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2016 Postmortem

SFnomad

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8. If Lynch stopped Comey (or recused herself and let someone else do it)

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:46 PM

Dec 2016

Someone, maybe even Comey, would have leaked it to the press and the RepubliCONs. And then all hell would have broken loose ... it would have created an even bigger sh!tstorm than the release of the letter caused.

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The attorney general could have ordered FBI Director James Comey not to send his letter [View all] still_one Dec 2016 OP

My take from this and from the Podesta hack HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #1

I think the AG dropped the ball big time on this one. The result of this wasn't just about "losing still_one Dec 2016 #5

Lynch was afraid of seeming biased in favor of Clinton woolldog Dec 2016 #2

Yeah, I heard the tarmac-torment from a pundit a week ago. Kolesar Dec 2016 #4

As the article indicates, she could have recused herself, and someone else at the Justice Department still_one Dec 2016 #6

She was covering her own ass zippythepinhead Dec 2016 #3

The article suggests she could have recused herself, and let someone else make that call still_one Dec 2016 #7

If Lynch stopped Comey (or recused herself and let someone else do it) SFnomad Dec 2016 #8

No matter how many times we go round and round on this it comes back to the question of jalan48 Dec 2016 #9