Posted on 07/15/2016 12:21:29 PM PDT by onyx
What really happened at FBI director James Comey's press conference this week? After giving a textbook case of why Hillary Clinton should be charged, he surprised everyone by saying she should not.
Did he simply blow it? Did he wimp out, knowing the wrath he would face? Unquestionably, Hillary committed offenses for which the average Joe would be arrested. Was he blackmailed or bought off? Was he politically motivated?
There's truth somewhere in or around those guesses. Hillary, as Comey's testimony of what she did exposed, certainly deserved to be prosecuted. Others have been put in jail for much less, including an innocent video maker she blamed for Benghazi. But with no answers from Comey as to why he did it, I'm reminded of the Vietnam War performance of Jeremiah Denton, a U.S. prisoner of war (POW) hauled in the war's early stages before cameras by North Vietnamese captors to attest to U.S. "war crimes."
Denton, who would become a U.S. senator from Alabama but at the time was a high-ranking naval aviator in the hands of his North Viet enemies, pulled a spectacular stunt on his captors. While mouthing the lies they made him say about U.S. bombings, he blinked his eyes in Morse code relating "torture" while feigning that the lights were too bright. It was the first credible confirmation that our POWs were being tortured, valuable information used from then on by U.S. war planners and negotiators.
Was Comey, in his own way, doing something similar? That's probably a stretch. But in view of the devastating case he presented before letting Hillary off the hook, his schizophrenic press conference seems to have done something similar to Denton's.
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No sale. I still think he’s a weasel. Thanks for playing, however.
No one messes with the Clinton Crime Syndicate....and lives.
He blinked. Almost everyone has a certain point at which they can be compromised or at the least, turn a well timed blind eye to specific activities. He’s got a wife and five children. Who knows what was implied indirectly.
And then 5 cops were murdered..
Comey WHO? WHAT testimony? The media IGNORED IT due to the ever so COINCIDENTAL 'cop murders' in Dallas.
Just another DC insider, a government or HSBC whore all his life. Not a single day of honest work, or a single day of lawlaw enforcement.
I know I’ll get killed for this, but I think he took one for the team.
She’s lost about 10 or more points since he damned her with faint praise.
Did he wuss out? Probably, but got SOME courage at the last minute and buried her.
I dont care if one monster goes to jail this year or next year.
300 MILLION people matter a lot more than our egos or righteous anger.
I think you’re wrong.
Comey got ~$10 million$ from playing a Banker Gangster for a furrin’ Bank associated eith the Clintoon Crime Fam. Guilty he is.
[ Was he blackmailed or bought off? Was he politically motivated? ]
As Mr. Wilhelm would say: “There’s your answer!”
Was he blackmailed or bought off? >>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yep. Comey was bought a long time ago, lock, stock and barrel.
He was until recently a member of the Board of the Clinton Foundation.
Comey likely has a full bank account in Spain’s Province of Andorra, where Obama and his running dogs all hide their money.
I supported Comey and the FBI until his shameful performance at that press conference.
I’ve tried to consider alternative possibilities for his actions.
None of them matter.
The message Comey sent to the people of the United States is that we now have royalty who will rule over us.
Comey is a gutless weasel.
What a reach. Is Comey a POW or something? Do they have family members held as hostages?
He was compromised. You could see it in his eyes.
The difference is that Jeremiah Denton was powerless. The price to be paid to continue to defy the wishes of his captors would have been his own life and quite possibly the lives of his fellow soldiers. He did what he had to do survive in a situation not of his own making.
Comey was in a situation of his own choosing, and all he was asked to do was his job - to enforce the law fairly and impartially. The price, at worst, is he would be forced to resign and ride of into the sunset with the fat government pension he’s accrued over the years.
He lacked the courage and integrity to do his job. He may well have done some positive things in his years of work, but all he will be remembered for is this one decision. He will be remembered as a corrupt pathetic failure of a man.
I thought that the Naval office POW who blinked “t-o-r-t-u-r-e” in Morse code was Stratton, not Denton.
Comey’s name will go down in history alongside Benedict Arnold.
He will always be the poltroon to me.
I don't know what that little song and dance act was about but I still think he's a worm.
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