FBI Director James Comey has been fired, and none too soon. He needed to go first off when he allowed Attorney General Loretta Lynch to sideline herself to shield the Clintons, and then when he announced that despite clear evidence of noteworthy crimes, he would not recommend prosecuting Clinton. In the first matter, he, like any single-point direct-report, has an amazing amount of power over his boss. He literally enabled her to stand by, neither doing her job nor recusing herself, so that James Comey was in fact the Attorney General for a politically fraught case.
Hillary Clinton’s crimes, those of a statutory nature as well as those of misconduct and malpractice rising to the level of criminal negligence *at best*, always had as part of the defense plan a run for office. Comey’s best defense (his actual reason for not recommending prosecution remain unstated to this day) is that he did not wish to recommend prosecuting a candidate for office. No, that was Lynch’s job, but Comey decided to do it anyway.
Comey thereby served as a career government employee performing in a partisan political capacity to the detriment of his supposed integrity and the trust placed in his office.
FBI Director James Comey allowed himself to become a partisan political tool of the Obama administration, and took sides in a case which was therefore not brought — the well-justified prosecution of Hillary Clinton. I need not prove her guilt here in order to point out that Comey was co-opted by a well-planned political maneuver.
He may be a Republican and therefore somehow working at admissions against interest, but that is not the bar set for career public employees. He was supposed to remain neutral, and to ensure that his office was not prostituted to arrive at a desired political outcome.
Trump should have fired Comey on Day One.
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Gotta love seeing the left-libertarian Muh Putin Hilldebeast worshippers go cuckoo for Coacoa Puffs.
Lol
I thought it was particularly satisfying that the boom was lowered while Comey wasn’t looking. That must send a few shivers up spines in DC.
Way past due. More heads need to roll, and people need to be locked up for flouting the law.
This is key. Outside of Robbie Mook it isn’t clear that anyone on Clinton’s campaign should not be under arrest without bail.
If gross incompetence were a crime we could add Mook to the docket.
It is like a lot of things Pres. Trump does. He is basically doing the right thing, but it is hard to imagine worse timing or presentation.
Timing is a perception. What IS clear is that the democrats want to ride the Russia express to its last station. Listening to Schumer BS this morning made me smile. He said nothing, and I am reminded of the old democrat comment, the suggestion of misconduct is cause for alarm.
Russia is a dead issue. Whatever investigations are in place will not change with Comey’s demise. All this noise from the Left is more irrational behavior.
I believe that if a truly comprehensive look at the democrat DNC computer system was performed, it would show numerous perforations, one of which was the Russians. But any of them might have been the source of Wikileaks. More sour grapes over falling off a cliff in the elections.
Every day they talk about Comey and the Russians is a day they are not talking about health care and the millions that will die if Obamacare is removed.
“Squirrel!”
@ Whiskey Sam: Agreed! Comey broke the law because he knew information about the Clinton campaign that needed to be told to DOJ Loretta Lynch and did not make that communication. Apparently, he was afraid to do so and the Dems were supporting that decision all the way.
Now we have to listen to uber-hypocrite Chuck Schumer pontificate to the press that Comey’s firing was “troubling” because he finally revealed that information (although perhaps outside the law). I don’t excuse Comey’s poor judgment, but I think this story tells us a lot more about the intimidation tactics of the Obama WH than anything else.
I will admit I’d have liked to have seen the firing done in D.C. It would have the professional thing to do.
I liked Jonah Goldberg’s description of the reaction on Twitter, “If hypocrisy were helium, Washington would be in low earth orbit this morning.”
The conventional wisdom is, yes it needed to be done but the timing was wrong. The optics are Nixonian. Forget the fact that Nixon never fired the director of the FBI, the only President to do THAT was Bill Clinton. But you’ve got a lot of NeverNeverlanders here who have never been as less influential in a Republican Administration as they are right at this moment. They don’t want to be seen backing Trump and using the “optics” excuse as a reason why THEY should be listened to. Horse pucky.
If POTUS wants to change D.C. then he needs to do something truly Nixon-like, that is, appoint a career FBI man to head the agency. When J. Edgar Hoover first took over the newly created FBI in the early days of the Roosevelt Administration he had been a lawyer for its predecessor agency. When J. Edgar died in 1972 Nixon appointed Clarence M. Kelley, a career FBI man and then Police Chief of Kansas City, MO to head the Bureau. Everyone who has followed since has either been a federal judge or prosecutor. And thinking like a prosecutor and not a cop is what got Comey and the Bureau in hot water in the first place.
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Has anyone suggested solutions for their impotence? ;-)
“And thinking like a prosecutor and not a cop is what got Comey and the Bureau in hot water in the first place.”
Would Rudy or Andy McCarthy have done the same?
You are, of course, referring to “my” Rudy? He has always thought like a cop which is why he saved my city.
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Does anyone think the votes are being changed for this media-DC soap opera? Most people are bored to tears of the inside baseball. When the Dems focus on this, they look like swamp creatures. Keep them talking.
TKC, could this have happened underneath the watch of the smartest person whoever held the Oval Office? We never needed to give him a security briefing because he found everything from news reports.
Dime, I need to know ‘what specifically “this happened” is to answer.
Firing a grandstanding jackass FBI director?
Firing a guy who refuses to arrest the powerful?
Waiting to fire a jackass until there is sufficient political cover?
Saving the firing until the distraction is needed?
And our media tells me the smartest person who ever held the oval office was Obama, unless Hillary had been elected, then they would have had to fight that out in a steel cage for the title of smartest.
I vote for Sheriff Clarke because he’s both intelligent, street savvy, and loyal to the rule of law.
He’s also bigger than anyone else in D.C. and I always have an appreciation for physical intimidation.
I’m hopeless; I just love cops because they do a job I couldn’t do.
“He’s also bigger than anyone else in D.C. and I always have an appreciation for physical intimidation.”
Comey is 6’8″.
Yeah, but Comey doesn’t use that; no real pecs and no serious attitude! Reminds me of Bill Bradley; lovely guy at an impressive 6’5″ but didn’t scare me or his opponents. :)
Does Comey wear eyeliner?
Ha! Talk to Mattis about intimidation. Comey is a non-starter, with no points in the intimidation game.
Regarding the timing, I think it’s great that Comey learned of his termination from TV in the background while he was giving a speech. Priceless.
Word ’round the campfire is that many federal bureaucrats are scared for their jobs. I’m OK with that. It’s time for these guys to be more circumspect in their behavior, especially when it comes to politically sensitive topics. They are merely functionaries in the executive branch, not policymakers. At least, that’s as it should be.
* Interesting perspective on which I’m going to chew upon tonight.
The system is broken. The FBI is already under the control of lawyers and prosecutors as they are a branch of the Justice Department. Why do you need a prosecutor to head the Bureau, too?
David Clarke is too politicized. He needs someone trusted inside and out. Surely there is someone who is a head of a large field office or, if you want to go outside maybe someone such as Bill Bratton.
“He needs someone trusted inside and out. Surely there is someone who is a head of a large field office or, if you want to go outside maybe someone such as Bill Bratton.”
This remark astonished me not only because I firmly believe Bratton was not allowed to do his job properly under de Blasio (see: the destructive restrictions against ‘profiling’), but the very thought we could have an ‘unpoliticized’ CoP under the current mayor of New York (and I use that term loosely) is an ugly joke.
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My ideal appointee for Dir FBI would be somebody I have never heard of. Also, somebody never promoted in Obama’s second term.
The public wants an FBI Director who locks up the bad guys, not a smooth political operator.
So we need a smooth operator who likes to lock up bad guys.
Trey Gowdy’s name has been floated about some today.
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What difference at this point does it make?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIARMMtUdZQ