Friday, April 13, 2018

How Comey Lied About Spying on Trump Tower

Jim Comey deserves a special place in the annals of sanctimonious frauds in Washington, D.C. He leaked, lied, bent rules, treated FBI material as his own personal property, violated confidential conversations, and generally acted like a government unto himself.

Ever the leaker, Comey tossed a pre-publication morsel of gossip from the book to the liberals at the Daily Beast - Comey's claim that General Kelly commiserated with him over his "Dishonorable" firing.

So Comey is already cashing in on betrayed confidences, all while lecturing others about "Loyalty" and probity.

Comey knew perfectly well that Trump was right - FBI agents had been sifting through the Trump Tower records of Carter Page and Paul Manafort - but he sent his team out to lie about Trump's tweets anyways.

In retrospect, the article is laughably dishonest, with the Times pretending to wonder why Comey chose to leak a denial to it rather than make a formal denial.

While intelligence officials do not normally discuss the existence or nonexistence of surveillance warrants, no law prevents Mr. Comey from issuing the statement.

Think about that: Comey, with the Carter Page warrant in hand, planted a story in the Times, designed to make Trump look like a lunatic, that makes use of a Clapper quote Comey knew to be false.

https://spectator.org/how-comey-lied-about-spying-on-trump-tower/ 

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