I am sure this man is a never Trumper given his pedigree and background. However, I sincerely doubt that he knew much about the bigger plot. It increasingly appears that Brennan/Clapper set up a multi-faceted and multi-pronged disinformation campaign to use willing accomplices within the FBI to launch an investigation into Trump. Comey does not appear to realize his role, but his statement that he “carried out his assignment” in giving a pointed briefing to Trump that served as a hook for the media to run with the dossier story was very telling.
I think there will be a lot of people who were unwittingly tasked with planting hooks that we learn about in the future and it all leads back to Brennan/Clapper. They moved the pawns around the board to protect the queen, but the opposing King now owns the board. I would fully expect that there will be many people who will know little to nothing about the larger plot who will say “I was told this and was asked to do this with XYZ and report back.” It is a classic disinformation campaign and I suspect we will begin getting confirmation that it did not only involve the FBI and the FISA court, but CIA, the State Dept, and I am almost certain it involved the intelligence agencies of our own allies as well. All of them feeding planted tidbits back to the core group at FBI who appeared to swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
I doubt it will ever crack the veneer of arrogance and self-righteousness, and it certainly fit his own opinion, but I truly wonder if Comey will ever wake up one day and understand how bad he and the agency he served were used..... They ran the most infamous counter-intel investigation in history on the basis of lies. He was a more than willing participant, but the damage to his agency will last far beyond him and after he finishes cashing the checks for his book, his legacy will not be pretty. This was a crafted narrative to use the 7th floor of the FBI for seditious behavior and the core group at the top were willing participants who did not ask the questions that a rookie cop or a first year law student would know to ask.
The dam has broken and the more we learn the uglier it becomes. The conspiracy is obvious now and as more is revealed the only real question now is “how high up did this go?” The counter-punches are coming from the President who VDH rightfully points out “has an animal cunning.”
Excellent analysis!
Yup. Classic "Cats paw" operation by the CIA. Feed the right information to the right places and then cover your tracks, but they were so sure of a Hillary victory they ignored the covering your tracks part.