Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Mueller report is another embarrassment for James Comey and Andrew McCabe

As someone who spent 25 years working for the FBI, every man or woman who has ever served within the FBI is in my orbit.

An intelligence community led by notable Trump critics John Brennan, James Clapper, Michael Hayden, Susan Rice, Loretta Lynch, and James Comey recognized the efforts from the Kremlin to sow chaos in our democratic system - dating back to the inception of the Cold War.

The leader of the FBI at the time of the 2016 election, James Comey, nicknamed the "Cardinal" for his holier-than-thou mien and nonstop virtue-signaling, had surrounded himself at FBI headquarters with callow sycophants bent on career advancement who denigrated political candidates they loathed on their bureau cellphones.

McCabe, in his recent book The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, deftly leverages the bureau's widely criticized decision to "Announce a result that did not include bringing charges against anyone" in the Clinton email investigation.

The man who famously advised Katie Couric that "I hope to be forgotten" craves remaining a central figure in the continued diminution of the FBI. After disgracefully leaking FBI documents to the New York Times, he testified to the Senate to his fecklessness and lack of courage while at the helm.

This is the same Comey who, along with his ardent supporters, continues to argue that any criticism of the FBI's actions in the Trump-Russia case are "Corrosive attacks on our institutions of justice."

James A. Gagliano worked in the FBI for 25 years.


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/mueller-report-is-another-embarrassment-for-james-comey-and-andrew-mccabe

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