Where’s sturg?
I think he will pop his head back in. I just hope they are both healthy.
Where’s sturg?
How is that an error? They found new e-mails. His decision to announce it was odd but Comey was a disaster outright. Literally every scintilla of news from the FBI's investigation found a way into the public sphere during and after the election.
The guy who was hired, Carter Paige, was never even charged with a crime and it was made known now that the FBI DELIBERATELY WITHHELD exculpatory evidence to the FISA judges. They knew that Paige was clean and yet they still pursued FISA warrants. Its obvious to anyone that the real reason was because they wanted an excuse to spy on the Trump campaign. That is the crime and has proven to be the most egregious abuse of our surveillance state in the history of this country.
At one point you mocked the importance of the Steele Dossier in the FISA applications. Now we know it was almost the majority of the evidence that was submitted. How you are unable to see what happened is beyond me.
And yet, the investigation had already begun. So while the problems with the Page surveillance are legitimate, focusing on that while ignoring the rest is missing the forest for the trees.
What you’re eliding about the emails is that their existence was leaked, which forced Comey’s hand—a decision that was still arguably a mistake. That’s pretty clearly someone putting their thumb on the scale due to political bias, right?
Ignoring what else? The whole investigation rested upon information they were able to glean from the FISA warrants. THey were able to open an investigation because the standard is absurdly low as evidenced by what they used to open up this particular investigation.
Forced his hand or revealed the fact they were hiding something which could be interpreted as putting their finger on the scale of the election as well. Lets not even get into the Clinton investigation becuase it was obvious the FBI was in the tank for her which is yet again as you say putting your finger on the scale. This again leads to the discussion of keeping a ledger for both sides and you know deep down that you would lose that battle.
And again, are you going to admit you were wrong about the FISA case or just sweep that under the rug?
All you have is a complaint about a technicality. Trump was a liar and a crook and needed watching, just like he still needs watching. He's Putin's punk and now Barr is his punk. I'm not so interested in the administrative errors when it comes to fighting America's enemies. And neither is Trump, who pardons soldiers for the same thing.
The hypocrisy is everywhere.