his Windows 8 account. I shouldn’t have said all. Assange never claimed that Podestas gmail pass was password. Neither did he claim that his email access password is password
SamuelA is also basically wrong about linux, it’s not some magical fortress. I manage a few Linux VMs we use at my small business and none of them are “very important”, and don’t cost much, but they need to be patched/updated a lot. If they aren’t, discovered/known vulnerabilities accrue and there’s tons of automated attacks that are basically just looking for linux machines that aren’t properly patched.
I had a private Linux VM I didn’t take much care of because it hosted nothing of great importance (did the back-end for a niche play-by-email function for some instances of a strategy game I play with some others, had a IRC setup and etc), and it was compromised on a few occasions. The Linux OSes are all fine for running a server, in fact I prefer them over Win Server primarily for how much easier and powerful the command line is once you learn it, but they aren’t Fort Knox. To even get them “pretty secure” you need to maintain them regularly.
Given Hillary’s server was a Windows exchange server it’s a moot point, but even running an email server on a Linux box you need a sys admin who is involved enough to keep the system up to date, and who follows security best practices to keep it reasonably secure.
The idea that only state actors can break into linux machines is pretty hilarious if you’ve really worked with this stuff before.
Is this, um, something you believe to be true, or are you just speculating that this is how a conspiracy minded person could see it? I mean, this sounds pretty convoluted and overly complex and Machiavellian for Trump et al…
I don’t think Comey is in league with Trump, but I guess I don’t read the post you’re replying to and think “Insane conspiracy theory” I think “Probably not.”
I think Trump absolutely was trying to change the focus to Obama with his tweets about wire tapping. I think Comey absolutely is trying to position himself as an equal opportunity gadfly, which would then increase his credibility down the line. I just don’t think Comey is doing the latter in relation to the former for any other purpose but his own.
When I hear stuff like that I guess I immediately jump to CT territory. I think Trump DID believe his wiretap claim…belief being all the evidence he really needs. He saw it on Fox News and other places he trusts, and that was good enough for him. It’s not part of some wider plan for him…he sees shit on Fox or BB News or by one of his CT buddies and spews it back out on Twitter. End of story. Don’t need to look for deeper moves by some sort of master chess player here, IMHO. Trying to portray Comey as some sort of deep operative in some convoluted game, to me, is just ridiculous, and really gives Trump et al more credit than they are worth.
But, YMMV and all…maybe it isn’t as crazy as I’m reading it. Certainly the poster in question seems to be serious…or, maybe just offering this up as something a CT person COULD be thinking, since that was the original line of discussion on this.
I believe Comey is not at all interested in exposing Donald Trump, and I think it takes a remarkably Pollyanna attitude to dismiss that possibility.
Ask yourself two questions. First is why would Comey release this? Second is why now?
The simplest answer to the first question is “he wouldn’t.” It’s basically unprecedented, except for the time Comey torpedoed Trump’s opponent. There’s no legitimate, justice-seeking reason for him to make this announcement, the same as there was no legitimate, justice-seeking reason for him to kill Hillary’s candidacy, and there was no legitimate reason to fill his previous announcement about not arresting Hillary with as much chastisement against her as he could possibly get away with.Seriously, re-read the announcement he made if you’ve forgotten how unprofessionally provocative it was. You’ll find such gems as “Even though we weren’t looking for it, we found evidence of a culture of totally not giving a shit about protecting classified information in the way every other government department does,” and “we don’t have any specific evidence that hostile state actors accessed her server, but we’re confident that hostile state actors accessed her server,” and “we found lots of violations of statutes, but nothing that anyone would be able to make stick because she’s such a lying weasel who has bought the department of justice and people who go against her tend to get murdered and I have a family to think about.”
For the second question, “why now?” consider the fact that Comey said this investigation has been going for months, since before the election. He’s proven he is perfectly willing to announce that his agency is investigating a particular political candidate. Why would he stay silent in this particular case, and why would he stay silent until this very moment? Why kill Clinton’s campaign over literally nothing, but mum’s the word on this one until right now?
You were wrong right from the get-go. Clinton’s email server was running Microsoft Exchange 2010 (on Windows). Most of the rest of your post is irrelevant because of this erroneous initial assumption.
I’m not a lawyer, and even I know impeachment and a vote for removal are two separate processes. So yes, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both impeached, but neither was removed from office.