Brietbart, Infowars and RT viewers? FBI’s Russian-influence probe includes a look at far-right news sites BY PETER STONE AND GREG GORDON McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Federal investigators are examining whether far-right news sites played any role last year ina Russian cyber operation that dramatically widened the reach of news stories — some fictional — that favored Donald Trump’s presidential bid, two people familiar with the inquiry say. Operatives for Russia appear to have strategically timed the computer commands, known as “bots,” to blitz social media with links to the pro-Trump stories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive in his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, these sources said. Russian President Vladimir Putin is accused by the FBI of ordering a campaign intended to influence the U.S. election. Mikhail Klimentyev AP The bots’ end products were largely millions of Twitter and Facebook posts carrying links to stories on conservative internet sites such as Breitbart News and InfoWars, as well as on the Kremlin-backed RT News and Sputnik News, the sources said. Some of the stories were false or mixed fact and fiction, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the bot attacks are part of an FBI-led investigation into a multifaceted Russian operation to influence last year’s elections. Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article139695453.html#storylink=cpy
That is nothing but a hit piece on Brietbart and Infowars. So if russian bots started spamming links to EliteTrader on twitter, then they would say EliteTrader has russian connections. They want to take down Brietbart and Infowars as they helped Trump win the election. The left want to ban any links to those sites from social media sites.
Why is the FBI wasting time on this kind of nonsense? How about all the trolls employed by Soros and Clinton, like our own Tony Stark? How about our own lying biased media? It has become abundantly clear that this Comey has to go. He has careened literally from one disaster to another, most of them self-created. He is a typical government lawyer with a reputation that far outstrips his meager abilities.
"Under FBI investigation" is the new McCarthyism. One thing you can count on is fascists claiming to be patriots while oppressing your freedom of speech, and who you talk to.
Since the days of J Edgar Presidents have known better than to fuck with the head of The FBI.Personally I'd love to see Trump do it though.
This thing will drag on for years because they know they have no proof. This is nothing but a sideshow to derail Trump's agenda. Funny how none of the asshats were upset about this.......
I read somewhere that he said something like, "My appointment is for 10 years. I'm going to be here for the next 6 1/2 years, like it or not". Trump can ask him to resign, of course, but can he fire him??
Yep, Comey will be in office longer than Trump will. https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...ys-you-re-stuck-with-me-for-another-six-years FBI’s Comey Says ‘You’re Stuck With Me’ for Another Six Years by Chris Strohm March 8, 2017, 10:08 AM CST March 8, 2017, 11:56 AM CST FBI Director James Comey signaled he has no plans to resign despite once again being at the center of a political storm -- this time over probes into Russian hacking of the 2016 election and his request that Justice Department officials reject President Donald Trump’s claims that his predecessor “tapped” his phones. "You’re stuck with me for about another six and a half years," Comey said Wednesday at a cybersecurity conference in Boston, referring to the time remaining in his 10-year appointment to the post. Trump claimed -- without offering evidence -- in tweets on Saturday that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower in New York during the campaign, a charge refuted by Obama aides and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Comey wanted the Justice Department to publicly rebut the claim, according to a U.S. official who requested anonymity in order to discuss sensitive issues, but the department so far has remained silent. Comey didn’t address the controversy during his speech, which was focused on cybersecurity threats, or in response to questions from the audience afterward.
The scary thing is the Deep State has the ability to plant any sort of "evidence" it wants on your computer or phone. Or in your bank account. Or in a bank account they thoughtfully created for you in some tax haven.
Yes he can. At least, liberals were quite certain the president could fire him when they were confident Hillary would be the next president. Now, who knows? "Yes, there is a federal statute that provides that the director has a 10-year term, but that provision does not constrain the president’s firing power, it merely limits his or her ability to keep a valued or friendly director in office after the expiration of the term. (No director can serve more than 10 years without some further legal action by the president, the Senate or Congress.) That’s how the provision’s chief congressional sponsor, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), understood the statute when the 10-year term was enacted in 1976. He observed that it imposed “no limitation on the constitutional power of the president,” who can remove the FBI director “at any time, and for any reason that the president sees fit.” And it’s how the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently interpreted the statute. The court said (albeit in passing in a decision on another issue) that, under Supreme Court precedent “such tenure provisions do not prevent the president from removing at will a director at any time during the director’s tenure.” " http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...ndent-is-the-fbi-director-20161102-story.html