We must update our laws to cover the acts that James Comey has committed. As the director of the FBI, Comey lied to Congress, to the citizenry, to the President of the United States, and he tried to blackmail President-elect Donald Trump. Comey knowingly used manufactured evidence, (Steele’s dossier), to violate the constitutional rights of Doctor Carter Page, Donald Trump, and a multitude of unknown persons that were surveilled as the result of the two-hop rule that the Intelligence Community uses. Additionally, Comey lied to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain the surveillance warrant on Doctor Carter Page by use of the Steele dossier and using an altered document. Also, as director of the FBI, Comey interfered in the 2016 presidential election by breaking the Department of Justice’s policies.
What makes Comey’s actions unforgivable is he did those actions knowingly. No act of contrition can right the wrongs that Comey wrought upon our nation. Some of the lies Comey told to Congress and to the President; “We had to allow Cheryl Mills to act as Clinton’s lawyer in Clinton’s FBI interview because we found no evidence that she had committed a crime.” Cheryl Mills lied to FBI agents which is a crime. Mills denied all knowledge of Clinton’s email server. In the FBI’s report, the agents showed Mills her emails where she discusses the server maintenance and those emails showed she had an account on the server, CherylMills@clintonemail.com. “We found no evidence that Hillary Clinton lied to the FBI.” The report showed she lied twice during her July 2016 interview. Clinton told the agents she always secured her home’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) when it was vacant. The report showed that Clinton left the door open. Clinton told the agents that she never took her phone(s) into the State Department’s SCIF where her office was located. In the FBI’s report, the agents log complaints from the State Department’s security agents that Clinton had exempted herself from the no phones in the SCIF regulation and she did take her phone(s) into the State Department’s SCIF.
Comey told President Trump that he wasn’t under investigation for collusion with Russia, when, in fact, he was by the FBI. Comey told President Trump that the FBI wasn’t the source of leaks. The Inspector General’s report of 2018, laid out that agents in the D.C. area were taking bribes for information from reporters along with Hoover building officials. Comey said he took full responsibility for the “errors” that the FBI committed in the Carter Page FISA application. That statement is meaningless without an act of restitution.
Comey held a position of great trust by the citizenry that afforded him great privileges as in 24-hour security, car service, and an FBI Gulf Stream plane ready at his beckoned call. Comey still drawing breathe does show we are a too passive citizenry.
Written by Mark Pullen.