James Comey, the disgraced former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under Presidents Obama and Trump, recently appeared on CNN to whine about the deterioration of the rule of law, how Trump was evil, and how Republicans were a cult. During this tirade, one might imagine that his own misdeeds would be raised and questioned by Anderson Cooper but to no avail. George Washington University Professor Jonathan Turley observed this in his article on the interview and wrote that "the interview was almost a mocking parody."
Breitbart News covered that interview where Comey called Trump "[a] very serious threat to the rule of law, almost an existential threat if he were to become president again" and expressed his concern that if Trump became president again, "I don’t think America has ever seen and is ready for what he would try and do to the system of justice." The former director also lambasted Republican presidential candidates talking about possible pardons for January 6th participants as "an attack on the rule of law."
In the wake of the Durham report that chronicled the bias of the FBI toward Trump that happened under Comey's watch, he ironically denied that there was any politicization within the ranks of the FBI and claimed this was cult-like behavior and beliefs by conservatives. Comey called on the American public to make sure that the Republican Party, especially at the presidential level, is handed "a series of losses."
As law professor Jonathan Turley points out, however, Comey is responsible for a lot of violations of the rule of law himself and has cheered on such violations by others. "Comey recently celebrated the indictment of Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg despite even some liberal experts denouncing the charges as a political prosecution. The political weaponization of the criminal justice system was declared by Comey to be 'a good day.' The former FBI director, who has been teaching and speaking on government ethics, joined others in celebrating the upcoming arrest of Trump because nothing says 'ethical leadership' like a patently political prosecution" wrote Turley.
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Turley continued by noting that it was "Comey [who] declined to prosecute Hillary Clinton on her email scandal despite finding that she violated federal rules and handled classified material 'carelessly.' He declared, 'Ethical leaders lead by seeing above the short term, above the urgent or the partisan, and with a higher loyalty to lasting values, most importantly the truth.' Yet now Comey is heralding a raw political prosecution."
The law professor wrote that "Cooper also did not ask Comey about the blistering report of Special Counsel John Durham on the repeated failure of his own leadership in pushing an investigation without sufficient evidence. Under his leadership, the FBI took a false Russian collusion theory pushed by the Clinton campaign and continued the investigation despite early refutation of the underlying sources and claims. That included warnings from American intelligence that the agency was using suspected Russian disinformation funneled through the Clinton campaign. During the Sussmann trial, it was revealed that an agent told colleagues that FBI leadership, including then-Director James Comey, was “fired up” about the alleged secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank. That was also a false allegation created and pushed by the Clinton campaign."
Even Comey's departure from the FBI was due to ethics and legal violations that resulted in his firing. Turley commented that "It was Comey who was fired after former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein cited him for 'serious mistakes' and violating 'his obligation to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the traditions of the Department and the FBI.' It was Comey who violated federal laws and removed FBI material (including reported classified material) after being fired and then leaked information to the media. None of that was relevant to an interview on allegations of misconduct at the FBI and protecting the rule of law."
Perhaps Comey should look at the mirror more when he thinks about talking about ethics violations and the deterioration of the rule of law in America. If he did that though he might have to retract a lot of his comments about political weaponization of governmental institutions being a conservative fantasy and instead admit that some of that was by his own design.
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DC Enquirer
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