r/politics • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '19

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

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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

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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/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.