As Jonathan F. Keiler opens up in today’s American Thinker: “In National Review, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy does for James Comey something akin to what Comey did for Hillary Clinton in July. Just as Comey effectively indicted Clinton for extreme carelessness in her email scandal but fell short of recommending referral to the Department of Justice in July, McCarthy essentially indicts the FBI director for extreme incompetence in his handling of the investigation of the email scandal but will not call Comey corrupt or call for his resignation. Yet the convincing case against Comey that McCarthy makes proves the former and should compel the latter”. [end]
Which is yet another example of the legal profession taking care of its own. No other profession is in a position to so cleverly cover up its own cronyism and corruption; lawyers simply will not criticize other lawyers. In turn, we get corrupt judges, corrupt lawyers, and corrupt politicians, the combination of which insures that the corrupt and tyrannical can function without adverse consequences to themselves, for no one is watching the watchman. The federal government has become so corrupt that there isn’t enough rope or trees to do the job that actually needs to be done.
By default, Comey included many FBI operatives who participated in this sham. One wonders what they see in the mirror each morning. Is a bi-weekly check and pension worth one’s honor and integrity? Seems so, and that is perhaps the worst of this whole sordid affair.
The FBI and DOJ have what 50-60 thousand employees? Just when are these people going to step up and demand their houses be cleaned? How can they be viewed as patriotic honest Public Servants when their very silence states “I am happy to continue to work for and be led by traitors and liars”?
When personal integrity is no longer admired, cherished or sought for; when no one is ever held accountable or is ever punished for corruption; when lucrative pensions await those who “play the game”, and when the citizenry is apathetic as well, we get the Perfect Storm of Corruption. That is why America is failing. Self interest in every arm of governance overrides everything, and neither Trump nor anybody else can fix that.
Washington is full of players and We The People are the ones being gamed. Comey is a complete disgrace.
Though their respective positions are obviously different on the surface (one in a place of actual power, the other a mere pundit) they are oddly rather similar. Just as Comey did not have the authority to indict Hillary but merely recommend, his public pronouncement carried with it significant moral and legal weight, which was immediately seized upon by the Clinton campaign and her many apologists in the mainstream media. Likewise, McCarthy has no power over Comey, but as a respected legal authority and prominent conservative commentator, his view carries not inconsequential influence.
McCarthy repeatedly notes in his many columns on the subject that he knows and respects Comey and that the director is a longtime friend. Whether this relationship is what most Americans would regard as real friendship or of the Washington variety, where every professional acquaintance that might help you out in the future is deemed a friend, is not for me to say. But we can safely assume that this relationship, whether it is one of actual affection or of professional circumspection, stays McCarthy’s hand.
Continues in American Thinker…
See also National Review and FBI’s Defense of Clinton Interview