Nor is the expression of moral superiority a substitute for lawfulness. Inside the FBI, ignorance is not a substitute for competence. Those forced the government to send “scrub teams” to recover any classified information that may have been transmitted, according to multiple sources briefed on the operation. Likewise, Comey’s transmission of memos to his lawyers about classified conversations he had with Trump are troubling. Comey denies he knew about that leak but acknowledges that he himself orchestrated a separate leak through a friend after his own firing.
Yet, on his watch, top deputy Andrew McCabe was caught leaking to the news media and later fired for lying about it. Third, Comey’s investigative team (in the form of the Steele dossier) and his general counsel James Baker (in the form of evidence from a Democratic Party lawyer) accepted politically tainted evidence to further the probe of Trump.įinally, Comey has insisted he didn’t condone leaking inside the FBI. To add to the concerns, the two were having an affair in the middle of a counterintelligence probe, which in and of itself is a compromise. I found it odd that a man who started his Twitter career by quoting Bible verses about justice might have forgotten one of the golden utterances from Jesus himself: “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.” Ī year later, we learned that the very FBI employees Comey entrusted to lead the Clinton and Trump investigations – Peter Strzok and Lisa Page – obsessed over the 2016 election and even discussed in government text messages using their official powers to “stop” Trump from becoming president. To them, Comey’s Twitter attack crossed that “blue line” – the one that real cops abide by, to never criticize fellow officers and to always have their backs. Many people I know in law enforcement circles shuddered when James Comey tweeted recently that acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker “may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer.”
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