Comey’s confession: dossier not verified before, or after, FISA warrant

The Hill ^ | 12/8/2018 | john Solomon

[bitt]

Many people I know in law enforcement circles shuddered when James Comey tweeted recently that acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker “may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer.”

To them, Comey’s Twitter attack crossed that “blue line” – the one that real cops abide by, to never criticize fellow officers and to always have their backs.

I had a different reaction. I found it odd that a man who started his Twitter career by quoting Bible verses about justice might have forgotten one of the golden utterances from Jesus himself: “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone."

The failures of Comey’s remarkably turbulent and short tenure as FBI director were on display again Friday on Capitol Hill, when he was interviewed in a closed-door session by two House committees. Republican lawmakers were aghast at his sudden lack of recollection of key events.

He didn’t seem to know that his own FBI was using No. 4 Justice Department official Bruce Ohr as a conduit to keep collecting intelligence from Christopher Steele after the British intel operative was fired by the bureau for leaking and lying. In fact, Comey didn’t seem to remember knowing that Steele had been terminated, according to sources in the room.

“His memory was so bad I feared he might not remember how to get out of the room after the interview,” one lawmaker quipped. Lamented another: “It was like he suddenly developed dementia or Alzheimer’s, after conveniently remembering enough facts to sell his book."

[Robert DeLong]

First, the Justice Department inspector general found that Comey wrongly usurped the powers of the attorney general when he chose to make his own decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton in the classified email investigation and that he violated department policies by announcing the re-opening and the closing of the Clinton email case, the latter just days before Election Day.

I'm convinced he was asked to usurp the powers of the attorney general by the attorney general herself, Loretta Lynch. That removed her from having to actually not charge Clinton. As for announcing the re-opening & closing, that was all on him, and he did it on purpose to take heat from the Democrats as a deflection to allow the topic not to be about the usurping he had already agreed to when that time was to finally arrive. That usurpation hadn't taken place yet, so he was clever (read that as corrupt) enough to think ahead.

[Robert DeLong]

And unverified dossiers are not an acceptable form of verified evidence in a FISA submission.

Notice that even with this revelation, the FISA court has remained silent. The whole system is corrupt and needs to be eliminated, now. Heads need to roll, but will they? So far I'm not convinced they will.

[Will88]

He probably suffers from the same special strain of amnesia Hillary has suffered from for years. It’s probably contagious and Dims seem especially prone to it at very opportune times.

[Missouri gal]

Nothing says Deep State like inventing a criminal investigation out of nothing, unless it is lying to Congress about it.

[wastedyears]

To them, Comey’s Twitter attack crossed that “blue line” – the one that real cops abide by, to never criticize fellow officers and to always have their backs.

There it is, the Blue Wall of Silence.

[trebb]

Says the guy who claims to know so little he should have been paying the government instead of taking a paycheck....