The Sussmann Trial Is a Window on Comey's Clown Show

The Michael Sussmann trial has shed light on the partisan clown show James Comey ran at the FBI. The trial so far is not an indictment of the FBI's little fish - the nonpartisan agents in the trenches who suspected Sussmann's Trump-Russia yarn was nonsense - but the big fish, Comey's liberal leadership on the 7th floor of the FBI. It has come out in the trial that an FBI supervisor wrote a lower agent: "People on the 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this server" - a reference to Sussmann's claim that a secret channel existed between the Trump Organization and a Kremlin-linked bank.

The ease with which Sussmann, a well-known Democratic lawyer, got the meeting and the informality of it - Baker didn't bother to invite a special agent to it - indicated already the doltish liberal atmosphere at Comey's FBI. Could a Republican lawyer have set up such a meeting so casually? Surely not.

"FBI agent Curtis Heide testified that he and another agent tasked with running down the so-called secret server claims repeatedly asked officials at FBI headquarters for permission to interview the source of the data and 'white papers' that spurred the investigation," reports Politico.

Agents were told that the source who prompted the investigation was a "Close hold." Some of the agents even thought the alleged information came from the Department of Justice, as the FBI document opening the investigation says: "The DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE provided the FBI with a white paper that was produced by an anonymous third party."

Ironically, Sussmann is using the very slipshod investigation that he instigated as his defense in the case.

For all intents and purposes, Sussmann was on the same team as Obama's FBI and Justice Department, which explains why they would categorize him as a "Close hold."

It is hard to say which is the more pathetic image of the Comey years: his confronting Trump over Russian "Kompromat" that was just a jokey smear from a Democratic operative in Washington, or this latest image from the Sussmann trial of Comey and his minions browbeating agents into investigating a hoax while keeping them in the dark about its author.

https://spectator.org/the-sussmann-trial-is-a-window-on-comeys-clown-show/