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[eCat]

FBI reopens Hillarys Mail Server case

I guess Comey didn't anticipate a full scale mutiny at the FBI when he let her off.

[Bklyn]

His problem with the ad is two fold - one he is a democrat and while he does as much as humanly possible to distance himself from the party that wants to ban guns, he's still a democrat, so he has no trust from the republicans/conservatives/alt right.

And as a democrat, he's just pissed off his base (although I'd argue that gun ownership is so fundamental that democrats miss the mark in catering to gun control crowd) who don't want to see a fellow democrat up there holding an assault rifle.

He's probably a great moderate candidate, but we're living in an era where people don't want moderates.

A Missouri Democrat is not a New York Democrat. I don't think he's pissed off any side of his constituency, Democrat or Republican, with that ad. The same way you would never see a NY politician make any vote against the Mid East wars we've had, you won't see a Confederate state pol go too hard on gun control.

[eCat]

His problem with the ad is two fold - one he is a democrat and while he does as much as humanly possible to distance himself from the party that wants to ban guns, he's still a democrat, so he has no trust from the republicans/conservatives/alt right.

And as a democrat, he's just pissed off his base (although I'd argue that gun ownership is so fundamental that democrats miss the mark in catering to gun control crowd) who don't want to see a fellow democrat up there holding an assault rifle.

He's probably a great moderate candidate, but we're living in an era where people don't want moderates.

A Missouri Democrat is not a New York Democrat. I don't think he's pissed off any side of his constituency, Democrat or Republican, with that ad. The same way you would never see a NY politician make any vote against the Mid East wars we've had, you won't see a Confederate state pol go too hard on gun control.

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probably some truth to that - I was talking more at a nation level.

the most frustrating part of politics is that everyone complains about everyone elses politicians, but they keep electing their own

[10ac]

EFZ

[eCat]

something has Comey spooked


FBI Director James Comey told his bureau he broke with custom in alerting lawmakers that the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server was being reopened because of its political sensitivity, a source told FoxNews.com.

In an internal memo, the beleaguered director noted that the FBI typically would not communicate with the public when reopening a case, according to a Department of Justice source. But Comey said he had to in this case because Clinton is seeking the White House in an election on Nov. 8.

The bombshell revelation that newly discovered emails had prompted a new look into whether Clinton or those around her had broken the law my mishandling sensitive information rocked the race for the White House Friday.

[10ac]

It must be something that couldn't be swept under the rug or else the JD would have hidden it. My understanding it's some thing they found in Wiener's phone they found while they were investigating his sexting a 15 year old.

[aTm]

[hedge]

"It must be something that couldn't be swept under the rug or else the JD would have hidden it."

Johnette's Daddy?

[hedge]

"It must be something that couldn't be swept under the rug or else the JD would have hidden it."

Johnette's Daddy?

[eCat]

my guess is the agents that found the classified info while looking for kiddie porn on Wiener are under no requirement to tow the line that agents investigating the mail server are.
They can't let Wiener walk for kiddie porn or whatever he's accused of doing and that information is going to come out in an inquiry. Then Comey would be in an awkward position of not telling congress there were new issues in a case he told them was closed

[eCat]

Has America become so numb by the decades of lies and cynicism oozing from Clinton Inc. that it could elect Hillary Clinton as president, even after Friday's FBI announcement that it had reopened an investigation of her emails while secretary of state?
We'll find out soon enough.

It's obvious the American political system is breaking down. It's been crumbling for some time now, and the establishment elite know it and they're properly frightened. Donald Trump, the vulgarian at their gates, is a symptom, not a cause. Hillary Clinton and husband Bill are both cause and effect.

FBI director James Comey's announcement about the renewed Clinton email investigation is the bombshell in the presidential campaign. That he announced this so close to Election Day should tell every thinking person that what the FBI is looking at is extremely serious.

This can't be about pervert Anthony Weiner and his reported desire for a teenage girl. But it can be about the laptop of Weiner's wife, Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and emails between her and Hillary. It comes after the FBI investigation in which Comey concluded Clinton had lied and been "reckless" with national secrets, but said he could not recommend prosecution.

So what should the Democrats do now?

If ruling Democrats hold themselves to the high moral standards they impose on the people they govern, they would follow a simple process:

They would demand that Mrs. Clinton step down, immediately, and let her vice presidential nominee, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, stand in her place.

Democrats should say, honestly, that with a new criminal investigation going on into events around her home-brew email server from the time she was secretary of state, having Clinton anywhere near the White House is just not a good idea.

Since Oct. 7, WikiLeaks has released 35,000 emails hacked from Clinton campaign boss John Podesta. Now WikiLeaks, no longer a neutral player but an active anti-Clinton agency, plans to release another 15,000 emails.

What if she is elected? Think of a nation suffering a bad economy and continuing chaos in the Middle East, and now also facing a criminal investigation of a president. Add to that congressional investigations and a public vision of Clinton as a Nixonian figure wandering the halls, wringing her hands.

The best thing would be for Democrats to ask her to step down now. It would be the most responsible thing to do, if the nation were more important to them than power. And the American news media — fairly or not firmly identified in the public mind as Mrs. Clinton's political action committee — should begin demanding it.

But what will Hillary do?

She'll stick and ride this out and turn her anger toward Comey. For Hillary and Bill Clinton, it has always been about power, about the Clinton Restoration and protecting fortunes already made by selling nothing but political influence.

She'll remind the nation that she's a woman and that Donald Trump said terrible things about women. If there is another notorious Trump video to be leaked, the Clintons should probably leak it now. Then her allies in media can talk about misogyny and sexual politics and the headlines can be all about Trump as the boor he is and Hillary as champion of female victims, which she has never been.

Remember that Bill Clinton leveraged the "Year of the Woman." Then he preyed on women in the White House and Hillary protected him. But the political left — most particularly the women of the left — defended him because he promised to protect abortion rights and their other agendas.

If you take a step back from tribal politics, you'll see that Mrs. Clinton has clearly disqualified herself from ever coming near classified information again. If she were a young person straight out of grad school hoping to land a government job, Hillary Clinton would be laughed out of Washington with her record. She'd never be hired.

As secretary of state she kept classified documents on the home-brew server in her basement, which is against the law. She lied about it to the American people. She couldn't remember details dozens of times when questioned by the FBI. Her aides destroyed evidence by BleachBit and hammers. Her husband, Bill, met secretly on an airport tarmac with Attorney General Loretta Lynch for about a half-hour, and all they said they talked about was golf and the grandkids.

And there was no prosecution of Hillary.

That isn't merely wrong and unethical. It is poisonous.

And during this presidential campaign, Americans were confronted with a two-tiered system of federal justice: one for standards for the Clintons and one for the peasants.

I've always figured that, as secretary of state, Clinton kept her home-brew email server — from which foreign intelligence agencies could hack top secret information — so she could shield the influence peddling that helped make the Clintons several fortunes.

The Clintons weren't skilled merchants. They weren't traders or manufacturers. The Clintons never produced anything tangible. They had no science, patents or devices to make them millions upon millions of dollars.

All they had to sell, really, was influence. And they used our federal government to leverage it.

If a presidential election is as much about the people as it is about the candidates, then we'll learn plenty about ourselves in the coming days, won't we?

[Bklyn]

There better be something there or Comey just fried himself in the history books in order to get back into good graces with his political party.

[bluetick]

The National Security Agency last month announced that the Russians were behind the hacking of the Podestas emails and are clearly trying to influence America's presidential election. History will likely judge that action by a foreign actor as the biggest takeaway from an election unprecedented in it's twists, turns, and ominous revelations.

Red-blooded GOP patriots are strangely muted about the russkies role in this election and that's a real head-shaker. Surely they didn't buy Trump's line about the Chinese or the 400lb guy in his bed. Maybe it's another good-comes-from-evil thing that seems to be a theme of spiritual trump-backers this season.

[10ac]

Revealing their devious character is worse than their devious character. Nothing to see here if their were nothing to see here.

[eCat]

sounds like the FBI let Comey know he fucked up letting her off the first time and he sees this as a way to right a wrong

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ation.html

[Bklyn]

Again, if there is nothing there, his unprecedented actions will make it into a ton of contemporary writings aND history books as a major part of an odd and shitshow election.

[eCat]

there is something there

she broke the law.

he played politics the first time.

[Toemeesleather]

[hedge]

"It would be the most responsible thing to do, if the nation were more important to them than power."

There is no nation without power...

[eCat]

informative read on how the ACA is DOA in Arizona

http://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the- ... 1477925051

that risk corridor concept was short sighted and the penalties for not carrying insurance have no teeth. Not that I agree with the idea of mandatory insurance but the whole concept should have sent up huge red flags to anyone paying attention.