The Comey Rule

[Anonymous]

Hopefully this is allowed here.

What did everyone think? I really liked it. Thought Comey as a character was very sanctimonious and whoever wroted this HATES Rosenstein.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully this is allowed here.

What did everyone think? I really liked it. Thought Comey as a character was very sanctimonious and whoever wroted this HATES Rosenstein.

Typo. Whoever WROTE this. "Wroted" lol.

[Anonymous]

I'm looking forward to watching it. I read Comey's book, and it was excellent.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was phenomenal. The end was a bit depressing with Rod Rosenstein walking out of his office for the last time shaking his head. I remembered exactly how I felt when he left and didn't do anything about Trump like we all thought.

[Anonymous]

Tell us more. Comey is responsible for this whole drumpf disaster. There are people who said he released the Clinton emails to cover his ass which is bs. He couldn't stand the idea of a female and a Clinton being president. This egotistical asshat delivered the orange idiot into the White House. He deserves the same contempt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell us more. Comey is responsible for this whole drumpf disaster. There are people who said he released the Clinton emails to cover his ass which is bs. He couldn't stand the idea of a female and a Clinton being president. This egotistical asshat delivered the orange idiot into the White House. He deserves the same contempt.

If that's what you think, you'll like it. It is critical of Trump, but the movie is set up as Rosenstein walking into his office and telling his secretary about all of Comey's failures. Since it comes from his perspective, he's a bit critical of Comey, calling him a sanctimonious ass who can't do a single good deed without telling everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell us more. Comey is responsible for this whole drumpf disaster. There are people who said he released the Clinton emails to cover his ass which is bs. He couldn't stand the idea of a female and a Clinton being president. This egotistical asshat delivered the orange idiot into the White House. He deserves the same contempt.

I think you're quite wrong about this. When he talks about his feminist wife and daughters, you don't get that impression at all. (They were horrified by Trump and the effect of Comey's comments right before the election.)

Comey doesn't say it in the book, but my sense of his motivation for that late announcement about the emails is that he was afraid that agents in the NYC FBI field office (nicknamed Trumplandia) would leak the info themselves and thus make it look like the FBI was covering up news of the cache of emails found on Abedin/Weiner's computer. (Those agents had already lied to the NYTimes, which killed a damaging story about Trump earlier in the election season.) Comey did it to protect the reputation of the FBI and didn't fully appreciate the impact his statement would have on the election, although he should have.

I have a lot of respect for Comey, who is a flawed but faithful and committed public servant. He has said he feels ill with the idea that his actions impacted the election, and I take him at his word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell us more. Comey is responsible for this whole drumpf disaster. There are people who said he released the Clinton emails to cover his ass which is bs. He couldn't stand the idea of a female and a Clinton being president. This egotistical asshat delivered the orange idiot into the White House. He deserves the same contempt.

I think you're quite wrong about this. When he talks about his feminist wife and daughters, you don't get that impression at all. (They were horrified by Trump and the effect of Comey's comments right before the election.)

Comey doesn't say it in the book, but my sense of his motivation for that late announcement about the emails is that he was afraid that agents in the NYC FBI field office (nicknamed Trumplandia) would leak the info themselves and thus make it look like the FBI was covering up news of the cache of emails found on Abedin/Weiner's computer. (Those agents had already lied to the NYTimes, which killed a damaging story about Trump earlier in the election season.) Comey did it to protect the reputation of the FBI and didn't fully appreciate the impact his statement would have on the election, although he should have.

I have a lot of respect for Comey, who is a flawed but faithful and committed public servant. He has said he feels ill with the idea that his actions impacted the election, and I take him at his word.

The miniseries shows this - not sure if it actually happened (it's based on his book, so I suppose it did) where he tells his wife what he's going to do and she is really upset with him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell us more. Comey is responsible for this whole drumpf disaster. There are people who said he released the Clinton emails to cover his ass which is bs. He couldn't stand the idea of a female and a Clinton being president. This egotistical asshat delivered the orange idiot into the White House. He deserves the same contempt.

I think you're quite wrong about this. When he talks about his feminist wife and daughters, you don't get that impression at all. (They were horrified by Trump and the effect of Comey's comments right before the election.)

Comey doesn't say it in the book, but my sense of his motivation for that late announcement about the emails is that he was afraid that agents in the NYC FBI field office (nicknamed Trumplandia) would leak the info themselves and thus make it look like the FBI was covering up news of the cache of emails found on Abedin/Weiner's computer. (Those agents had already lied to the NYTimes, which killed a damaging story about Trump earlier in the election season.) Comey did it to protect the reputation of the FBI and didn't fully appreciate the impact his statement would have on the election, although he should have.

I have a lot of respect for Comey, who is a flawed but faithful and committed public servant. He has said he feels ill with the idea that his actions impacted the election, and I take him at his word.

The miniseries shows this - not sure if it actually happened (it's based on his book, so I suppose it did) where he tells his wife what he's going to do and she is really upset with him.

PP here and the one who read the book. I haven't seen the show yet. In their books, both Comey and McCabe show a ton of admiration and respect for their smart, accomplished wives. I would even call Comey and McCabe feminists in their attitudes.

As a feminist myself, I watched the 2016 election, Abedin's marriage, and Comey's handling of the emails play out with horror. Even so, I don't think it's helpful to our politics to caricature any of these people based on discrete actions. Obama said we tend to judge our opponents based on their worst actions but we want to be judged based on our best. Except for that one (catastrophic) statement, Comey acted the way you'd hope an FBI director would, especially when you consider the shocking and inappropriate behavior he faced in Trump.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell us more. Comey is responsible for this whole drumpf disaster. There are people who said he released the Clinton emails to cover his ass which is bs. He couldn't stand the idea of a female and a Clinton being president. This egotistical asshat delivered the orange idiot into the White House. He deserves the same contempt.

I think you're quite wrong about this. When he talks about his feminist wife and daughters, you don't get that impression at all. (They were horrified by Trump and the effect of Comey's comments right before the election.)

Comey doesn't say it in the book, but my sense of his motivation for that late announcement about the emails is that he was afraid that agents in the NYC FBI field office (nicknamed Trumplandia) would leak the info themselves and thus make it look like the FBI was covering up news of the cache of emails found on Abedin/Weiner's computer. (Those agents had already lied to the NYTimes, which killed a damaging story about Trump earlier in the election season.) Comey did it to protect the reputation of the FBI and didn't fully appreciate the impact his statement would have on the election, although he should have.

I have a lot of respect for Comey, who is a flawed but faithful and committed public servant. He has said he feels ill with the idea that his actions impacted the election, and I take him at his word.

The miniseries shows this - not sure if it actually happened (it's based on his book, so I suppose it did) where he tells his wife what he's going to do and she is really upset with him.

PP here and the one who read the book. I haven't seen the show yet. In their books, both Comey and McCabe show a ton of admiration and respect for their smart, accomplished wives. I would even call Comey and McCabe feminists in their attitudes.

As a feminist myself, I watched the 2016 election, Abedin's marriage, and Comey's handling of the emails play out with horror. Even so, I don't think it's helpful to our politics to caricature any of these people based on discrete actions. Obama said we tend to judge our opponents based on their worst actions but we want to be judged based on our best. Except for that one (catastrophic) statement, Comey acted the way you'd hope an FBI director would, especially when you consider the shocking and inappropriate behavior he faced in Trump.

Oh yes, and in the book, he talks about how angry his wife and daughters were with him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was phenomenal. The end was a bit depressing with Rod Rosenstein walking out of his office for the last time shaking his head. I remembered exactly how I felt when he left and didn't do anything about Trump like we all thought.

He was an interesting character and by interesting I mean deluded. "People might like Jim but they respect me"? Lmao, who respects you??? The Republicans who spent months attempting to fire you? Or the Democrats who think you're in on the con? Seriously??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hopefully this is allowed here.

What did everyone think? I really liked it. Thought Comey as a character was very sanctimonious and whoever wroted this HATES Rosenstein.

Typo. Whoever WROTE this. "Wroted" lol.

Autocorrect is a snarky asshole.

[Anonymous]

This is on Netflix. Say more.

[Anonymous]

It was so strange to me that Daniels was Comey after also being the former FBI guy who ran security in the WTC in the series The Looming Tower (I think it was called).

I didn't know the episode where he tried to match the curtains was televised.

I haven't read the book, but the way it all plays out struck me as consistent with what I understood to have happened. People were really put in a box by the email stuff, there was no good way to do any of it. I think it is fair to ask why there was not more released about the Russia investigation during the campaign, although it was my understanding the WH was worried about doing that.

As for the series, I thought they gave Trump too much fake hair. One think I find striking about everyone who impersonates Trump's voice (they did a helluva job with his speech patterns, or is it just too easy given said patterns?) is that there's a sort of high pitched component to it, or maybe it's the whininess, that nobody ever pulls off.

[Anonymous]

Not interested. I also think Comey is mostly responsible for the whole disaster we've been living for years, and don't want to see him glorified. Turned off the tv in disgust when I saw the ad.