Incapable of retaining a stiff upper lip since birth, the sanctimonious James Comey instead pontificates in his customary political fashion about how non-political he is; all the while remaining mounted on his high-horse. If there’s one corrupt official who deserves to spend time behind cold bars, it’s this creature.
James Comey appears on NBC news to send a message to his remaining corrupt allies within the FBI and DOJ to hang on and retain their position within the Lawfare resistance. As a spineless and immoral creature, and in an absolute case study about how a narcissist projects his mindset, Comey shifts the blame for his current status to his wife and then blame-casts his former conduct to AG Loretta Lynch. Video and Transcript Below:
[Transcript] – KRISTEN WELKER: Welcome back. And joining me now is former FBI Director James Comey, author of the new novel Red Verdict. Director Comey, welcome back to Meet the Press.
JAMES COMEY: Great to be with you.
KRISTEN WELKER: Great to have you here. Congratulations on your novel. We’ll talk about it in just a moment. I do want to start with this extraordinary moment in which you find yourself. You’re facing a second indictment by the Trump administration, trial in just a few weeks potentially. I know you’re not going to comment on the specifics of the case, but I want to ask you a big-picture question. The charges against you stem from this Instagram post of seashells that spelled out “86 47.” You see it right there. The indictment says it was, quote, “a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the president of the United States.” Has being under this microscope changed the way you live your life, Director Comey?
JAMES COMEY: It’s made me want to spend more time as a grandfather, pushing my grandkids on a swing and not talking to awesome people like yourself. But it hasn’t changed how I see the world or my life.
KRISTEN WELKER: Well, I interviewed the Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche earlier this month. And he said, quote, “This is not just about a single Instagram post. This is about a body of evidence that the grand jury collected over a series of about 11 months.” Do you know what he’s talking about, evidence over a series of 11 months?
JAMES COMEY: Yeah, I saw that, as you said just a few minutes ago. I don’t talk about the case because the federal court rules require you not. I would urge the acting attorney general to bone up on the rules.
KRISTEN WELKER: So but do you know what he’s talking about with the other evidence?
JAMES COMEY: I don’t want to comment on it because then someone will say I’m commenting on the case. He ought not to be talking about it, I can’t talk about it. That’s why we have a judicial process in a courtroom.
KRISTEN WELKER: Fair enough. In an interview with Stephen Colbert last year, you did address what you were thinking when you and your wife were walking on the beach. You said you saw the shells in the sand. I want to just play a little bit of what you told Stephen Colbert.
[BEGIN TAPE]
JAMES COMEY: She looked at it and said, “Why did someone put their address in the sand?”
STEPHEN COLBERT: All right.
JAMES COMEY: And then we stood at it trying to figure, looked at it trying to figure out what it was. And she’d long been a server in restaurants. And she said, “You know what I think it is? I think it’s a reference to restaurants when you’d 86 something at a restaurant.”
STEPHEN COLBERT: Right, off the menu.
JAMES COMEY: Yeah. I said, “No, I remember when I was kid, you’d say ‘86’ to get out of a place. ‘This place stinks, let’s 86 it.’” And so I said, “I think it’s a clever political message.” And she said, “You should take a picture of it.” I said, “Sure.” And then she said, “You should Instagram that.” And boom.
[END TAPE]
KRISTEN WELKER: Just big picture Director Comey, what do you say to those who would argue the former director of the FBI shouldn’t be putting political posts on Instagram or social media?
JAMES COMEY: Yeah, I’m a private citizen. I saw a shell in the fall of 2024 where someone wrote an endorsement of Kamala Harris in a big seashell. I took a picture of it, I thought it was very clever, and I think I wrote, “Ariel understands the assignment,” a reference to Little Mermaid. I’m a private citizen. Again, I’m not going to talk about that particular post, but I use Instagram the way any awkward, nerdy dad would.
KRISTEN WELKER: Well, in the past, you’ve said you have faith in the legal system. As you face this second indictment, are you confident that you will be cleared one way or another?
JAMES COMEY: I have complete faith in our judicial system. It’s the genius of our founders. It’s the, frankly, the only leg of our three-legged stool that is still standing in the U.S. government. But it’s standing tall and straight. It is the guardian of the rule of law. And I believe in it. And so let’s make use of it.
KRISTEN WELKER: And you’ve publicly posted you haven’t done anything wrong, you haven’t done anything illegal. So are you confident that at the end of the day, you’ll be cleared in one way or another?
JAMES COMEY: Yeah, all I can do without making my lawyers angry at me is repeat what I said in my initial statement. I’m not just not guilty, I am innocent, and so let’s go.
KRISTEN WELKER: All right. You have, if we look back, been in the cross hairs of politicians in the past. This is not new, from Hillary Clinton, the email investigations, the Russia probe. Looking back, Director Comey, is there anything you would’ve done differently over the past decade?
JAMES COMEY: Anything? Yeah, lots of things in my life as a father and a grandfather–
KRISTEN WELKER: –Anything in your professional?–
JAMES COMEY: –and an FBI director.
KRISTEN WELKER: So there you go.
JAMES COMEY: There are all kinds of things that I screwed up. The major decisions that people often talk about I still see them the same. But yeah, I would be better in all kinds of ways if I had a magic wand.
KRISTEN WELKER: Yeah, well let me be more specific because you’ve wondered out loud whether your decision to reopen the Clinton email investigation 11 days before voters went to the polls may have helped elect President Trump back in 2016. Knowing what you know now, would you have made the same, exact decision again?
JAMES COMEY: I think so. The only thing I’ve wondered is whether I should’ve dumped that very difficult decision on the attorney general on October the 28th. She declined to speak to me, but I could’ve just sent her a memo saying, “Here’s what I think that we have to do.” But I decided then, and honestly ten years later, it feels the same. That would’ve been a chicken-blank thing to do. It was a decision that I had to make because I had testified all summer that the investigation was done and now it’s not done. Do I really conceal that from the American people, from the Congress? I can’t. And it would’ve been a chicken thing to do to dump it on the AG. But sometimes when people are unhappy with me on the street, I think, “Hmm, I should’ve left it for Loretta Lynch.”
KRISTEN WELKER: Well, ten years later, now that you’ve had all of this time to think about it, do you think that decision did play a role in the election of President Trump?
JAMES COMEY: I hope not. My goal all of that year was to stay out of politics. And having seen two elections after that, where as I said, the difference the FBI made was late-deciding voters broke for Trump in ‘16, but then they did again in ‘20, and then they did again in ‘24, when I was home in my pajamas for both elections. So I don’t think so. But again, we made the decision because it was the least-bad option. Both options sucked, honestly. But this was the one most consistent with the values of the department. So as painful as it is, I’d have to do the same thing again.
KRISTEN WELKER: President Trump was indicted twice by the Justice Department. As you know in public posts, he’s now justified going after his political enemies because of how he believes he was treated. Do you view the prosecutions against you as political payback?
JAMES COMEY: Well, I can’t talk about the shell case. The one before–
KRISTEN WELKER: Talk about the first one.
JAMES COMEY: –that got dismissed, absolutely. And we made a motion to have it dismissed as a vindictive prosecution. The president of the United States cannot use the Justice Department to target people because he wants to retaliate against them. We just can’t operate as a republic if that happens. And so there’s a powerful argument to be made that’s illegal. We didn’t get to that, ‘cause there are all kinds of other problems with the case. But absolutely, going after John Brennan, after Jim Clapper, after Adam Schiff, all of these things are not about the merits. It’s about retaliation. And that is not just wrong, it’s a way in which our system cannot operate and be effective.
KRISTEN WELKER: Does it make you and your family fearful?
JAMES COMEY: No. ‘Cause I know what I’m dealing with, someone who’s announced he’s now the hunter? Okay, let’s go.
KRISTEN WELKER: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told me earlier this month the evidence that was presented to a grand jury in this latest case, not the government, not the Department of Justice, he said, quote, “It’s not Todd Blanche that returned an indictment against James Comey, it’s the grand jury, part of the judicial process.” Does the fact that a grand jury issued this latest indictment undercut any argument that this latest indictment might be political retribution? Not that you have made this argument that you have made that argument here, but for those who would make that argument?
JAMES COMEY: Yeah, I’m so tempted to answer that, but can I answer it about the last case, which is now gone?
KRISTEN WELKER: Please.
JAMES COMEY: Same argument was made, a grand jury returned an indictment, still doesn’t change the fact that it can be a vindictive prosecution. And there, of course, a magistrate judge found misconduct of a variety of kinds by the late-breaking appointed U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan. And so it’s important. The grand jury’s an important part of the process. But there’s more to follow.
KRISTEN WELKER: As you know, the FBI director is meant to serve a non-partisan, ten-year term. I don’t have to tell you that. You’re very familiar with that. Do you think the next president should keep FBI director Kash Patel in his position through his ten-year term?
JAMES COMEY: The next president should make an evaluation about whether, whoever’s in that job, come January of 2029, is performing it in a way that’s consistent with the American people’s expectations of that organization, which is to be competent, honest, and independent. On the current record, it would be a tough continuation for the current director. But I don’t know. The president, whoever the president is then will have to make that evaluation.
KRISTEN WELKER: Let me ask you, because would it undermine the independence of the FBI if the next president doesn’t allow Patel to serve out that full ten-year term?
JAMES COMEY: Well, again, the values are independence, competence, and honesty. And if by some stroke Mr. Patel is reflecting all of those values in another two years, then maybe the next president will want to keep him. But I think you have to have a competent, honest, and independent person leading that institution, else its other contributions to America are lost.
KRISTEN WELKER: You’ve laid out the qualities that you think are necessary to be FBI director. Do you think Kash Patel has those qualities? Has he showcased that?
JAMES COMEY: Not for me to say. Expression from law school keeps popping in my head, the res ipsa loquitur, which is Latin I think for, “The thing speaks for itself.” So I’ll let others make that judgment.
KRISTEN WELKER: Okay. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says that during the second Trump administration, so far, more than 200 people have been forced out of the Justice Department, that includes your own daughter, who was a federal prosecutor in New York. Do you have confidence in the Justice Department to serve the people of this country right now?
JAMES COMEY: I do not, looked at from the top level. The people running it, if you’re bragging about forcing out career prosecutors and agents because the president doesn’t like a lawful investigation they conducted, something is seriously broken at the top. But I have great confidence in the people down below who are just trying to hang on. And I’m urging them, hang on. Two and a half years, and then we can rebuild these institutions. But we need good people in those roles. America does.
KRISTEN WELKER: All right. Director Comey, let me turn to your novel, Red Verdict. Here it is. Great book. It’s the latest in your series, quite frankly, of legal thrillers. It’s number four. You write scenes based on your decades of experience inside the DOJ. Do you think your novels still reflect the reality of the people serving in the Justice Department today?
JAMES COMEY: Yes. Again, I’m going to exclude that top layer and sort of skim that off. Down below, yes. People join the Department of Justice, the FBI, which is part of the Department of Justice, because they want to do the right thing. And in the overwhelming main, they do. My characters are flawed because they’re humans, as I am. But they are good people trying to do the right thing. That’s what I love about this writing and I hope readers, first the stories are really cool and capture you, but most of all, the characters show something that is real and that ought to reassure all of us.
KRISTEN WELKER: Well, one of the characters, the central character, based on your daughter you have said, I wonder what do you hope this next chapter will look like, for your daughter, for you, for your family in your actual, real life?
JAMES COMEY: Well, next chapter for me will be more books. And then once a year, I will do interviews. So maybe we’ll see each other again. But for people like my daughter, my son-in-law who resigned from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Virginia the day I was charged, they represent hundreds of quality people. I think they’re, I don’t want to tell them what their employment situation should be, but I hope they flow back. And I think lots and lots of great people will flow back with the opportunity to rebuild the department, which is what happened after Watergate. Great, young people came back to save us. And they will again.
KRISTEN WELKER: All right. Director James Comey, thank you so much for being here. We really appreciate it.
JAMES COMEY: Thanks for having me.
{END TRANSCRIPT}
Inside the 2020 report by John Durham [CITATION], the special counsel outlined how former FBI Director James Comey was intimately involved in the creation of the Carter Page FISA application.
John Durham noted that Comey kept asking the DOJ National Security Division and FBI counterintelligence investigators, “Where’s the FISA, we need the FISA.” However, John Durham never interviewed James Comey or Andrew McCabe. The former FBI Director and Deputy refused to cooperate or give testimony to John Durham. So, how did John Durham have details about the demands of Comey?
The answer is found in the footnotes. John Durham reviewed transcripts of interviews given by Andrew McCabe to the Office of the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, who previously investigated FBI conduct in the origin of the Carter Page FISA.
John Durham pulled quotes from that transcript. [Footnote #1207, page 199 – Durham Report]
♦QUESTION: If Andrew McCabe gave testimony to the OIG about the motives and impetus of FBI Director James Comey in pushing for the Carter Page FISA application, why did the OIG report never outline those transcribed interviews?
Why was the interview transcript never included in IG Michael Horowitz’s OIG report to congress?
[ NOTE to DNI Tulsi Gabbard and Acting AG Todd Blanche. Now that you know a transcribed interview of Andrew McCabe exists in the OIG office, request the transcription – send it to South Florida USAO Jason Reding Quiñones – and/or release it to the public.]
Let me answer other questions without the customary pretending from the DC professional political class. The short version is that OIG Michael Horowitz was trying to protect the DOJ and FBI. The longer version is that a coverup that included DAG Rod Rosenstein, AG Bill Barr and yes, Special Counsel John Durham.
“Where’s the FISA? We need the FISA?” ~ James Comey
The DOJ-NSD and FBI Counterintelligence Division needed to find a safe and legal way to defend their previous spying on the Trump campaign. The 2016 FISA Title 1 surveillance of former CIA asset Carter Page became the fraudulent justification for that intent.
Because “FISA Title I” surveillance authority against a U.S. citizen is so serious (the U.S. government is essentially calling the target a spy), only a few people are authorized to even apply for such surveillance warrants. One of the four people authorized to make such a Search Warrant request is the Asst. Attorney General as head of the National Security Division of the DOJ.
In September and October of 2016, at the same time the DOJ was putting the finishing touches on the FISA Court application to be used against Carter Page, Asst. Attorney General John P Carlin resigned as head of the DOJ-NSD. [CITATION] Did Carlin resign in protest or fear?
As James Comey was demanding that Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and his FBI counterintelligence agents get the FISA warrant, likely an ass covering necessity, the person responsible to get the warrant from the court, Asst Deputy Attorney General of the National Security Division, John Carlin, quit the DOJ.
Considering all the facets outlined above, this cannot be accidental.
Here’s where it gets SERIOUSLY sketchy.
The next in line person, who can fulfill the DOJ/FBI goal of getting the fraudulent application through the FISA court, is Mary McCord. Put into the position as Acting Asst. Attorney General for the National Security Division, the job of submitting the FISA application now falls upon Mary McCord.
On October 21, 2016, When the FISA application was finally submitted, signed by DAG Sally Yates and FBI Director James Comey, it was Mary McCord who did the actual process of filing the application and gaining the Title-1 surveillance warrant.
At the time the Carter Page application was filed (October 21, 2016), Mary McCord’s chief legal counsel inside the office was a DOJ-NSD lawyer named Michael Atkinson. In his role as the legal counsel for the DOJ-NSD, it was Atkinson’s job to review and audit all FISA applications submitted from inside the DOJ. Essentially, Atkinson was the DOJ internal compliance officer in charge of making sure all FISA applications were correctly assembled and documented.
Obviously, with the background and context of the entirely fraudulent Carter Page FISA application, a government surveillance warrant using a Clinton funded political opposition research file known as the Steele Dossier to support the warrant, both Mary McCord and Michael Atkinson would know they were directly involved in an intentional effort to weaponize the mechanisms of the justice department against a political candidate.
While James Comey and Sally Yates’ signatures were on the FISA application falsely vouching for it, the attestations of legal compliance fall upon DOJ-NSD head Mary McCord and her top legal advisor Michael Atkinson.
McCord and Atkinson were doing, in October of 2016, what former DOJ-NSD head John Carlin refused to do.
WATCH WHAT COMES NEXT: Mary McCord then resigns from her position in the DOJ, and Michael Atkinson is left, as lawyer for the DOJ-NSD, to become Inspector General of the Intelligence Community.
♦ The Impeachment Effort – Do you remember how the impeachment effort against President Donald Trump was created? Do you remember Alexander Vindman, the claims about Ukraine; the statements of hearing from a CIA whistleblower about the content of a phone call between President Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy?
When the anonymous CIA whistleblower complaint was filed against President Trump for the issues of the Ukraine call with President Zelensky, the Intelligence Community Inspector General had to change the rules for the complaint to allow an anonymous submission. Prior to this change, all intelligence whistleblowers had to put their name on the complaint. It was this 2019 IGIC who changed the rules.
Who was the Intelligence Community Inspector General? Michael Atkinson.
When ICIG Michael Atkinson turned over the newly authorized anonymous whistleblower complaint to the joint House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee (Schiff and Nadler chairs), who did Michael Atkinson give the complaint to? Mary McCord.
Yes, after she left main justice, Mary McCord took the job of working for Chairman Jerry Nadler and Chairman Adam Schiff as the chief legal advisor inside the investigation that led to the construction of articles of impeachment. As a consequence, Mary McCord received the newly permitted anonymous whistleblower complaint from her old office colleague Michael Atkinson.
Can you see how Atkinson and McCord were working together, both connected to the fraud behind the false FISA application used in the Trump-Russia narrative in 2016 and 2017, now both working together on a 2019 impeachment effort against President Trump holding an identical motive? Can you see the stunning conflicts of interest and the coordination?
The weaponized FISA surveillance of the Trump administration doesn’t exist without Mary McCord and Michael Atkinson creating the surveillance mechanism. The weaponized impeachment origin doesn’t exist without McCord – now in congress working for Nadler/Schiff – and Atkinson changing rules as Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG), to create the baseline of a fraudulent whistleblower complaint. Can you see it?
But wait…. It gets worse.
♦ Chief Justice John Roberts – As if things could not possibly be more corrupt, now we have the construct of Atkinson and McCord forming the predicate for the impeachment effort. To wit, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts now becomes the presiding judge over the impeachment trial of President Trump.
Mary McCord is married to a fellow traveler named Sheldon L. Snook.
From 2014 though 2020, not coincidentally the timeline of the Trump targeting and administration in office, Mary McCord’s husband, Sheldon Snook, was the special assistant to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s counselor. [CITATION]
As noted by the Washington Post in discussing both McCord and Snook, “The counselor’s office advises the chief justice not only on the management and budget of the Supreme Court but also on his interactions with the executive and legislative branches, along with numerous other public roles in which Roberts serves.” [CITATION]
From 2014 through 2020, Sheldon Snook was responsible for running the office of the lawyer legally advising and counseling John Roberts.
Let me put this another way. The most important guy in the judicial branch, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, has a lawyer to advise and construct the responsibilities of the SCOTUS chief judge, which includes the construct of the FISA court and appointment of judges therein.
As Chief Justice, John Roberts is in charge of everything to do with the FISA court. The guy running the office of the lawyer doing the counseling of Roberts, is Mary McCord’s husband.
Mary McCord, knowingly and with specific intent, lied to the FISA court to support the FBI targeting of Trump. Mary McCord’s husband runs the office which would intercept any communication from the FISA court to the Chief Justice if the FISC had any concerns about the false FBI application. See the problem?
♦ SUMMARY – Now, we go back to where we came in.
Why did the Office of the Inspector General never publish the interview transcript about Andrew McCabe talking about how desperate FBI Director James Comey was to get a FISA warrant?
Why did John Durham never publish those same interview transcripts, but instead simply referenced the existence of the transcript in a footnote?
Follow these questions to their logical conclusion, and you will discover that all of the participants including Rod Rosenstein, Bill Barr, James Baker, Dana Boente, Michael Horowitz and John Durham were trying to protect the DC system, officials who did criminal acts, and preserve institutions from collapse that sunlight would create.
Sunlight…
… The best disinfectant.
I ain’t quitting.
Until we deal with this mess, it doesn’t matter who we make president.
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Comey is a loser…not surprising Welker gives him a forum to “explain” himself and his actions…he knows that Blanche means business…thank goodness for Bondi’s firing…
Enjoy Prison…
Prison? Hanging X3 would be better!
Yes, better but unlikely. I can settle for prison for him and the shame that goes with it. He’s a first-class, no-class, scumbag POS.
With a bungie cord so he bobs up and down several times.
Maybe with a cheesewire?
My fear is that there is not enough time – in this administration or the next – for these facts to come to light and be adjudicated.
I know, they take too long! With all the people working in the government, they should work faster!
“Congratulations on your novel!” ?????????????????????
A greater waste of one’s time and money could not be found in the entire Universe!
Thousands spent for garbage, not one cent for the diamonds created by original yet unpublished authors seeking an outlet!
A criminal who should be agonizing over his sins finds a publisher for his crap!
Publishers are just like their other media friends spewing garbage catering with $millions to these RATS! DemocRATS!
It’s how the money laundering payoffs occur.
Shrillary Clinton’s “novel” is on sale at Ollie’s for TWO dollars: it still will not move!
There is no way that it made a profit, but you know that she was paid thousands, if not millions, up front for “her” novel.
It’s how the finer classes launder money.
Perhaps the publisher is paying his legal fees?!
“If I did it, my attorney advises against saying so.”
All I know is that for over 8 years (even longer) none of the big brain hot shots of evil, not one has paid a serious price for hurting the American people, the citizens of the United States–not one!
Therefore, I go about my day doing what’s best for me and those I love, am responsible for–yet keep my senses on high alert for the evil energies those people have put in place to manage my world and enrich theirs.
Comey has been a slimeball since puberty. Even J. Edgar is rolling over in his grave when thoughts turn to Comey. It wouldn’t surprise me if Comey was one of Hillary’s closet lovers.
Thank you Betsy, I needed that 😂😂😂
LOL Thank you Betsy. This made my morning.
Comey’s action, day by day, is only establishing the potential conspiracy case against the entire Russia Gate crew.
Indicating that other potential coup members are still within the FBI and IC is not a smart idea.
Since FBI Director Kash Patel has fired thousands, oh wait, he hasn’t done that!
I would say Sundance is uncovering and establishing the conspiracy case against the entire Russia gate crew, working closely with and advising people in our IC community!
EEEWWW.! Imagining that is sickening!!!
Well, they certainly deserve each other!
It is very hard to get a conviction for conspiracy when the cops (FBI) the judges (up to and including the Chief Justice) and the prosecutors (DoJ) are all part of the conspiracy. (Not to mention the Washington DC jury pool.)
I think of D.C. as something like Versaille. As a different culture, a separate country (a city state). Unfortunately, there are now 50 mini D.C.s out here.
I remember when judges put gag orders on President Trump.
Thanks for the refresh. We need a graphic connecting all the dots. So motive for Roberts to get Trump? Epstein? Who knows but there is someone that has the complete view and I hope they appear soon to expose, or we will be in this internal hope that something might happen.
Keep “slapping leather,” Sundance. You’re making progress, and hopefully it takes traction in our current DOJ.
Notice how Welker still calls him Director?
Yes, I notice that too. Communist Dem Welker’s bias was criminal.
Welker looked to be carefully prepared to tee-up questions for Comey to present his spin, while she carefully avoided any line of questions that might have caught-out Comey or make him look bad.
Me too!
Couldn’t stand to read it though I did try. As I read what I did I kept thinking ‘this was a FBI director’. The explanation about the shells in the sand was so lame and pretending to be the joe next door actually turned my stomach.
Retired Magistrate here: Correct until the mess is fixed it really doesn’t matter who we make President because while we have a great President right now, President Trump is fighting the entire system including those in his own party, the three letter agencies, the press, some of his so called supporters, former allies who are no longer allies, and nut jobs who want to assassinate him just because he is trying to Make America Great Again.
Who would have thought that trying to restore a country to its founding principles would have brought all this on? As far as Comey, he is a sanctimonious piece of cow manure.
The release conditions are where the institutional fingerprints are. Comey didn’t grant himself own recognizance. A magistrate or district judge did, and that judge had full knowledge of:
The nature of the charge (§ 871 — threatening the President);DOJ’s representation that there is an 11-month body of evidence beyond the Instagram post;The defendant’s extensive professional network still embedded throughout FBI and DOJ;The defendant’s demonstrated willingness to use public platforms for political coordination.
And still imposed nothing. No media restriction. No prohibition on contact with current federal employees. No social media condition. Nothing.
That is not a neutral procedural outcome. As you know, the § 3142 framework gives judges wide discretion precisely so they can tailor conditions to the specific risk profile of the specific defendant. The risk profile here, a former FBI Director with deep institutional relationships, charged with a threat offense, with a multi-month evidentiary record suggesting pattern conduct, is about as non-generic as it gets.
Who is the judge, what is the procedural record of the bail hearing, and did DOJ actually argue for conditions or roll over?
You are too kind, I deem him a floating raft of whale spooge
do I have this right…..?
Comey signs off on the FISA warrant in late 2016; the warrant uses the Steele Dossier in place of the Woods File.
Comey meets with Trump in 2017 to warn Trump about an unverified and salacious Dossier being an example of the type of stuff that floats around in DC, things that Trump needs to know about.
Ergo ….. Comey signed off on an application for a FISA warrant that he KNEW was based on fraudulent ‘evidence.’
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yes, you are correct. factually accurate.
imagine in a fair and equal justice under the law, we would not have to spend so much time trying to remember all the lies, deceptions, fraud, and conspiracy, if this comey guy had actually faced any justice within a reasonable amount of time.
and therein lies the dark truth. it’s not just comey doing the crimes. there are still a large segment of these Corruptors who protect people like comey…and most of them are actually in a position of power right now to change all of that…but won’t…or can’t…which is a distinction without a difference.
these Corruptors participate in coverups because it gives them protection themselves. That is the game. That is the dirty ugly truth.
you swing a cat and you are bound to hit at least 5 criminals in DC. in the first pass.
God Bless America
“these Corruptors participate in coverups because it gives them protection themselves.”
that is what happened (or didn’t happen) with World War Eleven Omar.
a black Somali female gets elected to Congress and the first thing they do is put her on committees. Why?!
Because they teach her the grift. Now she has Kompromat on them, which ensures they won’t do anything to try to get rid of her. She knows the who’s and how’s.
But they have Kompromat on her, too…the immigration thing but also any grift in which she has taken part. Even if she had some honest to god bombshell (for lack of a better term) information of corruption, she couldn’t dare expose it because she would be on the first camel home.
Mexican / Somalian standoff.
They did this movie plot / book
“THE FIRM”
And “they” allowed it!
Versaille. None of this is wrong or illegal in their world. It’s not immoral or scandalous, it’s business as usual. They don’t skip a beat. Look at what Sen Thune is doing in front of God and everybody.
EXACTLY!!!!
They are all operating on a subscript that we are not aware of. There are procedures they follow where the only ones that know it are DC based or were in the recent past.
Well said and well thought out Sundance and we appreciate you airing out facts, instead of thoughts!!
Welcome to the Treehouse. This “airing out of facts” is a result of at least 10 years of research and time-line coordination by our esteemed host, Sundance. Deep weeds stuff doesn’t come easy and we’ve been informed all along the way.
Motzilla—nailed it!
J. Edgar Comey
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100 years ago, every single one of these people would have been put to death for their crimes against this country. We have to get back to that – fast.
I thought Carlin fell on his sword to clear the way for FISA approval.
Rogers had unearthed FISA abuse and was scheduled to report it to the court. Left like that the Court would deny spying on a presidential candidate. And waiting for that to clear? Spy on a President? No Way.
So Carlin reported to the court first and proved all was fixed by resigning. Making it perfectly fine to spy on a candidate, a president, a president and again on a president.
Also, since Carlin and Atkinson were there while FISA was being illegally used to spy on Trump, what was their involvement?
Carlin acted to make sure that the news got out in “approved, unimpeachable” news sources. Look up John Carlin/ Judy Woodruff / PBS. Carlin sat on the sidelines, making sure everybody had the lies correctly uttered. Or else. Guy is a good. Was put in a safe, good ping job for services rendered.
Whoops. Make that “Guy is a goon. Was put in a safe good paying job for services rendered”.
To me the guy has ALWAYS radiated menace.
Translation #1: I’m urging them to not rat on me by taking a plea bargain deal.
Translation #2: I’m urging them to hang on till November. When the Democrat Party will come to the rescue.
I remember the Left absolutely lose their collective mind when Trump told members of the Proud Boys to “stand back and standby.“
“ I’m urging them, hang on. ” sounds awfully similar.
I’m sorry Sundance, but if I had to, “vote” for one individual to indict, prosecute, and hopefully imprision for life, it would be Mary McCord!
And her horse-riding husband !
I couldn’t make it through just reading two of the most sanctimonious narcissistic performative twits in the US. I can’t imagine watching it
Comey sees himself as an untouchable mastermind. He says he’ll continue to do once-a-year interviews as he writes more books to keep his money flow going.
Will Comey be allowed to do interviews from prison?
She had six children for that bozo . . . what a putz!
I just checked the Wikipedia page on James Comey . . . it says five children, not six, so correcting myself for the record!
Still . . . five children . . . and Comey is sliming his wife?
Look up his invisible brother.
Saint Comey. The world’s most sanctimonious man.
Comey does not say Blanche has nothing other than the seashell Instagram post. He just says he cannot talk about it. The first time in his life he keeps his mouth zipped. And this must mean Blanche has more than that one Instagram post. Probably a lot more, and maybe about more than just threats.
With this interview and others like it, he is trying to set himself up as sympathetic to the jury. He is hoping every eventual juror is watching these interviews and will go into the courtroom already swayed in his favor.
They should be doing a no knock arrrst overnight
Enough is enough of this smug arrogant traitor
The Comey/Brennan/Clinton construction of targeting DJT with numerous fake stories and falsified documents by numerous government employees assisting them in their constructed fraud is quite the assemblage of criminals. All of them should be served with warrants and other legal action. Comey should keep talking!
Do not forget “Bam Bam”, the light bringer. He was up to his scrawny, big eared, demonic ass in this sordid, evil plot.
Give him the same treatment in prison that Boggs got from Hadley and the other guards at Shawshank.
Put him under oath and he will perjure himself. He’s just that arrogant and stupid.
Ideally it will be so long before another democrat is elected President that most of the old deep state will be retired or dead.
Yea, I know, it’s a dream, but so was IU football becoming undefeated NCAA Division 1 champs.
Out of the seven Republican Senators that voted to convict Trump only Collins and Murkowski remain. Burr, Romney, Cassidy, Sasse, and Toomey all gone. How many here would have predicted that five years ago?
noting: a FBI man can throw a sub sandwich as federal law officers and not be charged with a crime.
also noting: I have been saving rotten tomatoes and will be glad and willing to share them out to anyone who wants to throw at least 400 dozen of them, with Roger Clemens speed, directly at Jim the boyscoutwannabe comey’s smug punchable face.
I’ve been practicing….from 10 feet away, I have a 90 percent accuracy inside the diameter of 4 inches. since his ears are at least 12 inches apart, the odds favor he gets full coverage.
all kidding aside. There is so much about this coward that screams, punch him in the face.
God Bless America
I always called him The Last Boy Scout.
Blames wife and then Loretta?
I figured it would be Donald Trump from start to finish.
That jerk Comey thinks he will get away with no punishment Not so fast
He needs the Mar-o-largo treatment!
I ain’t quitting either Sundance.
it’s all the marbles this one.
do or die.
full speed ahead, no matter what.
also noting: this is more than just about maga and a president. This is rule of law, lawlessness and accountability. We can get everything else right and none of it will have any meaning, if we do not deal with these vermin. They must face justice and face consequences for the violations of their oaths of office. They can try to pretend to be boy scouts, by the book, but we see who they really are. the facts and the evidence is more than persuasive they are the very definition of villains.
and for what. does it matter the intent? because they can and did. and to a criminal, that is all that matters. They do crimes because they can…these criminals stole power and robbed THE PEOPLE of the one thing that is sacred. that no person holding power can violate the public trust and literally conjure up complete and utter lies in order to control the outcome of an election.
it’s a different level of theft. Stolen power.
if justice does not come, then it will find it on the streets. That is where this is most likely headed, because frankly, I have no confidence that justice will be applied. They just do not seem to be any sense of urgency or speed to make these cases and haul these jackwagons in. So to the street it will be.
God Bless America
COMEY is trying to portray himself as just a “nerdy dad,” who is a doting grandfather that watches Little Mermaid with the grands. GMAFB! I bet they have contests in DC of who can be the most corrupt but still fly under the radar. I think we have lasers now to cure this problem
I couldn’t listen to this worm for more than two minutes.
Eat feces and die, Jim.
Thank you for the transcript- as soon as Comey said “it made me want to spend more time as a grandfather” then laugh…. I had to shut it off
Come on kids.
Hop in the SUV, we’re going to visit Grandpa in prison.
Of course he wrote 8647 on the beach! No average person would even know what that meant! He knew what he was going to say before he took the picture! He thought it was clever! Why would sending a message to harm the president be “clever”!
But, he knows, nothing will happen to him! That’s why he’s so arrogant! But, it needs to happen!!!
His fiction novel was all about sending covert messages!
Any public word from our current FBI Director on Comey’s revelations, or will we have to wait until Spring Break is over?
I hope we all see the day when every one of these lying, stinking reprobates is tossed into the same cells the J6ers had to endure.
I remember when POTUS fired Comey. That was quite something.
The most glaring is the bail conditions issue. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3142, a court setting pretrial release conditions for someone charged with threatening the President of the United States is supposed to impose the minimum conditions necessary to assure appearance and protect the public. When DOJ is simultaneously representing that there is an 11-month body of evidence, implying coordination and a pattern of conduct, not just a single impulsive Instagram post, the standard practice would be, at minimum, a restriction on contact with current federal employees, particularly those at FBI and DOJ. None was imposed. That is not oversight; that is a decision. Someone made it.
Remember how they treated then former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump? I certainly do.
The res ipsa loquitur line he used about Kash Patel is rich (even if I am not a fan). A man under indictment for allegedly threatening the life of the President invokes Latin to avoid commenting on Patel’s fitness while simultaneously coordinating a resistance signal to Patel’s subordinates. The self-awareness deficit is remarkable even by Washington standards, although not really surprising.
Then he walked straight onto NBC and used his unconstrained platform to tell embedded federal employees to “hang on” for two and a half years. That is a temporal reference to the next election cycle, and anyone pretending otherwise is performing stupidity for an audience. The question worth asking DOJ is whether that statement, combined with whatever the 11-month evidentiary record contains, rises to obstruction or witness tampering. If the underlying evidence includes coordination with current FBI or DOJ personnel, then a public broadcast urging them to maintain their positions is not constitutionally protected political speech; it is contact with potential witnesses or co-conspirators through a television camera.
Sundance analysis of the McCord-Atkinson-Roberts connection is dead on: the structural chain he documents is real and sourced. Durham footnote 1207, the OIG transcripts, Snook’s documented role in Roberts’ counselor’s office. The inference that this constitutes active conspiracy rather than a corrupt equilibrium of mutually reinforcing interests is where reasonable people can disagree on the evidence currently public. But the conflicts of interest documented are not speculative. They are on the public record and were never seriously addressed by Horowitz or Durham, which is itself a documented fact.
The bottom line: a defendant under indictment for a federal threat charge, with an implied multi-month evidentiary record, was released with zero communications conditions and immediately used that freedom to broadcast a coordination signal to potential co-conspirators still holding federal positions. The issue is not Comey’s audacity; that was quite predictable. The 800-pound gorilla here is whoever signed off on release conditions that made this possible.
The question that nobody in mainstream coverage is asking is: who is the judge, what is the procedural record of the bail hearing, and did DOJ actually argue for conditions or roll over? Because if DOJ presented the 11-month evidence argument publicly to Blanche’s press conference but then sent someone into the courtroom who didn’t push for meaningful conditions, that is a separate and equally serious problem inside DOJ itself.
not a legal type but eyes wide open to the reality of the situation.
there are two general assumptions (solely my own opinion)
a. DOJ is withholding making the strongest case and thus are not approaching the courts with the fullsome evidence to keep jimbo and others in check…strategically, there may be other pieces such as ongoing surveillance and evidence capture and witness testimonies and grand jury that they intend to keep under lock even from filing in a court judge in order to both protect the investigation (leak proof) but also to put subjects of the investigation “at ease” such that they may feel comfortable communicating about the ongoing conspiracy.
and / or
b. it is exactly what we fear the most. that the DOJ does not actually have a serious case, or simply has already decided this will be justice by process and that alone is what they are after…not winning any cases, or making any serious effort to apply justice because that requires too much work and risk (yes, risk…I am certain each of the current and former prosecutors are quite aware that over time, any attempts to actually prosecute most of these criminals will have blowback and not simply professionally, but potentially legally should power shift back to the demented left progressives/radical ever again. I am sure they are thinking about what happened when they no longer have President Trump in office to protect them…to give them..wait for it…blanket pardons. Because there is a no zero chance that is going to happen. It’s now a thing…How I hate this timeline. I think most of the prosecutors and investigators are aiming at making a show of it to score political points and provide some security by maintaining the image of being proactive, but don’t actually have any serious plans to follow through.
and why would I make this estimate?
time and resources…simply physics.
too much time has passed…even to the most informed, there only remains a haunting reminder that within the entire criminal investigative and prosecutorial world, not one single criminal has ever faced any serious charges…no one has gone to jail. So why even bother? It’s a natural and yes very frustrating condition to be in, when you realize the scale of the crime and yet no one in DC acted to take it to task. It’s a game that has already played out. Anything at this point is simply repeating what everyone has known and already knows. They are not to be touched. So that is the time component reason. it’s aged out. The resources we can quantify. Consider the scale and magnitude of these conspiracies. Yes, plural. It’s more than one. It’s a series of interceding and enveloping actions of crimes that formed one after the other, from different groups of people but for similar reasons, not necessarily joined or organized as some super coordination…but more or less a trail of subsets of the original conspiracy…that President Trump must not have power. Or said more correctly (with autopen and KOWmella in review to make the point very clear), that the white house and it’s power but be at the command of the secret police spy state! this is after all, what this entire thing is about. Who controls the white house, rules the world…and criminals have always sought to have that kind of control. They got it with the election fraud and installed Joe malarkey. they aimed to unseat President Trump and have MIKE DENSE as autopen version 1. Which did not happen, THANK GOD. So in the large picture the number of criminals involved in all of these subsets of the overall conspiracy number approx 3900. This is a number that I developed as an estimate based on some back of envelope math after thinking about past operations with which I have been involved that are similar to the scale of the manpower needed to pull off each of these elements of the conspiracy. It’s a very large number of people. Some with direct involvement and other with lessor indirect but important roles…not the least of which is simply choosing to not do their jobs…refusing to get involved and allow the corruption to happen without so much as a whimper. That is complicity and yes, I believe it to be a serious crime..a violation of the oath of office. When you swear to protect, you do so with the understanding that when you witness a crime, you are duty BOUND to report it and to stop it. That did not happen…so the number is about 3900…probably as few as 500 actually developed the conspiracy and gave it power and “made the calls”…but it was the others who were informed of it, learned about it, were directed to stand down or to take up some other role to give the violations an air of legitimacy. So you end up with about 3900 people…And this is where the resources reality check happens. Similar to the Durham so called investigation, I just don’t see the number of investigators or prosecutors needed to actually make a serious effort to apply justice. I see maybe 20. That is never going to be enough to do the work. it would be like expecting to field 11 players and expect to win the Superbowl. No matter how good those twenty players are…they will never be enough to actually play the entire season, against all the teams, and make it to the playoffs. You need 40, maybe even 50 and all of those other players have to be very good, top rated and extraordinarily talented. Not 11, but all of them. What we are seeing is too few prosecutors and investigators to actually bring justice to the large number of criminals conspirators who violated the law. So it’s not even about proving guilt, but rather not having enough resources to do the work. This was the same opinion I made about the durham investigation. It’s simply math and physics. too much time has passed, too few resources to make a meaningful impact.
I know this is depressing to think about. But I have stopped smoking the hopium. Not because I am a negative person, but because I understand the reality of DC and the corruption that has taken hold. The devil has a new headquarters and he moved in long ago. DC is where corruption lives. Might as well consider it mordor. It would take an army of investigators and prosecutors to make a difference. There is no army..not white horses…A very well meaning and purposeful assembly of righteous and talented people..but they will not win the Superbowl and will not make it into the playoffs. Few will even be mentioned in the pro bowl. It has become a political football where scoring touchdowns in counted in how many main stream news shows you can attend and make you case before the Camera.
that is NOT justice. That is tik tok comedy
God Bless America
Reality bites.
One of the stages of grief is denial. Perhaps a better word would be hope.
At this stage of my life – hope is what I have.
if tik-tok comedy prevails, what are the chances of snipers at 1000 yds?
My favorite part of the post is the note in big red letters to Tulsi and Blanche.
I hope they get your message and follow through. I suspect your blog isn’t your only means of communication.
It will be very interesting to find out the result of your suggestion or if it gets stalled for some “DC” reason.
“As a spineless and immoral creature, and in an absolute case study about how a narcissist projects his mindset“
Comey has his own set of morals as all narcissistic people have. Let’s see how it works out for him.
It’s a long time coming for this POS to face the consequences. I hope it comes after him hard. His pompous, arrogant attitude hopefully will bite him in his disgusting butt.
“Until we deal with this mess, it doesn’t matter who we make president.”
Truer words have not been spoken SD.
He’s not a dirty cop. He’s a dirty lawyer, and that is far worse. He’s never worked the streets, he’s worked the political bureaucratic system to advance. He has no merit.
Truly a loathsome living creature. It’s very unsettling to see that scum like him, Brennan, Holder, Garland and company, continue to mock prosecution as if they know nothing will ever happen to them. It must be true.
He’s trying to taint the jury pool by going on TV and pleading his case.
a serious prosecutor would examine carefully how to use these “interviews” and submit them as evidence of an ongoing conspiracy or at least an active effort to not be forthcoming/concealment of a crime.
God Bless America
Welker did everything except get on her knees and perform fellatio on Comey.
What a weasel blaming his wife for his status, what status being a total slim ball jerk. He kissed the ring of Satan and now is paying the price.
Those huge bags under his eyes……. he’s been losing a lot of sleep.
Looking at the potato sacks under Comey’s eyes in that video is a pretty good tell that he is not sleeping well recently; not due to a bothered conscious, but due to a fear that fate is likely catching up to him. If his lawyers let him go on (foolishly) making MSM appearances, notice if the bags improve or not.
I risked the spontaneous gastro eruption and watched the rest. Comey and Hillary both exhibit the trait of one who constantly rehearses their excuses and alibies of their misdeeds. Self-preserving sociopaths. Compare any recent photos/videos of both to each other.
comey is attempting to present himself as human to force empathy. An ordinary husband and father who feels deeply about the democracy and rule of law.
He is a filthy rotten scoundrel. And this latest dramatic jazz hands performance confirms what I have suspected for quite some time.
comey doesn’t fear prosecution. Comey fears being called to his face who he really is. Like most criminals his lies have captured his soul and that torment is almost as threatening to him as the very real risk that one day, he might have to commit suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head twice and THEN throwing himself off a building.
his performance is directed by what he fears the most. Should he be even closely associated with conspiring with the actors of the secret police spy state…and I am not necessarily talking about Brennan or clapper, but the real people who have everything to lose…that they become known…then his life is over. and not just professionally and politically. But over over. he knows that. He played the game of risk. He continues to try and survive the game he played. Should justice get a little closer, things are going to get final for jimbo.
count on that.
God Bless America
Comey continues to mislead: “I don’t talk about the case because the federal court rules require you not. I would urge the acting attorney general to bone up on the rules.”
Comey knows full well that as the subject of a grand jury investigation, he and witnesses are free to talk about it. It is generally smarter not to talk about it, but he is under no such federal rule preventing him from doing so. We all know why he won’t risk putting his big clown foot in his mouth.
comey has always been clever in this regard. he plays to an audience he believes he can influence, so he steers a narrative that is close to the truth, but is not actually the truth. In doing so, he muddies the water. Which explains his hobby to write fictionalized versions of his legal and professional career. He is a cartoonist. (without the humour, with the hubris).
for example…he stated two specific reasons not to form charges to Hillary, both of which are complete fabrications..but were construed by him to be plausible/excuses to not take action.
a. that intent could not be proven. this was a manipulative statement not located in the statute. Intention is not a requirement to prove a violation of the law with regards to classification materials mishandling. That it happened, and that you are responsible is all that is required. We have had at least over 200 specific court cases and convictions that were made against persons who were never prosecuted on the grounds that intention was a factor to be examined.
b. that no reasonable prosecutor would expect to win the case. Again this is making an assumption based on a circular reason. But the way that he describes it makes it plausible to the uninitiated, low information, viewer. He is basically suggesting that since the case isn’t likely to be won, they no one should try the case at all. Think about that for a minute and then compare this to the hundreds of thousands of cases that are charged and adjudicated. And not simply by the FBI, and DOJ but by state courts, local jurisdictions. It is NOT the authority or assumption of the prosecutor to imagine whether a case is winnable or not, but rather if the evidence is sufficient to provide a jury or a judge with compelling facts that a crime has in fact been committed. This is really what we mean when we say “blind justice”. You don’t spike the ball either way. You go in with the evidence you have, based on facts. And if the criminal statute does not require or prohibit prosecution be limited to intention, then you place zero basis on that factor.
my point is that comey is savvy, and clever. a performance actor. And not very entertaining, but the role requires him to give it an air or authencity, similar to bill barr and even garland..and frankly, just like Bondi. These people all have the same lack of shame about what they do. They know we know they are charlatans. they just don’t care. They live a life of narrative and plausible bullshit. It gives them power of persuasion and plausible excuses for bad decisions and also coverups of serious crimes that they should be prosecuting…but don’t.
comey is now in the hot seat, doubling down as expected, attempting again to frame the entire thing as retribution.
funny how gravity is catching up on the lies that is his life now.
comey did not kill himself
God Bless America
Comey and Welker combined gave great cause for my BRAIN and my HARD COLD Anger to just ERUPT in a FURY. And your added post did not help calm my storm either Sundance.
I’m going to save myself the embarrassment of telling the story of my life, but I enrolled into grad school in PA just to be closer to my Father when he was very ill. My Dad passed away without knowing I did get into Grad School. Twas a kind of a joke to me that I was accepted, of course on probation.
One of my favorite professors told all of us something like “there are so many people enrolling in law school. Its almost like lemming’s throwing themselves on the beach.” Or something like that. In those days humans were damn lucky to find meaningful work with all of the time and money spent on their education costs.
Mary McCord. and her ilk, and maybe even Comey are probably in my same age group. I suppose , to them, being a government “lawyer” or whatever Government position wasn’t GOOD ENOUGH for THEM and their paycheck did not match their aspirations.
So they turned into rotten MFSOB’s and decided to make their decidedly inglorious reading of and turning US law into something incomprehensible in the hope’s of fame and fortune.
There is NO CURE for their GREED, CORRUPTION, and most IMPORTANTLY, a TOTAL LACK OF ANY ETHICAL and MORAL SENSIBILITY.
It’s alright for me for me to wait for what will come for the ilk mentioned above. The time to pay for their crimes will come. Don’t know if anyone can “push that river” but it will come. ”
No one really ever gets away with robbing the bank of public trust.
Peace to all and hope you had a good day and celebrated the rebirth of the USA, under God indivisible. With liberty and JUSTICE for all. Amen.