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James Comey answering questions at Capitol Hill today about Trump/Russia
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Kill Your Masters
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Wait he spoke about himself in 3rd person?
Like The Rock?
Lord Frieza
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I expect it to be a lot like the last conference, a lot of confirmation to things already known, but a lot of 'basically no comment' to anything we all want to know, and many will dismiss it as just the left's Benghazi still.
Fail State
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Did Trump just go full NFL Player and refer to himself by his own last name?
Lord Frieza
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He's done this multiple times. Surprised you never heard it before, he did a lot when he was campaigning before the election
The Jackdog
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expecting a ton of "no comment"
It almost doesn't matter what Comey says, biased partisans will accuse him of working for the other side. If nothing is found, dems will say he is in on the conspiracy that they were able to figure out better than him by reading articles at home, and if something is found republicans will accuse him of being a clintonite and that the whole system is rigged. Only sane people actually listen to what the director of FBI says anymore, and no one is sane anymore after the 2016 elections.
The last one was telling in many aspects. It was obvious who was a Trump shill based on the questions they were asking. I don't recall the exact specifics, but it definitely revealed information that was unknown, like how they've been investigating Trump for nearly a year at this point.
Sectorseven
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"I can't disclose information about an ongoing investigation."
There, I just saved you three hours of C-span.
There, I just saved you three hours of C-span.
psychowave
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No, like a child.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
This would be interesting to watch.
Comey is like a stretch Armstrong doll being tugged back and forth by the republican and democratic institutions. Both want to use him as a pawn.
Comey is like a stretch Armstrong doll being tugged back and forth by the republican and democratic institutions. Both want to use him as a pawn.
Yep, and we got to see Nunes suck Trumps balls in public for the first time and basically ask Comey for permission to lie to the press with fake leaks
TestOfTide
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People gotta stop thinking of Comey as "good guy" or "bad guy".
Comey is like Varys from ASoIaF. He just cares about making sure that his intel is in check.
But if he can't disclose anything from it, why even go to answer questions on it?
This...He won't comment on an existing investigation.
Dubbedinenglish
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This should be a rehash of the congressional one. May 8th is the real show though, Yates is testifying.
KernelPanic
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You know Comey is legit if both sides don't like him.
Yes that's the one to watch for.
Herr Schwarz
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Comey knows what Yates knows though right? So he'll have information he may impart before Yates can get ahead of the FBI.
Garbage. That is not what is happening.
Is this on CSPAN?
sazzy
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I've read a few different articles on him.. he essentially seems kind of like an anti-hero. I guess he has a strong history in the FBI, he's done some notable things in the past, and you can mostly be confident that he'll do whats best. If there really is something going on between Trump and Russia, you can bet he'll expose it, but if there really isn't... he'll make sure it's known. That's my opinion at least.
shnurgleton
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Lord Frieza
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No, they don't lol. If you want to say the Democrats want to use him as a 'pawn' for the Russia links, the Republicans have shown no use for past the 2016 election.
He didn't last year. Even if you want to get into the specifics of the last stage letter about the emails, the conference he had about the 'verdict' earlier in the year was unprecedented and totally inappropriate.
Dubbedinenglish
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Yates is going to detail warning Pence and the transition on Flynn being a foreign agent. Which would be pretty damning since Flynn was one of the first people appointed for the admin.
sazzy
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Waylon Drums
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Are we really going on and on about Clinton emails? Will it ever end?
WarMacheen
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This dude still going all in on those damn emails
we need those answers
we need those answers
TestOfTide
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Hence my comparison to Varys.
And just like Comey, Varys kept power by never showing allegiances either way.
Grassley is pro Trump, of course we are going to talk about dem emails.
tedrotheredro
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We may have a traitor for a president, but did you know our ex-secretary of state had a private e-mail server?
WarMacheen
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Grassley looks like he is struggling just to talk/breath.
I want Comey to just go "senator, you don't know shit"
I also hope Comey talks for the next two hours uninterrupted answering all these dumb ass questions Grassley is asking all at once.
I want Comey to just go "senator, you don't know shit"
I also hope Comey talks for the next two hours uninterrupted answering all these dumb ass questions Grassley is asking all at once.
captmcblack
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Grassley is talking about other random FBI things...it seems like he's looking to pre-emptively discredit the FBI so that it doesn't matter what is testified today.
Waylon Drums
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Holy Christ this just keeps going. How is someone supposed to respond to such a filibuster of shite?
Fail State
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Well, it's an oversight committee meeting. What do you expect?
RPGCrazied
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Time to end this, just expose him, get it over with. Get him out of office.
Fail State
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Turned it off. Neither side is there to ask actual questions.
These are just opening statements. The questions will come soon.
um.. have you never seen one of these things before? They always start with opening statements then get to the questions.