At this point, the most charitable observation is that Comey values his personal reputation more highly than the reputation of the FBI. I’m prepared to be less charitable.

“This new information comes to him, and he’s afraid if he doesn’t make it public until after the election he’ll be impeached. People will say he lied to Congress. But in the end he did the self-protective thing. Was it the right thing? Put it this way: it isn’t what previous Administrations have done.” James Comey Broke with Loretta Lynch and Justice Department Tradition – The New Yorker

And then there’s this. “Miller said Comey “flagrantly violated DOJ rules” by holding a press conference in July to announce that he was recommending against charges for the former secretary of state, a decision the FBI director said at the time that he made in the interest of transparency. “But today’s disclosure might be worst abuse yet,” Miller tweeted, adding that in his experience, the Justice Department “goes out of its way to avoid publicly discussing investigations” when elections are close.

Former DOJ spokesman blasts Comey after email letter

Brilliant. What Happens If Trump Refuses To Concede Election

This is pretty much what I thought when I heard the better explanations this afternoon, but it’s good to have actual journalists say so.

Kurt Eichenwald on Twitter

It is vitally important to include magic space wizards when drawing up any spec. CollegeHumor

My write-up on the Friday Internet outages.

Massive DDoS Attack Blocks Access to U.S. Web Sites

Chris Wallace And The Banality Of Conservative Dishonesty

What impresses me about this is that HRC made it to her plane in the time it took me to get from Penn Park to New Deck Tavern. Nick Merrill on Twitter

And here’s a clip of how Donald did: Bradd Jaffy on Twitter

HRC speech at Al Smith dinner. Brutal and funny. Credit where it’s due: Trump actually laughs at jokes at his expense. Bradd Jaffy on Twitter

Well worth watching.

Stephen Reacts LIVE To The Third Presidential Debate

“As unpleasant as Trump’s comment was, and as much as it perfectly embodies the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” strategy of his candidacy, the remark provided a perfect illustration of how constrained the limits of acceptable behavior are for women, and how vast and wide open the preserves of allowable conduct are for men, so frontier-like that Trump could wander around them hunting “bad hombres.”” If Hillary Clinton is ‘such a nasty woman,’ she’s also a liberated one

Barring further details on what they’re talking about, this is a load of horsecrap. Anyone have any idea what they’re talking about?

Potential targets are radically decentralized; there’s no “one path” to shutting down attacks unless you’re talking about cutting the U.S. off from the rest of the Internet. (Which would really suck for the rest of the Internet.)

U.S. confident that it’s blocked Russia’s hacking paths for now

President Obama schools Silicon Valley CEOs on why government is not like business

Pull quote: “Three of the states where I’ve lived are still squarely in the Trump column. I know the assholes who are voting for him: stick-up-the-ass evangelicals, racist fucknuts, proudly stupid drunks, and craven schemers who think Trump is gonna make them rich by some kind of magic….

But I know a shit-ton of people down South and in the Midwest, working- and middle-class whites, most of whom never went to college, some not even graduating from high school, who think Donald Trump is a fucking hateful fraud, a showboating pissant, and a giant talking turd. When you try to “figure out” what drives Trump supporters and think that those of us who say, “Yeah, fuck them” are smug coast-clinging liberals, you are insulting the fuck out of the millions of people in Trump country who grew up in similar circumstances and decided that being racist, sexist, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, and conspiracy-theory-loving jerk is wrong and work to make their area of the United States a little more tolerant and progressive.” Yeah, Sorry, But Fuck Donald Trump’s Supporters (and the GOP)

I can’t believe they said “five in the fucking morning”, even bleeped, in a campaign video. That’s awesome. Hillary Clinton

“I can remember literally no one in 2012 dwelling on the importance of taking the concerns of Mitt Romney voters seriously, even though they made up a considerably larger share of the population than Trump supporters. No one talks about taking the interests of Hillary Clinton supporters, a still larger group, seriously.

But Trump supporters, a smaller group backing a considerably more loathsome agenda, have received an unprecedented outpouring of sympathy, undertaken as a sort of passive-aggressive snipe at unnamed other commentators and politicians perceived to not be taking their concerns seriously.” Taking Trump voters’ concerns seriously means listening to what they’re actually saying

The smoking gun. Very important to read this graphic in full. James Poniewozik on Twitter

I didn’t believe the meme that Trump uses cocaine… until now. His attacks always reflect his own behavior.

Trump calls for drug test ahead of next debate, says Clinton was ‘pumped up’
Trump calls for drug test ahead of next debate

Thinking of saving this URL and just posting it any time I see more anti-Hillary bullshit in the next month.

http://ift.tt/2e7OB1R Hillary Clinton for president