Comey: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

[Luminous Animal]

39. Greenwald was clear then that Comey signed off on the use of torture and he is clear now:

The part that you missed:

It’s worth noting that all of the officials involved in these events — including Comey — are right-wing ideologues appointed by George Bush. That’s why they were appointed. The fact that Comey was willing to go along with approval of these tactics when used individually — just as is true of his willingness to endorse a modified version of Bush’s NSA warrantless eavesdropping program in the face of FISA — hardly proves that there was a good-faith basis for the view that these individual tactics were legal.

http://www.salon.com/2009/06/07/torture_memos/

What Comey was unwilling to sign off on was the combined usage of torture on people. What he signed off on was subjecting people to an individual torture technique.

You seem to be under the impression that Greenwald's 2009 article was a defense of Comey.

It was not.

The article was a critique of the coverage by the NY Times' half-assed reporting which didn't reveal the internal debate within the DOJ thus limiting the public's knowledge.