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Comey: Higher-ups never asked for halt to FBI investigations

Slyfox696 said:
Yes, and do you know why? Because that's what he said. And do you know how we know that's what he said? Because we have a transcript of what he said and the question to which he was responding.

I'm sorry if facts don't work well for your argument, but you cannot dispute facts and still sound intelligent.
He wasn't asked that.

That's not my position. My position is that he wasn't asked about the President and Comey doesn't talk about ongoing investigations.

We have the memo from Comey written immediately after the meeting which says it happened.
He did report it to other FBI officials. Why would you post something untrue?

It's amazing how much reality you want to ignore in order to construct your alternative reality. You are literally saying we have to ignore the question Comey was asked, ignore the position Comey has consistently taken about discussing ongoing investigations, ignore the fact Comey wrote a memo immediately after his meeting, and ignore that he shared said memo he shared with other FBI officials. In order to hold your position, one has to ignore ALL of that.

Talk about compromising personal integrity for partisanship.
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Its so sad that you and others are willing to just say adios to whatever character and integrity you have.

It has never happened. That would be a big deal.

Never

Except that one time the president did it but lets not address that.

Ridiculous. Embarrassing.
 
TheGoverness said:
Last time I checked, the accusation of obstruction of justice is being levied against Trump, not the DOJ. That's not to say that what Trump said was obstruction of justice, mind you.
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With sufficient justification, a precedence can be shown by Comey standing down at either by his own decision or the Obama's Justice Department's regarding the handing of the Clinton matters, including the Clinton Foundation.

Comey was dealt a tough hand and misplayed his cards because he let himself get into the Clinton Bermuda Triangle of malfeasance. He'll take the fall, and the Clintons will be cackling as they carry their millions all the way home!

IMO, this inquiry is as much about Comey as it is anyone else.

But at the end of the day, Flynn will be the fall guy and everyone else that is "connected" will go about their merry way with a big, fat, retirement and solid gold benefits.

The Clintons are like a black widow spider bite. It doesn't hurt at first... then it gets worse, and worse...
 
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VanceMack said:
Its so sad that you and others are willing to just say adios to whatever character and integrity you have.

It has never happened. That would be a big deal.

Never

Except that one time the president did it but lets not address that.

Ridiculous. Embarrassing.
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Again, you have to ignore so many facts and realities to hold onto your premise...you shouldn't be accusing anyone else's posts of embarrassing or lacking in character or integrity.

If Comey had been asked if the President had attempted to stop the investigation and had replied "no", I'd be more inclined to agree with you. But he wasn't. You cannot ignore facts just because they crush your argument. That's absurd.

This is literally your argument right now:

 
hanger4 said:
First, Hirono asked Comey : “So if the attorney general or senior officials at the Department of Justice opposes a specific investigation, can they halt that FBI investigation?


And Comey ’s response: “In theory, yes.”

Hirono: “Has it happened?”

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Comey : “Not in my experience. Because it would be a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something that — without an appropriate purpose. I mean where oftentimes they give us opinions that we don’t see a case there, and so you ought to stop investing resources in it. But I’m talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason, that would be a very big deal. It’s not happened in my experience.”

James Comey: Higher-ups never asked for halt to FBI investigations - Washington Times

Is the memo taken out of context or has Comey told a falsehood ??
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Trump asked Comey to let Flynn go - not stop the complete investigation. There is a difference.

Comey seems like a man who carefully selects his words and if you do not ask the right question right down to every nuance and detail - the answer you get could be less than clear. .... at least in terms of what the asker was intending to get back in return.
 
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Slyfox696 said:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html

Now that you understand you are wrong, I hope you can understand why you are wrong.
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nope because that does not list when the memo was shared.
how long after he wrote it.

it doesn't say when the memo was read sure he wrote the memo the day after, but when did he share the memo.
if he felt that there was wrong doing then he should have been quicker to act letting prosecutors know as soon as possible.

he didn't.

where is the rest of the memo. if the memo is not classified when why not release the full memo?
we also have the deputy director of the FBI saying that no one has obstructed the investigation.

we have a bunch of inferences and nothing specific. I am still waiting for details that you or anyone has.
you say he turned it over ok when what was the time frame between when he wrote it and the memo got out.

from the news source there is nothing of detail.

telling someone 3 months after is not as soon as possible.
also it must have not been that big of a deal to the people that he told since no one went to the DOJ to file
former charges.

so again fake news is fake news.
 
VanceMack said:
Its so sad that you and others are willing to just say adios to whatever character and integrity you have.

It has never happened. That would be a big deal.

Never

Except that one time the president did it but lets not address that.

Ridiculous. Embarrassing.
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we don't actually have what he said. we have part of what he said but someone that only read part of the memo, or the times guy only quoted
part of the memo and not the rest of it.
why was the full memo not released? it isn't classified and if the times had it there why not get a full copy and publish it?

the only reason is dishonesty, but then we knew that already.

that is why this whole thing is nonsense.
 
ludin said:
we don't actually have what he said. we have part of what he said but someone that only read part of the memo, or the times guy only quoted
part of the memo and not the rest of it.
why was the full memo not released? it isn't classified and if the times had it there why not get a full copy and publish it?

the only reason is dishonesty, but then we knew that already.

that is why this whole thing is nonsense.
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We don't have the memo. We DO have his spoken comments. And we have a lot of people on parade that are willing to completely sacrifice any semblance of character to try to make something fit their rhetoric. Trump hatred is sad.
 
ludin said:
nope because that does not list when the memo was shared.
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Yes it does. After he wrote the memo.

It's really not hard to tell the truth.

if he felt that there was wrong doing then he should have been quicker to act letting prosecutors know as soon as possible.
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We've already covered this. Stop bringing up points on which you've already lost.

Comey wrote the memo and shared it with FBI officials. There was no concealment. Your position has been busted by the truth and by an attorney. Move on.

where is the rest of the memo. if the memo is not classified when why not release the full memo?
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It's part of the investigation. It's been subpoenaed.

telling someone 3 months after is not as soon as possible.
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So you're still sticking with that falsehood, even after it being proven untrue?

so again fake news is fake news.
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So now a memo no one has denied existed and plenty of reporters have confirmed to have been written and shared by Comey is "fake news".

Okay then. :lol:

I can see you're not interested in truth. Have a great day.
 
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