Posted on 06/10/2017 12:40:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The most stunning thing in James Comey’s testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was what he said about special prosecutors, also called special counsels.
“After former President Clinton met on the plane with the attorney general, I considered whether I should call for the appointment of a special counsel and decided that would be an unfair thing to do because I knew there was no case there,” Comey testified, speaking of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. “And calling for the appointment of a special counsel would be brutally unfair because it would send the message, ‘Uh-huh, there’s something here.’ ”
Sen. John Cornyn, who was questioning the former FBI director, asked, “If a special counsel had been appointed, they could have made that determination there was nothing there and declined to pursue it, right?”
“Sure,” Comey answered, “but it would have been many months later or a year later.”
Compare that to what he told Sen. Susan Collins at a different point in the hearing, when she asked, “Did you show copies of your memos to anyone outside the Department of Justice?”
“Yes,” Comey testified. “The president tweeted on Friday after I got fired that I better hope there’s not tapes. I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night because it didn’t dawn on me originally, that there might be corroboration for our conversation. There might be a tape. My judgment was, I need to get that out into the public square. I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn’t do it myself for a variety of reasons. I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.”
Let’s go over that again.
Comey wanted to prevent the appointment of a special counsel for Hillary Clinton, who was the subject of an FBI investigation, but he wanted to “prompt” the appointment of a special counsel for President Trump, who was not the subject of an FBI investigation.
He understood that the appointment of a special counsel “would send the message, ‘Uh-huh, there’s something here’” and that it would be “many months later or a year later” before the special counsel would announce that, in fact, “there was no case there.”
Any questions?
Here’s one: Is President Trump alleged to have done anything illegal or is this investigation just war, by any means necessary, against someone who has put a lot of swamp creatures out of power and out of work?
Comey testified that while he was FBI director, Trump was not under investigation by the FBI — not in a criminal investigation, and not in a counter-intelligence investigation, which, in Comey’s words, “tend to be centered on individuals the FBI suspects to be witting or unwitting agents” or “covertly acting as an agent” of a hostile foreign nation, or “targeted for recruitment.”
In the FBI’s judgment, Trump was none of those.
Comey revealed to Congress in March that the bureau was investigating “possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign,” yet he flatly refused to tell the public, until his testimony on Thursday, that Trump wasn’t under investigation.
Comey testified that after he was fired, he orchestrated a selective leak in order to prompt a lengthy special counsel investigation of the president, knowing full well that the FBI had found no reason to place the president under investigation.
That is genuinely deplorable.
comet, looking to portray trump as a liar, himself came off as the liar in all this- even as someone who committed perjury and possibly broke the law by leaking-
What in the world did comey think he was going to accomplish by appearing? He came off as weak, unqualified to be FBI, and a liar and possible law breaker
Clever spider in a clever web.
Nobody is smart enough to lie.
He knew if he appointed a special council on Hilary she would lose the election. Pure partisan politics.
Comey appears to me as some mental-midget who was lifted up to various jobs but never really demonstrated any real capability. His major in college was chemistry and religion....getting in law stuff a couple of years later. I don’t think he was ever gifted to any degree to run any large-scale operation...particularly the FBI. He was simply out of his league and unable to do much beyond his seven-line resume.
And yet she lost anyway. This guy was really in charge of the FBI? How far down we’ve gone since J. Edgar Hoover.
> Comey wanted to prevent the appointment of a special counsel for Hillary Clinton, who was the subject of an FBI investigation, but he wanted to “prompt” the appointment of a special counsel for President Trump, who was not the subject of an FBI investigation.
That’s it entirely. Comey has been running a smear campaign, fostering the impression of scandal were there is none.
You're right , Comey decided to protect Hillary from the consequences of her actions.
Comey is a lying traitorous coward
Great article.
Comey deserved to be fired. He is a partisan hack.
If any FBI employee still supports Comey after proof of his egregious agenda has been exposed, they deserve to be fired too.
Comey has brought lasting damage to the FBI.
The guy truly is a nut job.
How did Comey know, without any doubt, that there was nothing on Clinton? On the other hand, he seemed to know with certainty, that Trump might be investigated? Seems like we could save a lot of money if we just ran every case through Comey, and he could tell us if it’s warranted.
Comey has been running a smear campaign, fostering the impression of scandal were there is none.On that note, I was shocked the other night when Lou Dobbs suggested to Jonathan Turley that the special council should quit...
(so called lawyer) JONATHAN TURLEY SAID THE INVESTIGATION/SPECIAL COUNCIL NEEDS TO CONTINUE THE INVESTIGATION IN SEARCH OF A CRIME.
The very definition of a witch hunt.
How about Crummy?
Naw too dull.
James Dummy?
James Homey?
Anybody?
Comey should be looking at 10-20 years in prison for this one act of criminal behavior alone. I’m sure more would be found during the trial. He may never get to spend his $10 Million book deal money.
funny how he felt the need to leak memo to get special, counsel appointed but didn’t feel the need to do that with hillary? Comey is a pure partisan
It seems to me that President Trump gave swampthings the opportunity to work with the new administration in achieving its priorities. Big mistake. Swampthings only survive in swamps.
With a hack like Comey running the FBI I can see how terrorists like the Tsarnov brothers were missed even after the Russians warned
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