Comey, after rattling off all the laws HRC broke with her email and then stating she shouldn’t be prosecuted, is now trying to salvage his reputation. What he has really done is ruin it even further. There is no doubt he will be replaced if HRC is elected.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-31/doj-tells-congress-it-will-work-expeditiously-review-abedin-emails-there-just-one-pr

Podesta was caught in a sticky situation in both the Lewinsky affair and the Rich pardon scandal.

In other words, the best friend of John Podesta, Clinton’s Campaign chair, at the DOJ will be in charge of a probe that could potentially sink Hillary Clinton.

Kadzik represented Podesta during the Monica Lewinsky investigation. And in the waning days of the Bill Clinton administration, Kadzik lobbied Podesta on behalf of Marc Rich, the fugitive who Bill Clinton controversially pardoned on his last day in office. That history is cited by Podesta in another email hacked from his Gmail account. In a Sept. 2008 email, … Podesta emailed an Obama campaign official to recommend Kadzik for a supportive role in the campaign. Podesta, who would later head up the Obama White House transition effort, wrote that Kadzik was a “fantastic lawyer” who “kept me out of jail.”

As an outsider looking in, I would like to thank the American people for demonstrating why it is a valid democratic option to have on the voting paper “none of the above”.

This article is just another blatant misrepresentation of the facts because Mike is a shill for Vermin Supreme.

“So why is it leaking like a sieve this time around?”

Because it appears that there are internal factions in the FBI that are conducting a proxy war via the press. Hence the leaks that may be seen as damaging to Clinton and the leaks that may be seen as positives for Clinton.

Of course none of them should be leaking anything: one of the first principles of investigation club is that you don’t talk about investigation club. You gather evidence, you collate, you analyze, and if you think you have enough to make a case, then (depending on who you are) you either bring charges or you ask someone else (e.g., a grand jury) to bring charges.

But you never, never, NEVER let any of this out until you’re ready, because doing so screws everyone. It screws the innocent — because it may turn out the subject(s) of the investigation really are innocent. It screws the guilty — because in THIS society, we accord rights to all, including the guilty. It screws prosecutors — because investigatory misconduct is an excellent way to ensure that convictions won’t stand. And it screws the public, because we all have an interest in seeing the innocent exonerated and the putatively-guilty tried in a court of law, in accordance with the legal and Constitutional frameworks for such trials.

I’m not a fan of the FBI. But I do recognize that there are career public servants working there who are trying, the best that they can, to faithfully uphold the law and to carry out their investigations with honesty and integrity. All of those people have to just be fuming over this nonsense, because it’s undercutting their hard work.

Okay, I think the author is missing the point that is recently circulating lately on Techdirt in regards to the apparent bias that is occurring. The bias being pointed out has nothing to do with the idea of providing equal and positive coverage to both sides. It has to do with the idea that there is a huge difference between being confrontational and adversarial for the benefit of the reader, and going in with an agenda.

Techdirt lately is becoming more and more obvious in being agenda driven, which is expected as it is a self-proclaimed advocacy blog. Whether it is through posting nit-picky articles that are more inflammatory then valuable pieces to prove a stance on an issue, or repeatedly covering companies and organizations that Techdirt has some professional relationship to without properly disclosing it, Techdirt is becoming a Gawker Media in everything but a different form.

Yes, it is true that this is an advocacy blog that is a group of people promoting an agenda, but it needs to be made abundantly clear on what it is. Make it abundantly clear where the blog stands on issues, as well as that it cannot be trusted to tell the whole story on any issue. Make it clear that this is an exclusive website in terms of ideas and that certain stories from around the web will not be curated or just dismissed if it doesn’t follow the narrative Techdirt has.

Maybe it is a sign that as of late, it is becoming more clear that news and journalism are becoming more position oriented, which is not necessarily bad as long as there is an effort to put the bias aside. From what I observe, there is a strong desire on this site, as well as other blogs and news websites to have different and opposing viewpoints on issues that could lead to a different side that would be helpful for people in the grand scheme.

But I might be full of it when I say this. I think in the end, there needs to be another declaration of where Techdirt stands as a media organization.

It makes perfect sense if it’s coordinated. The FBI’s investigation stops, when executive privilege sets in. The purpose here is to create the _perception_ of an independent judiciary and law enforcement branch.

There are two possibilities. The leaks are intentional, or they aren’t. If they are, then the above is the most plausible answer. If they aren’t then the most plausible answer is that Comey, or persons in his direct chain of command, have surpressed the investigation in some fashion, and the leak is a retributive response for that dereliction of duty by his inferiors.

Either case is indicative of collusion.

The problem is that everyone can see through Hillary’s lies and manipulations. “Boss, look, the plane!” (or russians, or donald, or …). If Techdirt, who is supposed to be smart, can’t, and then shills for HRC, then that calls into question TD’s judgement and smarts. Biased info is useless. Sometimes worse than useless because it causes bad decision making.