James Comey's previous criminal indictment for obstruction and lying to Congress was dismissed, not because it lacked merit, but on a technicality. Cameron McGowan Currie, a Bill Clinton-appointed judge, ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the Trump appointed prosecutor who brought charges against James Comey for lying to Congress, was unlawfully appointed. Interestingly, immediately afterward, the Eastern District Court of Virginia, which is led by a Barack Obama-appointed Chief Justice, M. Hannah Lauck, usurped President Trump's power to appoint federal prosecutors by appointing a replacement for Halligan themselves. However, their appointment, James W. Hundley, was promptly dismissed by the Trump Administration, for being improperly and illegally appointed himself. Ever since, the position of United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia has been a matter of contention between the court and the Trump White House, resulting in the vacancy going unfilled and James Comey going scot-free.
Along with clearly lying to Congress and obstructing its investigation into the FBI's handling of the bogus 2016 Russia probe, Comey has committed a convey of other crimes. He illegally appointed himself defense attorney, judge, and jury in the case of Hillary Clinton's email scandal, in which he not only single-handedly exonerated Hillary, but once again lied to Congress about the volume of Hillary's emails forwarded to her Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, which ended up on her sleazy boyfriend's, Anthony Weiner's, laptop.
It was James Comey who served as the mastermind of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, which not only unconstitutionally and unlawfully surveilled and spied on the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump, but also lied repeatedly to the FISA Court to obtain warrants to spy on Trump campaign members, like Carter Page, who has just won a $1.25 million settlement from the Justice Department for being unlawfully spied upon by Comey's FBI in both 2016 and 2017.
The list of Comey's crimes in his attempted sabaotgoge of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, as well as in his attempt to undermine Trump's first presidential term, is not just long, but legendary. For instance, there was his continuous peddling of the phony Steele dossier, the infestation of his FBI with political operatives, like Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who treasonously worked within the Bureau to thwart the will of the American electorate and to undermine a duty elected president, and, of course, there was Comey's serving as the catalyst of the Robert Mueller Investigation, which, despite lasting almost 2 years and costing the American taxpayer $32 million, proved Trump completely innocent of the false charge of Russia collusion cooked up by Comey's FBI.
We must not forget to add to James Comey's rap sheet the crime of linking sensitive government information, including parts of private conversations with the president, to the press, through his longtime friend and Columbia Law School professor, Daniel Richman. Indeed, Comey has not only admitted to this crime, but boasted about it, bragging that he did it to save the country from its choice of president; namely, Donald Trump.
Now, despite this criminal record, which would have made Al Capone blush, Trump's DOJ has not indicted Comey for his hoarded cache of horrendous crimes. Instead, it has indicted Comey for seeing seashells by the seashore. If you ask me, this is equivalent to indicting Mrs. O'Leary's cow for mooing too loudly in the barn at the commencement of the Great Chicago Fire. This flimsy indictment over sighted and internet shared seashells will fall apart faster than a ducked taped space shuttle upon blastoff at the Kennedy Space Center. It leaves me scratching my head and wondering if Trump's DOJ is this incompetent or if government corruption has just become unindictable. Unfortunately, I fear the latter more than the former may be the case.
