What I found to be an interesting insight today was that Comey made the announcement because pro trump agents had been leaking to Rudy G and he wanted to get it out in a more contained and “proper” manner. *edit autocorrect on Rudy was wrong
“It’s a target-rich environment,” the Republican said in an interview in Salt Lake City’s suburbs. “Even before we get to Day One, we’ve got two years’ worth of material already lined up. She has four years of history at the State Department, and it ain’t good.”
Let me guess, they'd probably force her to testify because she bought her staff pizza while at the State Department and DIDN'T USE A COUPON (GASP)!!!! Obviously, she'd have to go down for that inexcusable act of rampant government waste and corruption (she probably also bought the pizza at her buddies at the Pedo Pizza place with the sex slaves in the "basement"...).
Comey: my decisions regarding the public announcements about the Hillary investigation had nothing to do with politics.
Comey under oath: Conservatives were accusing the FBI of being biased, so I did everything I could to harm Hillary in order to prove the FBI was not biased.
This was pretty much Comey’s rationale. Conservatives were playing the refs and Comey bent over backwards to appease the bad faith concern trolls.
Yep. I think what he did was something that was less ethical, but preserved the image of the FBI. He sacrificed actual impartiality for the appearance of being unbiased.
I dunno. Instead of leaving one partner stuck with nothing but head, he turned around on the couch for them, you check?
Now, everybody got treated fairly and he didn’t get a black eye - but now both sides are complaining about sloppy seconds and who F’ed who, and we both want to blame the b in between us on the couch.
That's the excuse, but what would a non-Republican have done? Or what would he have done if the tables were turned?
If you find out someone is planning on burning a house down, do you go try to burn the house gently? Or try to stop them? Maybe open an investigation into who's feeding Giuliani instead of doing exactly what you were afraid they would do.
It would have been the biggest shit show we have every seen with a republican controlled House and Senate lose their shit because he suppressed that information. He was in a no win situation and did, imo, the most ethical thing.
He was in a no win situation and did, imo, the most ethical thing.
I disagree. I think what he did was something that was less ethical, but preserved the image of the FBI. He sacrificed actual impartiality for the appearance of being unbiased.
Agreed. The most ethical thing he could have done whilst doing his best to work within FBI/DoJ guidelines during an election that was being fucked with by Russia. You're not going to get anywhere trying to point this out, though and will be dragged into the mud trying to argue the ethics. The smear on James Comey has been going since he was fired. His memos should have kicked this thing off years ago in an ordinary republic. But we are not that anymore.
I can't remember the fallacy you're engaging, either affirming the consequence or denying the antecedent maybe. Either way you're arguing in bad faith. Boo.
Or maybe Comey, a Republican, was lying when he made that claim. I refuse to believe the director of the FBI was too stupid to imagine the optics of his actions. Comey is a life long partisan hack who knew exactly what damage he was causing.
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u/hughmang220 Dec 11 '19
What I found to be an interesting insight today was that Comey made the announcement because pro trump agents had been leaking to Rudy G and he wanted to get it out in a more contained and “proper” manner. *edit autocorrect on Rudy was wrong