Posted on 04/28/2018 10:56:47 AM PDT by Meet the New Boss
He knew Obama’s Justice Department would sweep Hillary’s violations under the rug, so he played along.
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Before we turn first to leaking, some disclosure. I am fond of Jim Comey and have been for 30 years. I vigorously disagree with both his handling of the Clinton emails investigation and the manner in which the FBI has conducted what is supposed to be a classified, counterintelligence probe of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election — not a public, government-orchestrated campaign of insinuation that Trump was complicit in Russian perfidy.
No doubt because of my personal regard for him and respect for his high-end ability, I am inclined to cut the former director slack. He was thrust into a no-win situation: It is not his fault that Democrats nominated a criminal suspect, or that Republicans nominated an irregular politician heedless of the norms of discretion and distance that a president should maintain when dealing with his law-enforcement subordinates. Comey aside, I had no better friends in nearly 20 years as a federal prosecutor in New York than Dan Richman, the Columbia Law School prof through whom Comey transmitted information to the New York Times, and Pat Fitzgerald and Dave Kelley, Comey’s lawyers [and yada yada yada]....
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Comey was not without his reasons. Trump had ominously and falsely suggested that there were secret recordings of his conversations with the former director. Although the president’s intimation was that Comey might lie about these conversations, Comey believed any tapes would corroborate his version of events. So, he reasonably figured that, by disclosing his account of the Flynn meeting, he might force disclosure of any recordings Trump had — perhaps through a special-counsel investigation of whether the Flynn conversation amounted to obstruction.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Using federal law enforcement process to go after political opponents or, as Comey appears to have done here in McCarthy's telling, to get the upper hand in a spat between a fired FBI Director and the President of the United States, is a corrupt purpose and an abuse of power.
The claim by Comey that the President, who had the power to halt the Flynn investigation if he wished, was obstructing justice by his comments to Comey is as phony a pretext as the use of the Logan Act by Sally Yates as a pretext to bring an FBI investigation down on General Flynn.
We need subpoenas and warrants to obtain the communications of all of these participants, Comey, Mueller, Rosenstein and so on, to gather evidence of the real purpose for which the special counsel was appointed on such phony pretexts and to prosecute any of those who committed crimes.
And I seriously wonder whether we ought to have the equivalent of term limits for DOJ prosecutors. The combination of power and tenure in people like Comey and Patrick Fitzgerald appears to lead to an identification in the individual's mind of his own agenda with that of criminal justice and the national interest.
In the rest of the piece McCarthy outlines the argument that Comey recommended no prosecution of Hillary because he knew DOJ would not prosecute her no matter what.
McCarthy like everyone else pushes the red herring of the issue of whether Hillary was guilty under the statute as written of being "extremely careless" or "grossly negligent" in mishandling classified material.
The Dems, the GOPe and the media all focus on this issue, intentionally distracting from the fact that the evidence that Hillary knowingly (not merely negligently) ran classified info through the private IT arrangement that she purposely set up off the books is abundant, making her violation willful.
what ever happened to unmasking stuff..not a peep from Congress or media(even Fox) for a long while?
Morning Joe a year ago said even the Democrats said they need an investigation..just after Susan Rice News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUS5Xa8RK6A
The Dems, the GOPe and the media all focus on this issue, intentionally distracting from the fact that the evidence that Hillary knowingly (not merely negligently) ran classified info through the private IT arrangement that she purposely set up off the books is abundant, making her violation willful.
Wonder why McCarthy did not address:
The little matter of Comey lying to Trump when he failed to tell Trump that the dossier was a Clinton paid for pack of lies.
And why Comey to this day claims he did not know that the dossier was paid for by Clinton.
And why Comey hired two of his buddies he leaked to as defense lawyers to take advantage of lawyer client privilege, as if it still exists.
McCarthy’s never-Trump slip is showing.
I used to have a lot of respect for McCarthy, but that has slipped quite a bit after reading this.
When you have a man say he respects and admires a corrupt individual, you seriously have to look at the man who is saying these things. Forget about never Trumper, He’s more likely just as corrupt
Comey was “refreshing” and “civil” in his FOX interview, whereas Trump was “unhinged.”
Are those lace trimmed pink panties peeking out, also?
A clear case of obstruction of justice. PROSECUTE COMEY and REOPEN the Clinton email investigation!
What happens when you have obstruction of justice by law enforcement tasked to investigate? I would like to hope it tolls the statute of limitations.
Here is where the trap snaps on the pantsuit. Regardless of the intent red herring. Why else would she delete thousands upon thousands of emails and damage/destroy numerous cell phones and other devices?
None of this means anything other than handwringing. Until somebody of the treasonous left is held to account it is just bitching.
Andy sounds more & more like a conflicted little girl.
If people who think they are conservatives are saying Comey is a “Higher Authority” than the law of the “little people,” can we be surprised that Comey believes it, too?
This is a key problem!
I believe Hillary did this to sell State Secretes to the highest bidder!
He discloses at the beginning that he’s old friends with not only Comey but both of Comey’s lawyer/leakers. I don’t know if it’s so much Never Trump as just personally biased.
Sedition.
The question McCarthy needs to answer is why are his good friends of such low moral character. In reality is his own character similar to those he chooses to be friends with?
As it says in the Bible..
By your words shall You be known...
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