Comey Invalidates Special Counsel

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Think about it: Comey was the top law enforcement officer in the nation before he was fired on May 9. Had he felt a special counsel was necessary to investigate possible Russian influence in the 2016 election, he could have requested one from Congress at any time. If he felt his conversations with President Trump warranted additional attention, he could have approached Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about it.

But instead he decided to do nothing. Comey apparently didn't think there was need for a special counsel until the Monday after he was fired, according to his testimony. In a clear act of retaliation, Comey went outside the system and shared secret information with the media via a college professor-friend, in a calculated attempt to inflict pain on the Trump Administration. Further, he said he turned all his memos about his conversations over to the special counsel upon his termination - so Mueller's investigators already had all they needed to make their own decisions.

Yet this is the same person who on Thursday, under oath, exonerated Trump on the Russia question. Collins asked Comey two very direct, simple questions. She asked, "whether there was any kind of investigation about the President underway" and "was the President under investigation at the time of [Comey's] dismissal on May 9?"

For both questions - under oath - Comey answered "no."

This kind of petty vindictiveness is so unbelievable, I wouldn't even write this type of stuff in one of my novels. The truth is, Comey behaved exactly like a bitter employee who had just been fired. He said nasty things about everyone from President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who served the Obama administration. The common thread in his testimony was that his firing was everyone's fault but his own.

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Comey made it clear why he wanted to testify... he wanted to lash back at Trump for his comments against Comey: a showboat, a grandstander, the FBI was in turmoil, and there was no leadership. Comey exhibited particular anger about these comments; and he aimed to get back at Trump. Comey held on to this 'memo' rather than report it. He waited until the right moment to release it. It was definitely retaliation for being defamed; and he aimed to do what he could to get his good name back. He lost his credibility in the Clinton debacle.

 

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Comey made it clear why he wanted to testify ...

But the Comey-Mueller duo are best known for “badly bungling the biggest case they ever handled” together –the 2001 anthrax letters attacks that killed 5 people and infected 17 others in Washington in 2001. The story is well told by Carl M. Cannon, executive editor and Washington bureau chief of RealClearPolitics.

It appears that Mueller, Comey and others misinterpreted the evidence and botched the case by fingering an innocent man, Steven Hatfill. It ended up costing taxpayers roughly $ 5 million in a legal settlement.

Here is the interesting part that few people recall. Hatfill’s successful lawsuit accused the FBI and DOJ of leaking information about him to the press in violation of the Federal Privacy Act. Sound familiar? That’s right, a leak. Very much like Comey’s premeditated leak to the media of his now infamous memo reciting his alleged conversation with President Trump. Perhaps, old habits are hard to break.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017...st-trump-by-acting-as-co-special-counsel.html

 

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Perhaps, old habits are hard to break.

Or perhaps they just never got any better at their job. in any event, Comey seems to have reached the peak of his incompetence, and finally there's someone willing to call him out on it. The only problem is, Comey knows far more about the ins and outs of investigations, intelligence, and the government. Leaking the memo to manipulate the process (urge on a special counsel) was brilliant on its face; but I believe was hugely unethical. He did this for personal reasons; not for the betterment of the investigation. He did it for revenge. Using his influence and knowledge of the system for payback to a sitting president. And he never batted an eye when he testified to this. He's a civilian now; what are they going to do about it?

 

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An Obama Stooge. A Clinton stooge.

 

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Think about it: Comey was the top law enforcement officer in the nation before he was fired on May 9. Had he felt a special counsel was necessary to investigate possible Russian influence in the 2016 election, he could have requested one from Congress at any time. If he felt his conversations with President Trump warranted additional attention, he could have approached Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about it.

The authority for Congress to name a special counsel expired in 1999 and was not renewed. If Comey wanted Congress to appoint a special counsel, the Congress would have had to write the bill, get it approved by both houses and get a Presidential signature. I doubt this Congress would have made that happen before the mid-terms.

 

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The revelation comes in the wake of news that Comey was interviewed by the special counsel’s office last year. According to The New York Times, the line of questioning from the office of special counsel Robert Mueller focused on memos that Comey wrote and later leaked after he was fired from his job by President Donald Trump. A review of FBI policies governing the handling of sensitive government documents suggests Comey violated FBI policy by leaking the memos, which were produced on government time, using government equipment, and directly related to his official government responsibilities, according to Comey’s own testimony before Congress.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who serves as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote in a letter to the Department of Justice on January 3 that at least one of the memos Comey provided to his friend was classified.

“My staff has since reviewed these memoranda in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at the FBI, and I reviewed them in a SCIF at the Office of Senate Security,” Grassley wrote. “The FBI insisted that these reviews take place in a SCIF because the majority of the memos are classified. Of the seven memos, four are marked classified at the ‘SECRET’ or ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ levels.”


Comey ‘Friend’ Who Leaked FBI Memos Now Claims To Be His Attorney
Daniel Richman, the law professor who leaked classified FBI records to the media at Comey's request, refused to disclose when exactly he became Comey's attorney.

Comey tries to weasel out of leak admission by claiming professor pal was his lawyer
By Monica Showalter

James Comey is changing his story.

With the heat on about the Federal Bureau of Investigation manipulation of the U.S. election to "get" Trump the news of the day, it seems that his old tale of leaking FBI documents to a Columbia Law School professor pal, Daniel Richman, is now that the guy was his attorney all along.

The Federalist's Sean Davis, who got the scoop, reports that Richman got at least one classified document from the Comey pile, which wouldn't be legal even if he had been Comey's attorney.

At the same time, the new claim to attorney representation in the Comey-Richman relationship looks a lot like a bid to shield the both of them from answering questions from Congress, due to attorney-client privilege. Comey, recall, was Mister Noble Whistleblower when, upon being fired, he told Congress he had written up some memos and then got Richman to leak them to the press.