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POLL: Opinion of James Comey?

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passionate up-to-no-good son of senegal orchestra pit
  04/17/18
boy scout, giraffe non athletic geek who has never been cool...
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  04/17/18
I hear "boy scout" bandied about a lot. Do you thi...
Yellow circlehead house
  04/17/18
Was he ever actually in the Boy Scouts? Googling doesn’t rev...
fishy goal in life crotch
  04/22/18
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fishy goal in life crotch
  04/23/18
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Turquoise whorehouse
  04/23/18
Archetypal swamp creature who probably never deserved his re...
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  04/17/18
but he'll make a lot of money from his book
passionate up-to-no-good son of senegal orchestra pit
  04/17/18
Hehe
aquamarine bbw area
  04/17/18
But Pruitt is great, amirite?
Alcoholic french dragon
  04/20/18
Lol at your retardation ITT and everywhere else
Spectacular Godawful Church Building
  04/22/18
holier than thou prick
Vermilion Lascivious Lay
  04/17/18
this, whose failure of leadership backed him into his curren...
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  04/17/18
lying untruthful slippery slime ball
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Nighttime hairy legs
  04/17/18
But enough about Trump, who lied about his inauguration crow...
Alcoholic french dragon
  04/20/18
Awkward, arrogant partisan hack who considers himself holier...
Greedy Rusted Business Firm Boltzmann
  04/17/18
liberal Hank Hill who is worried that Donald Trump's handsha...
trip useless address
  04/17/18
Hank hill is far too kind a characterization. This is a guy...
Greedy Rusted Business Firm Boltzmann
  04/17/18
Link it
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  04/17/18
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Greedy Rusted Business Firm Boltzmann
  04/17/18
sorry I don't follow every plot twist in this story like a s...
trip useless address
  04/17/18
The liberal who was a Republican for his entire life, amirit...
Alcoholic french dragon
  04/20/18
enormous faggot
well-lubricated crystalline national
  04/17/18
true piece of shit. would sell his own mom down the river to...
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  04/17/18
We're not talking about Trump here. Remember that Trump bamb...
Alcoholic french dragon
  04/20/18
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  04/17/18
he's 6'8"
Irradiated Spot
  04/20/18
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We aren't talking about Trump here. That faggot spray tans a...
Alcoholic french dragon
  04/20/18
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  04/17/18
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  04/17/18
Seems to have had a good reputation amongst his colleagues. ...
insecure glittery ladyboy
  04/17/18
what kind of overly PC, diplomatic bullshit response is this...
alcoholic transparent public bath love of her life
  04/17/18
It's my honest opinion. I don't really have strong or edgy ...
insecure glittery ladyboy
  04/17/18
Freak
Chest-beating salmon associate
  04/17/18
Preening faggot and a stick in the mud pointdexter
diverse demanding center
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  04/17/18
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Racy Splenetic Blood Rage
  04/17/18
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Nighttime hairy legs
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Hyperactive Point
  04/17/18
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  04/20/18
He made the right call in two very ethically challenging sit...
180 property fat ankles
  04/20/18
Pretty sure he covered his own ads and then called it ethics...
Supple Offensive Parlor Striped Hyena
  04/20/18
False dichotomy.
vengeful set
  04/20/18
They weren't ethically challenging situations, and he made e...
sickened pocket flask twinkling uncleanness
  04/20/18
You think he should have sat on bad facts about Hillary in o...
vengeful set
  04/20/18
She should have been indicted. Anyone else would’ve been.
fishy goal in life crotch
  04/22/18
That wasn't the ethically challenging situation I was referr...
vengeful set
  04/23/18
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shaky quadroon brethren
  04/22/18
http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954616&mc=2&a...
primrose floppy church main people
  04/20/18
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maniacal filthy knife
  04/20/18
Coward with no strength of character.
Supple Offensive Parlor Striped Hyena
  04/20/18
Aspie weirdo and treasonous deep state operative. He should...
Excitant Headpube
  04/20/18
Patriot who always wanted to do the right thing
bateful liquid oxygen
  04/22/18
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shaky quadroon brethren
  04/22/18
lol wlmas
Odious Chocolate Codepig Pisswyrm
  04/22/18
Best personnel choice Obama ever made. Hero who saved the co...
shaky quadroon brethren
  04/22/18
His book sucks. Skimmed it in a B&N, exactly what you wo...
Curious copper chad
  04/22/18
Traitorous scum
Coiffed Mentally Impaired Tank
  04/22/18
Really selectively-outraged, bitchy piece from Hillary’s ex-...
fishy goal in life crotch
  04/22/18
“A friend of mine who is a Trump supporter told me I should ...
fishy goal in life crotch
  04/22/18
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tan hyperventilating weed whacker
  04/22/18
I bought into his integrity schtick. Boy was I wrong.
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  04/22/18
what. a. bitch.
razzle-dazzle magenta halford
  04/22/18
Sanctimonious deep state shithead. His book makes it clear ...
opaque blathering corner trust fund
  04/22/18
180 and making this whole charade into the best entertainmen...
bright pontificating multi-billionaire principal's office
  04/23/18


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Date: April 17th, 2018 1:59 AM
Author: passionate up-to-no-good son of senegal orchestra pit



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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:02 AM
Author: mind-boggling cream indian lodge sandwich

boy scout, giraffe non athletic geek who has never been cool one day in his life. also a supplicating pussy with his wife/daughters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857163)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:07 AM
Author: Yellow circlehead house

I hear "boy scout" bandied about a lot. Do you think he originated that meme

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857179)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 9:01 PM
Author: fishy goal in life crotch

Was he ever actually in the Boy Scouts? Googling doesn’t reveal this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35896756)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 1:12 AM
Author: fishy goal in life crotch



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 1:16 AM
Author: Turquoise whorehouse



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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:08 AM
Author: aquamarine bbw area

Archetypal swamp creature who probably never deserved his reputation, and has selfpwn3d it away in any case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857181)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:10 AM
Author: passionate up-to-no-good son of senegal orchestra pit

but he'll make a lot of money from his book

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857185)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:37 AM
Author: aquamarine bbw area

Hehe

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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:25 AM
Author: Alcoholic french dragon

But Pruitt is great, amirite?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35880907)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 9:46 PM
Author: Spectacular Godawful Church Building

Lol at your retardation ITT and everywhere else

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35897082)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:11 AM
Author: Vermilion Lascivious Lay

holier than thou prick

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857188)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 5:49 AM
Author: Azure Medicated Step-uncle's House Gaming Laptop

this, whose failure of leadership backed him into his current predicament

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857380)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 7:44 PM
Author: Pearly cracking filthpig



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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:12 AM
Author: Charismatic cordovan preventive strike hominid

lying untruthful slippery slime ball

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857192)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 8:44 PM
Author: Nighttime hairy legs



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:25 AM
Author: Alcoholic french dragon

But enough about Trump, who lied about his inauguration crowd sizes and cheated on his wife with a porn star.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35880909)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:23 AM
Author: Greedy Rusted Business Firm Boltzmann

Awkward, arrogant partisan hack who considers himself holier than thou and extremely concerned about optics instead of facts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857214)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:24 AM
Author: trip useless address

liberal Hank Hill who is worried that Donald Trump's handshake isn't firm

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857216)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Greedy Rusted Business Firm Boltzmann

Hank hill is far too kind a characterization. This is a guy who deliberately kept the gang of eight oversight committee in the dark about the title 1 fisa spying operation on the trump campaign for many, many months and then threw the FBI counterintelligence head under the bus when he got caught. The moment he throws him under the bus is on YouTube if you want to watch it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857221)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:29 AM
Author: aquamarine bbw area

Link it

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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:29 AM
Author: Greedy Rusted Business Firm Boltzmann

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Date: April 17th, 2018 2:29 AM
Author: trip useless address

sorry I don't follow every plot twist in this story like a soap opera the way libs do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857227)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:25 AM
Author: Alcoholic french dragon

The liberal who was a Republican for his entire life, amirite?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35880912)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 3:16 AM
Author: well-lubricated crystalline national

enormous faggot

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Date: April 17th, 2018 4:30 AM
Author: Swashbuckling geriatric nursing home

true piece of shit. would sell his own mom down the river to get ahead

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35857297)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:26 AM
Author: Alcoholic french dragon

We're not talking about Trump here. Remember that Trump bamboozled his Alzheimer's-addled father to cut his brother out of the father's will, and then discontinued health insurance for his nephew to force his brother to give up a challenge to the will.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35880922)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 4:56 AM
Author: frisky site

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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:03 AM
Author: Irradiated Spot

he's 6'8"

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Date: April 17th, 2018 5:27 AM
Author: Contagious Goyim

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Date: April 17th, 2018 8:46 PM
Author: Vigorous Flickering Hunting Ground



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Date: April 17th, 2018 8:49 PM
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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:27 AM
Author: Alcoholic french dragon

We aren't talking about Trump here. That faggot spray tans and has a combover. Fucker is in his seventies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35880926)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:53 AM
Author: Mahogany Tripping Base Coldplay Fan

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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:57 AM
Author: sapphire home stock car

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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:57 AM
Author: Stirring alpha forum

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Date: April 17th, 2018 10:01 AM
Author: insecure glittery ladyboy

Seems to have had a good reputation amongst his colleagues. He comes off as a bit of an opportunist and a little disingenuous as a civilian political celebrity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35858049)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 7:35 PM
Author: alcoholic transparent public bath love of her life

what kind of overly PC, diplomatic bullshit response is this? I expected better from you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35862928)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 7:39 PM
Author: insecure glittery ladyboy

It's my honest opinion. I don't really have strong or edgy political views.

Everyone seems to have respected him professionally. Now that he's out of the FBI, to me, it looks like he's trying to leverage the drama he, in part, created to make a name for himself and put money in his pockets. It rubs me the wrong way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35862961)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 10:01 AM
Author: Chest-beating salmon associate

Freak

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Date: April 17th, 2018 8:41 PM
Author: diverse demanding center

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Date: April 17th, 2018 8:42 PM
Author: wine cerebral den mood



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Date: April 17th, 2018 8:44 PM
Author: Nighttime hairy legs

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Date: April 17th, 2018 8:47 PM
Author: Hyperactive Point

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Date: April 17th, 2018 8:52 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal angry internal respiration

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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:02 AM
Author: arousing gay wizard

this

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Date: April 20th, 2018 9:42 AM
Author: 180 property fat ankles

He made the right call in two very ethically challenging situations. Other than that he seems like a faggot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35880641)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:15 AM
Author: Supple Offensive Parlor Striped Hyena

Pretty sure he covered his own ads and then called it ethics.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35880864)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:19 AM
Author: vengeful set

False dichotomy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35880876)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:03 AM
Author: sickened pocket flask twinkling uncleanness

They weren't ethically challenging situations, and he made exactly the wrong calls. He couldn't have handled things any worse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35881188)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: vengeful set

You think he should have sat on bad facts about Hillary in order to avoid harming her electoral chances?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35881202)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 9:03 PM
Author: fishy goal in life crotch

She should have been indicted. Anyone else would’ve been.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35896773)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 1:21 AM
Author: vengeful set

That wasn't the ethically challenging situation I was referring to.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35898292)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:08 PM
Author: shaky quadroon brethren



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Date: April 20th, 2018 9:56 AM
Author: primrose floppy church main people

http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954616&mc=2&forum_id=2

This says all you need to know about him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35880736)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:15 AM
Author: maniacal filthy knife



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Date: April 20th, 2018 10:15 AM
Author: Supple Offensive Parlor Striped Hyena

Coward with no strength of character.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35880868)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: Excitant Headpube

Aspie weirdo and treasonous deep state operative. He should be convicted and then executed on the National Mall as a warning to those who would follow his path.

He is also proof that anyone who gets high praise as a man of integrity from influential people in DC is assuredly a liar and a dirtbag.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35881221)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:00 PM
Author: bateful liquid oxygen

Patriot who always wanted to do the right thing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35893712)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:08 PM
Author: shaky quadroon brethren



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:12 PM
Author: Odious Chocolate Codepig Pisswyrm

lol wlmas

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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:09 PM
Author: shaky quadroon brethren

Best personnel choice Obama ever made. Hero who saved the country from Crooked and Trump

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35893754)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:10 PM
Author: Curious copper chad

His book sucks. Skimmed it in a B&N, exactly what you would expect.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35893760)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 12:13 PM
Author: Coiffed Mentally Impaired Tank

Traitorous scum

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35893767)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 8:42 PM
Author: fishy goal in life crotch

Really selectively-outraged, bitchy piece from Hillary’s ex-communications director, Jennifer Palmieri:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/21/james-comey-book-review-clinton-jennifer-palmieri-218061

I have never met Jim Comey. We overlapped briefly in the Obama administration—he, as FBI director; I as director of communications at the White House—have mutual friends and even the same literary agents. We’ve lived important parallel experiences. In 2016, I led the communications team on Hillary Clinton’s campaign in a race where Comey’s interjections helped throw the election to Donald Trump.

I don’t harbor ill will toward him. Our mutual friends attest to his high character, and his book, A Higher Loyalty, shows him to be a thoughtful person, generous boss and a colleague who—despite being prone to bouts of self-absorption—seems able to laugh at himself. Even though he is a Republican, I have never thought that he allowed his personal political views to drive his decisions as FBI director. I also value Comey’s adherence to a “higher loyalty” beyond the president to upholding the rule of law, and how he stood up to Trump’s inappropriate pressure even when it was clear it would cost him his job.

But what Comey’s actions and book reveal is a tendency toward a corrupting belief that his “higher loyalty”—which lifted him above partisan politics—somehow bestowed upon him the right to take actions that were well beyond his role as FBI director. It’s a very dangerous attitude, and one that resulted in him taking unprecedented actions in the investigation into Clinton’s emails, with devastating consequences.

In 2013, when President Barack Obama nominated Comey to head the FBI, he seemed like an ideal FBI nominee for a Democratic president. He was a Republican who had credibility with Democrats for famously standing up to President George W. Bush’s staff when they made a surprise hospital visit in an attempt to get an ailing Attorney General John Ashcroft to approve a domestic surveillance program the Department of Justice believed to be unlawful. Comey was the deputy attorney general at the time, and I respected his willingness to stand up to the White House in defense of the law and his boss. But it made me uneasy that he made sure the press knew all about his heroic stand. In my experience, officials like that have a hard time staying in his or her lane and out of the spotlight.

My unease grew in October 2015, when I watched from the campaign trail as Comey gave a speech in which he speculated that a recent rise in murder rates could be due to a “chill wind” police felt in reaction to protests and threats against them after the killing of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. It was a surprising speech. The FBI director had veered from the bureau’s purview of investigating crime into the Department of Justice’s purview of making policy, something I found to be a troubling encroachment and one he would repeat with devastating consequences during the Clinton email investigation.

I do believe that if it were not for Comey’s letter, Clinton would have won. Reading between the lines in his memoir, it’s clear that Comey also believes this to be true. He doesn’t say that, but that’s my impression from the complicated and sometimes contradictory explanations he offers of his conduct, as well as the anecdotes he chooses to share of Obama and other Democrats saying nice things to him after the election (I didn’t read their comments as absolving him of responsibility, by the way; they were just kind).

I want to be clear: I am not saying Comey bears sole responsibility for the Clinton campaign’s loss. There were many factors that led to that outcome, and his action was just the final one.

His July 5 press conference, in which he appointed himself Hillary Clinton’s investigator, prosecutor, judge and jury, was his original sin. No FBI director had ever made such a public pronouncement at the conclusion of an investigation. Comey justifies the press conference by writing that he sought to wrap up the investigation in a way that would “persuade a majority of fair and open-minded Americans” that the investigation had been done in an honest and nonpolitical manner.

It’s a laudatory goal. But it’s also not his job. If it is anyone’s duty to worry about the public’s reaction to an FBI investigation, it is the job of the attorney general and his or her deputies. Ironically, Comey’s drive to appear nonpolitical drove him head first into a political maelstrom. And once he had established the practice of publicly commenting on the Clinton case, it made his next devastating step to send the October 28 letter all the easier to justify in his own mind.

Incredibly, and with seemingly no self-awareness that he was falling prey to making decisions based on the very kind of political considerations he claims to eschew, Comey has said that he sent that ill-fated letter to Capitol Hill on October 28 in part because he believed that Clinton was going to win and didn’t want her to be considered an illegitimate president.

Again: Not his job. Let me worry about that; I am the political person.

A friend of mine who is a Trump supporter told me I should call this piece “Dear Madam Director,” because a female FBI director would never have made the same decisions he did. I think there’s some truth to that. His ego clearly got in the way. Despite Comey’s claims he took the actions he did to protect the FBI’s reputation and make sure a President Hillary Clinton wasn’t elected under a cloud of suspicion, I suspect his concern was more about his own ego and protecting his own reputation from attacks from Republican members of Congress.

But even if his only motivation in taking these actions had been to explain his decisions for the good of the FBI and the new president, it was still beyond the scope of his role. I am sure it would have been frustrating for him to sit mute while partisans attacked the FBI for its decision not to pursue a case against Clinton, but it would have been the right thing to do—just as I am sure it was frustrating for Obama to, as Comey describes in his book, sit mute in the Oval Office after the 2016 election while Comey told him how much he would miss Obama and how he dreaded the next four years under Trump.

In that moment, I am sure Obama would have liked to react to what Comey said and express his own concerns about the new president and maybe even give Comey some advice that could have been helpful to him. But Obama knew that regardless of how well-intended any comments of his might be, devoid of partisan politics and delivered in the spirit of helping the country, it would have been beyond his role as president to deliver them.

There is no telling the damage one can do in a republic when you mistake your will to do good with an authority to do what you judge to be right.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3951369&forum_id=2#35896616)



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 8:56 PM
Author: fishy goal in life crotch

“A friend of mine who is a Trump supporter told me I should call this piece “Dear Madam Director,” because a female FBI director would never have made the same decisions he did. ”

P.S. This person is fictional.

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Date: April 22nd, 2018 8:57 PM
Author: tan hyperventilating weed whacker



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Date: April 22nd, 2018 8:57 PM
Author: doobsian stag film

I bought into his integrity schtick. Boy was I wrong.

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Date: April 22nd, 2018 9:02 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle magenta halford

what. a. bitch.

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Date: April 22nd, 2018 9:48 PM
Author: opaque blathering corner trust fund

Sanctimonious deep state shithead. His book makes it clear he despised Trump deeply all along instead of being the dispassionate, bipartisan boy scout he made himself out to be.

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Date: April 23rd, 2018 1:49 AM
Author: bright pontificating multi-billionaire principal's office

180 and making this whole charade into the best entertainment my whole life

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