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A Not So Secret Secret Agent Man
Let’s sit down, have some hot chocolate … and talk about me!
So … the first excerpts of the book are out! Oh my! Let’s dig into this … with the same “Fire and Fury” that we gave to Michael Wolff’s “explosive” (snicker) book that will expose and finally finish once and for all this corrupt Administration of this horrible man who somehow a bunch of ignorant hillbillies, racists, and homophobic bigots elected as our President. Off with his head!
Oh … wait …..
Jim Geraghty, no fan of the President by any means, writes a very compelling article at National Review today about the upcoming … James Comey Book Tour! The initial excerpt has plenty to wet your whistle to read further:
Published in GeneralThe good folks at the Republican National Committee awaken and realize that perhaps former FBI agents make more compelling critics of James Comey than, say, Maxine Waters.
Yesterday afternoon brought the first excerpts of James Comey’s new book, A Higher Loyalty, and we were expected to run around in panicked excitement at the revelation that Comey thought President Trump’s hands were “smaller than mine, but not unusually so.”
It’s fascinating how little the public discussion about Comey touches on the job he did at the FBI beyond the investigations of the two presidential candidates. Generally, Comey’s record at the bureau is praised, but it had its problems. He gave inaccurate testimony before Congress. We all witnessed the number of times the FBI had a terror suspect on a “watch list” but didn’t do anything until it was too late. The FBI employed a translator who went on to marry an ISIS terrorist. Any Comey critic could have objected to sending $1.3 million to an unspecified third party in exchange for software to hack into the phone of the San Bernardino terrorist.
I might rot in hell, but it won’t be for those reasons.
Well it’s not original, but here were two that I saw today that greatly delighted me ….
Chris Wallace called it “Bitchy …”; and
Lanny Davis (yes, that Lanny Davis) calls Comey a “liar” and a “renegade narcissist” whose only higher loyalty “is to himself, not to the policies of the Justice Department.”
And David Alexrod (yes, that guy) quipped that the timing of the book suggests it should be called “Higher Royalties.”
Anyone besides me remember Fawn Hall? She believed in a higher loyalty, too. She said that sometimes you have to go above the law.
“Higher Royalties” wins! Hands down!
I’m thinking a photo might aaahh jog my memory.
Here.
LOL! That pic is brilliant!
James Comey may have done us a favor. A little legal tidbit has comes to light – from the Last Refuge Blog:
“On September 28th, 2016, Andrew McCabe was made aware of information the New York Police Department and FBI has obtained from a captured laptop belonging to Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner. The laptop was evidence in the Weiner “sexting” case involving a minor; however, the laptop also contained thousands of State Department documents from Hillary Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin, Weiner’s wife.
Some of the extracted laptop evidence was turned over to the DOJ Southern District of New York (SDNY) where Preet Bharara, a Clinton-Lynch ally, is United States Attorney.
Text messages between FBI Agent Peter Strzok (Inbox) and FBI Special Counsel to Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page (Outbox):
[The letter to “Congress” at the end of the text exchange relates to notification of the re-opening of the Clinton investigation – Actual date of notification 10/28/16]
According to later reporting, FBI Director James Comey was not notified of the laptop issues for two to three weeks, after 9/28/16. However, in late October and early November, there were reports from people with contacts in New York police and FBI, about Washington DOJ officials interfering with the Weiner laptop investigation.
On the same date (October 26th, 2016) as the Lynch, McCabe and NY FBI phone call, former NY Mayor Rudy Giuilani was telling Fox News that an explosive development was forthcoming. Two days later, October 28th, 2016, Congress was notified of the additional Clinton emails.”
Continued on next post:
Back to Comey from The Last Refuge:
However, a few more days later, November 4th, 2016, an even more explosive development as Erik Prince appeared on radio and outlined discoveries within the Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner laptop that was being blocked by AG Lynch.
Continue on part 3:
Part 3 of the Comey emails from the Last Refuge Blog:
An earlier Grand Jury in New York had refused to return an indictment against the police in the Garner case. As an outcome of that grand jury finding, and as an outcome of their own investigation, the local FBI office and Eastern District of New York DOJ office was not trying to pursue criminal charges against the NYPD officers involved. This created a dispute because federal prosecutors and FBI officials in New York opposed bringing charges, while prosecutors with the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department in Washington argued there was clear evidence to do so.
On October 25th, 2016, Loretta Lynch replaced the New York prosecutors:
With that move on Oct. 25th, 2016, AG Lynch was now in position to threaten criminal prosecutions against the DOJ using the Garner case as leverage, just like Erik Prince outlined in the phone interview above. Additionally, we see from the IG report, the Garner case was brought up in the next day (Oct 26, 2016) phone call to the NY FBI field office; just as Erik Prince outlined.
The NY FBI and Eastern District of New York (EDNY) were threatened by Washington DC Main Justice and FBI, via Loretta Lynch and Andrew McCabe to drop the Clinton/Abedin/Weiner laptop investigation matters, or else the Garner DOJ Civil Rights Division would be used as leverage against the NYPD. And Loretta Lynch had SDNY U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as the enforcer waiting for her call.
And so it was…
It really doesn’t matter what the book says as long as it is not positive to Trump. The MSM, AntiTrump, Democrats, NeverTrump can spin it so the public perception is that Trump broke laws and violated rules to justify him and his people being investigated, impeached, broken and jailed.
In the end that is all that matters. Stuff like truth, law, right are no longer in play.
I knew about most of this, but don’t think I ever heard anything about the Garner death. Don’t know who that person is, nor do I know who was suspected of killing them,.
I thought the working title was “Now I’m Outside the Tent.” I guess LBJ had a point.
More on this from the Conservative Treehouse today …. Trail of James Comey’s dirt on Loretta Lynch discovered within IG report …
Here’s the “connecting of the dots” … the NYPD was threatened with federal action on the Eric Garner death, if they didn’t relent on revealing all of the Hillary criminal garbage found on Weiner’s laptop …
Lanny Davis . . . yeah, Clinton crony Lanny Davis . . . writes this today: Admit it, James Comey, You’ve Been Lying All Along.
Loretta Lynch also throws Comey under the bus.
Clearly nobody loves James Comey more than he loves himself. But I think if the press wasn’t fawning over him, nobody else would be.
This is priceless!
But … but … but …. we were told ……
President Donald J. Trump assesses it all ………
Boy … Drudge just hates the President. He’s still going with the “reputable” Comey shtick. Unbecoming Matt.
In the face of all of this “throwing-under-the-bus” activity … which will escalate … he’s gonna have to cover it.
Comey, Lynch, and McCabe all busy throwing each other under the bus.