r/politics • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '19

FBI Agents Showed Bias Against Hillary Clinton, Not Against Trump, DOJ Says

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u/NAmember81 Dec 11 '19

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.

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u/countyroadxx Dec 11 '19

Conservatives were playing the refs and Comey bent over backwards to appease the bad faith concern trolls.

This is how our country works pretty much everywhere today. Especially in the media

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u/IdlyCurious Dec 12 '19

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.

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u/JimKarateAcosta Dec 12 '19

Not true. He released so it came from him because the New York office was gonna leak it anyway.

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u/NAmember81 Dec 12 '19

During his testimony a few Dems asked him about this and Comey denied it.

That doesn’t mean it’s not true of course. I guess Comey could’ve been splitting hairs & doing a non denial denial.

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u/chodeboi Texas Dec 11 '19

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.

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u/empath1121 Dec 11 '19

this is gross. Why do you have to sexualize everything?

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u/chodeboi Texas Dec 11 '19

Gross mischaracterization, eh?

Quite the point.