FBI Director James Comey Tried To Reveal Russian Tampering Months

>“Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency,” the report stated, adding that the U.S. intelligence community had “high confidence” in its judgments. “We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.”

>While news outlets reported in June that Russian hackers accessed Democratic National Committee emails, U.S. intelligence agencies didn’t confirm that the Russian government was trying to influence the election until months later. On March 20, Comey told the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI has, since July, been investigating Russian interference in the election and whether there was collusion between Moscow and associates of Trump.

>Comey has previously written to a major news outlet. In 2014, when the FBI was facing criticism because an agent had posed as an Associated Press reporter as part of an investigation, Comey wrote a letter for publication in The New York Times defending the agent.

>“It falls in line with his willingness or his determination to be transparent,” says Frank Montoya Jr., a former special agent in charge of the FBI’s Seattle division and the former head of national counterintelligence.

>For supporters of Hillary Clinton, news of the op-ed adds to the frustration over Comey’s public disclosure of details about the investigation into her emails, including at a July press conference, but not about the probe involving Russia and Trump, which began that same month.
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>“This raises a lot of questions,” says Jarad Geldner, a senior adviser for the Democratic Coalition Against Trump, which filed a complaint with the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility over Comey’s disclosures about the Clinton investigation. “That raises the question of why Comey or [the Department of Justice] or the White House felt that it was OK to hold that [July] press conference on Hillary Clinton’s emails but not to go public with this.”

>But the source with knowledge of Comey’s request says that the FBI director wanted the Russian interference made public earlier and that it was a sluggish White House that denied Comey and delayed the announcement. “The White House shut it down,” that source says. “They did their usual—nothing.” Both sources spoke to Newsweek on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to the press.

>Asked about Comey’s push to write an op-ed over the summer, a spokesperson for the FBI says by email, “In general we have not been adding to the director’s comments regarding Russia at the March 20 hearing.” A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. A spokesman for Barack Obama could not immediately be reached.

I thought it was common knowledge that all countries try to actively influence the elections of all other countries for the betterment of their own country

>>126811
>actively influence
>tampering
>meddling
>interference
One of these things is not like the other.

>>126812
>Meaningless buzzword
>Meaningless buzzword
>Meaningless buzzword
>Meaningless buzzword

Nope, all look the same to me

>>126813
They're only meaningless buzzword to those who choose to ignore the meaning. What does sand taste like when you stick your head in it?

>>126818
The manner in which they are being used makes them all but interchangeable and meaningless.

We all know what Russia did, it was advanced and targeted propaganda. But like >>126811 said, all countries do similar and while the scope may have been larger in this case it doesn't deserve the sheer weight of publicity and demonisation it is getting.

I just can't trust Comey on anything. It sounds like he wants to pick the side where he comes out on top, but he can't figure out which side that is.

>>126807

What should have they have done?

>We the FBI confirm Vladdy wants Danny Dumph to win for their interest. The Russian hacker known as 4chan sent an e-mail with a BITdotLEE link to Clinty Cunt's campaign chair and somehow this led to the hacker getting top secret documents that the campaign chair and Clinty Cunt have been sending over G-mail for some reason. We can't say vote for Clinty Cunt but surely this other candidate must be working for the Russians.

>While Clinty Cunt has received several millions in speaking fees from foreign governments these don't count as payments from foreign governments so it's legal. Danny Dumphs candidate for secretary of memes being a part of a $30k endeavor by RT - the Brussian Broadcasting Corporation - IS a 30k bribe by a foreign government and that's bad (even if he received no money at all the food was really good). Even though Clinty Cunt oftentimes gets a payment shortly before or after hiring a foreign official for her personal charity group this is no way related to foreign nations buying influence of candidates.

Or they could be apolitical and announce that the DNC has indeed been hacked, and after classified information starting appearing in wikileaks state that there was classified information in there for some reason.

Obama could have announced that the Russians were trying to undermine the election at any time but, if memory serves, because Trump was running on a platform that the election was indeed rigged, Obama likely didn't want to agree with him: politicians must be the exact opposite in any and all ideas come election time.

ITT: Obama dragged his feet and let Trump win.

Though if his plan was to keep Hillary out while banking that Trump would get impeached anyway, I'd have new respect for the man.

After all the constant Trump bashing, seeing a thread taking the piss out of Clinton is surprisingly refreshing.

>>126840
>implying this isn't about how the Russians were helping Trump during the campaign
>implying Trump didn't know
>implying Trump doesn't deserve every bit of the bashing

>>126839
If Obama had stepped in before the election it would have allowed Putin, and RT to go
>see, see there is no democracy in america.
>It's a sham, they're no better than us!
He was fucked no matter what he did. Honestly though Trump could be a good thing for the democratic party. They desperately need to rebuild at the state level and the best way to do that is having an unpopular president from the other side in the white house.

I hate this Russia meme

>>126866
...if that wasn't exactly what the dems did to get Trump elected in the first place.

>>126866
I have to wonder what a Hillary win would have done to them. Having to endorse/defend everything she did in office probably wouldn't sit well with the rest of the country. Then again, the media gave Obama a constant pass so who knows.

>>126877
Obama was charismatic and a lot of criticisms against him were easy to disbelieve by Dems/Independents. Hillary wouldn't have gotten the pass because she's extremely unlikable and unpassionate, like a robot. She's also deeply connected to Bill and the New Democrats, who represent everything people don't want in the left right now (focus on social issues to drive out voters, don't give a shit about economic issues as you deregulate, and condescend to the poor and attack the conservative base rather then the party).

>>126879
If the Left circles the wagons around Sarah Nyberg, I'd bet you they'd do the same for Hillary. It would probably require the media to straight up ignore half the shit she'd pull though. Engaging is what would inflict the most self-damage.

>>126819
>cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck

>>126882
99.9% of the left doesn't know who Sarah Nyberg is. Most liberals aren't on twitter you know.

>>126819
Ivan please

>>126879
Clinton is a lunatic who wants to spark a nuclear war. We all know she's an anti-Russian bigoted far left warmonger nut who bakes children from her pedophile ring into pizzas that she uses for cannibalistic rituals. The sad thing is all the democrats parroting or believing her insane bullshit, she was always considered a wing-nut in the Democratic party but her xenophobic red-baiting McCarthyite cult religion is now the official position of the DNC, congressional democrats and the mainstream media. Clinton's insanity is now being embraced by the corporate left.

>>126925
t. Sergei

>>126886
There's cucks everywhere. Its one of the cancers on society.

>>126807
http://investmentwatchblog.com/noam-chomsky-world-is-laughing-at-claims-russia-hacked-election/


>The rest of the world is “collapsing in laughter” at the Democratic Party’s attempt to blame “Russian hacking” for Hillary Clinton’s election loss, according to Noam Chomsky.

>Only the most naive liberal could possibly believe the DNC’s talking point at this stage, Chomsky argues, as almost four months have passed since the losing Clinton campaign first made the claim – and since then absolutely no evidence has been produced.

>“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” as Carl Sagan said.

>But despite the lack of any evidence at all, mainstream media has run with the Democratic Party issued propaganda, giving “analysts” like John Podesta, now employed by the Washington Post as a columnist, a free pass to toss around lies and slander, without even threatening to produce any evidence.

>It’s all hot air and bluster from the Democrats at the moment and even leftwing figures like Noam Chomsky are calling them out on their lies.

>>126934

>Speaking at the University of Arizona, before a public audience, Professor Chomsky responded to a question about the mainstream media’s role in reporting on the “Russian hacking”.

>“Most of the world is just collapsing in laughter. Suppose all the charges are true, I mean every single one, it is so amateurish by US standards that you can hardly even laugh.“

>Chomsky points out that the rest of the world know the United States would never let itself be “hacked” by a foreign country. Why? Because hacking foreign countries is what the United States does best. Nobody hacks the master hacker.

>“The first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile,” Chomsky said, referring to the CIA-backed coup that overthrew Chile’s president Salvador Allende. “We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a party? This record is all over the world, constantly overthrowing governments, invading, forcing people to follow what we call democracy, as in the cases I mentioned.”

>“As I say, if every (Russian hacking) charge is accurate, it’s a joke, and I’m sure half the world is collapsing in laughter about this, because people outside the United States know it. You don’t have to tell people in Chile about the first 9/11.“

>>126934
>>126936
Paul Mannafort and Michael Flynn are fake CIA plants invented by our media to take us into a nuclear war to kill of every single person in the world. The deep state is rabid for power, and the extinction of the human race is the least of the things it is willing to sacrifice to obtain and maintain it. They have shelters to go to while they wait it out. This is going to be an ongoing thing. This is why they are trying to undermine a democratically ELECTED person with their false allegations, allegations of lying, and personal attacks against him.

Every day they're going to contrive to create an alternate reality, one in which they didn't get caught rigging the election, one in which they were the victims of "The Russians". If they don't change the truth to their new "alternate facts" about Russia...their careers and their power is lost for ever, because we Americans don't want to spy on others. We Americans don't want the CIA, FBI, or NSA. We Americans don't need any of that so called intelligence shit, and the sooner we stop spying on others and ourselves, the better.

Any case, don't expect them to stop trying to kill every one of us any time soon.

>>126934
>>126936
Eh, Chomsky and his crowd will always take the contrarian stance to whatever the US says. US says NK tested a nuclear missile, Chomsky will say that never happened and the US is just trying to start a war. US says Russia is in Ukraine, Chomsky will say they aren't. And when antagonistic parties are caught red handed, Chomsky will say it's the US's fault because we pushed them to do it/created the situation for it/false flagged it/ and so on. bin Laden didn't attack us he's a shithead throwing a hissy fit from the US being on his holy land, but reasonably lashing out against the US for being the ultimate evil in Chomsky's world view. If you get punched in the face, Chomsky asks you to hold up a mirror and look at yourself while being wailed on.

Chomsky and his followers are the reason why conservatives could point to liberals and say we're a bunch of bleeding heart anti-patriots who love our enemies more then our country. Of course, that's not to say that Chomsky is always wrong, or that the government hasn't lied us into all sorts of horrible quagmires (Vietnam, McCarthyism, Iraq), just that Chomsky has a heavy bias that will almost always lead him to kneejerking into the completely opposite stance of whatever the US establishment is claiming. There's a balance here between skepticism (which is where I was until Flynn was sacked) and ignoring anything that doesn't fit your biases.

Also, I read shit like the British news, and they seem to be pretty divided. Germany seems to be concerned about NATO/EU's future and Trump-Putin friendliness, and France is actually investigating some of its politicians for taking money under the table from Russia, so I don't necessarily think they're laughing. If anything, they seem really confused and slightly alarmed, which is pretty much where we're at right now. Also, we're not going to go to war with Russia. That's stupid. If we wanted to bomb somebody, we'd just pick a non nuclear shithole, like we're doing now.

>>126952
Chomsky also said this:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/noam-chomsky-donald-trump-fake-terror-attack-false-flag-supporters-fanbase-policies-budget-cuts-a7655186.html

which is fucking nuts. I don't like Trump, but I don't think he's anywhere near that bad.

In any case, the safest way for them to do it if they really wanted to go to war is simply look the other way when they get a whiff of terrorist shenanigans, not stage a falseflag. Get with the times, Noam.

Unless they have a smoking gun, propaganda isn't a good enough reason. They need to put up or shut up. Stop using misleading headlines when all you've got is ambiguity.

>>126955
There are like 5 smoking guns, the latest of which is Flynn agreeing to testify in exchange for immunity. What would he need immunity from if he didn't do anything wrong?

>>126957
Flynn’s Public Offer to Testify for Immunity Suggests He May Have Nothing to Say: https://www.justsecurity.org/39426/explainer-flynns-request-immunity/

>>126925
I genuinely don't think the woman has a passionate enough bone in her body for any of that. She's like someone programmed a shitty politician and accidentally put it in a ladies body.

>>126957
>What would he need immunity from if he didn't do anything wrong?
The "witch hunt" by the media explicitly mentioned in his press release.

https://twitter.com/robkelner/status/847590575352270850

https://archive.fo/YL6m8
>According to the report, Flynn made the offer to the FBI, the House intelligence committee and the Senate intelligence committee.
>Spokespeople for both the chairman and ranking member of the House intelligence committee denied the report.
>“No, Michael Flynn has not offered to testify to [the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] in exchange for immunity,” Jack Langer, a spokesman for House intelligence committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), wrote in an email to The Huffington Post.
>A committee aide said committee Democrats “have not received an offer to testify to the committee for immunity.”
>An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment on the report. Spokespeople for the chairman and ranking member of the Senate committee did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
>Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, confirmed in a statement that “discussions have taken place” with both committees, but declined to provide details on what those discussions entailed.

>>126976
>The "witch hunt" by the media explicitly mentioned in his press release.
I'm imagining how FoxNews would flip its shit if the shoe was on the other foot and Podesta had said that.

>>126974
She does have a weird warboner though. As if she were some vampire feeding on spilled blood or something.