Just hours before his long- expected and much ballyhooed testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the "Wall Street Journal" tore into Former FBI Director James Comey on multiple counts --- but mostly because he doesn't know the place and function of the FBI in our democratic-republic
The WSJ's expressed comparison of James Comey to J. Edgar Hoover was in no way intended to be complimentary
Bottom line, the WSJ says the information contained in Comey's written testimony together with his handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation completely justified his firing by President Trump
According to the unattributed opinion piece in the
June 8th paper, the writer or writers for the WSJ opened with this:
"The Senate Intelligence Committee released James Comey’s
prepared testimony a day early on Wednesday, and it looks like a test of
whether Washington can apprehend reality except as another Watergate. Perhaps
the defrocked FBI director has a bombshell still to drop. But far from
documenting an abuse of power by President Trump, his prepared statement
reveals Mr. Comey’s misunderstanding of law enforcement in a
democracy...." (See "The ‘Independent’ Mr. Comey -- His prepared testimony shows why he deserved to be
fired" opinion by WSJ writer or editor, 6/7/17, Wall Street Journal/
Opinion/ Review & Outlook [https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-independent-mr-comey-1496878266]).
Things didn't get any better for Mr. JC after that,
either. ".... The most troubling part of Mr. Comey’s statement is
his belief in what he calls “the FBI’s traditionally independent status in the
executive branch,” which he invokes more than once. Independent? This is a
false and dangerous view of law enforcement in the American system....
Mr. Comey is describing an FBI director who essentially answers to
no one. But the police powers of the government are awesome and often abused,
and the only way to prevent or correct abuses is to report to elected officials
who are accountable to voters. A director must resist intervention to obstruct
an investigation, but he and the agency must be politically accountable or risk
becoming the FBI of J. Edgar Hoover...."
After
a detailed discussion of what Comey's testimonial letter said he did vis a vis
his meetings with President Trump, the WSJ shifted to what Comey had done last
summer vis a vis Hillary Clinton; and the WSJ concluded that "...
Mr. Comey’s disregard for the chain of legal command is why Mr. Trump was
right to fire him, whatever his reasons...."
Comey is a drama queen
ReplyDeleteComey never seems to talk about the patronage that Feds dole out to lawyers. When fatboy Christie was US Attorney he gave out millions of dollars in no bid contracts to for AG Ashcroft.
ReplyDeletesounds like trump put his hand on comeys leg and he felt violated
ReplyDeleteWait a minute, when ykw put his hand on your leg at the bar, DID YOU FEEL VIOLATED?
ReplyDeleteWhy is the investigation of the Russian involvement in the 2016 election focused only on unproven allegations about Trump campaign involvement, but not Clinton Campaign involvement --- when it is the Republicans that did cooperate with the FBI in the early investigation and the Democrats that did not. Why has/have the DNC computer(s) that was/were known to have been hacked never been taken into U.S. national security custody.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Comey will get that 20 million dollar book deal
ReplyDeleteMcCain needs to go back to the home
ReplyDeleteIf what Comey said he did while he was FBI Director, then Comey's "honest loyalty" needs a very unique definition of those words.
ReplyDeleteWhat Comey has done since he's been fired as FBI Director shows that he always was a self-aggrandizing and conniving scoundrel.
He is a disloyal public servant plain and simple.
Comeys testimony demonstrates the sanctimonious 4th arm of our government.
ReplyDeleteYes the 4th arm is the prosecutors and FBI that has decided they are no longer accountable to the President. If the President orders the head of EPA to do something we expect the oder to be followed. Why does Comey think hes different?
Comey reminds me of the kid who stood in front of the class and wrote the names on the blackboard of kids who talked while Sister Mary Banjoass was in the toilet
ReplyDeleteRESPONSE & UPDATE: THE "MAINSTREAM MEDIA MADE THE MISTAKE OF MAKING COMPARISONS TO 'THE GODFATHER' " EDITION
ReplyDeleteTO: ALL OF THE ABOVE
THIS IS LIKE PREACHING TO THE CHOIR OR YELLING AT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CHURCH BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE NOT IN CHURCH --- TODAY, COMEY FELL ON HIS 6'7" ASS FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE
I heard that name "Sister Banjo-ass" before. When a good old friend of mine, Andy McC*****y first heard it uttered by "Anonymous Said... at 7:35 PM" -- he almost had a stroke, couldn't finish his lunch and went off muttering to himself..... But I digress.....
The Dems, MSM and the rest of the "Never Trump" crowd are like folks sitting in a movie theater watching "The Godfather." When everything builds up to the big Louie's in the Bronx scene, everyone is waiting for Michael to come out of the jakes with his gun blasting away away at Captain McCluskey and Virgilio Sollazzo; instead James Comey comes out with his dick in his hand shouting< "Bang, bang, bang, bang.... click, click,click"; and McClauskey and Sollazzo just get up and leave. But the Dems, the MSM and the rest of the "Never Trump" crowd leave the movie and tell everybody that based on what they saw, Comey was better playing Michael than Pacino and that they saw Comey shoot McCluskey and Sollazzo dead with the big rod he was packin'....
On the other hand, there was something worse than Comey today in the Senate Intelligence Committee Chamber --- all those douche bag U.S. Senators, Republican and Democrat, that couldn't ask simple factual questions that would have gotten some real information from Comey.
So far Trumps response has been weak. Mark Kasowitz ain't cutting it.
ReplyDeleteTrump needs Katrina "Bullitt Girl" Pearson back. she must be tied up with the capano campaign.
Comet testimony tells us 3 things
ReplyDelete1. comey uses cut outs to leak pending investigations to the press
2. he takes vacations
3. he don't feed seagulls
Comey reminds of a guy who was the headmaster at Xavarian in the 1970's. A tall fellow
Word on the street is Marty has been acting up in the Bridgeview.
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