James Comey Is Being Slammed All
Over The Press
January 22. 2019
James Comey
Former FBI Director, James Comey, who was fired for leaking
classified items to the press and lying under oath in Congress.
Comey is still warring with President Trump for firing him,
issuing a string of quotes in the press and on social networking
on the subject. Comey is very bitter over what has transpired.
The press has been eviscerating Comey. Both the political left
and right are slamming Comey in a host of mainstream
publications. The heavy criticism of Comey and the FBI is richly
deserved. I have included a small sampling of the mainstream
press articles below. However, Comey's problems are not over
yet. Whether Comey realizes it or not, he and others are facing
the very real prospect of criminal indictment over the crimes
they committed at the FBI. Bad press clippings should be the
least of his worries.
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Comey Gets Called Out For Lying About FBI Going
Without a Christmas Paycheck
Posted: Dec 25, 2018 8:40 AM - Former FBI Director
James Comey was called out Sunday for spreading yet another lie…this
time about FBI employees not receiving a paycheck over Christmas.
“FBI families will spend Christmas without a paycheck. This
president promised Mexico would pay for the wall but innocent people
are now paying the price for another lie. Our thoughts are with
hardworking public servants and their families," Comey said in a
tweet on Sunday.
Twitter users were quick to point out, however, that
his statement was false. “Per OMB guidance, checks for Pay Period 26
(December 9-22) will be processed as usual. Which means federal
employees will get their normal direct deposit between December 28
and January 3,” responded one man. “It's the paychecks *after* that,
starting with Pay Period 1, that are stopped.”...
https://townhall.com
Keep the FBI Out of Politics
Whether Trump’s firing of James Comey
threatened national security is a question for Congress, not the
FBI.
January 15, 2019, 7:30 PM EST - The man behind the
curtain. The American people have a right to know if their president
is a Russian agent. Richard Nixon delivered a version of this line
in November 1973, as the Watergate scandal gathered steam. Now
President Donald Trump has had to tell reporters he is not a spy
after the New York Times reported that the FBI had launched a
counterintelligence probe into the president himself in May 2017...
Make no mistake, however: This is not something that
can be left in the FBI’s hands. It may be tempting for Democrats to
use the FBI’s suspicions of Trump’s treason as a political weapon
now. But it also makes for a terrible precedent. Democrats,
especially, should be attuned to the danger of allowing the FBI
undue influence in electoral politics.
https://www.bloomberg.com
'Irreparable damage to the bureau': Former FBI
agents sound off on James Comey
December 20, 2018 12:26 PM - James Comey has
recognized a kindred spirit in Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who in 1951,
penned the immortal lines, “Do not go gentle into that good night …
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” To wit, the former FBI
director confidently strode up to microphones following two days of
contentious testimony before House lawmakers, and let it all hang
out...
But then James Comey began to talk, and talk, and
talk some more. His testimony in June 2017 sickened me. This was an
FBI director who shrank in the face of politicized Obama
administration Attorney General Loretta Lynch while she ran
political cover for the Clinton campaign and then melted in front of
a newly elected president, who Comey claims asked him to do untoward
things. He somehow couldn’t find the cojones to challenge this
neophyte politico to his face. Instead, he leaked FBI memos, through
a surrogate, to the cozy confines of the New York Times. It was
disgraceful — full stop...
But many of my former colleagues say otherwise.
Retired FBI Special Agent Joaquin Garcia, serving 1980-2006, (whom
you may know from his 2008 book, Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover
Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family) was the agent who taught me how to
be an undercover agent in New York City during the early 1990s. He
told me: James Comey has done irreparable damage to the bureau we
love. His conduct, specifically his leaking, has divided the bureau,
and it will take years to regain our hard-earned reputation...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com
James Comey, please shut up
January 3, 2019 - It's time for Jim Comey to be
quiet. That's been the case for a long time now — and yet there the
former FBI director was on Wednesday, weighing in on the debate over
Mitt Romney's op-ed criticizing President Trump. Looks like the
Republican tent is too small to fit integrity...
So why won't he just be quiet? That's what former
FBI directors tend to do, after all. They serve out a few years
leading America's top crime-fighting agency, then retire to go live
out a life of private sector riches, sometimes emerging to head up a
commission or join a board as an act of continued public service.
Mostly, they keep a low public profile, acquiring a kind of
above-the-fray elder statesman status in the process.
https://theweek.com
The Insufferable James Comey
December 19, 2018 - Never before has a former FBI
director boasted about taking advantage of an administration’s
disorganization for his own ends. But never before has a former FBI
director been as self-satisfied as James Brien Comey Jr. In an
interview this month with Nicolle Wallace at the 92nd Street Y in
New York City, Comey delighted his Upper East Side audience with his
tale of how he exploited the Trump White House’s disarray in its
initial days to send two FBI agents to talk to then-national
security advisor Michael Flynn without honoring the usual processes
(e.g., working through the White House counsel’s office).
Comey said that in a different administration that’s
“something I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with.”
He apparently didn’t consider how that might sound to anyone not
already inclined to delight in the wit and wisdom of James Comey, or
old enough to remember when an FBI director pushing to “get away”
with things wasn’t so amusing...
https://www.politico.com
A Mueller Court Filing Reveals James Comey’s
Arrogance
Three unilateral decisions show Comey thinks
FBI directors can do whatever they want.
Jan 08, 20196:58 PM - Last month, special counsel
Robert Mueller revealed something disturbing about former FBI
Director James Comey. Here’s what Mueller disclosed: In January
2017, when Comey sent FBI agents to interview then–national security
adviser Michael Flynn, Comey bypassed his own boss, Acting Attorney
General Sally Yates. The story sounds innocuous, and it doesn’t
serve either party’s narrative, so nobody made a fuss about it. But
it’s important. It exposes the twisted thinking that led Comey to
change the course of history—and could tempt other public officials
to make themselves unaccountable...
But Comey hasn’t reckoned with the perils of his
hubris. He calls the Clinton investigation a “500-year flood” that
required unilateral decisions by the FBI director. Now we know
that’s bunk. Comey continued to usurp authority in 2017. He did so
based on arguments that could be applied every day. In the end, what
protects us from the abuse of power isn’t that our public officials
are honest. It’s that they’re accountable.
https://slate.com