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In reply to the discussion: Jim Comey's scorching op Ed in the NYT [View all]mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Is that if he'd withheld the information about investigating the Weiner laptop from Congress, after having specifically pledged to Congress to keep them informed if any potentially new evidence in the Email Probe came to light, and especially if it had turned out that there WAS something incriminating on the laptop ... it would've caused an absolute political shitstorm.
Fact it, many people (esp. Congressional Repubs) would've accused him of trying to sway the election in the other direction, and he'd likely have been found to have been in Contempt of Congress for not fulfilling his obligation.
Basically the guy was forced into a no-win situation by the Hillary Haters at the NY FBI field office, Guiliani's cronies, who he knew would leverage the whole thing for even MORE benefit to Trump ... had he failed to report to Congress as he was obliged to.
He had no reason to believe in advance that the media would blow this story up the way they did, to just plaster the airwaves with hand-wringing and speculation that this meant that ZOMG TEH HILLARY EMAIL INVESTIGATION IS NOT OVER!!?!1!!.
I blame FBI NY first, then the fucking media, and then the lying GOP Congress that ran to them in the first place, falsely hyping what the letter suggested ... all more than Comey, and I always will.