{"id":2920,"date":"2017-05-10T17:41:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T08:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:44:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:44:43","slug":"comey-canned-and-rightfully-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/comey-canned-and-rightfully-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Comey Canned, and Rightfully So"},"content":{"rendered":"

FBI Director James Comey has been fired, and none too soon. \u00a0He 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. \u00a0In the first matter, he, like any single-point direct-report, has an amazing amount of power over his boss. \u00a0He 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.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0Comey’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. \u00a0No, that was Lynch’s job, but Comey decided to do it anyway.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0I need not prove her guilt here in order to point out that Comey was co-opted by a well-planned political maneuver.<\/p>\n

He may be a Republican and therefore somehow working at admissions against interest, but that is not the bar set for career public employees. \u00a0He was supposed to remain neutral, and to ensure that his office was not prostituted to arrive at a desired political outcome.<\/p>\n

Trump should have fired Comey on Day One.<\/p>\n

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FBI Director James Comey has been fired, and none too soon. \u00a0He 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. \u00a0In the first matter, he, like any single-point direct-report, has an amazing amount of power over his boss. \u00a0He 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.<\/p>\n

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