Republicans have come up with a whole new way to be outraged over Hillary Clinton’s being found not guilty of any crimes related to her, what else, emails. And they think they’ve come up with a club that can used against both Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey.
Former FBI Director James Comey drafted a statement exonerating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for running her government emails through a private email server before completing the investigation, according to two Republican senators.
Comey did a huge favor for Republicans, and broke with FBI rules by delivering an excoriating speech in July of 2016 in which he admitted that Clinton had not actually done anything actionable, but took her to task for being “careless.” Comey’s finger-wagging July statement provided the fuel for Donald Trump’s rally speeches through the fall. Then, a week before the election, Comey delivered Republicans an inestimable gift by reopening an investigation he already admitted had gone nowhere. Comey did not actually Lock ‘Er Up™ for the high crime of simply being Hillary Clinton, as the screaming crowds of Trump followers demanded, but he delivered a blow to Clinton’s campaign that more than one analysis has suggested put Donald Trump in office.
Despite this, Republicans now want to pretend that James Comey was somehow always in Hillary’s corner; that he was actually protecting her by going well outside Justice Department rules to take shots at her actions.
The cause for the latest Comey-was-too-kind crisis? The astounding discovery that Comey wrote earlier drafts of his July statement. A perfectly ordinary procedure which is, of course, being taken in a perfectly ordinary way.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2xCRAo8
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