@snoopydawg

I was in bed reading on my phone. It won't give me the embed link. Any how, I got up to put in my two cents.

It is all kabuki. Comey is deep state. He is loyal to it, and the role he plays in it. I'm sure he thinks he's an upstanding public servant. His leak to the NYT was a "good" leak. Think he'll be prosecuted and exiled for leaking? Hell no. He's one of them. They do the crime but not the time.

What haven't they handed over to the private sector? When profit-driven, private contractors are the government, why would I believe anything my government says?

This is the only statement that should carry any weight.

BURR: Are you confident that no votes cast in the 2016 presidential election were altered?
COMEY: I'm confident. When I left as director I had seen no indication of that whatsoever.

See? He said that not one vote was altered by the Russians. That should put this ridiculous subject to rest. We have been told over and over that Russia interfered with the election. We haven't been told that they ONLY TRIED to interfere with the election. Big, big difference.

As to this

BURR: What would be the estimate of how many entities out there the Russians specifically targeted in that time frame?

COMEY: It's hundreds. I suppose it could be more than 1,000, but it's at least hundreds.

Where is the proof to back up his statement? They have had to retract their statement that all 17 intelligence agencies have confirmed that Russia interfered with the election, when it's only 3-4 agencies that say it now.

As to the rest of the interactions, dkmitch said what I'm thinking. gulfgal has said many times that the DNC is a private company and this is like going to war because someone might have tried to hack my email account.
Sane Progressive

@snoopydawg You, apparently do not know what the Democrats mean when they say "interfered". They mean, "Russia told us the truth about some things and we got pissed." Their righteous indignation doesn't depend on election tampering. It's just as simple as, "Someone on RT said something which caused people to mistrust the US government." It doesn't matter if that thing is true.

Yes, in their warped little world view it is much better that our own politicians lie to us than Russian politicians tell us the truth.

This is the only statement that should carry any weight.

BURR: Are you confident that no votes cast in the 2016 presidential election were altered?
COMEY: I'm confident. When I left as director I had seen no indication of that whatsoever.

See? He said that not one vote was altered by the Russians. That should put this ridiculous subject to rest. We have been told over and over that Russia interfered with the election. We haven't been told that they ONLY TRIED to interfere with the election. Big, big difference.

As to this

BURR: What would be the estimate of how many entities out there the Russians specifically targeted in that time frame?

COMEY: It's hundreds. I suppose it could be more than 1,000, but it's at least hundreds.

Where is the proof to back up his statement? They have had to retract their statement that all 17 intelligence agencies have confirmed that Russia interfered with the election, when it's only 3-4 agencies that say it now.

As to the rest of the interactions, dkmitch said what I'm thinking. gulfgal has said many times that the DNC is a private company and this is like going to war because someone might have tried to hack my email account.
Sane Progressive

@snoopydawg

Ummmmm, American interests are hacking everybody's emails.

Can we please go to war against public/corporate 'intelligence' companies spying on everybody and globally destroying everyone's 'national security' by creating/exploiting computer/phone/'smart appliance' device vulnerabilities which enable any capable criminal to hack into our personal/medical/banking/credit card/identity stuff online, hold our systems hostage or use them for criminal enterprises such as DDOS attacks?

This is the only statement that should carry any weight.

BURR: Are you confident that no votes cast in the 2016 presidential election were altered?
COMEY: I'm confident. When I left as director I had seen no indication of that whatsoever.

See? He said that not one vote was altered by the Russians. That should put this ridiculous subject to rest. We have been told over and over that Russia interfered with the election. We haven't been told that they ONLY TRIED to interfere with the election. Big, big difference.

As to this

BURR: What would be the estimate of how many entities out there the Russians specifically targeted in that time frame?

COMEY: It's hundreds. I suppose it could be more than 1,000, but it's at least hundreds.

Where is the proof to back up his statement? They have had to retract their statement that all 17 intelligence agencies have confirmed that Russia interfered with the election, when it's only 3-4 agencies that say it now.

As to the rest of the interactions, dkmitch said what I'm thinking. gulfgal has said many times that the DNC is a private company and this is like going to war because someone might have tried to hack my email account.
Sane Progressive

@dkmich
I don't know, but he sure slid his head up Mueller's ass repeatedly with his breathless admiration. Didn't Mueller participate in the cover-up of 9/11? Wasn't he one of the drum bangers for the Iraq invasion? 911

Mueller is as deep state as they get.

The other part of Comey's testimony that bugged me was how he became rapt with joy describing our "democracy" and how the US is STILL that "shining light on the hill". I guess when he doesn't have his head up Mueller's ass, it occupies his own.

Is Comey as naive as he comes across?

@Big Al

In the end, Trump will still be president, Comey will be gone and the lies about Russia will have been further ingrained into the public unonsciousness.

I was once part of that crowd, I'm sad to say.

and they'll solidify a certain false narrative while supposedly focusing on something else. In this case, the sheeple will think the focus is on Trump and his ties to the Russians while all the lies Comey just told about Russian election interference will go into their tiny pea brains further making them believe the Russians are our enemy. This is all very slick theater. In the end, Trump will still be president, Comey will be gone and the lies about Russia will have been further ingrained into the public consciousness.

@snoopydawg
I want ketchup with that. Thanks.

In perhaps the most stunning section of former FBI Director Comey's testimony today, he detailed his interaction with then Attorney General Loretta Lynch about his specific language about the Clinton Email "investigation."

~~snip~~

Under questioning by panel chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), Comey said that he was uncomfortable with the unexpected meeting Lynch had with former President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac last year. Comey said that meeting convinced him that the independence of the investigation was tainted with regard to the Justice Department and led him to go public with the bureau's findings on Clinton.

Then Comey added in later testimony that "Loretta Lynch had appearance of conflict of interest."

I too thought that the Lynch/Clinton meeting was a conflict of interest. Just like the damned Russian propaganda bull needs a special prosecutor, the investigation into Hillary's private email server should have had one too because of their tarmac meeting.
Comey testified that Lynch pressured him on the Clinton investigation

@ovals49

Hearsay, and from a company on their payroll and the Democratic Party's payroll. Another lol. Comey went from the meeting to his car to immediately type up a detailed report on his "secured" laptop. He refused to prosecute Hillary for not using a secure server, and he leaked. BUT, he typed on a secured laptop.

Propaganda:
Directed at U.S. Citizens
Fueling significant changes in foreign relations
Deflecting attention away from inappropriate/illegal conduct of the sitting President's party
Influencing the election outcome
Hiding the true face of the duopoly that has subsumed our representative democracy

All of this based on content free assessments proffered by a private IT outfit in the employ of the DNC.

BURR: But no content.

COMEY: Correct.

@lizzyh7 This is a point I usually make on this. It drives me absolutely crazy. I'm in IT and they aren't the same thing, even if the results can potentially be the same. There's a difference and I think most people are smart enough to understand it, which is why I think the language misdirection is intentional.

interchangeably, as usual muddying the water. Kabuki and for sure Comey is part of the Deep State.

@Linda Wood

No votes altered doesn't include voter rolls flipped, closed polls and long lines, secret caucus meetings and miscounts, exit polls changed to match whatever numbers they concocted.

Do you mean the DNC lawsuit? None of this even comes close to addressing it. Would you beat on a horse race if the race was fixed? Certainly not if you knew it. That is the position of the Bernie voters. If the race was fixed as we all knew, and the WikiLeaks leaks proved, and the DNC admitted in court, I want my money back. We all want our 270+ million dollars back that we gave to Bernie.

that leapt out at me had to do with:

1. the allegations about access to state voter files; and

2. the time period of warning the victims of hacking.

The first part is:

BURR: Do you have any doubt the Russian government was behind the cyber intrusion in the state voter files?

COMEY: No.

BURR: Are you confident that no votes cast in the 2016 presidential election were altered?

COMEY: I'm confident. When I left as director I had seen no indication of that whatsoever.

This appears to back up the NSA document released earlier this week about Russia getting into our state voter infrastructure.

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russia...

… The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes intelligence very recently acquired by the agency about a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the U.S. election and voting infrastructure. The report, dated May 5, 2017, is the most detailed U.S. government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light.

I think Comey's testimony here is to distract attention from the Pakistani IT specialists and from the multiple lawsuits still pending about irregularities in the 2016 primaries. All of that is now covered by the claim that Russia did it. And, whether it was the Pakistanis or the Russians, no harm was done, so in the case of the Pakistanis, nothing to see here really.

That puts the former Director of the FBI, under oath, stating to Congress that no votes cast in the 2016 presidential election were altered. That takes care of the lawsuits.

The second issue that caught my eye was about the time period involved in warning the many victims of hacking:

BURR: When did you become aware that data had been exfiltrated?

COMEY: I'm not sure exactly. I think either late '15 or early '16.

BURR: And did you, the director of the FBI, have conversations with the last administration about the risk that this posed?

COMEY: Yes.

BURR: And share with us, if you will, what actions they took.

COMEY: Well, the FBI had already undertaken an effort to notify all the victims, and that's what we consider the entities attacked as part of this massive spear-phishing campaign so we notified them in an effort to disrupt what might be ongoing, and then there was a series of continuing interactions with entities through the rest of '15 into '16, and then throughout '16, the administration was trying to decide how to respond to the intrusion activity that it saw.

What is this crap all about? Did they tell "the administration" that it was the Russians at some point? Did they only determine it was the Russians in the summer of 2016 after the DNC contractor claimed it? I find this part of Comey's story really fog-inducing. Is this law enforcement? Or is it political activity? What do you, fellow questioners, make of this?

@Linda Wood
Somehow the Seth Rich murder is tied to all of this crap. Yet another Clinton dead body.

that leapt out at me had to do with:

1. the allegations about access to state voter files; and

2. the time period of warning the victims of hacking.

The first part is:

BURR: Do you have any doubt the Russian government was behind the cyber intrusion in the state voter files?

COMEY: No.

BURR: Are you confident that no votes cast in the 2016 presidential election were altered?

COMEY: I'm confident. When I left as director I had seen no indication of that whatsoever.

This appears to back up the NSA document released earlier this week about Russia getting into our state voter infrastructure.

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russia...

… The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes intelligence very recently acquired by the agency about a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the U.S. election and voting infrastructure. The report, dated May 5, 2017, is the most detailed U.S. government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light.

I think Comey's testimony here is to distract attention from the Pakistani IT specialists and from the multiple lawsuits still pending about irregularities in the 2016 primaries. All of that is now covered by the claim that Russia did it. And, whether it was the Pakistanis or the Russians, no harm was done, so in the case of the Pakistanis, nothing to see here really.

That puts the former Director of the FBI, under oath, stating to Congress that no votes cast in the 2016 presidential election were altered. That takes care of the lawsuits.

The second issue that caught my eye was about the time period involved in warning the many victims of hacking:

BURR: When did you become aware that data had been exfiltrated?

COMEY: I'm not sure exactly. I think either late '15 or early '16.

BURR: And did you, the director of the FBI, have conversations with the last administration about the risk that this posed?

COMEY: Yes.

BURR: And share with us, if you will, what actions they took.

COMEY: Well, the FBI had already undertaken an effort to notify all the victims, and that's what we consider the entities attacked as part of this massive spear-phishing campaign so we notified them in an effort to disrupt what might be ongoing, and then there was a series of continuing interactions with entities through the rest of '15 into '16, and then throughout '16, the administration was trying to decide how to respond to the intrusion activity that it saw.

What is this crap all about? Did they tell "the administration" that it was the Russians at some point? Did they only determine it was the Russians in the summer of 2016 after the DNC contractor claimed it? I find this part of Comey's story really fog-inducing. Is this law enforcement? Or is it political activity? What do you, fellow questioners, make of this?