The more you learn, sometimes the less you respect someone and I have lost whatever little shred of respect I had for James Comey. I don’t know how he got past high school, let alone become the head of the FBI.
The man is an imbecile.
I touched on this once already, but it demands revisiting.
As of April 26, 2018, he still didn’t know who funded the dodgy dossier:
Baier: When did you learn that the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign had funded Christopher Steele’s work?
Comey: Yes, I still don’t know that for a fact.
Baier: What do you mean?
Comey: I’ve only seen it in the media. I never knew exactly which Democrats has funded – I knew it was funded first by Republicans –
(Crosstalk)
Baier: But that’s not true.
Comey: I’m sorry?
Baier: That’s not true that the dossier that Christopher Steele worked on was funded by Republicans.
Comey: My understanding was his work started funded by – as oppo research funded by the Republicans.
Baier: So Free Beacon and – said that they had Glen Simpson and Fusion GPS on account of a retainer but they did not fund the Christopher Steele memo or the dossier. That was initiated by Democrats.
Comey: Ok, my understanding was the activity was begun that Steele was hired to look into was first funded by Republicans then picked up – the important thing was picked up by Democrats opposed to Donald Trump.
Baier: So it that why – did you tell President Obama that the dossier was – who it was funded by?
Comey: No, not to my recollection.
Baier: Did you want to know who it was funded by?
Comey: I wanted to know what I knew which was it was funded by people politically opposed to Donald Trump.
Baier: Ok.
Comey: Which particular opponents wasn’t that important to me.
Baier: But when did you – So you, still, to this day, don’t know that it was funded by the DNC or the (inaudible)?
Comey: I’ve read that in the media, but I don’t know for a fact and didn’t know, when I was at the FBI, which exact opponent of the president’s funded that.
How could he not know? More importantly, WHY doesn’t he know? When you sign off on a FISA warrant, aren’t you supposed to know pretty much everything to which you attest?
Oddly, on April 13, 2018, he sort of did know:
James Comey told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he did not tell President Trump the infamous Fusion GPS dossier was funded by the DNC because he didn’t view it as necessary.
“Did you tell him the Steele dossier had been financed by his political opponents?” Stephanopoulos asked the former FBI director in an interview set to air on Sunday night.
“No, I don’t even think I used the words ‘Steele Dossier,’” Comey responded. “I just talked about additional material.”
And here comes the bomb:
“Did he have a right to know that?” Stephanopoulos asked as a follow-up.
“That it had been financed by his political opponents? I don’t know the answer to that,” Comey conceded. “It wasn’t necessary for my goal, which was to alert him that we had this information.”
“It wasn’t necessary for my goal”
Stephanopoulos wasn’t about to ask him why he wouldn’t tell him it was funded by hillary and the DNC. It wasn’t Comey’s goal to be truthful with Trump.
Comey claimed he didn’t know Anthony Weiner was married to Huma Abedin:
Former FBI Director James Comey admitted to the Justice Department’s inspector general that he initially forgot that Anthony Weiner was married to Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, the IG said in a report on the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s private email server.
In late 2016, the FBI realized that some of Clinton’s emails made their way onto Abedin’s laptop at home that she shared with her husband, Weiner.
Then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe thought that discovery was a “big deal,” in part because it may have showed how classified emails might have been sent to a private, non-government computer.
But Comey indicated it didn’t register with him why this news would be important.
“Comey said that he recalled first learning about the additional emails on the Weiner laptop at some point in early October 2016, although he said it was possible this could have occurred in late September 2016,” the IG report said.
“Comey told the OIG that this information ‘didn’t index’ with him, which he attributed to the way the information was presented to him and the fact that, ‘I don’t know that I knew that [Weiner] was married to Huma Abedin at the time,'” the report said.
The Director of the FBI didn’t know? How could he possibly not know that? Everyone else on Earth knew it.
Then he also forgot about the emails
The report said later that when McCabe reminded Comey about the Weiner computer, Comey “did not initially recall that he had been previously notified about the Weiner laptop.”
The report said it assessed whether the “Weiner laptop” was “deliberately placed on the back-burner… to protect Clinton,” but found none.
Comey didn’t want to know that Steele was unsure about the trash in the dossier.
Comey didn’t want to know about Steele leaking to the press.
Comey didn’t want to know that Steele had no actual sources of his own. He subcontracted sources in Russia, where he hadn’t been in 20 years, for the hearsay.
He told Trump the information in the dossier was “salacious and unverified”, but he didn’t tell Trump he signed off on a FISA warrant based on salacious and unverified information. He wanted Trump to know that he knew about the peeing prostitutes but didn’t want Trump to know hillary and the DNC paid for that garbage.
Which he says he didn’t know. And apparently had no interest in knowing. You know, like even a competent low level FBI agent would.
So with James Comey at the helm, the FBI could take an article from the National Enquirer, a video from The View and some lurid hearsay from Adam Schiff and get a FISA warrant to spy on any American for anything.
How the hell did James Comey get out of high school?
Sleep well, America.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.