Posted on 05/12/2017 11:15:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The straw that broke the camel’s back for now-ousted FBI Director James Comey was the investigation he apparently wasn’t doing.
President Trump’s much-reported frustration with Comey almost certainly arose from the G-man’s failure to get to the bottom of Obama aides’ illegal leaks of classified information — leaks aimed at undermining the incoming Trump administration.
And top Republicans in Congress shared that concern.
Under grilling last week, the director refused to say whether he had launched a probe into illegal leaks by the Obama team of highly classified intelligence intercepts of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and possibly other private US citizens working on the Trump transition.
“I don’t want to answer that,” Comey told Senate Judicary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley. The chairman described that reticence as odd given how the government “regularly acknowledges” when it’s investigating classified leaks.
Grassley appeared skeptical the FBI had opened an investigation at all — even suggesting the bureau didn’t want to investigate itself. “There are several senior FBI officials who would’ve had access to the classified information that was leaked, including yourself and the deputy director,” the senator said, referring to Andrew McCabe, now the FBI’s acting director.
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The prime suspect is the person who looks back at Comey from the mirror.
The transition was practically run out of the Heritage Foundation... where a ton of the collection took place.
“Andrew McCabe”
If ever there was a snake that couldn’t be trusted, it would be this guy.
Bingo. Exactly
Why would he investigate himself?
Wonder why Trump simply wouldn’t say this from the start - the American public would understand: “selective and uneven efforts on investigations, strongly hinting at political bias and influence-seeking”
would be a great quote for the media to use and to explode libs heads.
For 20 years the Clinton Crime family has been protected by their long-time cronies Holder, Lynch, and Comey. They all have blackmailable information on one another: mutual assured destruction if any turned on the others.
And McCabe is compromised as well, with 3/4 of a million of Rat money going to his wife.
Now only McCabe is left to shield the Clintons, and he is under a microscope.
The Clintons are now DESPERATE, and it’s showing in the MSM coverage.
Looking forward to your new book.
That alone would be reason enough. The FBI and other intelligence services have spent months investigating circumstances under which there may or may not have been any crime, but could not bestir themselves to investigate several cases where it was clear that felonies were comitted.
Comey was corrupt and had to go.
Chuck Grassley is kicking ass.
I bet James Comey is the happiest man in the USA. Now th Clinton’s will take the Vince Foster target off his back and put it on McCabe.
Which is gonna be bigger?
1. The number of reasons Trump fired Comey?
2. The number of reasons Hillary lost?
3. The number of of feet of border wall that get built in the next 4 years?
Trump should appoint McCabe as Comey’s replacement and then fire him too.
He did no such thing.
Had he performed is duty in July, she would have been indicted for (and by now, convicted of) a felony which makes her ineligible to ever hold public office again. Instead, Comey granted blanket immunity to essentially all of her minions, flunkies and stooges, so that there can be no pressure exerted against them. [Although Huma Abedin's lies about her handling of classified materials probably invalidates any prior deal she'd made.]
In addition to the immunity deals, let's count the other ways in which this investigation benefitted Hillary, and could only have been conducted by a dirty cop with full knowledge that what he was doing was improper, and in some cases illegal:
These offenses alone are enough for his removal. There are of course, so many others. Comey was the man who directed the investigation of, and recommended the punishment for, Sandy Berger who was sent into the US National Archives to remove and destroy evidence of the Clintons' negligent complicity in the 9/11 attacks. Comey was the point man in guaranteeing that the HSBC money laundering case produced a wrist slap and came nowhere near the Clintons. Comey allowed the DOJ case investigating the Clinton Foundation to be operated out of the Eastern District of New York -- Loretta Lynch's power base -- instead of the Southern District in Manhattan where it belonged. His deputy, the ubiquitous Mr. McCabe, reprimanded agents when they attempted to get prosecutors in more pertinent jurisdictions to form Grand Juries when those requests were denied in Brooklyn.
The claim that Comey's "reopening" of Hillary's email case in late October was the coup de grace that sank her candidacy is also a preposterous fiction. Comey had received word that the NYPD Special Investigations Task Force had found evidence of additional State Department emails on the laptop owned by Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin. He came in to quash that investigation before NYPD revealed anything the Clinton Crime Family couldn't control. And note, that in the critical 72-hour period before the election, Comey made a public announcement that "there is still nothing to see here, Hillary has been cleared again." That didn't hurt her campaign: it reminded people that the FBI had essentially cleared her name, and cast doubt on Comey's self-serving all-but-intent announcement in July.
James "Jimmy The Weasel" Comey is a dirty cop. There needs to be a special prosecutor -- to investigate him, McCabe, and other senior officials at the FBI who allowed this obvious travesty to continue for so long.
The entire fiasco stems from the fact that Comey, along with everyone else in Washington, thought they would be working for Hillary on January 20. Why hasn’t anyone said it out loud?
Exactly! We can’t have that guy with power of any kind.
Great post!
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