I endorse your concept 2.
Comey is a sharp lawyer, who exploits language to commit crimes, evade responsibility, and confound truth-seekers. His recent acceptance of responsibility for the FBI’s “sloppy work” on the Page FISA application is a perfect example. He dumbs down criminal activity as if it were accidental, knowing that sloppiness is not a crime. Shouldering blame for someone else’s incompetence is an empty pretense to virtue that trivializes both virtue and the criminal activity he knowingly presided over.
Characterizing his conduct as socio- or psychopathic lets him off the hook. His nutty behavior is an act.
Fruit of the poisoned tree. Everyone who was pulled in on this should have all charges dropped and the criminals who fomented the real crimes have their property confiscated to pay damages to the victims.
That is what I think. I also think he may indeed be mentally unstable.
His reputation is everything to him (like most Leftists) and though our own reputation is important to all of us, to Leftists, the loss or damage to it can be earth-shattering.
It is why ridicule seems to be the only thing that touches them. They are impervious to logic, rationality, reality, and even emotion. Nothing can move them. But boy, you level a genuine, on target salvo at ridicule at them, they lose their minds.
Just one more reason I love seeing Trump troll them. He knows that as well.
As for Comey...he is in trouble, I think. Perhaps he won’t be punished, but his disgrace and banishment is going to push him over some precipice.
I find it most interesting that he refuses to re-apply for his security clearance. That is a lucrative benefit for many people like him, opens many doors.
He refuses to re-apply because it would put him in a position of having to truthfully answer questions, something he wants to avoid at all costs.