Did Comey decide to grandstand about Hillary in order to distract from his own

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agency's poor performance with regard to the Orlando shooting massacre?

The FBI has some mud on its face for dropping its investigation of Mateen, despite multiple reports of his threats to others. Maybe it's trying to smear Hillary instead.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/obama_should_demand_fbi_director_james_comeys_resignation_20160613

Obama Should Demand FBI Director James Comey’s Resignation Today

Posted on Jun 13, 2016

By John Kiriakou

But something ought to change, and quickly: that is the consistent failure of the FBI to do its job, to infiltrate domestic and foreign terrorist groups, and to prevent attacks on U.S. soil. This is not something new. The FBI has been incompetent for a very long time.

Orlando shooter Omar Mateen reportedly had planned the massacre “for a long time,” according to CNN. Over the past several weeks, he had attempted to buy military-grade body armor, and he had successfully purchased a Glock semi-automatic handgun and a long gun. And the FBI did nothing.

The FBI knew that Mateen had worked for G4S Secure Solutions, one of the world’s largest private security companies, for which he had apparently passed a background investigation. FBI officials knew this because they had interviewed Mateen in 2013 and 2014. The interviews were conducted because he had expressed support for a suicide bomber. And still the FBI did nothing.

FBI Director James Comey said Monday that the FBI is “highly confident” that Mateen was radicalized, probably by viewing extremist material on the internet. Even after the National Security Agency had swallowed up every piece of metadata on the entire internet and, presumably had its Cray computers analyze and pass actionable intelligence onto the FBI, it did nothing.

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1. Plus he is a republican

another reason.

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2. No, the 'world' wanted to know about FBI's hrc investigation,

Lynch had said she'd 'defer' to those investigating, so he informed the world.

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4. Loretta would not have told him to hold that press conference

because it goes against legal ethics to smear the person you've decided not to indict. The DoJ manual specifically tells prosecutors not to do that.

St. Comey knows it but considers himself above such things.

He knew Loretta Lynch would make the announcement without fanfare, and -- as someone who's been after Hillary since Whitewater -- he couldn't stand for that to happen.

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6. We don't know what, if anything, Loretta Lynch would have told him to do,

or not to do, especially since her recent 'faux pas' with Bill Clinton.

I'm interested to see Mr. Comey's discussion, on Capitol Hill.

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8. We know that the DoJ manual specifically bars statements like the one

Comey made and Loretta Lynch would never have told him to breach legal ethics or to ignore the DoJ manual.

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3. He's another madman obsessed with the Clintons. He was responsible for the whitewater "scandal" too.

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5. He was Deputy Counsel on the Senate Whitewater Committee. He's been hoping to get her

for decades.

He must be very frustrated. Meanwhile, he's taking his eye off people like Omar Mateen.

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7. They were also warned, by the Russians, about the Boston Marathon bombers too.

Didn't act, people died.