“At some point in early October, someone at FBI headquarters (I think it was Deputy Director Andrew McCabe) mentioned to me that former Congressman Anthony Weiner had a laptop that might have some connection to the Clinton email case.”Ĭomey here plunges into a Hamlet-esque dilemma over whether to go public about the re-opened investigation. Which brings us back to the Clinton investigation.Ĭomey, at times ostentatiously precise in his recollections, is cagey about how and when he learned of the new Clinton emails uncovered as part of the Anthony Weiner dick-pic investigation: And though he professed otherwise in his confirmation hearings, the reality is that Comey mostly just climbed the ladder through the wholesale dismantling of civil liberties that took place during the Bush and Obama years.
Then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper – described by Comey in the book as “the leader I most admire in government” – appeared to lie about the existence of such programs in testimony before Congress, saying the NSA did “not wittingly” collect data on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans.Ĭomey didn’t have a problem with that, it seems. This is how Comey became famous the first time, trying to head off the program’s re-authorization by racing to a convalescing John Ashcroft in the much-publicized “ hospital showdown.”īut we later learned, through Edward Snowden’s revelations, that Stellar Wind was just a mild appetizer, and that the NSA massively expanded its surveillance program during Bush’s second term and under President Barack Obama. These meanderings might carry more weight if Comey did not have a lengthy record of “concealing” far more important issues from the American public.Ĭomey, for instance, comes across as an opponent of torture, and in the book writes about how his wife Patrice’s exhortation – “Don’t be the torture guy” – disturbed his sleep “for many nights.” But a close look at Comey’s Bush-era record indicates he signed off on policies that essentially re-sanctified most forms of “enhanced interrogation.” “It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the re-started investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in the polls.”Ĭomey portrays the Clinton decision as a binary choice: either speak a truth that may result in Trump’s victory, or conceal key facts from the public thus making her, as he tabs the ostensible shoo-in Clinton, an “illegitimate president.”
Lul G, Former Member of SOB x RBE, Sentenced to 21 Years in Prison
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