Why Politicians Can't Stand James Comey
The FBI director was happy to shoot down Trump's wiretap claims, just as he didn't mind intervening when it hurt Hillary Clinton in the election. He won't be silenced.
MICHAEL DALY
03.06.17 1:15 AM ET
James Comey is a unicorn. So says a longtime senior law enforcement official who describes the FBI director as a rarer than rare creature in the nations capital. Comey, the official tells The Daily Beast, is a person who says and does exactly what he believes is right even if it is to his political disadvantage.
That is the FBI directors big problem, the official figures. In a town where almost nothing is on the level, no one knows what to make of a straight shooter.
The officialwho offered The Daily Beast his opinions in writing and in an interview and prefers not to be namedadds: This is why Comey has almost always been misread in Washington. People have wasted enormous amounts of time trying to determine his hidden motives. It is because they so rarely see the man whose only motive is anything but hidden: To do the right thing. And no wonder they have trouble understanding it. It is Washington, where they have rarely, if ever, seen it before.
Most recently, this unicorn asked the Justice Department to publicly dismiss President Trumps claim that his phones were tapped on orders from President Obama. In making the accusation, Trump was in effect accusing FBI agents as well as Obama of a felony.
In asking for the Justice Department to reject the charge, Comey was in effect calling Trump a liar, albeit not publiclyyet, anyway.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/06/james-comey-d-c-unicorn-shoots-down-trump-wiretap-claim.html
dalton99a
(81,700 posts)He wants to proactively deflect attention away from the FBI.
No one should ever forget that without Comey, Trump wouldn't be in the White House.
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)Pretending to be a boy scout.
Gothmog
(145,839 posts)SunSeeker
(51,796 posts)Nor his ridiculously unprofessional July 5 press conference lambasting Hillary rather than just stating the results of the FBI investigation. And all the while, not a PEEP about Trump campaign collusion with Putin. Fuck that asshole. He has no principles. He is a hack like the rest of them, but has convinced himself and many others, that his motives are based on "principle." BULLSHIT
Same thing with his leaked request for DOJ to deny Trump's claim about Obama ordering wiretapping. Comey was just covering his own ass. As the article notes, In making the accusation, Trump was in effect accusing the FBI (Comey!) as well as Obama of a felony.
yellowcanine
(35,704 posts)before the election. Unless by "straight shooter" one means political sabotage.
Grins
(7,258 posts)Not so easy. Not always black and white.
Pond scum?
Was he pond scum when he physically blocked Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales from getting near to then-AG John Ashcroft when Ashcroft was incapacitated in the hospital to get Ashcroft to sign-off on Bush's warrantless wiretapping program?
Was he pond scum when he decided to go after Scooter Libby with a special prosecutor vs. a political one in-house and picked Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald?
I don't like the way he handled the Clinton email bullshit, but I think the opinion piece is OK.
And remember: The only person who can remove him from his job as FBI Director is Trump. And he just publicly got up in the grill of that Mussolini-wannabe-without-the-armband, a wad of phuck whose sole raison d'être his entire life has been revenge.
It's not so easy.
Nitram
(22,951 posts)He has been making politically expedient moves all along. Trump has basically accused Comey of helping Obama wiretap his campaign. Comey wants to cover his ass. He kept the investigation into Russian ties secret but blew the Clinton affair wide open by re-opening the investigation to explore a worthless piece of junk. He doesn't know "the right thing" from a hole in the ground.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)Skittles
(153,298 posts)he is a partisan hack who very much helped Russia install that incompetent asshole into the White House