America Comey
Indictment Leaves His Real Lies Untouched
Scandal is how many of his past abuses still escape legal or moral accountability.
W BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
e have no idea whether the current Department of Jus- tice indictments will
lead to a conviction of James Comey, namely that he authorized FBI subor- dinates to leak to the media and then lied about it, obstructing Congress in the process. It may come down to the word of
Comey, a known fabrica- tor, against the testimony of his former subordinate, Andrew McCabe, an admit- ted liar. Take your pick. We know, however,
that Comey is not facing a Trumpian $500 million in potential fi nes, nor 93 indictments, nor the scru- tiny of fi ve diff erent local, state, and federal prosecutors. Nor, like some of the Jan. 6 arrest-
unethical conduct for which Comey is not currently being indicted or investigated. He is not being charged with plead-
ing amnesia or ignorance in 2018 — e.g., “I didn’t know,” “I couldn’t recall,” “I didn’t remember” — a reported 245 times while under oath to House inves- tigators and misleading them. He is not being charged with leak-
ing in 2017 a confi dential FBI memo of a conversation with then- President Donald Trump — which he improperly stored in his personal safe, in violation of FBI protocols — to The New York Times via a third-party Columbia professor. He is not being charged
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for falsely assuring the pres- ident of the United States in
ed, will he be sent to solitary confi ne- ment to await a trial in a year or two or be charged with “illegal parading.” We also know of the crimes or
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2017 that he was not the object of the current Crossfi re Hurricane “Russian collusion” investigation — when, in fact, Trump, as the Mueller investiga- tion revealed, was the real target of almost that entire ruse.
He is not being charged for delib-
erately leaking an FBI memo of a conversation with Trump for the pur- pose of injuring him by prompting the appointment of his friend and prede- cessor, Robert Mueller, as a special counsel to investigate the president’s supposed crimes. Comey’s gambit resulted in a 22-month and $30 million administra- tion hiatus, only to fi nd no actionable wrongdoing by Trump. He is not being investigated for
usurping the role of the DOJ in 2016 when, as an FBI investigator, he served simultaneously as investiga- tor and prosecutor, creating a con- fl ict of interest. He was tasked with both fi nding
evidence of Hillary Clinton’s alleged wrongdoing and also making the federal prosecutorial decision whether to indict her for transmitting classifi ed material over an unsecured email server. And after fi nding evidence of her culpability, he chose not to indict her on the grounds that her candidacy at the time meant no reasonable pros-
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