FOX Sunday James Comey, Pam Bondi and Rep. Adam Schiff talk FISA report, impeachment on 'Fox News Sunday'
I mean here is a professional who admits that personnel screwed up on his watch, that he made statements that were incorrect, and notes that improvements needs to be made.
Just imagine if Trump showed a tenth of that kind of professionalism and humility. Or even one hundredth for that matter. :-)
I mean could you imaging Trump saying...
I mean here is a professional who admits that personnel screwed up on his watch, that he made statements that were incorrect, and notes that improvements needs to be made.
Just imagine if Trump showed a tenth of that kind of professionalism and humility. Or even one hundredth for that matter. :-)
I mean could you imaging Trump saying...
James Comey: He's right. I was wrong. I was overconfident in the procedures that the FBI and Justice had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough. It's incredibly hard to get a FISA. I was overconfident in those. Because he's right. There was real sloppiness, 17 things that either should've been in the applications or at least discussed and characterized differently. It was not acceptable and so he's right. I was wrong.
James Comey: Sure. I'm responsible for it. That's why I'm telling you I was wrong. I was overconfident as director in our procedures and it's important that a leader be accountable and transparent. If I were still director, I'd be saying exactly the same thing that Chris Ray is saying, which is we are going to get to the bottom of this. Because the most important question is is it systemic? Are there problems in other cases?When do you think Trump will admit that he was wrong, and the FBI is an excellent organization that tries hard in a very complicated world. (hahahaha)
James Comey: Well, maybe it turns upon how we understand the word. What I mean is that the FBI was accused of treason, of illegal spying, of tapping Mr. Trump's wires illegally, of opening an investigation without justification of being a criminal conspiracy to unseat -- defeat and then unseat a president. All of that was nonsense. I think it's really important that the inspector general looked at that and that the American people, your viewers and all viewers, understand that's true.
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While Comey may be incompetent, there is at least evidence that he isn't a psychopath.
--Hiram
Hiram,
Now why do you think Comey is incompetent?
Apparently he had ~33,000 employees in the organization...
I am assuming he needs to delegate a LOT of activities.
I have a hard time catching the errors of the ~20 people I work with... :-)
All,
Concerned by Barr's actions
Now why do you think Comey is incompetent?
He mismanaged the FBI's actions in 2016. Those were his actions. I am sure the advice he was given within the organization was not to do it.
--Hiram
Because he investigated Hillary's questionable decision to use "non-government" systems and then worked to cover up what was on them?
That he noted that some of those files had escaped to someone else's PC?
Sorry, I thought that work was good.
Just as I support his supporting the investigation of Trump personnel.
The problem with Comey was that he felt free to publicly scold Hillary's actions, but didn't inform America that the Trump campaign was under investigation.
And, yet again it should be pointed out that nobody is giving any attention to the multiple times Trump personnel have been caught using non-government systems to conduct government business.
Hillary's fiasco was already in public. And he sure did not put her emails on Weiner's PC...
Where as there was and still is no proof of "collusion" between the Trump campaign. What would you have him say about the Trump campaign before Nov2016?
I agree it is wrong the Trump and his cronies are hypocrites, that is not on Comey.
"Hillary's fiasco was already in public. And he sure did not put her emails on Weiner's PC..."
Comey moralized about Hillary's situation. And it should have been easily apparent that the emails on Weiner's computer were in fact duplicates of emails they had already seen.
"Where as there was and still is no proof of "collusion" between the Trump campaign. What would you have him say about the Trump campaign before Nov2016?"
Nope, not true. Plenty of evidence of "collusion", but not chargeable crimes. What would I have him say? That Trump campaign associates were under investigation for various foreign-related crimes. After all, it turns out Manafort, Gates, and others were in fact performing criminal acts.
"Easily apparent" that somehow secure emails wandered their way on to a laptop where a normal citizen stored his porn... Come on now, even you must say that Hillary and crew screwed the pooch with their self created mess.
Now please remember that Manafort was only Trump's Chairman from June 20 to August 19, 2016.
And apparently Carter Page was also ousted as soon as his connections were noted...
Trump announced Page as a foreign policy adviser in his campaign on March 21, 2016.[30] On September 23, 2016, Yahoo News reported U.S. intelligence officials investigated alleged contacts between Page and Russian officials subject to U.S. sanctions, including Igor Sechin, the president of state-run Russian oil conglomerate Rosneft.[4] Page promptly left the Trump campaign
What would you announce? Trump fires suspected Russian operatives?
""Easily apparent" that somehow secure emails wandered their way on to a laptop"
They didn't wander. They were forwarded by Weiner's wife. It's really not that difficult to comprehend.
"Now please remember that Manafort was only Trump's Chairman from June 20 to August 19, 2016."
Sure, but he worked for Trump since March. While he was there the Trump Tower meeting took place as well as the Russia-friendly change to the Republican platform as well as several other Russia contacts that they tried to cover up.
"What would you announce?"
Did you not read my previous post? This was specifically answered.
Because he investigated Hillary's questionable decision to use "non-government" systems and then worked to cover up what was on them?
No. His reopening of the investigation, publicly, at the climax of the campaign.
I generally assume anything put on any email is insecure because it is. Hillary was being insecure whenever she sent any email on any server. Perhaps the most naive assumption of all that the government server she could have used was more secure than the one she had in her basement.
One thing that makes email secure, and it's a lesson to us all, is that no one can control what happens to it after it is sent.
--Hiram
2,800 Clinton related emails forwarded ??? And you don't see that as an issue?
I just don't think your statement is correct...
"inform America that the Trump campaign was under investigation."
Before November it seems that it was people who "had worked for the Trump campaign" that were under investigation... Not the campaign itself.
2,800 Clinton related emails forwarded ???
Was any single one of those emails incapable of being forwarded? Email is insecure. That simply isn't something that's reasonably disputable. Believe me on this. If you put something on the internet, it is no longer secret.
--Hiram
"2,800 Clinton related emails forwarded ??? And you don't see that as an issue?"
It seems like an issue for Huma Abedin, perhaps (although ultimately not). Was it worthy of an announcement one week before the election, especially when still sitting on the Trumpworld investigations? Probably not.
"Before November it seems that it was people who "had worked for the Trump campaign" that were under investigation..."
OK, then announce that.
Apparently someone leaked it on 23Sep16.
Hiram,
Encrypted email is pretty secure. Unless you for some reason send or put it on your husband the perverts computer...
I certainly wouldn't assume it is is secure. Certainly not secure enough to use it when sending sensitive information.
==Hiram
"Apparently someone leaked it on 23Sep16."
There's a big difference between a leaked media report that didn't get a ton of play and the FBI Director holding a press conference where he gives a 15-minute speech about the situation and calls it "extremely careless". It's perhaps the only time in FBI history that their prosecutorial recommendation was made in public. Comey's behavior was described by the DoJ inspector general as "insubordinate" and a "serious error in judgment".
Hiram,
Interesting advice, I'll tell my bosses that we need to stop using email... :-)
Sean,
Lynch was about as screwy as Barr, no wonder Comey broached protocol since he knew they sure wouldn't.
"Lynch was about as screwy as Barr"
You can try to "both sides" this all you want, but that dog ain't gonna hunt.
I'll tell my bosses that we need to stop using email... :-)
Presumably, you don't use it for confidential matters. I am often amazed at what people will put in an email, and how often they are the main evidence in criminal trials. My guess is that if House prosecutors got their hands on Trump emails, the results would be disastrous for the president. The president himself is very cagey. His decades in New York real estate have trained him to think any phone call he makes could be tapped, and so he avoids saying a lot of things that might be incriminating.
--Hiram
I thought he just blocks the Congress' access to them...
Again, encrypted email is secure unless someone has a warrant...
Ask Hillary... :-)
I thought he just blocks the Congress' access to them...
He does. And it's an impeachable offense. Congress has the power to impeach.
The transcript Trump talks about was held on a secure computer. Yet it became public. Perhaps the most basic thing to know in our computer age is that information we put on a computer is not secure. If you don't want to read it on the front page of the Times, don't put it on a computer.
--Hiram
Technically Trump allowed the summary / transcript to be released.
And yes it is important to remember that when you write, email, text, talk, etc to be aware that it may be used against you...
Technically Trump allowed the summary / transcript to be released.
And that's overwhlemingly what happens. People spill the beans and the fact that it's on a computer puts the beans in an easily transmissible form. That's what's insecure. It's why it's so risky to put confidential information on a computer.
--Hiram
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