2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Justice Department Is Opening an Investigation Into the FBI's Actions During the 2016 Campaign
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/justice-department-opening-probe-fbi-actions-during-2016-campaignThe agency has been dogged by claims its decisions swung the election.
I am hoping.......this election been so corrupt with Trump and GOP thugs....... and keeps
getting worse everyday.........
onecaliberal
(35,796 posts)Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)Its a ridiculous and alarming thought that we may literally be inaugurating a Russian mole next week and and a bunch GOP thugs to enrich themselves off America....
onecaliberal
(35,796 posts)Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)How can Trump/Pence be inaugurated with all this corruption? Its unreal........not sure but heard that Pence hasn't totally vetted yet.........
onecaliberal
(35,796 posts)I hate to say it, but where are congressional Dems? They should be in front of cameras 24/7 telling everyone. Can you imagine if a dem tried to pull this shit.
Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)If us Dems did it we would be with ball and chain attached to our ankle.....
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)than we nice Dems do. That's one reason they won, sadly.
Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)The GOP doesn't know how to win without cheating never did....I am not surprise they didn't
steal house and senate seats as well.......thats why Dems are out numbered......
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)I think it was a study somewhere, published maybe in Mother Jones
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)...an infinite number of ways: swiftboating, voter suppression, fake news, idiotic investigations, destroying reputations, fake unidentified sources, Comey, hacking, voter registration suppression, Supreme Court intervention into Constitutionally state issues, oN and on forever. The problem is also there is a snowball effect...the more they win and gain power and control, the easier it is to win.
I haven't figured out the solution yet- how we turn the Titanic around. I'm encouraged by the aggressive news cycles the last couple of days; the drop in the stock market the last couple of days (being referred to as the Trump risk factor) and that wakes people up; the late night comedian focus (which really helped Obama, but they did this equivalent time thing with hillary v DT); and that he has made such a buffoon of himself lately that no one but KellyAnne Conwoman is defending him.
onecaliberal
(35,796 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)It'll all go away.
libtodeath
(2,892 posts)Gothmog
(154,427 posts)I saw this on the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/01/12/there-will-be-an-investigation-of-james-comeys-conduct-we-might-get-some-accountability-after-all/?utm_term=.25630ca46fd1
The Inspector General Act authorizes the Attorney General to interfere with an IG investigation under certain exceptional circumstances, one of which relates to intelligence matters, which arguably could apply here. But the Attorney General would have to find that action is necessary to prevent the significant impairment to the national interests of the United States (and there are congressional notification requirements as well). I cant think of any precedent for taking this step, and politically it would be hugely controversial, and therefore unlikely.
It may be harder that we think for Trump to block this investigation
BTW Comey is pond scum
WhiteTara
(30,156 posts)better late than never. Although, it will be dropped like a dirty sock in 10 days.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Probably. They may be doing it just to clear him, as they are also investigatino some Clinton related stuff.
Now, he is less likely to resign, unfortunately. There were a lot of factors in losing the election, but he was the final hard blow (as well as many by him in between ). How can he stand himself? I hope he goes to prison, and I usually want to pardon everyone and reset. He is as smug as DT, and maybe more mendacious, plotting.
DT can't hold a thought long enough to plot, which is why he needed Bannon
Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)Maybe they should be checking his bank account to see how much Trump or the GOP paid to keep it quite,,,wouldn't doubt it........
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)are delayed and well hidden, like being taken in to well paid investments, maybe some of DT's deals with putin.
Something is there.
Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)As he smugly sat there and hypocritically testified or refused to, yesterday, I thought they already had given him assurances...for many things
Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)Not sure but also heard if President Obama started it now ,it still could go after he is sworn in and they couldn't be blocked not sure on that just read it somewhere.......
WhiteTara
(30,156 posts)on any investigation into TinyHands. Be great if it were true that it would have to continue. I'll hold out hope for that!
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)WhiteTara
(30,156 posts)Welcome to DU Alice!
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)underway and that they are just announcing it now????
Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)Should have been done long before this but GOP ..wants everything hidden......
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)Most of the heads of intelligence like Clapper are political appointees who will be replaced by Trump with people he will expect will tell him what he wants to hear. He will instruct them to shut down any investigations where he is targeted.
Regardless of what we think of him, Comey thinks of himself as an honorable man, who will stand up to Trump as needed and he is appointed for a 10 year term. If Comey is forced to resign, Trump will put in his own guy to be FBI Director.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)The only advantage of Comey is he might have to tow the line now and be less reckless, since he's been caught. He tries to project himself as honorable. No honorable person would do what he did after an election started, with such bs to back him up. That is 3rd world. Plus, he withheld REALLY IMPORTANT stuff on DT, that clearly disqualified him 4 office.
CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)Someone personally picked by Trump to make sure that the new appointee would not dare confront him with evidence of the Russians hacking or with the possibility that the Russians have blackmail information on him.
We have to look beyond simple payback - Trump is going to be in office 4 years, unless he is impeached first. If there is ever reason for impeachments we don't want a "yes man" running the FBI.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)Gothmog
(154,427 posts)Paladin
(28,758 posts)Gothmog
(154,427 posts)Paladin
(28,758 posts)triron
(22,240 posts)findings won't really matter. Strange?