{"id":17840,"date":"2016-11-06T23:41:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T23:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17840"},"modified":"2016-11-06T23:41:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T23:41:30","slug":"wait-for-the-apologies-if-you-have-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17840","title":{"rendered":"Wait for the apologies &#8230; if you have the time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/comey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17721\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/comey-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"comey\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FBI Director James Comey on Oct. 28 sent a letter to Congress informing lawmakers that he was looking at more e-mails relating to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans were quick to jump all over it &#8212; and all over Clinton. GOP nominee Donald Trump called her a crook; he said the &#8220;scandal&#8221; was the &#8220;worst since Watergate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump rallied in the polls; Clinton sunk.<\/p>\n<p>It was &#8220;game on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, Comey said that after reviewing the e-mails, he has decided there will be no further action taken. His statement from this past summer that &#8220;no reasonable prosecutor&#8221; would seek an indictment for wrong-doing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now back to where we started. No criminal investigation. No indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Will there now be any <em>mea culpas<\/em> offered by those Republicans? Will they <em>apologize<\/em> for rushing to judgment?<\/p>\n<p>You can stop laughing now.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director James Comey on Oct. 28 sent a letter to Congress informing lawmakers that he was looking at more e-mails relating to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Republicans were quick to jump all over it &#8212; and all over Clinton. GOP nominee Donald Trump called her a crook; he said the &#8220;scandal&#8221; was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17840\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wait for the apologies &#8230; if you have the time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[1424,1574,1693,2139,6242],"class_list":["post-17840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-emails","tag-fbi","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-james-comey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17842,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17840\/revisions\/17842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}