NBC: Republican gambit targeting Rice "completely backfires"

Spin motherfrickers, spin!!!!!

Backfires how? I dont think it backfired at all, sounds like a wishlist for NBC, not a report on reality, as usual.

Not one mention that the email, which was sent to herself, is 15 days after the meeting and right before the inauguration. It’s an CYA email after the fact, and after inappropriate actions by the FBI to spy on a rival campaign by the Obama Admin.

In her sworn testimony, ... Sally Yates said only she, Obama and Comey were in that meeting.

How could Susan Rice relate the conversation between Obama and Comey if she was not there? .... Either Yates lied when she said Rice was not present, or Rice’s CYA memo is not simply self serving, but is setting out an obvious cover for Obama himself ....

Seems like a good reason to bring both Yates and Rice under oath and see how their stories change.

I'm sure the MSM would treat it as the Gospel truth if anyone in the Trump administration sent themselves an email stating that Trump had handled the coronavirus response by the book and had done everything right. No doubt that we would be reading articles about how the democrats attempts to manufacture a scandal out of a textbook response to the virus has blown up in their face.

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As Johnson noted, that email... referenced details of an Oval Office meeting from Jan. 5, 2017, in which then-President Barack Obama and his team discussed, among other things, Flynn and his misconduct.

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[sarcasm]No bias here.[/sarcasm]

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Rice's email, sent in the interest of memorializing her concerns in an official record, said Obama wanted to be sure "every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities 'by the book.'" The email, written shortly before Trump's inauguration added, "[Obama] stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book."


The newly declassified portion discloses that Comey, the then-FBI director, confirmed that federal law enforcement was proceeding "by the book," though he had concerns about Flynn's frequent and problematic communications with the country that had just attacked the U.S. elections.

Remember, the point of this week's disclosures, from the perspective of Ron Johnson and other Republicans, was to make Susan Rice and the Obama administration look bad. Except the gambit has now backfired: the Rice email GOP partisans were so eager to disclose shows an Obama team doing everything right, while also casting Flynn -- the disgraced former general whose reputation Republicans are trying to rescue -- in a deeply unflattering light.

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So despite sending literally a last minute email from her government email to her personal email to memorialize a meeting that had occurred 15 days earlier, Comey confirmed that the FBI would proceed "by the books."

So, there you have it. Nuttin to see here. Move along.

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" By the Book "

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Is it her fault that no one asked which book?