November 2016 Depends on One Man.
> NOVEMBER 2016 DEPENDS ON ONE MAN. IT IS NOT TRUMP
>
>> He is the head of the FBI. We read on the FBI's site [1]
>>
>> On September 4, 2013, James B. Comey was sworn in as the seventh
>> Director of the FBI.
>>
>> A Yonkers, New York native, James Comey graduated from the College
>> of William & Mary and the University of Chicago Law School.
>> Following law school, Comey served as an assistant United States
>> attorney for both the Southern District of New York and the Eastern
>> District of Virginia. Comey returned to New York to become the U.S.
>> attorney for the Southern District of New York. In 2003, he became
>> the deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice (DOJ).
>>
>> Comey left DOJ in 2005 to serve as general counsel and senior vice
>> president at defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Five years later,
>> he joined Bridgewater Associates, a Connecticut-based investment
>> fund, as its general counsel.
>>
>> He knows how the Department of Justice works.
>>
>> If he decides that Hillary Clinton committed acts that endangered
>> the security of the United States, he can submit this evidence to
>> the Attorney General. This places a very hot potato in Loretta
>> Lynch's lap. She will drop it into President Obama's lap within 24
>> hours. If Obama does nothing, Comey waits 30 days. Then he calls a
>> press conference.
>>
>> Goodbye, Hillary. Hello . . .
>>
>> This depends on when he does this. If he does it before the
>> Democrats' convention, Sanders will win the nomination. If he does
>> it after the convention, the Republican will win the election. That
>> probably means Trump. Comey knows how the political game is played.
>> He knows that, as of today, he holds all the cards. He is not
>> holding aces over eights. He is holding four aces. All he needs to
>> do is say nothing for 30 days after he hands the file to Lynch -- no
>> threats. Just silence. If she swears him to secrecy, he can assure
>> her that he will stay silent. Then he breaks his word. After all,
>> it's government.
>>
>> I assume that he will play ball with Lynch. He sounds like an
>> establishment man to me. Wikipedia reports: "Comey is a registered
>> Republican who donated to U.S. Senator John McCain's campaign in the
>> 2008 presidential election and to Governor Mitt Romney's campaign in
>> 2012 presidential election." He does not sound like a Trump
>> supporter. But what if he thinks she is guilty? What if he faces a
>> cover-up of silence? He is a lawyer. If he thinks Obama is stiffing
>> the FBI for political reasons, he may decide to do what bureaucrats
>> do: defend his agency's turf.
>>
>> What if he waits until December, after she is elected, but before
>> she takes the oath of office? That would create the greatest foul-up
>> in American political history. She would have zero legitimacy from
>> that time forward. She would reject all calls for her to testify.
>> She would claim executive privilege. Does the word "Watergate" ring
>> a bell? He has leverage on a scale that no bureaucrat ever has.
>> Hoover had leverage, but not on this scale. The issue is public: the
>> security of her emails. Comey risks nothing if he goes public after
>> about a 30-day delay.
>>
>> After the press conference, if Obama fires him, Hillary is toast. So
>> is Obama's legacy. If Obama tells Lynch to stall until January 20,
>> Clinton II's presidency is toast. Obama probably escapes intact. If
>> Comey deep-sixes the findings, the political dance goes on. Will he
>> deep-six it? I don't know. It depends on his sense of justice.
Links:
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[1] https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/
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