Below is my column in the New York Post on the indictment of James Comey. As I mentioned yesterday, the indictment seemed a bit disjointed in referring to “false statements” in the caption and the body, but only describing a single false statement. It appears that the grand jury did not return a “true bill” on one of the originally alleged false statements. That might have been the count related to Professor Daniel Richman, who appeared before the Grand Jury, but that is speculation at this point. However, as I noted, there appears to have been material removed from the original draft of the indictment.
Here is the column:
Yesterday, James Comey became the first former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be indicted for a federal crime. That is likely the only fact upon which you will receive anything close to agreement in the country. For some, the two-count indictment is a long-overdue accountability for a man who pushed through the now-debunked Russian collusion investigation. For others, it is another abuse on President Donald Trump’s revenge tour.
There are legitimate concerns about the targeting of a political critic of the President, particularly after he publicly complained just days ago that Attorney General Pam Bondi was not indicting Comey and others.
However, Comey is hardly the pristine model of “ethical leadership” that he described in his book. Putting aside his critical role in the Russian collusion investigation, Comey tossed aside even the pretense of ethics after Trump fired him.
The Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, issued a scathing report that found Comey was a leaker and had violated FBI policy in his handling of FBI memos. On his way out of the Bureau, Comey stole FBI materials, including those containing the “code name and true identity” of a sensitive source.
While he did not find that he disclosed the classified information, Horowitz found that Comey took “the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information, obtained during the course of FBI employment, in order to achieve a personally desired outcome.” He further added that Comey “set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees—and the many thousands of more former FBI employees—who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.”
Comey later admitted that he asked his friend, Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman, to leak information from the documents to the New York Times.
Comey’s close associate, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, stated that Comey did instruct him to leak information to the media. Comey denied that repeatedly under oath.
James Baker, FBI general counsel and a close adviser to Comey, also told investigators that he was “under the belief” that he was “ultimately instructed and authorized to [provide information to the Times] by then FBI Director James Comey.”
That sets up a straightforward question: who is lying? It could also set up a bizarre scene of McCabe testifying against his friend. McCabe despises Trump as much as Comey, so he may prove to be an overtly hostile witness for the prosecutors.
Washington will be glued to any such trial. The only thing more unnerving than the alleged targeting of a political critic in Washington is the prosecution of a leaker. This is a city that floats on a rolling sea of leaks. The Justice Department is notorious for leaks made with lethal effect against targets. Now the former FBI director will stand trial to see if he is a leaker and a liar.
There is one individual who is likely to be watching with particular interest and perhaps satisfaction: former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Comey is facing two counts of making false statements and obstructing a congressional proceeding. The first count under 18 U.S.C. 1001 (a)(2) is the exact charge that Comey engineered against Flynn.
Comey gave a book tour where he thrilled audiences about how he secured a criminal charge against Flynn for making false statements. In one event, an audience cheered as Comey took credit for the controversial charge. He explained that what he did was not exactly proper. It was, he explained,
“something we’ve, I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized investigation, a more organized administration…I thought, ‘It’s early enough, let’s just send a couple of guys over.’”
The actual agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe that he intentionally lied about a meeting with Russian diplomats, but Comey and his investigators pushed for charges anyway. They drained Flynn of resources, threatened to indict his son, and ultimately secured a guilty plea.
Now it will be Comey in the dock, facing a charge of making a false statement. He will do so as someone who has admitted to improperly removing FBI material and leaking information to the media.
The odds still favor Comey. He will have a jury taken from a generally liberal, Democratic jury pool. He is also a sophisticated player. Perhaps that is why he issued a videotaped message saying effectively “bring it on” and let’s go to trial.
While an improvement over Comey’s bizarre seashell messages, the videotape may be too confident. Perjury or false statements can be challenging to prove, particularly when vague or nuanced language is used. This is neither vague nor nuanced. Comey repeatedly swore that he never asked anyone at the FBI to leak information. That is either true or it is not.
Comey will continue to be vilified and lionized by different parts of the population. Yet, this is an ignoble moment that he helped bring about. Notably, this indictment comes 50 years after the only Attorney General was convicted of crimes (including false statements and obstruction). That was John Mitchell after the Watergate scandal.
Now the man who bragged about nailing Michael Flynn will face the same false statement charge. The man who celebrated the charging of Donald Trump (including obstruction-related charges) will face his own obstruction charge. Whether karma or lawfare, Comey will now have his day in court.
Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Fired CBS Senior Investigative Reporter, Catherine Herridge, as usual, provides receipts and objectivity on her reporting re: James Comey’s leaks. Arctic Haze is the FBI investigation that documents Director Comey’s use of a Special Government Employee to pass information to the media and “correct stories critical of Comey.
Catherine Herridge
@C__Herridge
NEW REPORTING: @Comey
I understand the indictment was ready to go.
I am told “all the evidence was there,” not a “shaky” criminal case as characterized some media reporting.
Critics of former US Attorney Erik Siebert allege he was “blocking” or “slow walking” the charges.
Interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan removed the blocks
Key Factor: @FBIDirectorKash declassified FBI leak investigations codenamed “Arctic Haze” 👇
https://www.scribd.com/document/901652042/2021-FBI-Report-Concluding-Media-Leak-Investigation-Arctic-Haze
•Revealed Comey’s role authorizing media leaks (at least one involved classified information) through his FBI subordinates or through his Columbia law school professor Richman with SGE (Special Government Employee) status.
https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/1971372333941055514
Seems the Legacy Media failed to cover the following jaw dropping report. Thankfully Catherine Herridge, as an independent reporter, did
Declassified Records Allege Director Comey, Lawmakers Schiff, Swalwell Behind Russia Leaks
Strategic Russia Media Leaks: A Team Sport?
Strategic Russia Media Leaks: A Team Sport?
August 17, 2025
At the same time, the declassification of FBI records on the Russia Collusion scandal accelerated. The now public records allege that congressional Democrats strategically leaked information to characterize President Trump, during his first term, as a tool of Putin.
The accused leakers include then Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff and Congressman Eric Swalwell. The former FBI Director James Comey is also singled out for his role in high profile media leaks.
https://catherineherridgereports.com/p/declassified-records-allege-director-comey-lawmakers-schiff-swalwell-behind-russia-leaks
“… That sets up a straightforward question: who is lying? …”
Hillary?, Hillary?, anyone Hillary?
James Comey is Hillary’s henchman. If she didn’t like you, she put the wolf on your ass.
Just ask General Michael Flynn, Donald Trump to Martha Stewart, Comey did the biding of Hillary Clinton.
Who is lying? … Hillary is lying. It would be so special if Comey or McCabe would throw Hillary under the bus. They can backstab each other instead of the America people.
Comey did throw Hillary under the bus.
No, They met eye-to-eye in the Email Scandal and have been cozy for a long time. Powers higher than Muller instructed Comey to do as they commanded.
That was the impetus of Comey’s modus operandi and will be his last defense. He did what he did with impunity because he though he was covered by the higher Powers. With these Indictments he has become a liability. The funding for the Clinton Foundation comes from a wide variety of sources.
Defense contractors, telecommunication companies, aerospace. The bulk of funding seems to come from one Virgin Islands account. And the account is classified.
Who pays your salary, Mr Comey? Classified accounts, encrypted phone calls… A man could be forgiven for thinking that the foundation is a front for the CIA.
In that case, there may be national security issues here that are larger than us all. Obstructing an investigation is a federal crime. BTW National security does not include murdering people, Domestically, at least. Tell your friends at Langley that domestic is our back yard. They’re not allowed to play here. You git the idea.
One might ask: Why would a U.S. Department of Defense Contractor hire a former United States attorney for the Southern District of New York to become a senior vice president of Lockheed Martin as general counsel for them? Why would Bridgewater Associates hire Comey to be on the senior management committee?
After clearing President Bill Clinton of wrong doing of Marc Rich?
(Comey’s first interlude with the Clintons)(and walked away with 14 Million in 2013 – for what?)
Why would the (Hillary) Clinton Campaign walk away with what amounted to a hand slapping in the email investigation? Not to dismiss Comey’s Boss having a little chat on the tarmac about the probe?
How many Bosses did James Comey actually have: Both Clintons, Obama, John Brennen, James Clapper , Lynch, Muller, …
How much time and expenses was lost in chasing Wild Geese in the careers of these endeavors? They have all walked away with big paychecks, for what?
It makes you think that it is all phony,
That the Government itself is phony,
That a Constitutional Crisis is phony,
because the Constitution is just an aberration that is phony.
That these people (in government) are phony,
That the U.S. is phony.
– One Big Beautiful Phony Illusion –
There is no reason the have Faith in this Country anymore, it is bankrupt, Morally and Economically.
And these are a few of the people that made it that way.
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JAMES COMEY
Bush administration (2002–2005)
U.S. attorney
Comey as a US Attorney
Comey was the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, from January 2002 to the time of his confirmation as Deputy Attorney General on December 11, 2003.[37] Among his first tasks was to take over the investigation into President Bill Clinton’s controversial pardon of Marc Rich, which Comey concluded involved no illegality. …
Private sector (2005–2013)
Comey left the Department of Justice in August 2005.[79] In August 2005, it was announced that Comey would enter the private sector, becoming the general counsel and senior vice president for Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Department of Defense’s largest contractor.[80] Comey’s tenure took effect on October 1, 2005,[81] serving in that capacity until June 2, 2010, when he announced he would leave Lockheed Martin to join the senior management committee at Bridgewater Associates, a Connecticut-based investment management firm.[82] Comey received a three million dollar payout from Bridgewater. His net worth was estimated at 14 million dollars in 2013.[83]
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (2013–2017)
Comey, President Obama, and outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller at Comey’s nomination to become FBI Director, June 21, 2013
The May 2013 reports became official the following month when President Barack Obama revealed that he would nominate Comey to be the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, replacing outgoing director Robert Mueller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey#Director_of_the_Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation_(2013%E2%80%932017)
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Hillary Clinton email investigation
See Main article: Hillary Clinton email controversy
On July 10, 2015, the FBI opened a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State.[7] On June 29, 2016, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who was Comey’s boss, and Bill Clinton met aboard her plane on the tarmac of the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, leading to calls for her recusal. Lynch then announced that she would “fully” accept the recommendation of the FBI regarding the probe.[7] On July 2, FBI agents completed their investigation by interviewing Hillary Clinton at FBI headquarters, following which Comey and his associates decided there was no basis for criminal indictments in the case.[7]
Release of information about the investigation
On July 5, 2016, Comey announced the FBI’s recommendation that the United States Department of Justice file no criminal charges relating to the Hillary Clinton email controversy.[116] During a 15-minute press conference in the J. Edgar Hoover Building, Comey called Secretary Clinton’s and her top aides’ behavior “extremely careless”, but concluded that “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case”. It was believed to be the first time the FBI disclosed its prosecutorial recommendation to the Department of Justice publicly.[116] On July 7, 2016, Comey was questioned by a Republican-led House committee during a hearing regarding the FBI’s recommendation
On October 26, 2016, two weeks before the presidential election, Comey learned that FBI agents investigating an unrelated case involving former congressman Anthony Weiner had discovered emails on Weiner’s computer between his wife, Huma Abedin, and Clinton. Claiming he believed it would take months to review Weiner’s emails, Comey decided he had to inform Congress that the investigation was being reopened due to new information.[7] Justice Department lawyers warned him that giving out public information about an investigation was inconsistent with department policy, but he considered the policy to be “guidance” rather than an ironclad rule.[119] He decided that to not reveal the new information would be misleading to Congress and the public.[120] On October 28, Comey sent a letter to members of Congress advising them that the FBI was reviewing more emails. Members of Congress revealed the information to the public within minutes.[121] Republican and Democratic lawmakers, as well as the Clinton and Trump campaigns, called on Comey to provide additional details.
The Clinton campaign, former officials, and political commentators criticized his decision to announce the reopened investigation, which was described as an October surprise, a “serious mistake”, and an “error in judgment”.[122][123][124][125][126] Law professor Richard Painter filed complaints with the United States Office of Special Counsel and the United States Office of Government Ethics over Comey’s letter to Congress.[127]
The investigators received additional resources so they could complete their review of the new emails before Election Day,[7] and on November 6, 2016, Comey wrote in a second letter to Congress that “Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July”.[128]
Comey was broadly criticized for his actions from both the right and the left.[129][130][131][132] According to the Clinton campaign, the letters effectively stopped the campaign’s momentum by hurting Clinton’s chances with voters who were receptive to Trump’s claims of a “rigged system”.[133] Polling authority Nate Silver commented on Twitter that Comey had a “large, measurable impact on the race”.[134][135][9] Other analysts, such as Democratic strategist David Axelrod, said that Comey’s public actions were just one of several cumulative factors that cost Clinton the election.[136][137] On May 2, 2017, Clinton told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour: “I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off.”[138] On May 3, 2017, Comey testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that it “makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election”, but that “honestly, it wouldn’t change the decision” to release the information.[139][140]
Investigations
On January 12, 2017, the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General announced a formal investigation into whether the FBI followed proper procedures in its investigation of Clinton or whether “improper considerations” were made by FBI personnel.[141]
On July 27, 2017, the House Judiciary Committee decided to request documents related to Comey, including the FBI investigation of Clinton, Comey’s conduct during the 2016 election, and his release of his memo to the press.[142][143] The committee’s Republicans also wrote a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking him to appoint a second special prosecutor to investigate these issues.[144]
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In September 2017, two Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), alleged that Comey planned to exonerate Clinton in her email scandal long before the agency had completed its investigation.[145] The story was confirmed by the FBI in October, which released a Comey memo dated May 2. Comey had interviewed Clinton as part of his investigation on July 2. Former FBI official Ron Hosko reacted saying, “You tend to reach final conclusions as the investigation is logically ended. Not months before.” Donald Trump called it “disgraceful”. In contrast, former Department of Justice spokesman Matthew Miller wrote on Twitter, “The decision is never ‘made’ until the end, even when there’s a 99% chance it is only going to go one way.”[146]
Comey’s original draft of the exoneration stated that Clinton had committed “gross negligence”, which is a crime. However, the language was later changed to “extreme carelessness”.[147] In December, it was revealed that the change had been made by Peter Strzok, an FBI official who would later join Mueller’s probe and be dismissed after exchanging private messages with an FBI lawyer that could be seen as favoring Clinton politically.[148]
On June 14, 2018, Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued his report criticizing Comey’s handling of the Clinton email probe as “insubordinate”.[149] Specifically, he stated that Comey made “a serious error in judgment”, “usurped the authority of the Attorney General”, “chose to deviate” from established procedures, and engaged “in his own subjective, ad hoc decision making” by publicly announcing that he wouldn’t recommend any charges in the Clinton email investigation in July 2016 and later by sending a letter to Congress about reopening the case.[150] The report found no evidence of political bias, although other high-ranking FBI officials showed “willingness to take official action” to negatively impact the Trump campaign.[13]
Russian election interference investigation
See also: Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
In late August 2016, the FBI acquired some reports from what would later be known as the Steele dossier.[7] In late July, the FBI opened an investigation into the Trump campaign.[7] Comey asked President Obama for permission to write an op-ed, which would warn the public that the Russians were interfering in the election. The president denied the request.[7] CIA Director John O. Brennan then gave an unusual private briefing on the Russians to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid; Reid then publicly referred to the briefing.[7] Comey, however, refused to confirm—even in classified congressional briefings—that the Trump Campaign was under investigation.[7] In early October, meetings were held in the White House Situation Room; National Security Advisor Susan Rice argued that the information should be released, while Comey argued that disclosure was no longer needed.[7]
In January 2017, Comey first met Trump when he briefed the president-elect on the Steele dossier.[151] On January 27, 2017, Trump and Comey dined alone at the White House.[151] According to Trump, Comey requested the dinner so as to ask to keep his job and, when asked, told Trump that he was not under investigation. Trump has stated that he did not ask Comey to pledge his loyalty. However, according to Comey’s associates, Trump requested the dinner, asked Comey to pledge his loyalty, twice, to which Comey replied, twice, that he would always be honest, until Trump asked him if he would promise “honest loyalty”, which Comey did.[151]
On February 14, the day after President Trump fired Michael T. Flynn, Comey met with the president during a terrorism threat briefing in the Oval Office.[152] At the end of the meeting Trump asked the other security chiefs to leave, then told Comey to consider imprisoning reporters over leaks and that “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.”[152] Comey, as is usual, immediately documented the meeting in a memo and shared it with FBI officials.[152] In his congressional testimony, Comey clarified that he took Trump’s comment to be “an order” to drop the Flynn investigation, but “that he did not consider this an order to drop the Russia investigation as a whole”.[153]
On March 4, Comey asked the Justice Department for permission, which was not given, to publicly refute Trump’s claim that his phones had been wiretapped by then-President Obama.[154]
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Yet Again, Deep State Attacks DNI Tulsi Gabbard
It is difficult not to notice the strategy of how certain Trump administration officials are targeted.
Any cabinet member that looks inward to reveal the status of corrupt activity within the information silo itself becomes a target. Cabinet officials who focus externally, meaning the majority of their effort looks outside government, are seemingly left alone. …
By: Sundance ~ September 26, 2025
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/26/yet-again-deep-state-attacks-dni-tulsi-gabbard/
They (the Deep State) have scrubbed Coney’s history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey#Director_of_the_Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation_(2013%E2%80%932017)
Do not look into the Silos for anything connecting James Comey, Brennen, Clapper, etc… to the Clintons and Obamas.
I think we’re all missing a prime mover to so many problems to the Trump administration, Barry O. He’s like a bad penny that keeps showing up.
Ha!! You’re getting assigned the Comey character assassination campaign. Living the dream no doubt, Turls. F#$king hilarious.
Beyond the allegations in this indictment, Comey was instrumental in establishing the corrupt and depraved leftist political bias at the FBI that was continued by his legacy successor, Christopher Wray, as detailed in the following JTN article. I’d put the odds of a Comey conviction at no better than 50-50, but hopefully justice in the form of karma will be ultimately visited on this arrogant @h0l3 from some other direction.
FBI Bombshell: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political ‘pawns’
https://justthenews.com/accountability/fbi-bombshell-274-agents-sent-capitol-j6-many-later-complained-they-were-political
“The FBI secretly deployed more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, an operation so disorganized it unleashed searing frustrations among many of the FBI’s rank-and-file that the bureau had lost its core competencies to “wokeness” and allowed its employees to become “pawns in a political war,” according to an after- action report kept from the public for more than four years.”
I personally don’t care if they get a conviction I just want to see him get drained of all of his monies and illgotten monies and treasure as he did Flynm
This may be the closest Americans will see any form of justice for those who use and abuse our judicial system for their benefit…..I’m not convinced. You would think HRC would just take up needle craft and be a grandmother but those teflon business suits keep her out and about.
Motivation for Me but Not for Thee
When an assassin murders Kirk or shoots up an ICE facility, the Left tells us to wait (forever) to attribute a motive.
Yet with the ink barely dry on Comey’s indictment, the Left immediately attributes a motive to Trump:
Comey’s indictment “was a landmark moment in Mr. Trump’s retribution campaign, one that put on full display the relentlessness of his efforts to use the criminal justice system to get back at those he feels persecuted him.” (NYT)
It’d be nice if the Left could find a principle to stand on.
Independents (now the majority) want to put aside oversimplified, shallow, partisan explanations for these murders, and dig deep into the private online experiences of these young men and how desensitization and unhinged violent militancy occur. We start with the observation that some 50 million Americans are what you would call hard-left and hard-right tribalists, so explain why aren’t they all resorting to murder? We know that something else is going on with young guys like Mangione, Robinson and Jahn, something much more unique than mere political zealotry.
We want to find out what drove them off the edge, so we have a chance at preventing more of these atrocities.
Blaming the left’s and right’s incindiery rhetoric as the key motivating factor is just scratching the surface. Why don’t tens of millions who are daily exposed to this rhetoric feel compelled to murder someone?
In other words, cut out the grievance collection (emotions) and start applying some critical thinking and logic.
So which vice
Pb? Should be ez.
” Why don’t tens of millions who are daily exposed to this rhetoric feel compelled to murder someone?”
Maybe the vast majority of those who subscribe to the rhetoric still harbor some limited optimism that our system of government can be reclaimed from those who long ago captured it, and be successfully returned to something resembling the original design, while the few who indulge their violent impulses have finally given up that hope?
Pb, sooner or later they’ll realize what they’ve done. 50 years in lockup will wear thin. Of course there’s a hope of pardon if dems say so or perhaps jury nullification. Are these charged as state or federal? Utah is death penalty so that may happen.
They’re simply murderers. Some people are. Deterrents can work if severe, certain and swift. Nothing else actually works. It’s nearly impossible to move a criminal into a psychological state of not wanting to be a criminal.
The NYT nicely describes the actual behavior of the Biden DOJ.
Lying and leaking. These are the two major tools of the snarky political infowarrior in D.C. I’m not all that familiar with jury selection in federal cases, but if the Judge assigned is fair and honest, s/he will best try to make sure nobody gets seated who defines this trial cynically as a political competition. It should be decided only by the facts and the law.
Also, free speech absolutists will note how federal law is not neutral about lying vs. being truthful. Comey cannot raise a 1st Amendment defense, because its protections reach a limit when it comes to outright deceit. This is no loss, since our free nation depends on self-imposed authenticity in the public square. This case, either way it goes, will remind deceitful infowarriors in D.C. that even big shots cannot get away with it.
James Comey is the worst FBI Director in the History of the FBI. Power Hungry and politically Corrupt. He along with his band of Woke/Corrupt Dem loyalist agents, with the Support of the Woke/Left Wing Radical DOJ have ruined the FBI. No Longer respected. But, Comey lives in his own World, he along with the Left Wing Corrupt DEMS think they are above the law. They live in their own World. Throw Comey and the rest of his band of dishonest corrupt officials in Prison, Hard Core, no country club.
“He along with his band of Woke/Corrupt Dem loyalist agents, with the Support of the Woke/Left Wing Radical DOJ have ruined the FBI. ”
Comey didn’t initiate the ruin of the FBI, that began long before his arrival. He may, however, have personally driven the last nail into its coffin.
Great post and spot on Ano!
What he did to Flynn deserves a much greater penalty than anything he will receive. And I expect a jury in Washington DC will never convict anyone other than a conservative. NO JUSTICE in our Nations Capitol
People like Comey, upon reaching a lofty positions, don’t just suddenly become corrupt. They are already corrupt. My guess is that Comey had been doing favors for “power” for years, releasing information for cash, misdirecting investigations, and favoring other, similar types for promotions, etc. This man is more corrupt that a straightforward obstruction charge reveals. He is rotten all through.
I believe this is only the beginning of Gman Comey’s legal problems.
James Comey is an unethical POS. Just as it was easy to convict Trump in liberal Trump hating NYC it will be difficult to convict Comey in a liberal Trump hating DC. Many people in DC don’t care if the DOJ was using lawfare against Trump. They could care or less if Trump was wrongfully convicted or not. They are happy Trump was convicted no matter how it came about. It is poetic justice that Comey has been indicted on the same accusations as General Michael Flynn. The deep state was afraid of Michael Flynn. What they did to him was at minimum unethical, un American and just plain wrong. I hope and pray that Comey is found guilty and or is forced to take a guilty plea like the Honorable General Michael Flynn had to do.
His “insurance” policies against prosecution were removed from the DOJ. A Daughter and Son-in-Law……….Then an indictment. Until then he was “protected”!!!
Prof. Turley, a good rather neutral high-level summary of one of the most slick Deep State snakes. Sir, a saboteur of such gargantuan openly unethical and hidden illegal means, especially against duly elected or appointed Officials, and who gleefully brags about it could only be a martyr for the Darkside.
Comey “could only be a martyr for the Darkside”
I could happily watch someone murder the b@$t@rd to test your theory.
It’s not revenge, Professor. It’s justice. Left-wing prosecutors, judges and juries have gone after the right and protected the left. The left has not been held accountable for illegal activities, including conspiring against Trump and his associates before, during an after his first term. That’s why the Trump administration is doing the right thing by at least trying to hold at least one accountable. Biden compounded the problem by pardoning so many, and Hillary, of course, got away completely, also thanks to Comey. Sadly, I doubt he will be convicted. We saw what happened when Durham tried to prosecute. The bottom line is that unless Republicans are in power for 20 years, our justice system will continue to be corrupted by judges and prosecutors. Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about corrupt jurors who will not follow the law. Our culture might just finish itself.
He lied, it is provable. That is called justice.
It is revenge. It is lawfare. So what’s the problem admitting it?
My side, the good guys, seek justice. The other side, the bad guys, seek revenge.
I don’t consider it lawfare. I consider lawfare to be when prosecutors broaden interpretations of law to make conduct for which the law was never intended a crime. That’s not at all what is going on here. Congress has made perjury and leaking classified information crimes. This case is straightforward on a narrow set of facts.
Did Comey leak, or authorize someone else to leak, classified information? If he did, then did he swear under oath not to have done so?
Or actually write new laws to render a target prosecutable who would not be absent the new law, as happened in New York so Carroll could sue Trump.
Are you claiming that the NYS Legislature, when at the height of the Me Too movement gave sexual assault survivors a 1-year window to bring civil cases from the long-ago-past, was motivated by just one case involving Trump? The majority of the cases were filed by former prisoners who were sexually assaulted by guards. I thought it was based on a general acknowledgement that the 3-year statute of limitations for sexual assault was ignorant of the psychological trauma and recovery timeline being much longer.
Andy McCabe testified that Comey directed him to leak classified information. Full Stop, aside from Comey’s admission during braggioso. Justice be served!
Do you believe Comey innocent of any illegality?
Comey wrote a book bragging about how he got Flynn and circumvented procedure knowing the Biden Adm would not care . Bragged about making sure Trump never took office again. Now the tables have turned and some how he is feeling pressure. LOL
Obama targeted Flynn, Flynn knew where all the skeletons were, this horse has been flogged to death, Comey followed his orders, get Trump, get his Administrations legs cut out from the start. It’s the very start of the Obama/Clinton cabal of the seditious conspiracy to overthrow a duly elected President.Every American should be demanding justice for this, whether you support Trump or not.
Hillary’s campaign was torpedoed by Comey, hardly a case of getting away. Other than that, Trump and the Republicans have had decades to find some dirt to stick to Hillary and none has been found. Don’t blame Comey for that, blame the lack of dirt.
He didn’t have a choice as the evidence was overwhelming. She was being crucified on FOX everyday. We can’t have people knowing she was a lying POS criminal…
Comey let her walk on perjury and obstruction in the wake of the Clinton Travelgate scandal. I think he said something similar as to this, she’s guilty but no jury would convict her. As before, deciding to indict is NOT the FBIs job, it’s the AG and DOJs job.
Martyr or Liar OR BOTH.
MostALL members of species are humbugs but most are unaware of it.Most but not all hypocrisy is collective and associated with an individual species member’s perception of to which collective entity he/she/it belongs.
This hypocrisy affects what members of the species believe about their own truthfulness. Most probably Comey is a liar but is sincere in believing that he is not.
Omitted in the above. species homo sapiens.
He is a liar. WHY is he allowed to talk to the people when Roger Stone had a gag order put on him???
Why? He supported the Democrat’s agenda and Roger Stone supported the Republican agenda and the courts, especially in DC, Virginia, Maryland, NY and NJ all have left leaning corrupt judges.
Comey is such a nutter really scary.
I came across some sea shells that read “Comey Guilty”
FAF0, James!
FAFO, James!
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