A question some of us were asking in June 2013. You know? When Dems could do something about it?https://twitter.com/kdrum/status/809646320722018304 …
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Replying to @emptywheel
Probably should ask David Corn talking up Comey for being a "lawmaker who plays it straight"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/fbi-nominee-james-comey-triggered-plamegate-investigation …
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Replying to @stahlscott @emptywheel
Kevin himself posted about Comey once [negatively] in 2013, then didn't mention it after that. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/05/obama-nominate-comey-head-fbi …
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But not because of all the known things in his record. Just bc of partisanship.
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Replying to @emptywheel
True! Mentions he's famous for declining to certify NSA wiretapping, ignoring how a month later he certified it w/ small changes
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Replying to @stahlscott
We didn't know all those details yet. We didn't know how they strongarmed FISC, bypassed Congress.
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Replying to @emptywheel
We knew Comey signed off on the NSA wiretapping quietly after he fought it publicly though, right? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/30/james-comey-fbi-bush-nsa …
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Yes, but we lacked a lot of the details until the following year.https://www.salon.com/2014/08/14/george_w_bushs_false_heroes_the_real_story_of_a_secret_washington_sham/ …
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And frankly, there's probably something still more troubling we don't have the details on.
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