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'Here's hoping 2018 brings more ethical leadership': James Comey takes aim (tr)
Daily Mail ^ | Jan 01, 2018 | AP and Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 01/01/2018 3:33:07 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

On Sunday evening, former FBI director James Comey took to Twitter to share his hopes for the new year.

Comey wrote in the post, seemingly aimed at President Donald Trump: 'Here's hoping 2018 brings more ethical leadership, focused on the truth and lasting values. Happy New Year, everybody.'

The President fired Comey back in May, and has said he was acting on the recommendation of Justice Department leaders who had faulted the FBI director for releasing 'derogatory information' about Hillary Clinton at the conclusion of the email server investigation months earlier.

Last Saturday, amid reports that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe - a frequent Trump target - intended to retire, the President also tweeted and took aim at Comey.

He wrote: 'How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin' James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife's campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?'

'The irony is most politicians would recognize that perpetuating silence post-firing would have been the most effective course,' Jacob Frenkel, a Washington defense lawyer and former prosecutor told the Associated Press.

In the event charges are brought or impeachment proceedings are begun, that kind of inconsistent messaging would present 'entertaining fodder for cross-examination.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comey; comeyscandal; cultureofcorruption; nifongism; twitter; weasel
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To: McGruff

He’s a desperate, cornered rat.


21 posted on 01/01/2018 4:31:53 AM PST by Vision (Obama manipulated Americans to systematically change the USA; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

,,,,,,, and firing Comey was a step in the right direction .


22 posted on 01/01/2018 4:31:59 AM PST by Lionheartusa1 ()-: There is nothing DEMOCRATIC about the democrat party ,, stop using that term :-()
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To: Vision

Ethical to him must mean overlooking his corruption and illegality.


BUMP!! Well said.


23 posted on 01/01/2018 4:47:13 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Comey’s biggest hope should be that he doesn’t wind up behind bars where he belongs. Clinton boot licker.


24 posted on 01/01/2018 4:50:15 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Hell - it got more honest and ethical when Trump fired Comey’s lying ass....


25 posted on 01/01/2018 4:53:20 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Is this the same ethical Comey who leaked his own FBI documents to the press?


26 posted on 01/01/2018 4:56:04 AM PST by Flick Lives (https://goo.gl/GxGKQh)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I do not think “ethical” means what he thinks it means.


27 posted on 01/01/2018 5:03:37 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The in-your-face arrogance of the leftist lawbreakers tells us all we need to know about Sessions. If Comey et al had a worry in the world about indictments they would stop taking backhanded potshots at Trump. But they know that with Sessions as AG there’s nothing to fear, so they keep on denigrating Sessions’ boss.


28 posted on 01/01/2018 5:07:14 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Comey is laying the groundwork for a defense conducted by the media.

He fears the coming retribution


29 posted on 01/01/2018 5:10:08 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

How much was it again that Comey’s given to ILLary and the Kenyan?


30 posted on 01/01/2018 5:14:19 AM PST by SayNoToDems (Will the dancing Hitlers please wait in the wings? We're only seeing singing Hitlers.)
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Remember when all the dhimmicrats thought Komey the Klown was evil?


31 posted on 01/01/2018 5:21:20 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: All

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The whole problem was that Comey and his buddies (they are thick as thieves) thought the FBI existed to protect Hillary and run interference for lawbreaking.

Remember the FBI raid on the poor YouTube Video maker after Barack and Hillary launched that Lie?

Things are upside down for Comey because he believes their job is to shill, sell, and market fiction.


32 posted on 01/01/2018 5:24:33 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: BobL

We will never understand what has happened to us without understanding the 12 years of Bushes.”

I think the 8 years of W is the key to understanding just how this level of corruption can take hold here.

The first thing that W did was unilaterally declare a “New Tone” in D.C. And with that ‘new tone’, W would not investigate, much less hold accountable, anyone from the previous (Bill Clinton) administration, when there were HUGE things to investigate (giving the Chinese ICBM capability in exchange for campaign contributions, for starters).

Once it became clear that Republicans were unable, unwilling, or simply afraid to investigate, then it became MUCH EASIER to ratchet things up, to the point of wholesale corruption under Obama...and so they did. The Obama people simply had NO FEAR of being caught, much less prosecuted, considering what they got away with under Bush. Regarding Trump, he was going to lose, and lose big time anyway - so no problem with him - and, most likely, if he did somehow win, it would be made clear to him that investigating prior (particularly Democrat) administrations is simply not done in DC.

As to the ‘new tone’, it STILL blows my mind that we could elect someone as STUPID as Bush Jr. was. He should have figured out in week that the Democrats had no intention of abiding by this ‘new tone’ - it took Trump about 3 steps down the stairs in his hotel (in June 2015) to figure out who the Democrats are. To this day, I doubt anyone in the Bush family has ANY CLUE as to who they are and what they want to do to this country.
...thank you for your post...best summary I’ve read in a while...I don’t think Gwb was that dumb, though...I’m sure GHWB mentioned to him he still has friends in the swamp he wanted left alone...


33 posted on 01/01/2018 5:44:44 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Hurtling deplorable!)
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To: Fantasywriter

I would not be surprised if many (possibly most) of the cabal Comey is part of would be this arrogant even after having sentences handed down. They truly believe they are above the law. Whatever Sessions is doing or not doing will not affect their arrogance.


34 posted on 01/01/2018 5:53:00 AM PST by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

I agree - using the word “stupid” without qualifications falls right into the hands of the Left. Where W was stupid was his understanding of DC Democrats. He figured they could be tamed and work with him, as the Democrats in Texas did, to a reasonable extent, when he was governor.

Totally different in DC, though (although now the Democrats in Texas are just as radicalized, having driven all of their conservatives and moderates out).


35 posted on 01/01/2018 5:59:42 AM PST by BobL (I used to own a truck - but I couldn't handle the lifestyle)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Well, Comey’s out so that’s a good start.


36 posted on 01/01/2018 6:04:08 AM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Fraxinus

I couldn’t disagree more. If there was a threat against Comey & co half as serious as Mueller is against Trump, the leftist lawbreakers would be watching their mouths. It is the total absence of any kind of jeopardy that has so emboldened people who are a 1000x more guilty than Trump.


37 posted on 01/01/2018 6:05:02 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

this crap has to be stopped. The whole lot of them need to be investigated, and if need be put into prison. Where is the coward, swamp donkey Sessions on any of this, or is he still focused on stopping weed


38 posted on 01/01/2018 6:20:39 AM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Jim Noble

Years of Bush, Clinton, and obama has given us this crap.


39 posted on 01/01/2018 6:21:28 AM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: All

That is so good coming from Comey, it should be on Saturday Night Live....


40 posted on 01/01/2018 6:31:39 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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