Posted on 09/30/2016 10:11:59 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Opinion Columnists Potomac Watch
Jim Comey’s Blind Eye
The FBI director can’t defend immunity for Hillary Clinton’s aides—which says volumes.
By Kimberley A. Strassel Sept. 29, 2016 7:28 p.m. ET
Two revealing, if largely unnoticed, moments came in the middle of FBI Director Jim Comey’s Wednesday testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. When combined, these moments prove that Mr. Comey gave Hillary Clinton a pass.
Congress hauled Mr. Comey in to account for the explosive revelation that the government granted immunity to Clinton staffers Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson as part of its investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton had mishandled classified information. Rep. Tom Marino (R., Pa.), who was once a Justice Department prosecutor and knows how these investigations roll, provided the first moment. He asked Mr. Comey why Ms. Mills was so courteously offered immunity in return for her laptop—a laptop that Mr. Comey admitted investigators were very keen to obtain. Why not simply impanel a grand jury, get a subpoena, and seize the evidence?
Mr. Comey’s answer was enlightening: “It’s a reasonable question. . . . Any time you are talking about the prospect of subpoenaing a computer from a lawyer—that involves the lawyer’s practice of law—you know you are getting into a big megillah.” Pressed further, he added: “In general, you can often do things faster with informal agreements, especially when you are interacting with lawyers.”
The key words: “The lawyer’s practice of law.” What Mr. Comey was referencing here is attorney-client privilege. Ms. Mills was able to extract an immunity deal, avoid answering questions, and sit in on Mrs. Clinton’s FBI interview because she has positioned herself as Hillary’s personal lawyer. Ms. Mills could therefore claim that any conversations or interactions she had with Mrs. Clinton about the private server were protected by attorney-client privilege.
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Comey is a bought off hack weasel.
The FBI has no integrity.
None of Fedzilla does.
The entire federal government has been corrupted and turned against the citizens by the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
They all knew Obama was not a natural born citizen.
heads-up to a WSJ Kimberley Strassel article on Comey.
Hillary Clinton off with no charges in her email scandal. It’s clear she was guilty. This explains EVERYTHING.
https://www.facebook.com/nationalreview/videos/10157637475700093/
Listen to Joe diGenova at 47 minutes into (Judicial Watch sponsored) panel discussion yesterday - he pretty much rips Comey to shreds. After that presentation, he pipes up again several times during the rest of the discussion & it’s not complimentary. At one point, he called Comey a “dirty cop”, but I can’t find that specific reference again - I think it’s been edited out.
BTW, the entire 1.5 hours is well worth listening to, even if you have to do it in increments. Corso said something I did not know - Huma had a personal/private Yahoo account & she forwarded emails with classified information to that account - all she had to do was give the password to whomever she wanted & they could have read these emails in their entirety (most of these emails were redacted when released - her ‘forwards’ to the Yahoo account were not redacted).
Panel: “Clinton Scandal Update – Emails and the Clinton Foundation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsgapaYCs40#t=5214
One of the hundreds of comments about this article:
"The FBI has deliberately chosen to accept this lie."
No Comey accepted the lie not the "FBI" - Comey had to write his staff a memo explaining his actions - which they knew was sheer baloney
Morale at the FBI is at an all-time low thanks to Comey selling his soul to Obama, Lynch and the Clinton Cartel
As former Assistant Director of the FBI, Kallstrom, said, the days of the FBI being known for its "integrity" are gone "
Freeper milford421 corrected me, and said that it had ALREADY been lost.
It appears as though milford is correct.
That image cracked me up yesterday and it still does today. Best new pic this week!!
Comey is a filthy, stinking, cowardly weasel.
Comey: ‘We Are Not Weasels’
“Speaking of irresponsible federal officials, FBI Director James Comey declared, “We are not weasels,” at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. But “Mr. Comey did little to rebut the suspicion that he handled the Clinton probe with tender loving political care,” observes a Journal editorial.” By James Freeman
Sept. 29, 2016 7:27 a.m. ET
They lost the consent of the governed when they swore in an usurper.
Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein Obama is not a natural born citizen and is ineligible under the Constitution to be President.
Everyone went along, Democrat and Republican, elected and appointed.
I think Comey said it was the DOJ prosecutors sitting in at the interviews whom granted the various immunities. I wonder why these “prosecutors” were in the interviews in the first place. There was no grand jury. There were no proffers. There was nothing but a sense they wanted to immunize everyone and then guess what, no more defendants.
That's because they know they're nothing but hired gunthugs now, without ANY of the moral authority of the law to back them up.
Oh, sure - they can "enforce the law" - but so can ISIS gunthugs and drug cartel gunthugs, where they have local superiority in forces.
FTA (conclusion): Only a few minutes before he had explained that the Justice Department was forced to issue immunity to Ms. Mills because she had asserted attorney-client privilege. Yet he couldn’t remember all the glaring evidence proving she had no such privilege? Usually, the FBI takes a dim view of witnesses who lie. Had the FBI pursued perjury charges against Ms. Mills—as it would have done against anyone else—it would have had extraordinary leverage to force her to speak about all of her communications regarding the server. It might have even threatened to build a case that Ms. Mills was part of a criminal scheme. Then it could have offered immunity in return for the real goods on Hillary.
But going that route would have required grand juries, subpoenas, warrants and indictments—all things that Mr. Comey clearly wanted to avoid in this politically sensitive investigation. Much easier to turn a blind eye to Ms. Mills’s fiction. And to therefore give Mrs. Clinton a pass.
” At one point, he called Comey a “dirty cop”, but I can’t find that specific reference again - I think it’s been edited out.”
Comey is an Independent and Other Fairy Tales
The Common Constitutionalist
July 8, 2016- Facebook Comments - Disqus Comments
“Like the dirty cop, who cares if director Comey was a good and independent anything in the PAST.”
http://ipatriot.com/upon-time-director-comey-independent/
Going to work every day is tough - going to work every day when/and where your subordinates don't respect you is beyond tough 
True, but that argument won't fly when ALL the truth-deniers in the Media are arrayed against it.
This Scummy Comey weasel cr@p is in front of God and everybody - and they can't deny it.
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