Are you disputing he made materially false statements to the FBI? If not, then of course he put his freedom at risk. I see that you ignored the 'job' part which is of course also ample blackmail material.
I'm not sure why you're trying to deny the obvious so hard.
I'm not "disputing" that he made "materially false" statements. He is. I'm saying (for the umpteenth time) IDK and am waiting to see what the transcript says. My refusal to take your word for it is not 'disputing"; it's simply skepticism
Even giving you the absolute most charitable interpretation you think holding information over someone that might (in this case, would) get them fired is 'zero opportunity for blackmail'? I don't know what world you live in.
You're acting as if you know what was said. If you don't know, you can't reasonably make such assertions.
Again, the fucking White House is being investigated by the FBI for espionage. THAT is an insanely huge deal. We should all be focused on that and the fact that Republicans (and you) want to focus on leaks instead shows just how sick partisanship has become.
I don't see any claim of "espionage". I see a claim of possible collusion to influence an election. And I have seen Clapper say there's no evidence of it.
I think it's you who demonstrating the partisanship. Look, everybody knows that the Dems want the focus on the election stuff and you're here representing their wishes. Again, already Clapper has said there is no evidence for it. So I find it hard to get all excited about it. And we know that the Repubs want to focus on the leaks. Fine, they both have their strategies for political drama for the the hearings.
Fine, let Mr. Comey investigate. But I believe Comey to be a bumbling idiot with terrible judgement. My opinion of him was cast when took a 3rd bite at the Hillary email thingy. His announcement that they had found Weiner's laptop had Hillary's email on it and were investigating her more, and 24 or 48 hours later hopping up to say, 'welp, nothing there; they're emails we already have!'. Hey dumbass, why not just wait the 24/48 hours to see if there's anything there before speaking up? The guy's a boob.
Throughout the Hillary email issue he violated the FBI policy of not commenting on investigations; not confirming that they're investigating. Well, here he is again. It didn't escape my notice that he declined comment, as per FBI policy, on any investigation of the leak. Yet, there he goes again overriding FBI policy by announcing an investigation into collusion during the election. I don't know what to make of the guy (other than he's an idiot with bad judgement.)
No one has come forth with any evidence of collusion. Clapper has said there's no evidence of it. All you have is Comey saying the FBI is investigating. A year ago I might have been somewhat alarmed by his statement. Now, after the Hillary email debacle? No, you gotta be kidding me.
However, I'm very alarmed that our govt institutions now look
both incompetent and politicized. I'm faaaaar more worried about that than some alleged Russian hacking. I expect them (and us) to do that. I expect them to try and influence our elections. I expect (and support) us trying to influence theirs. I publicly supported (here at ATPN) the Obama admin and Hilary trying to influence the Ukraine elections. This so much 'business as usual'.
Now, having one US politician collude with a foreign govt to influence our election is NOT 'business as usual'. But before I get my panties in a bunch I wanna see something. At this point I haven't even seen a decent conspiracy theory as to why and how this could even occur. Maybe someone on a proggy websites has fleshed it out (if so, link me up pls). Over here at ATPN, and in the news, every accusation of collusion I've seen is exceedingly vague amounting to not much more than 'OMG! Russians! Collusion!' I want to see some accusations, even if no evidence whatsoever, of how Trump colluded and why Trump colluded. What's he accused of giving as a quid pro quo etc?
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