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Posted on 05/06/2026 2:49:47 PM PDT by Signalman
Last week, the Department of Justice announced that former FBI director James B. Comey has been again indicted by a Federal Grand Jury, this time in the Eastern District of North Carolina.
The criminal offenses charged against Comey are precise and limited; two counts of threating harm to the President. They involve his posting of images of seashells arranged as “86 47.” 86 being slang for kill and Trump being the 47th president.
Kash Patel, the current FBI director, commented that Comey “disgracefully encouraged a threat on President Trump’s life and posted it on Instagram for the world to see.” However, many have opined that the current charges are petty and vindictive.
Comey’s defense team may be able to get the charges dismissed, or Comey may be found not guilty. Last November a different indictment against Comey was tossed out by a judge in Virginia, who ruled that the U.S. attorney overseeing it had been unlawfully appointed. Nonetheless, there certainly was plenty of malfeasance and misfeasance on Comey’s part during his tenure as FBI director, starting with the Clinton email case and continuing with the entire Russian collusion chimera.
In his overwhelming arrogance, Comey usurped the role of a prosecutor by announcing, in July 2016, that no charges would be brought against Clinton in the email case. At the same time he announced there would be no charges, he besmirched the uncharged Clinton by delivering a litany of her irresponsible conduct. An inspector general’s report criticized him for these actions and then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein cited this in a memo justifying Comey’s firing. Rosenstein asserted that the FBI must have “a Director who understands the gravity of his mistakes and pledges never to repeat.” But he saw no hope for Comey.
In his book, Comey described the sole origin of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign as a report “from an allied ambassador” of a conversation in London between a Trump adviser and “a Russian agent.” This is his characterization of George Papadopoulos’ meeting with Joseph Mifsud, who told the Trump aide the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. Comey has piously huffed that it would have been “dereliction” not to proceed with an investigation. But proceeding with an intrusive investigation based on so little was an abuse.
A secondhand rumor should never be enough to justify opening an investigation of any American, much less a presidential candidate. This off-hand conversation initiated an investigation that plagued the presidency. Like directors before him, Comey should have said, “We need more probable cause.” Instead, Comey had the Bureau pursue an investigation that impacted more than one US citizen without sufficient predicate.
Comey tried to bolster his case by branding Mifsud a Russian agent, which is still far from certain. In that first encounter, there was no mention of emails. Only after the WikiLeaks disclosures was an assumption made by both Australian High Commissioner Alexander Downer, Comey’s “allied ambassador,” and Papadopoulos, that the “dirt” was in the emails.
Comey later tried to dodge responsibility by claiming it all happened “seven levels below” him. That is simply not true. Peter Strzok, Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, drafted and signed out the communication initiating the probe. Strzok’s texts demonstrate that he answered to Andrew McCabe, who was the deputy director and Comey’s direct report. It was McCabe who set up the interview with General Michael Flynn, and it was Strzok who conducted the interview. These people were not seven levels below Comey. They were his inner circle.
It was Comey who wrote a memo of his conversation with Trump and then leaked it. He, and only he, did that. What was he thinking? Here was the FBI director trying to incriminate the president. Again, an inspector general’s report criticized this action as an “unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information” and misuse of FBI documents to “achieve a personally desired outcome.”
As the FBI’s collusion investigation progressed, it used a FISA warrant against Carter Page, a member of Trump’s campaign. Comey justified the electronic surveillance of Page, a US citizen, by writing that a federal judge granted “permission.” We now know that the FISA Court was seriously misled. The previous FBI standards for these intrusive warrants were ignored. Exculpatory material was disregarded, and the blatantly fabricated dossier provided by Christopher Steele was used for probable cause. Comey, who signed three of the four applications for FISA coverage on Carter Page, is accountable for this malfeasance and misfeasance as well.
“Crossfire Hurricane,” Comey’s baseless investigation of a presidential campaign, was the most damaging action to the FBI’s reputation in history. The Attorney General Guidelines require “predicate information,” i.e., articulable facts, for the initiation of an FBI investigation. Special Counsel John Durham’s report concluded that Crossfire Hurricane’s origin did not meet this threshold.
Even if the current criminal case against Comey is dismissed, or if he is found not guilty, he will still stand convicted by history as the worst FBI director ever.
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History won’t even convict him don’t worry.
Sorry, but that’s not nearly good enough. He deserves a perp walk in front of the cameras!
A super tall gallows is better.
“They involve his posting of images of seashells arranged as “86 47.” 86 being slang for kill and Trump being the 47th president.”
Nah. He walks. They need to find better cases than this.
They’re doing this just to inconvenience while they work on renewing the case that got set aside because of the prosecutions appointment which was lacking.
Yeah let’s hope they bring some other cases.
Meanwhile, Letitia James sits at a table in the Scalinatella, one of the better known Italian restaurants in NYC. She presses a damp linen dinner napkin against her lips. Pressing down hard, in order to stifle the building sounds of her muffled laughter.
Yes, Letitia is sorta, kinda still worried, but she’s mostly just gloating about that good old fashioned, Two Tiered System of American Justice. “Long may it live!” she loudly whispers to herself.
Just inconvenience him. Make court appearances for 6 AM...
Yep.
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