re: #230 EPR-radar

Comey is a legal professional. If he writes a letter that is ambiguous enough to mean different things to different people, there’s a good chance it was intentional, which suggests ratfucking.

About the only thing I’ve seen in this mess to indicate possible good faith by Comey is that the letter apparently had to be a rush job to pre-empt a likely leak.

Yeah, that was going to be my remark, that Comey put enough ambiguity into that letter to drive a semi through. He knew that he was basically giving his buddies in Congress a blank cheque to spin whatever “She’s been caught lying again!” story they wanted. It’s just like how he insisted that his June press conference editorial was to justify his actions, when really all it was was his standing at the podium and going right up to the point of accusing her of a crime but not doing so.

The man is a career lawyer with years as a US Attorney and DAG under his belt. He knows just how far he can push the rules before he’s broken them. There’s no reason to believe that his action in this was anything but a deliberate attempt to throw the GOP a bone in the last weeks of the election.