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2016 Postmortem

NewJeffCT

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3. this is what was key to me

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 05:01 PM

Dec 2016

One of the points that comes through in Horwitz’s account is that both Comey and Lynch were consumed with fear that they’d be criticized by the Republican outrage machine.

Fear of Republican outrage was driving their decisions. How often has this been the case over the last 40 years?

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