Posted on 06/15/2017 6:46:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
I shall not beat around the bush. As readers of this column perhaps suspect, I have admired former FBI Director James Comey for most of his public career, beginning in 2013. That he is a friend of former FBI Director Robert Mueller makes me admire him even more. Mueller is a man of integrity and discretion. He would not befriend a man of dubious character.
Yet, since July 2016 I have begun to wonder about Comey. His public actions have become increasingly erratic, to the point that he is becoming unhinged. I do not believe he has become duplicitous, and I do not think he is a liar. But it seems that I am one of the few in Comey's corner to believe that he is unraveling in plain public view. In a word, he has had some sort of breakdown, and no one in official Washington dares to say it. It is a curious development. Already there are Democrats claiming President Trump is unhinged. Yet time and again, Trump's judgments have only been validated -- which is not so with Comey.
In public, Comey appears calm -- preternaturally calm. In fact, the other day, when he appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee, he seemed sedated. He was lucid but spoke in a monotone. It was disconcerting. I would not be surprised if he were on marijuana -- medical marijuana, that is. Did he leave the Senate chamber only to burst into uncontrollable sobs in private? Was he overcome by a sudden nervous tick? Where did he go after delivering his famous and often self-incriminating near-three-hour testimony? Was he quietly taken away to his former offices in the FBI building to fall into paroxysms of mad blinking, frantic clutching of the hands, and, perhaps, howls and gurglings? It has happened before. You followers of the arts will perhaps remember the sad downfall of Commissioner Dreyfus in those famous scenes from "The Pink Panther" series of yesteryear.
During Comey's testimony to the Senate, he was surprisingly petulant in his language -- in the way that a millennial is petulant when Mommy or Daddy tells him it is time to go to bed. Rather than sounding like a former director of the world's foremost law enforcement agency, he seemed distraught. At one point, he said that something former Attorney General Loretta Lynch had said to him gave him a "queasy feeling." At another point, he said of a conversation that he and President Trump had, "I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning." There were other troubling moments in his remarkable testimony. In "The Pink Panther," Commissioner Dreyfus became visibly deranged when the name of Inspector Clouseau was mentioned. Is this to be the fate of former Director Comey?
He has been acting odd ever since the summer of 2016. Remember his long catalogue of obvious felonies Hillary Clinton had committed? And then came his about-face: He said no prosecutor would prosecute her. But he was not authorized to comment publicly on the case he had amassed. All he had to do was hand over his findings to then-Attorney General Lynch. Then, in October, just before the election, he opened his investigation once again. Then he closed it. Again he was not authorized to speak out, but he did, and Clinton has been blaming him for her defeat ever since -- along with the Russians, misogyny and now, the Democratic Party, and, who knows, maybe Bill Clinton.
It is erratic behavior like this that suggests to me that former Director Comey is en route to a crackup. In his testimony, he said he had told President Trump three times in private that the FBI was not investigating him. Yet he refused to say this in public. Elsewhere in his testimony, he said that President Trump's discussion with him regarding Gen. Michael Flynn's firing made him uncomfortable. But Comey did not report the discussion to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as was required by law. Rather, he leaked the information in a memo criticizing the president to The New York Times -- not the Washington Times, The New York Times. Somehow one of his senatorial questioners got him to admit that he had leaked the memo to a Columbia Law School friend.
Following the behavior of James Comey is not easy. But, at this point in our inquiry, I think we can arrive at two judgments. First, Comey is in need of medication, and possibly therapy. And second, no one can find any crime that President Trump has committed. It is as the president says: a witch hunt.
Comey manipulated the media to get a special counsel appointed. And this guy was FBI DIRECTOR?
This show the FBI had become political hacks. He’s done great damage to the credibility of the FBI. We should greatly reduce their budget and form a less political agency.
Everyone who gets in bed with the Clinton cabal goes downhill.
How could anyone...other than a democrat...conceivably live with them self after letting Hillary skate the way he did?
Emmett, you are about to discover that Mueller is ha no more integrity than Comey. Because of both of them, the witch hunt might succeed. And those who tell us that Mueller has all of this integrity are part of the reason that the witch hunt may succeed.
It is time for Trump to fire Mueller as impossibly compromised, and appoint Gulliani to investigate Democrat corruption.
A grown adult who cannot govern his own tongue and doesn’t have the discernment to consider what he says or to whom he says it, should NEVER-E V E R have a position of authority.
He’s crazy?
Yes, and the rest of the Democrats are just misguided.
I’m tired of people making excuses for the Democrats.
They aren’t retarded and they aren’t childish.
They’re greedy bastards.
Politics is supposed to be about getting the best person for a job. The best person was the person who would get the most efficiency and effectiveness out of every hard-earned taxpayer provided dollar.
Do you see any of that kind of thought in the Democrat Party?
Nope.
It’s all about taking money from someone else to give to you for your vote.
And that money they steal and give to you is supposed to keep you from looking at (and complaining about) the thievery of the Democrat Party leadership.
The Democrats are not a political party.
The Democrats are a tribe of thieves.
Comey refused to announce that Trump wasn’t under investigation because Comey loved the ‘cloud of suspicion’ that hung over Trump’s head. I am embarrassed that a person like this was in charge of the FBI.....Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity. Yeah, right. And his testimony is ridiculous.....Pajama Boy Comey needs to go to a safe space and leave the public stage. And no, I don’t trust Mueller either. How appalling that our country is going through this.....all because the Democrats lost the election. It’s not like we have huge threats to the safety of the American people to resolve, is it? Oh wait...........
Why do all the shenanigans in Liberal Cesspools of Sedition remind of Marc Antony's speech?
Coney, Mueller, Rosenstein, Schummer, Ryan, McConnell, they are all honorable men.
Maybe he is walking a fine line to avoid Arkan-cide but yet say w/o saying. Hillary is guilty, should not be President, but plays along with the Russian, Trump Team might be in collusion, and possible obstruction to have it both ways while leaving enough doubt to avoid Hillary consequences but yet not indict Trump as there is no evidence.
That fine line would stress anyone out and make them do some odd things they would not have done years ago.
Comey could have called for a special prosecutor himself. He didn’t need the media.
The easy explanation would be that Comey is a dirty cop, one who appears to be as Crooked as Bill and Hillary. The writer is bending over double-backwards creating rationale for Comey’s actions.
Maybe he is ‘disturbed’. At this point, who cares? Comey needs to be charged with a string of his own crimes.
So he only felt the need after he was fired? Sounds like a political hack.
Cowardly paid Clinton Foundation protector:
"We mattered Seth Rich's murder and found nothing there.
We mattered uranium sales to Russia with me and my brother fully paid off.
We mattered Hillary's selling of US secrets and the checks cleared.
We even mattered the DHS and DNC vote tampering and found no intent there.
We mattered the murder of witnesses but found that nobody cares."
Yeah, well, when the Deep State reminds you of the debt you owe them and threatens to kill everybody you have ever loved unless you play ball, the nervous tension does tend to show on the surface at times.
Mueller will line his pockets dragging this out. He is one of the professional swamp rats.
Mueller is a man of illegal conflicts of interest, according to the special counsel law.
If this writer thinks Mueller is doing anything other than conducting a partisan witch hunt on behalf of his Dem/Uniparty masters, he’s a fool.
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