Posted on 12/16/2019 9:14:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Twenty years ago, Bill Clinton gave us “it depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” James Comey has now given us it depends what the meaning of “vindicated” is.
The former FBI director sat down with Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday over the weekend, and it didn’t go well. Wallace repeatedly pressed Comey on critical findings in the Horowitz IG report, and Comey shimmied and dodged, in a master class in slipperiness and evasion.
Throughout the interview, Comey sought to minimize what had gone wrong in 2016, fighting a rearguard action on behalf of a position no longer worthy of defense.
The former FBI director puts great weight on yet another distinction that is laughable by any reasonable standard. He says that the Trump campaign wasn’t being investigated, just four people associated with it. But this wasn’t a coincidence. It wasn’t as though they were all under investigation for disparate, random things. The FBI was probing whether they were conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election. To pretend this had nothing to do with the campaign is completely ridiculous.
In sum, based on his performance with Chris Wallace, it’s safe to doubt the reliability of James Comey’s definition of “vindicated.”
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Just that would have been illegal on the part of the CIA, NSA — and possibly the FBI if they had not warrants for surveillance. But you’re right — we shouldn’t be naive enough to think that because it’s illegal that it doesn’t go on in our government. However, if they are going to take it into a court of law they need to be able to say that they obtained this information lawfully — and that’s where FISA comes in.
If the Trump-impeachment results in the repeal of the Patriot Act & cause a whole-sale restructuring of the mission of the FBI it will probably have been worth it. It may take a constitutional-crisis to end bad laws & rogue agencies.
see post #18
Crooked FBI leader....but look who prosecuted him..John “Bull” Durham
Not log ago we heard of the libs idea of a North American Union, where there were no barriers between Mexico, Canada and the U.S.
Seems The Donald has put that idea where it belongs.
I am wondering how the revelation that Comey, Schiff, NAdler, Pelosi & all the others have been LYING for all these many months will sit with the more well known members of the media who have been hanging out there on a limb trying to support all of the anti-Trump rhetoric?
I would not be surprised if a couple of “Suicides” happen.
Never Trumper Lowry just can’t avoid getting digs in at President Trump, even in an article taking Comey to the woodshed.
I think President Trump was too generous in calling Comey “scum.”
That was a Bush idea.
Slow walking?
He’s only been free to investigate since late May, and only was confirmed shortly before that.
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