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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (315898)10/30/2016 9:05:10 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (2) of 540704
 
This part of the story seems very likely to me. The wild fantasies that have been spun by wingers on the Internet -- all without a shred of evidence, but are nonetheless expressed with strong conviction -- are just amazing. And I am sure that there are similar winger types within the FBI who have been heavily breathing down Comey's neck, champing at the bit to "get Clinton" before it is "too late".

Still more troubling is the information contained in this just released article in The Wall Street Journal by Devlin Barrett. It describes what the article describes as a feud within the FBI and between the FBI and the Department of Justice over the Clinton probe. It now seems clear that what are essentially rogue FBI agents have been looking for all sorts of different angles to pursue investigations of Hillary Clinton and her family. Indeed, they've presented their evidence to career public corruption prosecutors at DOJ and been told they don't have anything. But it hasn't stopped. They clearly were not happy with the decision in the emails probe even though Comey said not even a close call.

This seems to be the backstory of what happened on Friday. Agents pushing for more aggressive investigations on various fronts, Comey fearing he'd be blamed after the fact for not notifying Congress in the letter he sent and specifically being afraid that some of these agents would leak news of the possibly new Huma Abedin emails to Congress. These are not fun situations to be in, I am sure. But they are ones an FBI Director should, indeed must, be willing to stand up to.

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