Everything that is coming out about the decision of James Comey, the head of the FBI, to release his letter to Republican Congressmen about e-mails that may or may not be by Hillary Clinton, which may or may not be relevant to any possible criminal acts by her or those around her shows that James Comey is in violation of the law which prevents employees of the executive branch from taking actions that benefit a political party or political candidate during an election.
What he did certainly is being used by those he so informed and their Republican Party and the Donald Trump campaign to try to influence the election and from what he said and was advised by the Attorney General and others above him in the Department of Justice, he did what he did knowing that he was breaking the law. Senator Harry Reid and even Republican ethics lawyers such as Richard Painter have said he was violating the Hatch Act, even Republican lawyers who were quite active partisans such as Alberto Gonzales have said he violated longstanding"protocol".
A number or excuses have been made for why Comey did something so clearly and uniquely wrong, committing a clear violation of the law AGAINST THE ADVICE OF HIS SUPERIORS IN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT to influence an election. Some have said he was worried that his own agents were prepared to leak information about the e-mails on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, obviously any FBI agents who did that would have been in violation of the Hatch Act perhaps even more so than James Comey now is.
To put it mildly, that some people supposed to be under his control might have been thinking of breaking the law is a pathetic excuse for him to have broken the law, himself. If he was concerned he had an obligation to take actions to prevent them from doing what they were thinking of doing, not to do it, himself. If he couldn't control them, he had an obligation to hand it to people who might have been able to. That he couldn't control his agents is no excuse for him to have broken the law.
Well, it's been done, the head of the FBI broke the law and among other things that must be insisted on is that there is a criminal investigation with full powers to subpoena witnesses, take statements under oath and to seek warrants for any communications that Comey, his agents, his agency had with Republicans in Congress, in the Republican Party, in the Trump campaign or others who may have been involved with encouraging James Comey to break the law. The integrity of law enforcement is at risk if Republicans are effectively pressuring members of the FBI to break the law. This is something so serious that it cannot be allowed to be suppressed.
The Republican Party has reached new lows in the Trump campaign and it risks dragging the country down. James Comey has refused to comment on the FBI's investigation of activities by the Putin regime and possible, I would say entirely likely coordination of their illegal activity with the Trump campaign. For him to be silent on that in exactly the way he has not been silent on the, so far baseless, investigation of Hillary Clinton, only adds to the necessity of there being a FULL investigation of James Comey's criminal behavior and the possible involvement of his FBI with supporting the Republican Party through their work for the government.
"Thousands" of e-mails, reports say now, and it may be none of them have anything to do with Clinton or even Huma Abedin.
ReplyDeleteBecause no one in the FBI has been allowed to read them yet.
This is ridiculous.