The Record of Alleged Deceptions
LYING TO CONGRESS The Justice Department has indicted Comey, alleging that in his Sept. 30, 2020, Senate testimony he falsely denied authorizing someone at the FBI to serve as an anonymous “person 3.” Conservative commentators argue this is his clearest “lie under oath.”
AUTHORIZING LEAKS Prosecutors say the “person 3” matter is tied to leaks about FBI investigations. Beyond that, President Donald Trump and other critics have hammered Comey for leaking his own memos, which they argue contained classified material.
ecutor (of which he was then not sup- posed to be one) would bring such a case against her. He is not being investigated for
tasking Peter Strzok to alter his own original condemnation of Clinton’s conduct by replacing the initial and correct term “gross negligence,” a phrase that denotes a federal crime, with “extreme carelessness,” which involves no criminal liability. He is not being investigated for,
nor charged with, birthing the entire governmental role in the Russian collusion hoax that warped the 2016 presidential election and transition by his use of the discredited Christopher Steele as an FBI confi dant/source. He is not being investigated for
using the fraudulent Steele dossier as a “central and essential” document to obtain a FISA court writ to improp- erly surveil Carter Page — an act that even he later admitted was wrong. He is not being inves-
tigated for stumbling upon a rock mosaic on a beach arranged to read “86 47” (“get rid of/remove Trump”) and then on social media nonchalantly post- ing that clear threat to injure/remove/eject the cur- rent president. He is not being investigated for
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stating to the country that it was unclear whether Trump did or did not cavort with Moscow prostitutes — as alleged solely by the discredited, spu-
FISA SURVEILLANCE According to the Justice Department’s inspector general, the FBI made 17 “significant errors and omissions” in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications tied to the Russia probe. Critics say Comey misled the public by downplaying those findings, even claiming vindication when the record was contested.
rious Steele dossier, which he, as FBI director, knowingly helped disseminate and knew was bogus. He is not being charged with or investigated for not acting in 2016 on Clinton’s overt use of fabricated material to mask her own criminal exposure and siccing the FBI on her political opponent. He is not being investigated
for attempting in 2017 to entrap or ambush then-National Security Advis- er-designate Ret. Gen. Michael Flynn by sending two FBI agents (includ- ing the ubiquitous Strzok) to interview him, in expectation — after Comey subordinate McCabe’s disingenuous call to mislead Flynn into thinking he need not have a lawyer present — that Flynn would likely be naive and vul- nerable without counsel. So, Comey’s problem is not really
legal, at least not entirely. It is moral and ethical. It
is no exaggeration that no single person has been more responsible than Comey for tarnishing the reputation of the FBI between 2015 and 2017 — and with it the Wash- ington administrative estab- lishment itself. Comey is not the victim
of an arbitrary grand jury indictment.
Instead, he is fortunate that he does
not face both more legal jeopardy and social ostracism for all the harm he has done to his country, mostly to please the powers that be in the Obama adminis-
THE “86 47” INSTAGRAM POST Politico reported on Comey’s social media post spelling “86 47” in seashells — interpreted by critics as a call to “86” (remove) Trump, the 47th president. Critics argue it was dishonest for him to later suggest it carried no violent meaning.
tration, the media, the liberal biparti- san Washington establishment — and his own exaggerated sense of self. We may see more indictments of
many Washington grandees. The media will allege Trump “revenge,” but the legal system will adjudicate — not The New York Times, NPR, or the DNC — whether any of these indictments are proper and lead to convictions. We do not know whether former
interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe or Comey was lying when the FBI head denied he greenlighted subordinates like McCabe to leak confi dential FBI information to the media. But we do know that McCabe did
confess that he lied on four occasions to federal investigators and was not prosecuted by then-Attorney General Bill Barr — and not because McCabe did not lie under oath, but because Barr thought he could not convince a Washington jury to convict a high- ranking FBI offi cial. And so he never even made the eff ort. We do not know whether former
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper improperly reject- ed intelligence reports fi nding no Trump-Russian collusion but pressed ahead to spread that Russian collu- sion ruse at the prompt of then-Presi- dent Barack Obama. But we do know that Clapper lied
under oath, with impunity, to Con- gress — and did admit that he did (“least untruthful” answer) when he swore that the NSA did not spy on American citizens.
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