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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2016 / Comey’s Operation Ratfuck Has Apparently Concluded

Comey’s Operation Ratfuck Has Apparently Concluded

by John Cole|  November 6, 20163:28 pm| 40 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Assholes

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FBI Dir just informed us "Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Sec Clinton"

— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) November 6, 2016

Here it is, per @frankthorp pic.twitter.com/sROllINGZb

— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) November 6, 2016

His resignation and a purge of the Giuliani wing of the FBI should start on Wednesday.

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  1. 1.

    James E Powell

    November 6, 2016 at 3:30 pm

    Right, but can you undo a solid week of negative press/media? No, you cannot.

    The next letter needs to be his resignation. Wednesday morning, 3AM.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    November 6, 2016 at 3:31 pm

    Co-signed. Maybe replace the FBI with the Keystone Kops for improve professionalism.

    To the extent there are any stragglers, maybe this will help bring them out on Tuesday. And maybe depress Trump turnout just a tad.

    If we’re really lucky, Trump will go unhinged again tomorrow and put the stake into his own heart.

  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    November 6, 2016 at 3:32 pm

    Hey I Bigfooted you for a change!

  4. 4.

    Timurid

    November 6, 2016 at 3:32 pm

    I’m kind of shocked that he didn’t hold onto this for another two days…

  5. 5.

    Chip Daniels

    November 6, 2016 at 3:33 pm

    She got to him!
    This the proof we needed of her corruption!!1
    Wake up morans!

  6. 6.

    Marcin Peski

    November 6, 2016 at 3:34 pm

    Before they fire him, Dems should drag his ass before committee hearings to explain the leaks. If they win Senate of course.

  7. 7.

    lollipopguild

    November 6, 2016 at 3:34 pm

    But.. But.. But.. Hilary is SATAN! in a pantsuit! She is Baddddd!

  8. 8.

    Baud

    November 6, 2016 at 3:34 pm

    OT: This is apparently a real tweet from Philly’s mayor.

    Jim Kenney
    ✔
    @JimFKenney

    Rudy Giuliani just told me that The Donald is fit to be commander in chief. Hahahah! ??????. Can’t make this shit up!

  9. 9.

    GregB

    November 6, 2016 at 3:34 pm

    Hillary’s pantsuited thugs have gotten to Comey!

    Again!

  10. 10.

    satby

    November 6, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    So almost universal condemnation had some effect, because I expected Comey to keep this dangling until after Tuesday too.
    I hope he’s gone by Friday.

  11. 11.

    Betty Cracker

    November 6, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    Did you see Al Franken on CNN? He said as a member of the Judiciary Committee, he is confident there will be hearings into Comey’s role in this election and an investigation of “rogue elements” of the FBI who talked to Giuliani. He said it’s not the FBI’s role to interfere with elections and that as director, Comey should have been able to hold the agency to its mission and needs to explain the lapse. Al is on the fucking case!

  12. 12.

    gf120581

    November 6, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    Translation: “I’m sorry, Madam President, please don’t fire me.”

  13. 13.

    Manyakitty

    November 6, 2016 at 3:38 pm

    @Betty Cracker: GOOD. He’s Al Franken and they’re not.

  14. 14.

    gwangung

    November 6, 2016 at 3:38 pm

    @gf120581: “Too bad; see you later, fucker.” (I hope).

  15. 15.

    James E Powell

    November 6, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Sorry if I’m getting ahead of things, but if the Dems take the senate, what committee would Al Franken chair?

  16. 16.

    Baud

    November 6, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Awesome. One more reason to ensure that we control the Senate.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    November 6, 2016 at 3:41 pm

    @James E Powell: All of them, Katie!

  18. 18.

    Betty Cracker

    November 6, 2016 at 3:42 pm

    @James E Powell: Whichever one he wants. He makes me proud to be a Democrat every time I hear him speak.

  19. 19.

    maryQ

    November 6, 2016 at 3:42 pm

    It was always about Economic Anxiety.

  20. 20.

    D58826

    November 6, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    Problem is the letter will get lost in all of the ‘day before election’ news coverage.

    On a somewhat related topic there are a couple of items on Twitter that ‘Old Little hands’ staff has taken away his twitter account. Seems that can’t trust him on Twitter but not to worry the nuclear codes are in good hands (Melania’s maybe or Val;id’s?)

  21. 21.

    oklahomo

    November 6, 2016 at 3:45 pm

    Seeing the word “Honorable” before “Jason Chaffetz” in the letter is just nauseating.

  22. 22.

    hovercraft

    November 6, 2016 at 3:49 pm

    His resignation and a purge of the Giuliani wing of the FBI should start on Wednesday.

    I don’t think resignation is enough, he should be fired.

  23. 23.

    D58826

    November 6, 2016 at 3:50 pm

    Over on KOS ‘

    Apparently, the NY FBI office has leaked over 650,000 emails from Weiner’s laptop to the House Republicans according to Rep. Steve King, who was bragging about it at a rally. Here’s Steve King in full braggadocio about being in cahoots with the FBI to interfere with the election:
    ‘So the Weiner leaks, the WikiLeaks, you name your leaks, we’ve got our hands on all of them – 650,000 emails.’
    King also suggested that the number of emails related to the FBI investigation may be larger than 650,000.

    What a bunch of degenerates. The source is the British Daily Mail so it’s validity may be open to question.
    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/6/1592152/-BREAKING-NY-FBI-Office-Leaks-650-000-Weiner-Emails-To-GOP

  24. 24.

    gf120581

    November 6, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    @D58826: A tabloid and Steve King? Yeah, I call BS.

    Besides, Comey’s letter just kicked the chair out from beneath them.

  25. 25.

    pluky

    November 6, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    @James E Powell: Well, based on his current assignments and minority seniority:
    Judiciary subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law
    Health, Education, Labor and Pensions subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety

  26. 26.

    Baud

    November 6, 2016 at 3:53 pm

    @D58826: Totally believable story, but the Daily Mail is crap. I hope it’s true, to be honest, because I don’t want this REAL scandal to get swept under the rug.

  27. 27.

    GrandJury

    November 6, 2016 at 3:53 pm

    @Betty Cracker: It will only happen, in a serious way, if Dems control the Senate. Looking about 75% likely right now.

  28. 28.

    different-church-lady

    November 6, 2016 at 3:57 pm

    I wonder how many undecideds could even tell you what the July “conclusion” was. A lot of them probably think it was an indictment.

  29. 29.

    Betty Cracker

    November 6, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    @GrandJury: I’ll take those odds over the Senatortoise from Kentucky’s chances of keeping his gavel.

  30. 30.

    debbie

    November 6, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    Unbelievable comments on Chaffetz’s tweet.

  31. 31.

    Xantar

    November 6, 2016 at 4:20 pm

    Also, the Steelers just committed the most hilarious whiffed kickoff.

  32. 32.

    James E Powell

    November 6, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    @Xantar:

    I can only imagine Cole’s wailing and gnashing of teeth.

  33. 33.

    Mike G

    November 6, 2016 at 5:15 pm

    FBI Dir just informed us “Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Sec Clinton”
    — Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) November 6, 2016

    The FBI director seems to be under the impression his boss is a dung beetle from Utah.

  34. 34.

    rikyrah

    November 6, 2016 at 5:23 pm

    His azz needs to be fired ???

  35. 35.

    Aleta

    November 6, 2016 at 5:32 pm

    I want to see Giuliani questioned under oath and then investigated up and down til the cows come home.

  36. 36.

    Bostonian

    November 6, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    There needs to be a lot of security clearance review over there at the FBI.

  37. 37.

    JGabriel

    November 6, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    @James E Powell:

    The next letter needs to be his [Comey’s] resignation. Wednesday morning, 3AM.

    Why wait so long? This election will be over by 11:30 pm EDT Tuesday night, possibly by 10:30 pm.

  38. 38.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 6, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    @D58826:

    So the Weiner leaks,
    the WikiLeaks,
    you name your leaks,
    we’ve got our hands
    on all of them –
    650,000 emails.

    This should be a lyric in a Broadway musical.

  39. 39.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    November 6, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    @D58826: I don’t know. I think an awful lot of people will be hammering this awfully hard. I’m sorry it didn’t come a week ago, but I’ll take what I can get.

  40. 40.

    Joe

    November 7, 2016 at 11:10 am

    What do we make of replacing the head of FBI’s NY office?

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