2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDid 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
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)red dog 1
(29,364 posts)"It Was a Coup...End of Story...It's Time to Fight"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512618383
brush
(57,659 posts)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)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.
brush
(57,659 posts)LisaL
(46,624 posts)brush
(57,659 posts)standingtall
(2,982 posts)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.
triron
(22,240 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)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)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)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)in his family.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Nasty little twerp.
uponit7771
(91,801 posts)StevieM
(10,541 posts)eom
tavernier
(13,258 posts)...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)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?
tavernier
(13,258 posts)from what they were saying directly after the election.