{"id":54142,"date":"2016-10-31T06:44:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54142"},"modified":"2016-10-31T06:44:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:44:04","slug":"harry-reid-blasts-comey-as-mainstream-media-admits-this-is-the-worst-possible-situation-for-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54142","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid Blasts Comey As Mainstream Media Admits &#8220;This Is The Worst Possible Situation&#8221; For Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>You now it&#8217;s bad when&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC anchor and commentator Andrea Mitchell <em>(second only to John Harwood in the media pecking order of suck-up-iness to Clinton) <\/em>is forced to admit: &#8220;<em><strong>This is the just worst possible situation for the FBI for the country, for Hillary Clinton certainly<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=breitbart&amp;videoId=31577352\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<strong>For Hillary Clinton to go nuclear on Comey yesterday was a deliberate decision<\/strong>. They\u2019re trying to rally the base. And she did this in Daytona. She did this going then to an historically African-American college and had a huge rally there on the football field.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cS<strong>he\u2019s really now taking this to Comey.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd they made a deliberate decision to do this. If she\u2019s elected, she has to live with James Comey who has a ten-year term. <strong>That is a very hostile situation and a dangerous situation<\/strong>. Let me point out, John Kerry in Ireland said he has not been notified. <strong>Comey did not know what these emails were and whether they were work-related.That is the question that is raising so many concerns<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of course, it&#8217;s not just the media,<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/303515-reid-says-comey-may-have-violated-federal-law\">Democrats have blasted Comey for making the announcement less than two weeks before Election Day<\/a>, with Senate minority leader Harry Reid claiming Comey may have violated federal law&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cI am writing to inform you that my office has determined that these actions may violate the Hatch Act,\u201d <\/strong>Reid wrote in a letter to Comey, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Hatch act prohibits government officials from using their positions to influence an election.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cThrough your partisan actions, you may have broken the law.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhen Republicans filibustered your nomination and delayed your confirmation longer than any previous nominee to your position, I led the fight to get you confirmed because I believed you to be a principled public servant,\u201d <\/strong>Reid wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWith the deepest regret, I now see that I was wrong.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full letter below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Letter from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorReid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorReid<\/a> to FBI Dir Comey: Actions RE: Clinton server investigation &quot;may violate the Hatch Act&quot; ==&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EHvy3YkchX\">pic.twitter.com\/EHvy3YkchX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frankthorp\/status\/792842964401811456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Which is esecially ironic as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/james-comey-testimony\/2016\/07\/pelosi-comey-congress-investigation-225233\"><strong>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was so full of priase just 3 months ago<\/strong><\/a>&#8230; calling <strong>Comey, a former George W. Bush administration official, as \u201ca great man\u201d that Americans \u201care very privileged\u201d to have leading the federal agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Forward to 6:45&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/standalone\/?412338-1\/house-minority-leader-nancy-pelosi-briefs-reporters\" width=\"512\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But we conclude with the utter desperation of the Democrats to distract (through lies and obfuscation) once again via Harry Reid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-30\/mainstream-media-admits-worst-possible-situation-hillary\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-30\/mainstream-media-admits-worst-possible-situation-hillary<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"node-links\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}