Posted on 05/10/2017 7:52:36 PM PDT by MtnClimber
At National Review last weekend, I addressed the Democrats’ loopy claim that the FBI became a Trump partisan in the 2016 election. The claim is worth more examination in light of President Trump’s dismissal of FBI Director James Comey.
In Clinton World, self-absorption always triumphs over self-inspection, so nothing could be more predictable than Hillary Clinton’s scapegoating of Comey, a diversion from acknowledging what really cost her the election: her own manifest flaws. Congressional Democrats are along for the ride: those who were swooning over Comey in July when he announced that Clinton would not be charged, then ripped him in October when he reopened and quickly reclosed the FBI’s investigation, and then branded him a Trump partisan hack after the votes were counted, are suddenly back in swoon mode.
Comey, of course, hasn’t changed through all of this. He’s always been the same guy. The laughably transparent explanation for all the careening around him is politics.
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The sharks have only begun to circle. Next I predice bad times for Lois Learner and many more at IRS, Schumer, the Clintons, Juan McCain...
Artful Dodger is his gift.
“Comey is always in the center of events, but he has never been in control of events.”
Nonsense.
Comey went along with the Obama administration whitewash of the Hillary email investigation. He never complained about not being able to present anything to a grand jury, handing out immunity left and right, letting participants act as attorneys and sit in on interviews, and so forth.
He dishonestly pretended that there was no probable cause to believe that Hillary knowingly ran classified info through her server, even though she knew full well what kind of info was classified and what was not, and ran it through her server over and over and over and over again.
And the Obama administration investigated the supposed Trump-Russian connection for months, by the NSA and the CIA and the FBI and the other 17 intelligence agencies, with Susan Rice apparently reading reports of the daily activities of Trump people using the spying apparatus of the US government.
They came up with nada. Nothing. A silly paid piece of discredited campaign opposition propaganda was used as the basis for getting a FISA warrant for even further spying.
And yet Comey is out there pretending there is still something to investigate, if only they would give him a bigger budget? At this point it is just a fishing expedition for grist for the leak mill and perhaps a perjury trap or two.
So all of this effort by Comey on the spurious Trump collusion with Russian hacking, but what about the Clinton Cash investigations? Why has nothing ever happened on that?
And what the heck has Comey been doing on the leak investigation? Sally Yates, who should have been the starting point for that investigation, testified that no one from the FBI ever contacted her about the leaks.
What do we need NOW? We need an investigation by experienced, serious prosecutors supported by an uncompromised team of experious, serious FBI special agents into possible obstruction of justice by Lynch, Comey, McCabe, Yates and anyone else who made the decisions to whitewash the Hillary and Clinton Foundation investigations and any other matters in which Obama administration people were protected from investigation or prosecution for crimes.
Yes, many of these leftists are accomplices and should be charged as such.
If Comey had of just done his job correctly and in accordance with the law, Obama would have fired him and Hillary would have still lost the election.
He did not do his job in a non partisan manner and in effect became a participant in the coverup of Hillary’s crimes. Therefore Trump fired him on the advice of the Justice Department.
Today Comey is a Pariah. A Pariah is a lot like a martyr but it hurts a lot more and there is no glory. Comey chose poorly.
Can anyone tell me why Attorney General Sessions recused himself from the Clinton investigation and the Russian investigation??
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IIRC, Sessions only recused himself from the Russia investigation.
Comey is a man with no country......NO ONE REALLY TRUSTS HIM!!!
Comedy slow walking investigations and temporarily exonerating Politicans has the net effect of positioning a sword of Damocles over the heads of POTUS and Congress
“Comey is always in the center of events, but he has never been in control of events.”
The sense of this is that Comey was never the instigator or main director of the Clinton email whitewash program, even though he aided and abetted the cover-up. The exception was his initiative in the aftermath of the “tarmac meeting”, where Bill’s moves to obstruct justice were so flagrant that Comey rushed to get Hillary off the hook before the Clintons dug a deeper hole. (Though for all I know, the Clintons wanted to compromise Lynch to throw this into Comey’s hands).
This matters because the true directors of the cover-up still occupy government jobs. They need to be identified and purged from government, if still in it (Yates isn’t; McCabe is) and brought to justice. Ultimately Hillary (and probably Cheryl Mills) ran the show, through her web of lawyers and implanted agents within the DoJ and State Dept. Comey was just another tool in their box. Tools have to be used with care or they can cut you.
I just saw another video of him recusing himself from the Clinton E-mail scandal!!!
Do you have a link? I would like to watch it.
Thx much.
Just watched the tape.
You are right. I stand corrected.
Just watched the tape.
You are right. I stand corrected.
Yea I just wanted to know why he recused himself..
I think it was because he was active in the Trump campaign against Hillary and that would call into question his objectivity in DOJ matters related to her.
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