[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #516: Kim Jong Won

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In 1971 Richard Nixon triggered a trade dispute with Canada. He called the Canadian PM an "asshole" and a "son of a bitch". The Canadian said "I have been called worse things by better men".

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 20:41 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
Was nog bezig en toen was het vorige topic gesloten.

Deze vind ik ook wel leuk.

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De Canadese PM was Pierre Trudeau.

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Inspector general blasts Comey, says others at FBI showed ‘willingness to take official action’ to hurt Trump

The Justice Department inspector general on Thursday castigated former FBI Director James B. Comey for his actions during the Hillary Clinton email investigation and found that other senior bureau officials showed a “willingness to take official action” to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.

The 500-page report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, documents major missteps in one of the most politically charged cases in the FBI’s history. It also provides the most exhaustive account to date of bureau and Justice Department decision-making throughout the investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server, particularly in the months just before she would lose the presidency to Trump.

Though the inspector general condemned individual FBI officials, the report fell significantly short in supporting the assertion by the president and his allies that the investigation was rigged in favor of Clinton. The inspector general found “no evidence that the conclusions by department prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations.” The report acknowledged that certain emails appeared to contain classified information, but investigators determined the FBI’s conclusion that Clinton did not intend to expose classified information was legitimate.

The report is a blistering public rebuke of Comey, who has spent recent months on a book tour promoting his brand of ethical leadership. Inspector general Michael Horowitz accused Comey of insubordination, saying he flouted Justice Department practices when he decided only he had the authority and credibility to make key decisions and speak for the Justice Department.

Comey made a “serious error of judgment” in sending a letter to Congress on Oct. 28 announcing he was reopening the investigation of Clinton’s use of the server while secretary of state, the report found, and called it “extraordinary that Comey assessed that it was best” for him not to speak directly with either the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General about his decision beforehand.

Some senior bureau officials, the report found, exhibited a disturbing “willingness to take official action” to hurt Trump’s chances to become president.

Perhaps the most damaging new revelation in the report is a previously-unreported text message in which Peter Strzok, a key investigator on both the Clinton email case and the investigation of Russia and the Trump campaign, assured an FBI lawyer in August 2016 that “we’ll stop” Trump from making it to the White House.

“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” the lawyer, Lisa Page, wrote to Strzok.

“No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok responded.

The report aimed to define once and for all what the FBI and Justice Department did right and what was wrong in the Clinton probe, but partisans are likely to seize on different findings to buttress their long-held views about that investigation.

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Bron: WaPo

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 20:51 schreef livelink het volgende:

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En was dat de kleine Justin onder zijn arm?

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ReaganBattalion twitterde op woensdag 13-06-2018 om 23:54:33 Watch: @FoxNews host asks @marcorubio if he wants to “clarify” his remarks calling Kim Jong Un a weirdo who starved his own people, Rubio: There is nothing to clarify. https://t.co/kxWYbf1Sc3 reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 21:03 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Comey twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 20:28:28 I respect the DOJ IG office, which is why I urged them to do this review. The conclusions are reasonable, even though I disagree with some. People of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently. I pray no Director faces it again. Thanks to IG’s people for hard work. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 21:01 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 20:35:06 Page 372 on Comey going to Congress re: reopening the Clinton probe: "His task was not to conduct an ad hoc comparison of case-specific outcomes and risks. Rather, the burden was on him to justify an extraordinary departure from these established norms, policies, and precedent." reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 20:45:05 Page VII: "We found no evidence that the conclusions by Department prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations; rather, we determined that they were based on the prosecutors' assessment of the facts, the law, and past Department practice." reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 20:50:58 Page 88: "None of the witnesses we interviewed could point to specific examples of anyone involved in the investigation allowing political or other improper considerations to impact the decisions on how best to obtain evidence." reageer retweet