Using federal law enforcement process to go after political opponents or, as Comey appears to have done here in McCarthy's telling, to get the upper hand in a spat between a fired FBI Director and the President of the United States, is a corrupt purpose and an abuse of power.
The claim by Comey that the President, who had the power to halt the Flynn investigation if he wished, was obstructing justice by his comments to Comey is as phony a pretext as the use of the Logan Act by Sally Yates as a pretext to bring an FBI investigation down on General Flynn.
We need subpoenas and warrants to obtain the communications of all of these participants, Comey, Mueller, Rosenstein and so on, to gather evidence of the real purpose for which the special counsel was appointed on such phony pretexts and to prosecute any of those who committed crimes.
And I seriously wonder whether we ought to have the equivalent of term limits for DOJ prosecutors. The combination of power and tenure in people like Comey and Patrick Fitzgerald appears to lead to an identification in the individual's mind of his own agenda with that of criminal justice and the national interest.
In the rest of the piece McCarthy outlines the argument that Comey recommended no prosecution of Hillary because he knew DOJ would not prosecute her no matter what.
McCarthy like everyone else pushes the red herring of the issue of whether Hillary was guilty under the statute as written of being "extremely careless" or "grossly negligent" in mishandling classified material.
The Dems, the GOPe and the media all focus on this issue, intentionally distracting from the fact that the evidence that Hillary knowingly (not merely negligently) ran classified info through the private IT arrangement that she purposely set up off the books is abundant, making her violation willful.
what ever happened to unmasking stuff..not a peep from Congress or media(even Fox) for a long while?
Morning Joe a year ago said even the Democrats said they need an investigation..just after Susan Rice News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUS5Xa8RK6A
The Dems, the GOPe and the media all focus on this issue, intentionally distracting from the fact that the evidence that Hillary knowingly (not merely negligently) ran classified info through the private IT arrangement that she purposely set up off the books is abundant, making her violation willful.
Wonder why McCarthy did not address:
The little matter of Comey lying to Trump when he failed to tell Trump that the dossier was a Clinton paid for pack of lies.
And why Comey to this day claims he did not know that the dossier was paid for by Clinton.
And why Comey hired two of his buddies he leaked to as defense lawyers to take advantage of lawyer client privilege, as if it still exists.
McCarthy’s never-Trump slip is showing.
Comey was “refreshing” and “civil” in his FOX interview, whereas Trump was “unhinged.”
A clear case of obstruction of justice. PROSECUTE COMEY and REOPEN the Clinton email investigation!
What happens when you have obstruction of justice by law enforcement tasked to investigate? I would like to hope it tolls the statute of limitations.
Andy sounds more & more like a conflicted little girl.
If people who think they are conservatives are saying Comey is a “Higher Authority” than the law of the “little people,” can we be surprised that Comey believes it, too?
This is a key problem!
I believe Hillary did this to sell State Secretes to the highest bidder!
Sedition.
The question McCarthy needs to answer is why are his good friends of such low moral character. In reality is his own character similar to those he chooses to be friends with?
Sorry Jimbo, I might have been born at night, but it wasn't last night. Trying to CYA by claiming you knew, but kept silent isn't going make you a hero in anybody's book. You were a willing participant because you usurped the power of the Attorney General, personally declaring Hillary's actions as unprosecutable, and you picked up your paycheck every payday while you were doing it.
If you knew that cover-ups were taking place, it was your responsibility to report them. You took an oath of office, which you obviously decided not to obey. You're guilty of aiding and abetting a group of criminals in the attempt to overthrow the President of the United States. Do you think anyone will have any sympathy for a lying, leaking wimp like you for sitting back, and letting it happen?
You remind me of those Hollywood b*tches who submitted to sexual acts just to get and keep their jobs, then crying about it years later. You're as big a whore as they were.
McCarthy is just another member of a writhing ball of snakes. A member of the totalitarian impulsed, self regarding, band of twits that has been Federal Justice in the United States. I’d like to see how all of these perfumed tards make out in the prison yard.
“Before we turn first to leaking, some disclosure. I am fond of Jim Comey and have been for 30 years.”
But not so fund of Trump, right Andy?
And don’t forget the deletion and Bleachbit destruction of 33,000 emails and smashed computers and tablets. That wasn’t her property. Mr McCarthy is giving her way too much forgiveness.
“Comey was not without his reasons. Trump had ominously and falsely suggested that there were secret recordings of his conversations with the former director. Although the president’s intimation was that Comey might lie about these conversations, Comey believed any tapes would corroborate his version of events.”
Comey met with Trump several times and made memos about the conversations. Comey made assertions about what he discussed with Trump BEFORE Trump made any sort of statement about maybe having recordings.
McCarthy would have us believe that Trump’s comments about tapes forced Comey to write his memos weeks before Trump made the comments. Next, that Trump teasing about recordings (which was actually a jab at the FBI for bugging Trump Tower) somehow justified Comey leaking inherently classified memos, even though Trump had not released any tapes whatsoever.
McCarthy’s attempt to justify criminal leaks by his pals fails the chronology and non-sequitur tests.
Then you, Sir, are a fool.
Andy always seems to find a way...however circuitous, to blame PRESIDENT TRUMP.
Where are your ethics, Mr. McCarthy. What nice friends you have.
It's just the warm up for what is coming down on the corrupt FBI scumbags and dirty cops.
The memos are being highlighted at this point because they completely exonerate President Trump and prove conclusively that the entire Mueller investigation is a fake investigation initiated to frame the President and remove him via a soft coup using fake charges for impeachment
This is sedition at best and it's beginning to look more like treason everyday and your self described best buds are the ring leaders
Even worse, they initiated coup to protect themselves from the crimes they committed while in office working for Obama .
Your disrespect for President Trump blinds you to the fact that he is the most media savvy sophisticate ever to hold office and he is scripting and stage managing the downfall is of your BFFs at a level you do not even realize exists