The state department was the one that made the FBI reopen the probe. I made a thread on this a few months ago when Comey's meeting with the House Committee ended. It wasn't his decision, and he's just trying to to damage control so Clinton doesn't have him assassinated.

Hoo boy, two can play at this conspiracy theory game:

FBI was in the clear with Clinton because the government didn't indict her after all.

If anything, Comey's doing it because he knew his head was first in line on a President Trump's chopping block. Depose Comey to make an example of him to keep the rest of the intelligence community in line, or face the consequences. As president, Trump would have zero legal resistance firing Comey at Trump's leisure; he'd get away with it politically under the premise of clearing out a corrupt government.

The other, overlapping theory is that since Trump apparently loves surveillance and hates encryption, just like Comey, Comey's interests would be best served by electing a President Trump who would give the FBI free reign. See also: inactive FBI twitter account suddenly becomes active to release documents a week before the election, allegedly because of (conveniently-timed) FOIA requests.

The comment about the assassination was mostly a joke, but your idea falls flat with the simple fact that unlike Clinton, Trump doesn't have a kill count.

Quote from: Kupo & the Two G-strings on November 03, 2016, 01:13:56 PM

Hoo boy, two can play at this conspiracy theory game:

I'm not going to entertain the ridiculous Vince Foster or Benghazi memes, if those are what you're alluding to.

Something I forgot in my previous post: AFAIK Comey had no choice regarding the re-opening of the case--it was the public announcement that was improper.

>It's ridiculous to claim Clinton was responsible for the deaths of people when there was numerous investigations and hearings on the possibility of such a thing being true
>It's not ridiculous to claim Trump would kill somebody when he has no prior record of shady activity that resulted in the deaths of people

Oh I am laffin

Quote from: Kupo & the Two G-strings on November 03, 2016, 01:26:22 PM

I'm not going to entertain the ridiculous Vince Foster or Benghazi memes, if those are what you're alluding to.

But it *isn't* true

Also, please point out where I said Trump would kill Comey.

EDIT: After re-reading my post (I usually don't proofread) I suppose I used vague/loaded wording in my other post, but that doesn't mean that you should jump to conclusions. Third paragraph, last sentence: I said Comey would be fired. It'd be pretty ridiculous if I held the candidates to such an inane double standard.

Does Hillary not have anything to fire Comey for? He called her extremely careless and basically said everything she did was illegal and that if anyone else did this they'd be in jail. That has stuck with her campaign all the way through, she is just as much likely to fire Comey as Trump is, if not more inclined to.

Quote from: Kupo & the Two G-strings on November 03, 2016, 01:49:11 PM

EDIT: After re-reading my post (I usually don't proofread) I suppose I used vague/loaded wording in my other post, but that doesn't mean that you should jump to conclusions. Third paragraph, last sentence: I said Comey would be fired. It'd be pretty ridiculous if I held the candidates to such an inane double standard.

That's a good point. Seems like Comey's job security may be in question either way.

Wonder how much he got paid.