2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumComey Ignored Attorney General, Violated Policy In Announcing Email Review
Reprinted with permission from AlterNetFBI director James Comey was told by top Justice Department officials not to make any public statement about renewing the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server, because it violated DOJ policy on commenting on ongoing investigations, various national news outlets reported Saturday.
Director Comey understood our position. He heard it from Justice leadership, the Washington Posts source said. It was conveyed to the FBI, and Comey made an independent decision to alert the Hill. He is operating independently of the Justice Department. And he knows it.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Comey not to break DOJ policylaid out in federal prosecutor guidelinesof not commenting on open investigations or making any statement potentially influencing election outcomes, the New Yorkers Jane Mayer reported, also citing DOJ sources.
Lynch expressed her preference that Comey follow the departments longstanding practice of not commenting on ongoing investigations, and not taking any action that could influence the outcome of an election, Mayer wrote. The F.B.I. director is an employee of the Justice Department, and is covered by its policies.
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(60,346 posts)jcgoldie
(11,647 posts)MTP just showed clips of all the Democratic Party leaders in Congress remarking on what a consummate professional he is and celebrating the fact that he never plays politics. Then he pulls this obvious political stunt a week before the election and they are impotent to call it what it is.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Donald Trumps offer of $10,000 and the use of his private jet couldnt turn a porn star into a prostitute.
Jessica Drake whose credits include Sex for Sale and Think Pink claims she rejected the billionaires crude come-ons during a 2006 golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Calif.
This is not acceptable behavior for anyone much less a presidential candidate, the adult film star said ........
..... Trump allowed the attendees to do whatever drugs they wanted, the photographer said. As guests partied hard on coke and top-shelf liquor, the mogul would stroll from room to room and hook up with girls.
He'd wander off with a couple girls. I saw him. He was getting laid like crazy," the photographer said. "Trump was at the heart of it. He loved the attention and in private, he was a total f---ing beast. .....
Ninni Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland in the Miss Universe competition that Trump once owned, alleged that he grabbed my butt during a photo shoot
A former beauty queen has become the 12th woman to openly accuse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of sexual assault.
Jessica Drake: porn star is 11th woman to allege Trump sexual misconduct
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Ninni Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland in the Miss Universe competition that Trump once owned, alleged in an interview with the Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat that Trump groped her before an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2006.
Before the show we were photographed outside the building, Laaksonen said, according to a translation provided by The Telegraph. Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt. He really grabbed my butt.
I dont think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought: What is happening?
Laaksonen said that she had been told at other events that year that Trump found her attractive because she reminded him of his wife, Melania, whom he had married the year before.
Somebody told me there that Trump liked me because I looked like Melania when she was younger, Laaksonen said. It left me disgusted.
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Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)know the corner into which he just painted the Justice Department. He knows that any intervention by his superiors at Justice will be perceived as a corrupt cover up in favor of Hillary by half of the electorate. In addition, Comey has buried the Russian cyber attack investigation to influence our elections and evidence that points to Trump campaign involvement in the Putin-Assange Nexus. Simultaneously, Trump has continuously called into question the legitimacy of our own intelligence community's conclusion that Russia is behind the cyber attacks to influence our electoral process. The Justice Department has been politically neutralized. Our Intelligence community has been politically neutralized. Our Free Press has been politically neutralized. THAT IS ALL THEY NEEDED TO DO. We now stand naked folks.