[Travis McGee]

Yes, exactly right. It was repurposed. And Comey can face hard prison time if a team of honest men get installed at DOJ and FBI for his Lockheed and HSBC payola. An US Atty with integrity can unwrap it all and he'll face prison time. So he's desperate, like a cornered weasel.

And the "four corners" of my coup trap diagram all have dangerous knowledge about past misdeeds or past misdeeds "overlooked" or covered up (just as bad.) They all hold each other hostage over guilty knowledge.

It's beyond corrupt, what happened at the top echelons of the FBI, DOJ, IRS etc.

[Fedora]

And Comey can face hard prison time if a team of honest men get installed at DOJ and FBI for his Lockheed and HSBC payola. An US Atty with integrity can unwrap it all and he'll face prison time. So he's desperate, like a cornered weasel.

Might be why Trump is floating Giuliani as AG--though I suspect special counsel or even merely investigative assistant might be more viable--he has the contacts in the NY FBI field office who don't like Comey to dig up the skeletons.

[Cboldt]

-- It's beyond corrupt, what happened at the top echelons of the FBI, DOJ, IRS etc. --

Include Congress in that "etc." A good number of judges too, I would think. The rot is systemic. The system runs on money and dirt.

[vette6387]

“It's beyond corrupt, what happened at the top echelons of the FBI, DOJ, IRS etc.”

And now, only with Scaramucci, do we see any public evidence that anyone in the Trump Administration is taking action. We need to see some people being fired publicly and being seen heading out the door. And let's not let “liberal faggotville," aka The State Department, escape getting an enema courtesy of Secretary Tillerson. At this juncture, Trump has appointed some real stars to head some of the Federal Agencies, but he's also picked a couple of turds. Sessions for sure, and possibly Tillerson.