My thoughts (posted earlier):
I really did believe Comey’s https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system July 5, 2016, speech was made for sincere and professional reasons, even though it was wrong in a number of ways.
I even assumed his https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/28/us/politics/fbi-letter.html?_r=0 reluctant letter that the investigation was back on was released under pressure from senior men in the FBI, but only reluctant because he did not want to influence the election.
It takes a lot for me to conclude that someone is moral scum, but former-Director Comey has reached that point. I now realize that I was completely wrong on Comey’s fundamental character. My best read now is that the July speech was to give Hillary cover, and the October letter was only sent because it would hurt Hillary less than the leaks he was warned would flood out.
Since Hillary’s loss? Comey seems to have been a partisan, one of the top tier aides to those orchestrating the “Resist” and impeachment movements. It looks like Comey was fabricating leaks in favor of and even evidence for impeachment. There used to be laws about conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States, back when the rule of law mattered.
What are the chances that the Director of the FBI would create a contemporaneous memo to refresh his memory, then leak the memo and not keep a paper copy or even an electronic file? That is such an unnatural action for an amateur that it would be implausible from my barber. For a senior and allegedly expert law enforcement officer, it’s completely unbelievable.
WTH gives someone a memorandum of this importance without retaining a copy for one’s self?