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'Shirtless' FBI Agent Who Hunted Petraeus Also Helped Stop LA Bombing

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)11/15/2012 1:38:39 pm PST

re: #21 Buck

There you go again mixing up the word proof with evidence.

I didn’t mix it up, I used it on purpose.

EVIDENCE that the investigation was delayed so as not to arise during the election: An FBI Agents concern that he felt was so important that he took it to Eric Cantor.

Actually, he didn’t take it to Cantor. Nobody is saying that. People are saying he took it to Humphries, but other people are saying he didn’t, that it just filtered up. It’s probably ass-covering on his part, but it might be true. Anyway, it wasn’t Cantor.

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And again: That’d not evidence of why it was delayed. That is what you’re missing, and what you don’t have anything to support.

EVIDENCE that the investigation was delayed so as not to arise during the election: There was a period of months after the proof of the affair was uncovered before it was exposed, and it was exposed the day after the election.

That’s very weak evidence, though. Especially if the aim was to avoid ‘embarassing’ Obama, it would have been revealed immediately, because whatever embarrassment would entail from it would have been gone long before the election. So that point kind of works against you.

However, today we do see evidence that the President will not answer questions citing an ongoing criminal investigation. Despite the fact that so far this matter is not criminal but only a judgement error on the part of the CIA Director. Pretending that he can’t answer questions about the scandal does make him seem embarrassed.

To right-wing people inside their bubble, sure. To ordinary Americans? No. The FBI is investigating something and Obama isn’t going to comment on it because that’d be improper. I’m interested in why you think this isn’t an ongoing criminal investigation, though. Can you explain that bit?