***** LIVE Blog = FBI Director Comey on the FBI’s investigation - HEARING *****

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Or, should we each start our own thread?

http://www.c-span.org/video/?412315-1/fbi-director-james-comey-testifies-hillary-clinton-email-probe&live

https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/full-committee/

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1. From what I'm reading here it's a "Proceed, Governor"

Public refutation of RW talking points

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2. Rep. Thomas Massie is talking about "negligent homicide" now. How political can this get?

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"Have you no decency?"

Congressman Lieu questions the validity of the House Republicans’ decision to hold an “emergency” hearing regarding the FBI investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email server:

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3. Rep. Rod Blum, wants to know if G-mail is more secure? Throwing softballs and fishing.

This is so blatantly political and just a clown show.

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4. Was her server hacked? "I don't know," Comey. Coulda - woulda bullshit stream.

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5. National Security problem

the slaughter of black men - well done sister

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6. Yes, my thought today. When will Republicans go after the police who kill at will?

Let me guess, the day after each shooting!

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7. "Honest people don't need to lie." So, why do Republicans lie all the time.

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Rep. Scott DesJarlais should know that he is askkking a rhetorical question with no real answer.

On edit adding videos inline:

Ranking Member Cummings' Opening at OGR Hearing with FBI Director Comey

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8. SoSs Rice and Powell used private servers to send classified material.

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Congressman Cooper Questions FBI Director Comey

Classified Data Found in Personal Email of Colin Powell and Aides to Condoleezza Rice

The State Department has discovered a dozen emails containing classified information that were sent to the personal email accounts of Colin L. Powell and close aides of Condoleezza Rice during their tenures as secretaries of state for President George W. Bush. ....

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9. Karl Rove Erases 22 Million White House Emails on Private Server

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Congresswoman Norton Questions FBI Director Comey

Flashback: Rove Erases 22 Million White House Emails on Private Server at Height of U.S. Attorney Scandal – Media Yawns

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10. "I don't think we can fire the President because we tried." Rep. Mick Mulvaney LOL

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Comey is lecturing Mulvaney, stupid ass.

Here's one more video from the Dem Oversight channel:

Congressman Cartwright Question FBI Director Comey

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11. Hypothetical questions that have no relevance to the situation. Framing ???'s with lies.

Rep. Russell, "This is what the American people feel so frustrated about." (paraphrased, perhaps I didn't get that perfect)

The characterization sare also lies. These Republicans are lying to Congress, a crime.

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12. EXACTLY! what if ISIS had an office at the state department?

would they be allowed to use Hillary's emails?

and for the last fifteen minutes, all questions by repubs

chaffetz is LOSING it, raising his voice, with a rant on hypothetical bullshit

"there are no consequences! PROSecute 'em!"

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13. This: "Has the FBI looked into Richard Nixon's activities in Dallas on the day Kennedy was killed?"

These idiot Republicans should be working as garbage collectors. They seem to have an affinity for complete garbage.

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14. pignoseboy claims that Hillary allowing her attorneys to see

emails marked as classified info constitutes 'criminal intent,' and loses his patience

Cummings is next, axing about the thirty THOUSAND emails, and the missing classifiers on the two emails that may be the only ones subject to this entire witch hunt

he says he hopes the MEDIA is paying attention to this, (because this is the CRUX of the whole inquisition)

calling this once again to the attention to the PRESS, and emphasizing the ERROR in classification, citing Watson Coleman's question to Comey, in which Comey reveals he DIDN'T KNOW about the misclassification

Comey pleads loss of memory. what a surprise

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17. +1, this was security lawyers whole point the other day that the 3 emails weren't marked good enough

... to be classified.

The media wont correct their record

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15. Rep. Elijah Cummings is now setting the true record on the record. No classified e-mails, period!!!

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"Did you consult with the State Department on these three e-mails?"

Suddenly, Comey has developed a case of amnesia. It is that or admit you just lied to Congress.

Elijah E. Cummings @RepCummings
U.S. Representative from Maryland's 7th District

Cummings Slams GOPers For Putting Comey 'On Trial' For Clinton Decision

............. "Amazingly, amazingly, some Republicans who were praising you just days ago for your independence, for your integrity, and your honesty, instantly turned against you, because your recommendation conflicted with the predetermined outcome they wanted," Cummings said. "In their eyes, you had one job. And one job only: to prosecute Hillary Clinton. But you refused to do so. So now you are being summoned here to answer for your alleged transgressions. And in a sense, Mr. Director, you are on trial."

The Democratic congressman went on to compare Clinton's probe to that of retired General David Petraeus who pleaded guilty to charges related to having shared classified information with his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell.

"I give House Republicans credit," Cummings said. "They are not shy about what they are doing. They have turned political investigations into an art form. If our concerns here today are with the proper treatment of classified information, then we should start with a review of our previous hearing on General David Petraeus, who pled guilty last year to intentionally and knowingly compromising highly classified information. The problem is, Mr. Director, we never had that hearing. This committee ignored that breach of national security because it did not match the political goals of House Republicans." ............

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16. IOW, Comey missed the boat on the MOST IMPORTANT

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emails in the whole matter

Chaffetz is now setting up Comey to frame hillary with a lying before congress rap

hypothetical after hypothetical again now

this is going to get heated

can't wait for the dems to get a chance

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18. Yeap, sounds like Comey shouldn't have editorialized the findings cause now it sounds like

... he didn't do his homework.

I wonder if this was a SD set up ...

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29. In face of false accusations, DoS had to set the record straight. Rs still pretending though.

It is as if they are little children playing politics, making up whatever suits them instead of dealing with real problems.

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30. +1, I wonder if someone could just start investigating them for being really stupid

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31. Maybe Congress is exempt from some applicable laws about political abuse of power?

Under Bush's DoJ, the most corrupt ones were the DoJ, caught corrupting the USAs politically. They did not need to worry about getting in trouble with Justice back then, they had to be corrupt to stay in the DoJ! And wasn't Comey pasrt of Bush's DoJ crew?

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26. Cummings Questions FBI Director Comey to Clarify Cartwright's Questions

Cummings Questions FBI Director Comey to Clarify Cartwright's Questions

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19. On break after well over four hours of interrogating Comey, another panel to be grilled at 500°F

Now C-Span is letting viewers tell lies. There should be no way C-SPAN allows people to say stuff like this on national television. Scandalous.

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20. #ComeyHearing 113K Tweets trending #1 now as the hearing resumes.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ComeyHearing

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21. This is the entire Republican campaign game plan right now = Top tweet:

Liked 1,359 times CNN Politics ?@CNNPolitics 4 hours ago
Rep. Trey Gowdy slams the "double-tracked justice system" at the #ComeyHearing
http://cnn.it/liveblog

He insinuates Hillary sent "classified information" when they know that is an absolute LIE as this very hearing has pointed out. But they read from a propaganda script and only say what their script tells them to say. They are gambling on the ignorance and stupidity of American voters. The way to defeat these people now and forever is the take on ignorance and stupidity, thereby unmasking these clowns as two-faced politicians.

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22. who is mr. linick....and how FUGLY is that Gowdy orc?

can't bear to watch anymore....giving me diarrhea

so long

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23. I'm coining a new hashtag #Eghazi

This is hereby ***** officially ***** monickered as the #Eghazi Hearing.

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24. Rep. Steve Lynch addressing how government survellience and technology of spying has chilling effect

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People have to fear being hunted by "a committee like this" and it makes it difficult for a government to function.

"We've exempted ourselves, of course, for good reason...."

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25. The committee stands adjourned. I'll edit up thread by adding videos. Please contribute

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to enhance the documentation of the event. Add links to other threads on DU too, please.

This was a momentous event in American history, the presumptive first major party female candidate for President being burned at the stake in a Republican witch hunt in Congress. This is totally political abuse of power, criminally so and not just intellectually offensive and beyond belief. The Republicans are back in a Age of ignorance, a Dark Age in America, where their unalterable beliefs transcend reality and supersede fact.

Former CIA director Petraeus hid papers in attic insulation

FBI director says Clinton did not lie, break law in email handling

Comey says FBI did not 'give a hoot about politics' in Clinton email probe

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27. Chaffetz to FBI's Comey: Expect a request to probe if Clinton lied under oath

Chaffetz to FBI's Comey: Expect a request to probe if Clinton lied under oath

oversightandreform on youtube

VIDEO: Oversight of the State Department
by oversightandreform
Streamed 12 hours ago
8:26:48

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28. House OversightDems = Criminal Referral Unwarranted After New Facts

House OversightDems Verified account
?@OversightDems

BREAKING: @RepCummings 2 @JasonintheHouse: Criminal Referral Unwarranted After New Facts @ #FBIDirectorComey Hearing
http://democrats.oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/cummings-to-chaffetz-criminal-referral-unwarranted-after-learning-

Cummings to Chaffetz: Criminal Referral “Unwarranted” ....
Jul 7, 2016
Press Release
Cummings to Chaffetz:
Criminal Referral “Unwarranted” After Learning New Facts at Today’s Hearing With FBI Director

Washington, DC (July 7, 2016)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Jason Chaffetz regarding his statements at today’s hearing that he is considering sending a referral to the FBI to investigate whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lied when she testified before Congress that she did not send or receive emails marked classified.
“When you made these statements regarding the classification markings at the beginning of the hearing, we had not yet heard key details about this issue from Director Comey,” Cummings wrote. “As the hearing pressed on, however, we learned some significant new facts.”

On Tuesday, Director Comey stated: “Only a very small number of the emails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information.”

During today’s hearing, Director Comey testified that he was referring to only three emails out of more than 30,000; that the classification markings on these three documents were not proper and did not comply with federal guidelines or manuals; that he believed it would be a “reasonable inference” for Secretary Clinton to have “immediately” concluded these documents were not classified; and that he was not informed that the State Department reported yesterday that these emails were not in fact classified and included stray classification markings because of “human error.”
“I understand that there was some confusion about this issue going into the hearing, but the facts that were established helped clarify this issue, and for that reason today’s hearing served a valuable purpose,” Cummings wrote. “Based on this testimony, it appears that proceeding with a criminal referral in light of these new facts would be unwarranted.”

State Dept confirms FBI got it wrong, none of Hillary Clinton’s emails were classified

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32. NYTimes: James Comey’s Rebuke of Hillary Clinton Fits a 3-Decade Pattern

James Comey’s Rebuke of Hillary Clinton Fits a 3-Decade Pattern

...... “He has essentially put himself in the place of judge,” Matthew Miller, a former senior official in the Obama Justice Department who supports Mrs. Clinton, said in a telephone interview. He added, “He’s clearing her, but he’s smearing her at the same time, and the department’s rules prevent that kind of thing from happening.”

“What Director Comey did today was appalling,” Mr. Miller said. He added that the F.B.I. should be laying out its investigative findings in court when prosecutors actually bring a case, not at a televised news conference where charges are not being sought. ......

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33. Time to show the Republicans some opposition.