"Comey was not like Trump and Hillary: We didn’t expect him to lie.
It turns out that, in an election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, James Comey’s lies are the worst of them all.
On Monday, the director of the FBI laid out an ironclad case that the former U.S. secretary of state and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee mishandled classified information — on no less than 110 separate occasions. She set up “several” unauthorized servers, which she used to transmit and store intelligence up to and including “Special Access” material, the government’s most sensitive information. She failed to provide all work-related e-mails to the State Department, in violation of her duties under the Federal Records Act. And her conduct put national-security intelligence at risk. In Comey’s words, “There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.” She was, he said, “extremely careless.”
On Thursday, under questioning by members of the House Oversight Committee, Comey even added to the list. He testified that Clinton gave people without the proper clearances access to classified information, and when asked by Representative Will Hurd (R., Texas) whether anyone in the FBI has a server in his basement, he replied, “They’d better not.”
Yet Comey declined to recommend charges against Clinton, despite the clear wording of the relevant statute in the federal penal code (which Comey effectively had to rewrite to give his decision some superficial legal heft). Anyone paying attention to the FBI director’s statements watched him solemnly pronounce that 2 + 2 = 3.
This might seem like just another in the series of fibs, frauds, and outright fabrications that have characterized the current presidential season. But it is worse.
Hillary Clinton is a liar, in the Machiavellian mold. She lies when it helps her. Her husband’s affairs, her many scandals, her political beliefs — Clinton concocts lies according to careful calculations.
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Donald Trump is a liar, too, though in the mold of the fabulist. He lies when it helps him, and he also lies when it doesn’t. He lies about his past positions and his statements, but also about his sexual conquests and his golf score and buying a house in Connecticut. He doesn’t operate by calculation as much as by impulse.
In both cases, though, no one expects anything different. Dishonesty has been priced into both candidates; it’s the expectation. Hillary’s supporters do not support her because she’s honest. They support her because they are reasonably certain where she stands on abortion and the minimum wage and student-loan debt. She’s fudging her support for Black Lives Matter? Yeah, well, politics ain’t beanbag. Likewise, Trump supporters don’t care about his lies, because they know (or think they know) where he stands on immigration and the Supreme Court and the Islamic State. He’s lying about his knowledge of David Duke? Eh, nobody’s perfect."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/07/james-comey-hillary-clinton-lies-and-erosion-public-trust/
"But after his recent appearances before a joint Congressional committee examining the FBI’s role ignoring Hillary Clinton’s potential criminal activity while setting up the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, a defiant Comey continued his series of withering attacks on Republicans for turning the investigative lens on him.
Comey whined that it was the executive and legislative branches that were, in fact, responsible for a loss of public faith in the intelligence community."
https://www.libertyheadlines.com/comey-dishonesty-corruption/
"Since President Donald Trump fired Comey in 2017, triggering the continuing investigation by special counsel—and Comey pal—Robert Mueller into potential Trump violations, evidence has come to light implicating the FBI in a litany of cover-ups, entrapment schemes and other various conspiracy and collusion to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
It is a web so tangled—and enmeshed with bad hombres—that two years of inquiries and hearings by the House joint Oversight and Judiciary committees seem only to have scratched the surface. But as the Republican leadership of those Congressional committees prepares for a turnover of power, their last-ditch efforts to seek the truth appear to have moved the chains very little.
Despite two full days and hundreds of pages of transcribed testimony from Comey’s recent appearances, the disgraced ex-spook continued to stonewall, prompting criticism from both the Congressional committees and the White House.
Oversight Chair Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., called Comey an “amnesiac with incredible hubris” in a Fox News interview, as reported by The Daily Caller.
“Comey just thinks he’s always right, and … it doesn’t matter if everyone else concludes he did wrong,” Gowdy said."
"He also criticized Comey, who once claimed to be a Republican, for his bias during and after the recent midterms. (Comey gave considerable amounts to Democratic candidates in Virginia while publicly advocating that voters boot Republicans out of office.)"
"Trump and others have pointed to parallels in cases involving former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, along with former vice presidential nominee John Edwards. None of the three Democrats were found guilty of criminal misconduct, despite major scandals, widely ignored by the media, involving hush-money payoffs and campaign-finance violations."
"Flynn, who briefly served as national security adviser, was set to be sentenced on Tuesday for lying to the FBI about conversations with a Russian envoy during the transition of power.
“The FBI broke every standard protocol that they have, and we know that because of James Comey’s actual comments that they threw FBI protocol out the window,” Sanders told Fox News, “for one reason and one reason only: because it was the Trump administration and they thought they could and they thought they could get away with it.”
Sanders continued saying that the White House was “100 percent” sure Trump was right to fire Comey—a decision that has generated some claims on the Left of “obstruction of justice” although most argue it was the president’s prerogative to do so.
“Every single day we learn more and more all of the things that he [Comey] did that were so far out of bounds for what the FBI director should do,” Sanders said."
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Former FBI Director James Comey is arguing the ongoing controversy that has entangled the top state lawmakers in Virginia is an opportunity to look at "much larger and more powerful symbols of that oppression" in the state.
Comey wrote an opinion piece about recent events in Virginia that was published in The Washington Post on Thursday.
“Every Virginia leader is responsible for the racist symbols that still loom over our lives,” he wrote, zeroing in on Confederate statues and monuments.
“Expressing bipartisan horror at blackface photos is essential, but removing the statues would show all of America that Virginia really has changed,” Comey argued. “The statues were only about a certain kind of heritage, just as blackface was about a certain kind of storytelling. It was about hate, not history or art.”"
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/429066-comey-pens-op-ed-about-race-controversy-in-virginia