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"8647 Comey"
"8647 Comey" refers to a recent controversy involving former FBI Director James Comey and a social media post.
Here's a breakdown:
The Incident: Comey posted a picture on Instagram of seashells forming the numbers "8647" on a beach, captioning it, "Cool shell formation on my beach walk". He later deleted the post.
"8647" Meaning: The number "86" is a slang term with several meanings, most commonly "to get rid of" or "throw out". Some also associate it with violence, meaning "to kill". The "47" refers to Donald Trump, the 47th President of the United States. The phrase "8647" has also been used as a way to silently protest Trump.
The Controversy: Republicans and Trump allies interpreted Comey's post as a veiled threat against Trump, even suggesting it was a call for assassination. Donald Trump Jr. specifically accused Comey of "calling for my dad to be murdered".
Comey's Explanation: Comey stated he was unaware of the violent interpretation of "86," saying he believed it was a political message and that he opposes violence of any kind. He told MSNBC he thought the formation was "clever" and created by "somebody with artistic flair" and no "dark intention".
Investigation and Consequences: The U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security began investigating the post. Comey was interviewed by the Secret Service for about an hour. There were also calls from some Republicans for Comey to face legal consequences. It is unclear if the investigation has concluded or what any next steps would entail.
Reactions and investigation:
The post generated strong reactions from Republicans and led to an investigation by the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.
Comey voluntarily participated in the questioning for about an hour.
The investigation and the meaning of the post remain subjects of ongoing discussion.
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FBI Director James Comey's "Hard Truths: Law Enforcement and Race" speech at Georgetown University
In 2015, former FBI Director James Comey delivered a speech at Georgetown University titled "Hard Truths: Law Enforcement and Race". In this speech, he addressed the complex relationship between law enforcement and diverse communities, particularly in the context of race. He acknowledged the disconnect between police agencies and some citizens, especially in communities of color, and called for open and honest conversations about these issues, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (.gov).
Comey's speech was prompted by the national conversation surrounding race and law enforcement following incidents like the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. He emphasized that racial bias is not unique to law enforcement but exists in all segments of society. Comey urged law enforcement to confront their own biases and work towards building trust with all communities, according to the FBI. He also advocated for improved data collection on police interactions with minority communities to better understand and address systemic issues.
Comey's speech was prompted by the national conversation surrounding race and law enforcement following incidents like the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. He emphasized that racial bias is not unique to law enforcement but exists in all segments of society. Comey urged law enforcement to confront their own biases and work towards building trust with all communities, according to the FBI. He also advocated for improved data collection on police interactions with minority communities to better understand and address systemic issues.
The speech was seen as a significant moment, marking the first time a top FBI official had publicly addressed racial bias in law enforcement with such candor. It sparked a national conversation about race and policing.
Subsequent Events:
Comey also spoke at Georgetown's International Conference on Cyber Engagement in 2016, according to Georgetown University.
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Criminal investigation into former FBI, CIA heads James Comey and John B...
Criminal investigation into former FBI, CIA heads James Comey and John Brennan draws mixed reactions
CBS6 Albany
Jul 15, 2025
A new report claimed the Department of Justice might appoint a special prosecutor for a possible criminal grand conspiracy case as the investigation continues into former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan.
FBI Director Kash Patel recently called the Russian collusion hoax "the biggest political criminal scheme ever perpetrated by portions of the FBI leadership and other elements of the intelligence community.”
Former FBI Special Agent in Charge Jody Weis said he "couldn’t be happier" the investigation into Comey and Brennan was launched.
Both Brennan and Comey are now under fire for allegedly making false statements to Congress about the investigation and the decision to examine claims in a Steele dossier from a former British spy. The dossier alleged coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.
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Tuesday, July 05, 2016
Giuliani: 'This Is the Special Exemption for the Clintons'
Rudy Giuliani (Getty Images)
By Todd Beamon | Tuesday, 05 Jul 2016 03:22 PM
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani Tuesday blasted FBI Director James Comey for his decision to not indict Hillary Clinton in the email scandal, saying "this is the special exemption for the Clintons."
"It would be unreasonable for a prosecutor not to go forward with it and almost an abdication of duty," Giuliani, who was in office during the 9/11 attacks, told Gretchen Carlson on Fox News. "What was just laid out is what we would call a no-brainer in the attorney's office that Jim Comey worked at, he was one of my assistants.
"A reasonable prosecutor would have brought this case no doubt," he added. "I don't know how he ever, ever is going to be able to charge anybody in the CIA or the FBI who is extremely careless with top secret information, if he isn't charging Hillary Clinton.
"This is the special exception for the Clintons."
Comey announced that while the Democratic presidential nominee and her staff were "reckless" and "extremely careless" in the use of a private email server during her four years as secretary of state, the FBI found no basis against criminal charges against Clinton.
"Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before deciding whether to bring charges," Comey said in a news conference.
"They also consider the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past," he added. "In looking back at our investigations, into the mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts."
In a news conference after Comey's announcement, the State Department said that the agency would await how the Justice Department would proceed before taking any further action.
Both the FBI and the Justice Department are headed by Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who came under fire last week for a meeting with former President Bill Clinton aboard her private plane on the tarmac at Phoenix airport.
The meeting, which lasted about a half-hour, came the night before the special House Benghazi Committee released its report on the 2012 attacks that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens and two former Navy SEALs.
Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, pounced on Comey's finding that Clinton was "extremely careless" in using the private server in her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.
"The minute you say someone is extremely careless, you are saying they're grossly negligent," he told Fox. "That is what a judge will charge a jury. The judge will charge a jury: Has the government proven that she was?
"What do we mean by gross negligence? We mean extremely careless. Regular carelessness is not using the proper degree of care under the circumstances. Gross negligence is being extremely careless in exercising your responsibilities of this.
"That's what Jim Comey found," he said. "He then just didn't come to the conclusion that it's a violation of the statute."
He was just as virulent in an earlier interview with CNBC.
"Gross negligence is the first definition in Black's Law Dictionary," Giuliani told Brian Sullivan on CNBC. "Gross negligence includes the words 'extreme carelessness.'
"Carelessness equals negligence. Extreme carelessness equals gross negligence, under the law. He knows that."
Giuliani, appearing somewhat stunned at the FBI director's announcement, told Fox that he was "so disappointed in this."
"I brought cases against the Teamsters Union during the 1988 election when it did serious damage to the Republican Party.
"Gosh almighty. You just put that out of your mind, you put all that stuff out of your mind.
"She violated [the law]," he said.
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The damning things the FBI said about Clinton's email
USA TODAY
Paul Singer
1 hr ago
© Cliff Owen, AP FBI Director James Comey makes a statement at FBI headquarters in Washington on July 5, 2016.
FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that the bureau is recommending the Justice Department pursue no charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a personal email account to handle government business. But he said that is largely because investigators found Clinton and her team had no intent to violate the law.
It was good news for Clinton, but Comey's statement was full of bad news, too. Clinton and her team "were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information," Comey said.
Here is what the FBI found:
She sent and received classified information While some of the emails Clinton sent have been declared classified retroactively, Comey said 110 emails in 52 email chains were classified at the time they were sent.
Of those:
• Eight email chains contained "top secret" information.
• 36 chains contained "secret" information.
• Eight email chains contained "confidential" information, the lowest classification level.
"None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system," Comey said.
Some emails have been lost Clinton and her lawyers handed over to the State Department 30,000 emails that they said were the business-related emails from her private system. The personal emails were deleted. But Comey said that in this process, it is "likely that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce ... that are now gone because they deleted all emails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices." The FBI could not recover these.
Her email might have been hacked Comey said there was no direct evidence Clinton's email was hacked, but other people she corresponded with were hacked, and her use of a private email system was well-known. She also used her email while traveling "in the territory of sophisticated adversaries." Thus, he said, "it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account."
Many servers, not one The story of Clinton's emails has been about her use of a private server to run her own email system, but Comey said, "Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile devices to view and send email." Old servers got decommissioned as new equipment was brought online, and information on old devices was scrapped.
So why no charges? Comey said the key here is that investigators found no intent to break the law. Cases that have been filed in similar cases have been based on "clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information" or "indications of disloyalty to the United States." In the Clinton case, those elements were not found.
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Saturday, February 14, 2015
FBI HEAD DECRIES RACIAL BIAS, ENCOURAGES UNDERSTANDING
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream
FEBRUARY 12, 2015 – LAW ENFORCEMENT MUST ACKNOWLEDGE a tainted past in terms of racial bias, and police and those they serve must learn to see each other as well-intentioned but complicated human beings, Director James B. Comey told a Georgetown audience today.
FBI director James Comey and Edward Montgomery, dean of Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy, listen as a student asks the FBI leader a question during his Feb. 12 visit to Georgetown.
In a speech titled “Hard Truths: Law Enforcement and Race,” Comey said the recent killings of unarmed young black men by law enforcement, protests about the deaths, and the avenge murders of two New York Police Department officers, has put America “at a crossroads.”
“Unfortunately, in places like Ferguson, in New York City, and in some communities across this nation, there is a disconnect between police agencies and the citizens they serve, predominately in communities of color,” he said. “But I worry that this incredibly important and difficult discussion about race and policing has been focused entirely on the nature and character of law enforcement officers when it should also be about something much harder to discuss.”
INFLUENCED BY CYNICISM
The harder discussion, he explained, is that police officers often work in communities where young men of color commit a “hugely disproportionate amount of street crime.”
“Something happens to people of good will working in that environment,” he said. “After years of police work, officers can’t help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.”
But he also noted that law enforcement has over the years been “brutally unfair to disfavored groups,” especially people of color, and that these communities have been subject to many types of inequalities for generations.
“So many boys and young men grow up in environments lacking role models, adequate education and decent employment,” Comey said. “They lack all sorts of opportunities that most of us take for granted.”
He decried the cutting of local budgets for police athletic leagues and other programs that bring police into greater contact with the people they police, saying that it is “hard to hate up close.”
“Perhaps the reason we struggle as a nation is because we’ve come to see only what we represent instead of who we are,” he said. “We simply must see the people we serve. But the seeing needs to flow in both directions. Citizens also need to really see the men and women of law enforcement.”
‘IDEOLOGICAL THUNDERBOLTS’
Comey noted that reporting officer-involved shootings to the FBI is voluntary, making “our data is incomplete and therefore in aggregate unreliable.”
“The first step in understanding what is really going on in our communities and in our country is to gather more and better data related to those we arrest, those we confront for breaking the law and jeopardize public safety, and those who confront us,” he said.
A “big city police chief” recently expressed frustration that he had no way of knowing if police in Ferguson, Missouri, shoot one person once a week, once a year or once a century, Comey said.
“And in the absence of good data, he told me, quote, ‘all we get are ideological thunderbolts, and what we need are ideological agnostics who use information to try to solve the problems. ”
The FBI director said that because the government agency needs such data to "get better," he intends have the "FBI ... be the leader in urging departments around this country to give us the facts we need for informed discussion, the facts all of us need to make sound policy and sound decisions.”
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Comey said he wanted to speak at Georgetown on law enforcement and race because its history includes the first African American university president, Patrick Healy, S.J., who served at Georgetown from 1873 to 1882 and whose mother was born a slave.
It was also no accident Comey spoke on the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who spoke at Gettysburg of a “new birth of freedom” that would bring equality to all American citizens.
“As a nation we have spent 150 years since Lincoln spoke making great progress, but along the way treating a whole lot of people of color poorly and law enforcement was often part of that poor treatment,” Comey said. “That’s our inheritance as law enforcement and it is not all in the distant past. We must account for that inheritance and we, especially those of us who enjoy the privilege that comes with being the majority, must confront the bias that are an inescapable part of the human condition.”
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Obama to Pick James B. Comey, Former Bush Official, to Lead F.B.I.
BREAKING NEWS Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:16 PM EDT
Obama to Pick James B. Comey, Former Bush Official, to Lead F.B.I.
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James B. Comey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Comey
United States Deputy Attorney General
In office
December 2003 – August 2005
President George W. Bush
Preceded by Larry Thompson
Succeeded by Robert McCallum (Acting)
Personal details
Born December 14, 1960 (age 52)
Yonkers, New York, U.S.
Political party Republican
Alma mater College of William and Mary
University of Chicago
James B. Comey, Jr. (born December 14, 1960) was United States Deputy Attorney General, serving in President George W. Bush's administration. As Deputy Attorney General, Comey was the second-highest ranking official in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and ran the day-to-day operations of the Department, serving in that office from December 2003 through August 2005. He was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York prior to becoming Deputy Attorney General. On May 29, 2013 President Barack Obama announced plans to appoint Comey to replace Robert S. Mueller III as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In December 2003, as Deputy Attorney General, Comey appointed the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, close friend and former colleague Patrick Fitzgerald, as Special Counsel to head the CIA leak grand jury investigation after Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself. In August 2005, Comey left the DOJ and he became General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin. In 2010, he became General Counsel at Bridgewater Associates. In early 2013, he left Bridgewater to become Senior Research Scholar and Hertog Fellow on National Security Law at Columbia Law School. He also joined the London-based board of directors of HSBC Holdings.
In May 2013, Comey was mentioned by CNN.com as a possible successor to Robert Mueller as FBI Director.
Contents [hide]
1 Early life and education
2 Marriage and family
3 Career, 1985-2005
4 NSA domestic wiretapping investigation
5 After leaving public office
5.1 Testimony before congressional committees
5.2 Supreme Court consideration
6 Notes
7 External links
Early life and education [edit]
Born in Yonkers, New York, Comey grew up in Allendale, New Jersey.[1] He attended Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale.[2]
Comey graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1982, majoring in chemistry and religion. His senior thesis analyzed the liberal theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and the conservative televangelist Jerry Falwell, emphasizing their common belief in public action.[3] He received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985.
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