Former FBI Director James Comey is a devious, self-aggrandizing, narcissistic bureaucrat who was allowed to masquerade as the top cop of what used to be one of the most renowned police forces on the face of the earth. He is also the prime reason the FBI is today held in such disrepute by so many Americans, especially those Americans it targeted during the President Joe Biden era. Comey may not have been around at that time but he was continuing to haunt the talkshow and lecture circuit, assiduously trying to fashion a legacy for himself that bore little resemblance to the mendacious, fawning image he created as the head of the FBI.
Comey has also been indicted. Yes, it was at the direction of President Donald Trump. But it is also highly justified. Comey might finally be meeting up with the justice he deserves, nine years after he conspired with former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to try to destroy Trump before he assumed office in his first presidency.
Attorney General Pam Bondi made the announcement last Thursday, saying that Comey had officially been indicted for false statements to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
The Democrats and their media surrogates are crying bloody murder over this “political” persecution of a Trump enemy but they wasted no time after Trump left office to put the former president through a lawfare that constituted a legal hell on earth. This might be political payback but Comey has earned every cent.
Comey is being indicted now because the statute of limitations has run out on just about everything else he could have and should have been indicted for.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned Comey in September 2020 where he repeated his assertion that he had not leaked or authorized anyone else to leak information about the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct classified business or the bureau’s imagined charges of then-candidate Trump colluding with Russia prior to the 2016 election.
Comey had previously been asked by then-Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IW) in 2017 if he had ever leaked or instructed any other FBI official to leak information to the media.
Cruz noted that either Comey or his Deputy Andrew McCabe had lied to Congress and should be charged for doing so.
“Comey and McCabe’s statements are irreconcilably contradictory,” Cruz wrote on X. “Whoever is lying under oath is committing a federal crime — and that’s what Comey has been indicted for,” he added.
Comey has been running from justice and from his central involvement in the FBI’s smear campaign against Trump and on behalf of Clinton for years. There was that infamous interview with Chris Wallace, who was hosting “Fox News Sunday” at the time. Wallace utterly destroyed Comey after the release of the Justice Department Inspector General’s report, which began to peel off the layers of prevarication surrounding the FBI’s creation of Russigate. Instead of admitting to gross negligence or intentional abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to investigate Trump, Comey said he was merely “over-confident” in believing the bureau’s procedures were beyond reproach and even described himself as being detached from the investigation.
Wallace noted that he was not a “mere bystander” but the “head of the FBI.”
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz noted that the FBI had committed 17 “significant errors and omissions” when applying for a FISA warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. But the real smoking gun in the interview is when Comey made the ludicrous assertion that he hadn’t relied heavily on the illegitimate Steele dossier when applying for the FISA warrant.
Horowitz had said former MI-6 Christopher Steele's information "played a central and essential role" in finding probable cause.
Clearly, Comey had baked up a case against Trump, using a document that was not only discredited but bought by the Hillary Clinton campaign team. Comey was in essence the author of the Russia collusion hoax and he should have been nailed to the wall for that. But he wasn’t and after he was fired as FBI director by Trump, Comey became a chronic and vociferous critic of Trump during a first administration that was completely dominated by Democratic lies about Russian collusion and an impeachment hearing that was triggered by those lies.
Comey was untouched during the Biden years and has continued to criticize Trump during his second administration. He has never apologized for his role in creating the fake news that sidelined Trump’s first presidency and remains a self-serving, self-obsessed former bureaucrat who is seemingly always on the verge of tears when describing his imagined dedication to the service of his country. If there was such a thing as a lie-o-meter, the arrow would be pointing off the charts every time Comey describes his career.
Ironically, what the Trump administration might finally prosecute Comey for is very close to what Comey had Trump’s first national security advisor, Lieut.Gen. Michael Flynn, jailed for – lying to the FBI.
In a way this is very poetic justice.
