Pissed Off Gowdy Just Humiliated Comey After What He Did To Trump And Melania
"The man of integrity who was going to tell the American people how it is — the last
virgin in town."Image may contain: 2 people, people smiling, closeup
On Friday South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy blasted James Comey over the former
FBI director's forthcoming book which is oddly enough called "Beneath the Dignity"
of the bureau.
Gowdy made his thoughts known on Fox & Friends this morning when he said.
"I can't think of anyone who's done a better job of politicizing the FBI than
[Comey] has in the last 36 to 48 hours, I think it's sad."
People who have already read the book have criticised Comey for even going as far as
criticizing President Trump's appearance.
And in one section Comey even writes that during an intelligence briefing the Republican's
"face appeared slightly orange, with bright white half-moons under his eyes where I assumed
he placed small tanning goggles, and impressively coiffed, bright blond hair, which upon close
inspection looked to be all his."
Also adding I remember wondering, how long it must take him in the morning to get that
done."Comey who himself looks like a kind of giraffe measuring a towering 6'8? also
writes that he made a "point" to notice Trump's hand size, who is only 6'3?Image
may contain: 4 people, sunglasses and closeup
But what's perhaps the worst part of this book that reads like something out of yellow
press news is that Comey also goes on to describe President Trump as a "mob boss" who is
"untethered to the truth."
Did anyone ever think we would ever see the day that the deep state would stoop so low
as to have a former FBI director who was fired.
Write a book making fun of a sitting president?
Can anyone imagine what would have happened if this would have been done to Barack Obama
who really was a gangster in many ways, to the point of even exercising his executive
power and saying
"I have a pen and a phone," as a threat if the GOP wouldn't go along with his shenanigans?
Here is more on James Comey's legacy via Vox: "Back in October 2016, Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA) called then-FBI Director James Comey's decision to look into new
Hillary Clinton emails just days before the election "appalling."
Her comment reflected the general sentiment among Democrats at the time.
But in May 2017, President Donald Trump fired Comey because the FBI wouldn't end an investigation
into a former top Trump aide's Russia ties.
Democrats, almost in unison, openly warned that dismissing Comey meant Trump may have
tried to obstruct justice.Image may contain: 2 people, people smiling, closeup
And after reports surfaced that Trump had called Comey a "nut job," Feinstein herself
defended the former FBI director, saying that "Comey is no way, shape, or form a nut job."
As Comey now sits down for high-profile interview after high-profile interview to promote his
new book.
Expect the good feelings from Democrats and the media alike to keep coming.
Comey's new memoir, A Higher Loyalty, is due to come out on Tuesday.
The already-released excerpts indicate that it's highly critical of Trump, and the tome
will assuredly inspire more Comey fandom on television, radio, and print.
It may lead to even more arguments, like Damon Linker's in the Week last June, "that
the former FBI director is a bona fide American hero."But painting Comey that way misses
a lot.
He led the FBI when the bureau possibly mishandled its investigation into Clinton's use of
a private email server when she was secretary of state.
Perhaps costing Hillary Clinton the election.
He was also the FBI director when he oversaw increased surveillance of Muslim communities
and a culture of suspicion against Muslims and used suspect methods to stop terrorists,
Put together, as the Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan noted on March 31.Image may contain:
2 people, people smiling, closeup
Comey is undeserving of the veneration and softball questions he will surely field in
the coming days in response to his much-hyped new book.
That, in part, is because he did a successful job at cultivating his holier-than-thou persona,
says Matthew Miller, a top Justice Department spokesperson in the Obama administration.
"He wanted to position himself as the hero," Miller told me, "the man of integrity who
was going to tell the American people how it is — the last virgin in town."
The problem, though, is that the media fell for it.
How Comey handled the Clinton probe
At around 11 am on July 5, 2016, then-FBI Director Comey gave a surprise televised address
— thrusting him into the national spotlight.
"This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple ways," he admitted from the
FBI's lectern.
"I am going to include more detail about our process than I ordinarily would.
Because I think the American people deserve those details in a case of intense public
interest."
The "case" in question was the FBI's probe into Clinton's use of a personal email
server to conduct State Department business.
Investigators wanted to know if Clinton had handled classified information on an insecure
network.Image may contain: 2 people, people smiling, closeup
Which could make it easier for foreign adversaries to steal top secrets.
But Comey recommended no criminal charges to the Justice Department, instead reprimanding
her as "extremely careless" after finding 110 emails containing classified information
among the 30,000 reviewed messages.
The following day, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch accepted Comey's choice not to charge
Clinton.
(Lynch had just days before that decision met with Bill Clinton on an Arizona tarmac,
leading to calls for her recusal from the case.)
Comey, in effect, closed the case.
According to an April 2017 New York Times report about Comey's actions during the
election, he chose this approach for a few reasons.
First, to let those people within the FBI who were upset with Clinton's conduct know
that Comey heard and understood their concerns.
But second, and most importantly, he aimed to shield the bureau from GOP-led attacks
that the FBI took it easy on Clinton.
Those attacks came anyway.
"This announcement defies explanation.
No one should be above the law," House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted after Comey's remarks.
"It appears damage is being done to the rule of law."Image may contain: 2 people,
people smiling, closeup
But the more controversial moment came three months later.
As part of a probe into former Rep. Anthony Weiner's (D-NY) sexually explicit conversations
with a minor, the FBI found some of Clinton's emails on his laptop.
That was no coincidence: Huma Abedin, Weiner's wife and a close Clinton aide at the State
Department, backed up thousands of emails on her husband's computer.
Some agents believed Clinton had hidden emails from them, adding to suspicions that the messages
on Weiner's laptop might just be the missing emails."
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