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red dog 1

(29,364 posts)
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 06:57 PM Dec 2016

Did FBI agents deliberately cheat Hillary out of the presidency?

Daily Kos
December 15, 2016


We already know that the events that led up to FBI Director James Comey's infamous letter to Congress were tinged with gross incompetence at best. After all, the agents who got their hands on the emails that supposedly triggered that letter knew about them in early October, and yet waited 24 days to tell Comey they needed a warrant.

But a former public defender and HuffPo columnist thinks it was far more than incompetence.
Based on the time-line, he suspects that an anti-Hillary element in the FBI engaged in a criminal conspiracy to wreck Hillary's campaign in the final weeks of the election.

Seth Abramson, an English professor at the University of New Hampshire, is also a practicing attorney -- he was a public defender in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts before going into academia.
So, naturally, he got suspicious when he learned about the 24-day delay between the time the agents learned about the emails and when they alerted Comey.

More:
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/15/1611511/-Did-FBI-agents-deliberately-cheat-Hillary-out-of-the-presidency

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Did FBI agents deliberately cheat Hillary out of the presidency? (Original Post) red dog 1 Dec 2016 OP
It was a coup!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2016 #1
Yes indeed! red dog 1 Dec 2016 #4
Yes, and Comey was incompetent in not asking them how long they were sitting on . . . brush Dec 2016 #9
From what has been reported, Comey was briefed on the emails just before he send his first letter to LisaL Dec 2016 #10
However it went down, they're all a bunch of ratfu_kers. Clean that agency out. brush Dec 2016 #11
Ain't gonna happen with Trump as president. LisaL Dec 2016 #12
I know. Their plot worked. It'll eventually bite them in the ass though. brush Dec 2016 #16
Yes standingtall Dec 2016 #2
That was their objective triron Dec 2016 #3
My question is, Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #5
Good question! red dog 1 Dec 2016 #6
There is probably something to that. Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #8
Chaffetz is pure evil. It is amazing that a great guy like Michael Dukakis could have this bastard StevieM Dec 2016 #13
Scary. Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #15
Yes... Biggest outside factor in her kids uponit7771 Dec 2016 #7
Yes. The FBI interfered, and lied, with the hope of altering the election results. And it worked. StevieM Dec 2016 #14
She and the country deserved Comey's "resignation" tavernier Dec 2016 #17
3 million sure is a hefty lead, but i don't know about "vast" dionysus Dec 2016 #20
I think California tavernier Dec 2016 #21
I heard that, but didn't know if it was legit or just someones claim dionysus Dec 2016 #22
is the pope catholic? nt TheFrenchRazor Dec 2016 #18
Does a bear shit in the woods? red dog 1 Dec 2016 #19

brush

(57,659 posts)
9. Yes, and Comey was incompetent in not asking them how long they were sitting on . . .
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 08:29 PM
Dec 2016

the info, and then why so long?

Unless of course he agreed with what they were up to.

Either way, he should be fired.

LisaL

(46,624 posts)
10. From what has been reported, Comey was briefed on the emails just before he send his first letter to
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 08:36 PM
Dec 2016

Congress. But that doesn't mean that was the first time he heard about emails.
My guess is they told him about the emails right away after discovering them.

standingtall

(2,982 posts)
2. Yes
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 07:03 PM
Dec 2016

I think part of Comey's motivation was to save his job besides being a partisan hack. I have no doubt had Hilary been elected she would've asked for his resignation.
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. My question is,
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 07:18 PM
Dec 2016

did this start in New York with the Rudy? Seems things are coming full circle. Seems like there are Agents in New York whom decided to corupt the process. Sure looks like the quack and it is a duck.

red dog 1

(29,364 posts)
6. Good question!
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 07:28 PM
Dec 2016

Although I don't have a link to prove it, I think it's public knowledge that Giuliani somehow got a copy of Comey's letter before any Congressional leaders did.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
8. There is probably something to that.
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 07:47 PM
Dec 2016

Hunch says,Jason Chaffetz finger prints are all over this. Suddenly this little twerp is quite,and knowing how Chaffetz operates,something smells.

StevieM

(10,541 posts)
13. Chaffetz is pure evil. It is amazing that a great guy like Michael Dukakis could have this bastard
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 08:51 PM
Dec 2016

in his family.

StevieM

(10,541 posts)
14. Yes. The FBI interfered, and lied, with the hope of altering the election results. And it worked.
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 08:53 PM
Dec 2016

eom

tavernier

(13,258 posts)
17. She and the country deserved Comey's "resignation"
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 10:18 PM
Dec 2016

...At the very least.

The FBI, the media, and the Russians tossed the election.

Why are we conveniently letting them forget that HRC got the vast majority of the votes?

dionysus

(26,467 posts)
20. 3 million sure is a hefty lead, but i don't know about "vast"
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 07:37 AM
Dec 2016

Mondale losing by 17 and a half million, now that is "vast".

I wish those 3 million plus could have been spread out in states we needed them from.

Do you know, i'm curious, if her popular vote lead was concentrated in any particular area or states, or was it more or less spread out evenly across the country?

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