Dems are carrying the day...This hearing had backfired on the Repubs!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

James Comey is coming off, at least to me, as sympathetic to Clinton.

[Hoyt]

1. Not listening critically, but it sounds the same to me too. And he's a GOPer.

[Iliyah]

2. Good.

Don't they have at least a week full of bullshit scheduled.

[RKP5637]

3. Excellent!!! Imagine if the FBI dug into some of these pious congress critters,

I bet the results would be interesting, to say the least!

[synergie]

32. I believe it does not are much digging up.

Saw a post on Twitter that mentioned chaffetz releasing classified info that endangered Libyans working for the State Department.

[Gothmog]

4. The GOP could not help themselves-they always overreach

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. I am not a lawyer .You are.

But I can read...

The Espionage Act has never been used in a fact situation like this. Period.

[workinclasszero]

17. So true

That's because they are all idiots blinded by hate.

[emulatorloo]

5. They picked the wrong guy and the wrong agency to smear.

I knew he would not sit quietly and allow them to lie about the FBI.

[Lance Bass esquire]

7. I said this yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7982751


So predictable.

[LoverOfLiberty]

19. Looks like you were right

good job.

[patricia92243]

8. This is going to backfire on them in a big way. Congress is already thought of as

incompetent, and this mess will turn the public against them more.

[nolabear]

9. I don't see him as sympathetic, just not allowing himself to be railroaded.

He's good at sticking to the case at hand, keeping with the facts, and not buying into the push to speculate. He knows his ass is on the line, and that Hillary didn't do anything prosecutable.

[synergie]

33. They were hoping he would editorialize some more, like he did in his odd press conference.

[DURHAM D]

10. Why can't some Democrat just say -

"SOS Clinton was just trying to do her job and in order to do that she had to find a way to communicate with her staff. Petraeus, Sterling and others were trying to line their own pockets, the opposite of doing their job. Think about it!"

It just isn't that hard but the Republicans and their dwarfs, the mainstream media, are too busy comparing apples and kangaroos.

[Ilsa]

11. They've differentiated between what Petraeus did

And what happened with HRC;
They've entered into the record that Colin Powell used a private server and that NONE of his emails were saved;
That the emails in question were misclassified as (C);
That the FBI does not believe HRC lied;

Other conclusions?

[Mika]

13. Powell did not have a private server. Had a laptop w/a personal email acct. eom

[herding cats]

23. He used a Yahoo account, right?

It's been years, but that's what I seem to remember.

[Mika]

24. Either Yahoo or Gmail. Both had archival backups that could be retrieved.

Team Hillary's server had no archive function and they deleted and wiped the hard drive clean (in a way that no data could be retrieved, even by FBI data forensic labs).

Hard to be convinced that there was no intent in this situation. But, here we are.

[emulatorloo]

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

You're right, there's probably intent here. A willful intention by some to spin and falsely 'misinterpret' and misrepresent the FBI's conclusions.

---

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

Source: Reuters

FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers on Thursday that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton did not lie to the FBI about her handling of emails as secretary of state and did not break the law.

Comey told a Republican-led oversight panel in the U.S. House of Representatives that no reasonable prosecutor would charge Clinton with a crime over her use of private email servers while she was secretary of state, some of which were used to transmit classified information.

###

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-fbi-idUSKCN0ZN1LS

[DURHAM D]

42. It was AOL and Powell supposedly deleted them

so the FBI asked AOL for Powell's emails a long time ago and have heard nothing.


Keep wishing.

[herding cats]

43. I'm pretty sure they were never retrieved.

Maybe their archive function either didn't work, or they thumbed their noses at the US government? Either way, it doesn't seem to be a better choice.

[synergie]

34. AOL.

[herding cats]

45. Thank you.

I'd forgotten the provider. It's been years, and I've slept too much since then.

[Ilsa]

26. Thanks. nt

[emulatorloo]

27. A distinction without a difference

[morningfog]

12. I think Comey is reasoned and fair. I take him, the FBI investigation and the DOJ at their word.

They conducted a thorough and fair investigation and reached the appropriate conclusion.

[KMOD]

15. Our Dem Reps have brought their A games

and they are humiliating the republicans.

[Sheepshank]

36. ....again

[randome]

16. That's two in a row! They are incompetent at behaving incompetently!

[bluestateguy]

18. Comey has better things to do with his time

Every hour he spends in this wasteful hearing is an hour he's not spending on terrorism, or actual real crime.

[rock]

20. Here's an aside that rrn thru my mind as they discussed confidential material

(C) to mark "confidential" info. This is the symbol for copyright isn't it? Isn't this a not so bright mark since it's already in use?

[jcgoldie]

21. And with Buddy Carter's whining

It's officially a farce. What an embarrassment. Who elects someone that ridiculous to Congress? I talk to more politically savvy fools at the grain elevator.

[OKNancy]

22. I learned guccifer lied, and nothing was marked classified

I remember some DUers cackling about guccifer saying he hacked Clinton's email. He lied and Comey confirmed that.
Also what I've said since right after COmey's presser on the 5th.... he never said they emails were "marked" classified but some talking heads twisted it that way ( well, he kind of twisted too).
He confirmed that none were MARKED classified. Therefore that argument that she misstated or lied is wrong.

[oasis]

25. Elijah Cummings for VP.

[silvershadow]

28. I could get behind that. :) nt

[oasis]

35. He's a no nonsense kinda guy. nt

[silvershadow]

40. That's a fact! nt

[jcgoldie]

30. that guy's the conscience of the house

Class act and he makes the other side look amateurish by comparison.

[oasis]

37. The GOP witch hunters can't get anything past him. He's got a

great staff backing him up.

[chillfactor]

31. he is one GREAT man!

and one of the most intelligent, well-spoken Democrats......glad he is on our side!

[oasis]

38. He sparkles again, just as he did at the Bengazi hearings.

[Cal33]

39. I watched this on and off. It seems to me that Comey isn't having any break at all. Did

he even take time off for lunch? How about going to the john?

[DLCWIdem]

41. No and he just about said he needed a bathroom break

[R B Garr]

44. Comey definitely doesn't like the "system is rigged" talking points that have been

going around from Trump and Sanders. For that, I can't blame him. It is a gross insult to government employees everywhere. It did look like Comey wanted to distance himself from some of the GOP anti-Clinton obsession.