James Comey still won’t admit the truth
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Posted By: Pluperfect,
12/16/2019 4:31:35 AM
So former FBI chief Jim Comey finally admits the glaringly obvious: “I was overconfident as director in our procedures” in getting a warrant to wiretap a Trump campaign aide and the bureau’s behavior “was not acceptable.”
Comey came to this belated mea culpa during a tough Sunday interview by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, after a damning report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, which slammed “the entire chain of command” under Comey for major “performance failures.”
Yet, while Comey has accepted the basic facts Horowitz uncovered — even saying, “He’s right, I was wrong” — he is still in deep denial on key IG findings.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/16/2019 4:39:17 AM (No. 263535)
Comey has a large, deluxe edition dictionary of weasel words, better than the pocket variety carried by Hillary and Barack.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 12/16/2019 5:23:57 AM (No. 263546)
Comey is a shining example of the Deep State. THEY are the experts and the decisions THEY make are superior to those of the public and elected officials. THEIR more knowledgeable guidance is essential to keep the country on track. In fact, THEIR vision is more correct and takes precedence over the law.
We have seen this clear attitude in the public testimony of numerous bureaucrats and academic experts (bureaucrats not currently working for the government).
The "tell" that these people are morally wrong and likely just wrong is that they are criminal in their behavior. They may not like the system as it is but it IS law. Instead of declaring their open opposition to it and working transparently to promote their ideas and evoke change, they hide in the shadows and operate in secret. That is a cowardly recognition that they cannot win a battle of ideas and their choice is to fight instead in underhanded ways. They are declaring that they reject the right of people to govern themselves because they are too stupid to do so. They allow us the fiction of voting but THEY will actually run things to achieve the outcomes that THEY know are right.
I can imagine a bank robber thinking the same way. I need the money and it's not fair that I don't have it. I know they are not going to give it to me so I have to figure out a way to steal it and not get caught.
We need a major reset on our bureaucracy to clarify our government bureaucracy's position in relationship to the People and to elected officials. The bureaucracy are the muscles of government, NOT the brains. Just like certain functions, like balance, require automatic control to accomplish their function, the bureaucracy needs a certain level of smarts to achieve policy. They may even suggest helpful policy. But they don't MAKE policy.
It's funny that so many people working in industry understand this so well. They all see things that could be run more efficiently, in their opinion, but they accept that it is not their job to make it so. A healthy business will elicit and evaluate suggestions from employees but employees do not make changes on their own. If they did, they would likely be fired for insubordination.
The attitude of the Deep State is dangerous to the fundamentals of our way of life. STRONG corrective action is needed. It starts with punishment of criminals, even the ones too arrogant to admit their wrongdoing.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mizzmac 12/16/2019 6:24:46 AM (No. 263577)
Still won't admit the truth? Try, never will. And will continue to his last arrogant, self-important breath to invent more lies designed to make himself look righteous. Sad, sad, person.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/16/2019 7:41:46 AM (No. 263625)
Comey will get his. Just a matter of time now. Obie and/or Billary will throw him under the bus in a heartbeat.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/16/2019 7:43:29 AM (No. 263626)
I think that Comey and Illary should spend the rest of their lives in adjoining cells in Colorado’s Super Max where they can spend their remaining days telling each other about all those who are to blame for their own odious deeds.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Burninfilm 12/16/2019 8:10:28 AM (No. 263651)
Comey is a WEASEL...There Mr Comey, I said it !
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kafka2 12/16/2019 8:18:10 AM (No. 263657)
Comey has seen the handwriting on the wall and is trying to set up an " I didn't know that my underling were doing bad things" defense. The fact that he told President Trump about the Steele Dossier and then promptly got it released in the MSM proves he was up to his eyeballs in the plot to smear the President.
I hope he gets tried and sentenced to the maximum for what he has done.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 12/16/2019 8:26:37 AM (No. 263666)
FTA:
“I was overconfident as director in our procedures”
So Jimmy, what part of the procedure failed when one of your people on your watch forged an email that said Carter Page was a CIA asset into Carter Page was not a CIA asset? Kind of sounds like a people problem and you were at the top.
And when you are in a leadership position, the head case of the FBI, and your team is investigating treason which on the part of the POTUS or potential POTUS it is unconscionable that you wouldn’t immerse yourself in the details. It’s kind of a big deal to we little people. Do you think that the CEO of Boeing, Dennis Muilenburg, doesn’t know what’s going on with the 777 grounding?
Who in the hell do you think you are fooling you arrogant twit.
And will you please stop talking about the evidence, I think you once referred to as a mosaic in addition to the discredited fraudulent dossier unless you tell us what you are talking about with specifics. We aren’t so stupid that we don’t grasp that you are manufacturing doubt with zero chance of disproving.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/16/2019 9:08:49 AM (No. 263708)
James the Pius, sitting beside Mother Nancy Superior in church, both appearing so holy and untainted by the world. Will they be served at communion because they know something on the priest?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Firebase 12/16/2019 9:35:16 AM (No. 263731)
Comey is obviously someone who is not operating with convictions or even FBI agency regulations, bends whichever way the wind blows, arrives at these very subjective conclusions with no grasp of reality, then implies he was the higher conscience. Oh, the agony of having to decide what was right. lol. Every time he was asked about mistakes or lies the FBI and he made, he said, "There was no law breaking but it was important", on more than one occasion. It was also more circular evidence, Steele wasn't really that important, except at FISA application time and now it's just part of a "mosaic". Ha ha, that's a good one. He just talks in circles.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/16/2019 9:43:25 AM (No. 263736)
IMO both PDT and Barr/Durham are waiting for the votes to be cast on 11/03. There will probably be a 6/3 SCOTUS to back him up. The people will have spoken. Then the real teeth will come out.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ledwith 12/16/2019 9:58:05 AM (No. 263757)
By no stretch of the imagination was it a 'tough' interview. At best a few basic questions were asked, with very little and certainly not 'tough' followups. Wallace is useless and exists in some DC never never land of group think and attitude. The least he could have done to set up his mild interview was recite Comey's fall from grace: his firing for cause, his leaking of FBI confidential files, his public perfidy, his destruction of the reputation of his own agency. His weasel-wordy answers and fake emotion were nauseating...as was Wallace's 'performance'.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 12/16/2019 10:22:20 AM (No. 263792)
Just like Alger Hiss, a traitor.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
weejun 12/16/2019 10:42:47 AM (No. 263812)
For once I was actually proud of Chris Wallace. He basically destroyed James the Pious with tough questions and comments like "but you seem to be acting like you were an innocent bystander."
But then,Wallace turned right around and threw softballs to Schiff. Oh well, a small victory for the truth yesterday.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ToryWhite 12/16/2019 11:34:06 AM (No. 263858)
AM I TO UNDERSTAND THAT, CURRENTLY, PRES TRUMP FACES THE THREAT OF IMPEACHMENT FOR DOING NOTHING, WHILE THOSE WHO SET HIM UP WE ARE JUST ASKING APOLOGIES FROM?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 12/16/2019 2:21:06 PM (No. 264027)
#15, it is rude to post in all caps, it is equivalent to shouting.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Krause 12/16/2019 3:51:22 PM (No. 264110)
He doesn’t realize but he just admitted he wasn’t a very good FBI Director.
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