Posted on 05/06/2020 12:22:39 AM PDT by Libloather
A "good friend" of former FBI Director James Comey said the bureau's current chief "should be careful" about criticizing its old leadership.
Benjamin Wittes, who is the editor-in-chief of Lawfare, reacted late Tuesday to an FBI statement defending Director Christopher Wray as he faces pressure from Republicans to answer for what they view as a lack of transparency about the Russia investigation.
"Chris Wray should be careful before issuing statements like this about 'prior leadership' to check the dates on the FISA applications that the IG examined in his most recent interim report," Wittes tweeted.
Wittes was referring to recent revelations about problems with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process, which stretched from Comey's tenure ending in May 2017, through to the directorship of his successor, Wray.
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a report late last year criticizing the Justice Department and the FBI for at least 17 “significant errors and omissions” related to the FISA warrants against Trump campaign associate Carter Page in 2016 and 2017, and for the bureau's reliance on British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s unverified dossier.
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Bring it!
Waaaaaaaaa
Never heard the Red Pinko Press denounce criticism of J.Edgar Hoover or the slam against the FBI for techniques used against terrorist groups like the Weather Underground (hint, it’s why Bill Ayers is guilty as sin yet free as a bird for bombing the Pentagon).
ABSOLUTELY!
The corruption in our government is breathtaking. If only there were ten righteous .....
sounds like The Mob.
the Mollie Hemingway stuff in the article means it’s worth reading it all.
My first take, too. I thought it more definite though.
Wray won’t criticize Comey, et al. They all were in it together, and are as thick as thieves.
“Sounding like a veiled threat there.”
Nothing “veiled” about it.
Lawfare version of “Nice little department you got here, Chris. Be a shame if something happened to it.”
IIRC, Wittes is the Comey friend that leaked info to the media, which got the whole Mueller investigation started.
That was another Comey buddy, Daniel Richmond
https://heavy.com/news/2017/06/daniel-dan-c-richman-james-comey-columbia-professor/
Ok thank you. The Wittes name seems familiar to me. I don’t remember why, though.
Funny...I haven’t heard that term “Benny Boy” for decades! When I was a kid living in the Philippines, the Filipinos living in Olongapo would refer to guys who liked guys as “Benny Boys”.
They would use it generally as a derisive taunt towards you, as in calling out as you walked by “Hey-you Benny Boy?” or “Hey, you like Benny Boy?”
Seems the layers of the rotting onion are beginning to be peeled back a layer at a time and it’s only a matter of time before some of the players involved start to turn on each other to avoid prison time. I hope so anyway.
You spelled “lawfully executed for treason and/or sedition and/or crimes against humanity” wrong, didn’t you?
He defended Lon Horiuchi in the courts for blowing Vicki Weaver’s head off with a sniper rifle while she was nursing her baby...
LOL ! Spelling is HARD!
He most certainly did and he is also a reported lifelong friend of James Comey and et al.
Wittes runs the Lawfare group and is TDS central. Schiff hired a couple of lawyers affiliated with them to run the impeachment sham. EX FBI general council James Baker is affiliated with them.
Right. One thing for sure, President Trump has sure exposed the corruption in our country.
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