(10-31-2016 10:42 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(10-31-2016 10:08 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(10-31-2016 09:53 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(10-31-2016 09:18 AM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote:  The fact that FBI agents waited weeks to tell Comey about the potential surrounding these emails is completely disturbing and seriously calls into question the FBI's credibility.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat...story.html

How is it disturbing?

Per the WashPo:

Quote:Officials said the agents probing Clinton’s private email server did not tell the director immediately because they were trying to better assess what they had.

“It’s a step-by-step process,” said one senior law enforcement official. “There are many steps along the way that get you to a place where the director can be appropriately briefed in order to make a decision” about whether to move forward.

Investigators will now look at whether the newly uncovered emails contain classified information or other evidence that could help advance the Clinton email probe. It is possible, though, that the messages could be duplicative of others already recovered elsewhere or that they could be a collection of benign, personal notes.

So in short, the agents found these emails, and before they informed the top official at the FBI what they had, they wanted to do their due diligence and see if it was worthy of pushing it up the chain of command. At some point they did think so, and so they informed Comey. The reason Comey is getting reamed is because he did the exact opposite of that with the American people, and came out and discussed this "discovery" before there was any substantive information about what was in the discovery.

True. But, I think the proximity of the election made it more imperative that he come out with this than if he had been told, say, two months ago.

You daughter is getting married in three days. You have been told her fiancee is actually a con man, escaped from prison, who has pulled the marriage scam before. Your church does not believe in divorce. It will take three weeks to gather the evidence. Do you wait to finish the investigation?

Yes, because in this country, you are innocent until proven guilty.

Since the election cannot be moved, and there is no chance to have due process take its course, the only thing that coming out with this information, which may be nothing in the end, does is to appear to make one of the candidates look guilty.

Somehow, Jeanine Pirro (a Trump supporter) actually does a good job explaining this, probably because something similar happened to her: http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/tr...nton-email

funny, in the country you can be arrested, indicted, jailed, perp walked, tried in the press, and so forth long before you are proven guilty in a court of law. Where is the protection of absolute knowledge for those people?

he had a choice: the choice was, do I tell now that I might have incriminating emails on a candidate, or wait and maybe later announce I am advocating criminal prosecution of the President-elect, having found the proof on intent that I said was lacking in July?

Quick, what was the outcome for Tom Delay?

Not an easy choice, not is it IMO a black and white one.