Comey, Careless and Corrupt
George Neumayr
December 11, 2018, 12:05 am
His admissions to Congress were stunning.
Drunk on his own self-deluded rectitude, James Comey has become one of the most insufferable voices on the Left. He teaches “ethics†at William & Mary, but it is hard to imagine a more unethical FBI director than one who signs off on the most invasive spying warrants imaginable without bothering to verify them, or even know their rationale. That came out in his shameless testimony last Friday in closed session with Congress.
It was clear from his slipshod testimony that he hadn’t even read the FISA warrants he approved. He breezily acknowledged that the Steele dossier, which formed the basis of the alleged justification for spying on Trump officials, was unverified. He said he didn’t know Steele was paid by the Democrats to assemble it. Asked if he should have known, he shrugged and said that he didn’t consider that an important piece of information. Obviously coached, he said that Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI investigation into alleged Russia-Trump collusion, derived from a tip delivered by an “allied nation,†a pompous reference his lawyer told him to use to amplify the significance of Alexander Downer’s shallow, entrapping, and non-conclusive conversation with George Papadopoulos.
He played dumb about the bald political biases of his subordinates, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, and professed ignorance of Bruce Ohr’s relationship with Christopher Steele. He claimed not to know that Strzok, who told his mistress the FBI would “stop†Trump’s candidacy, had drafted the document launching Crossfire Hurricane.
Somehow Comey managed not to know anything about the FBI’s most important case from the summer of 2016. He said that he hadn’t troubled himself to read the originating documents for Crossfire Hurricane and couldn’t be bothered to find out the agency’s claimed “predicate†for it.
As for the FBI’s most important “source†for Crossfire Hurricane, Christopher Steele, he showed no curiosity about him either, though Comey’s lawyer obviously coached him enough to repeat the sanitizing fable that Steele’s dirt-digging continued earlier work by Fusion GPS for Republicans. Comey claimed not to know that Hillary’s law firm paid Fusion GPS, but confidently stated that Republican money launched the “dossier†project, which is a falsehood. The Steele project was separate from Fusion GPS’s work for anti-Trump Republicans during the primaries.
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