FBI Director Comey Fired — This Was Going To Happen Eventually

We knew it was coming. It was just a matter of time.

For anyone who’s watched the Clinton email investigation, you know something weird was going on at the FBI and it seemed to start and stop with Director Comey. Here is the link to the releases from today (read them in reverse order):

Before I start, I have to mention that the FBI Director’s boss is the Deputy Attorney General. Which in this case, is Rod Rosenstein. He was voted in by 94–6. 94 voted yes. If this isn’t someone the democrats like then I don’t know who is! I just want to make sure you are aware of the chain of command and how many democrats voted for him before I continue with this.

What Rosenstein said is what needs to be looked at.

The Director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General’s authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution.

The FBI merely reports their findings to federal prosecutors. It does not act as defense, judge, and jury. Comey acted as all of these when he announced what Clinton had done but found no “criminal intent.”

Compounding the error, the Director ignored another longstanding principle: we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation and prosecutions, but we never release it gratuitously.

Comey wanted to make this about him. He wanted the spotlight.

But the goal of a federal criminal investigations is not to announce our thoughts at a press conference. The goal is to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to justify a federal criminal prosecution, then allow a federal prosecutor who exercises authority delegated by the Attorney General to make a prosecutorial decision, and then — if prosecution is warranted — let the judge and jury determine the facts.

In his closing, he stated this:

I agree with the nearly unanimous opinions of former Department officials. The way the Director handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong. As a result, the FBI is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a Director who understands the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. Having refused to admit to his errors, the Director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions.

That is the main problem with Comey. He did what the FBI was not supposed to do. He went over and above what he had the power to do. In my opinion, these are the big takeaways from the Dep. AG. Rosenstein’s statement.

Now, do I care about the timing of this? Not really. That is the only argument and defense the left can come up with but it is all just fluff. Comey can still testify in front of the House or Senate committee hearings in an open or closed session. No one is denying him this. But if Comey was obstructing the investigation into any of Trump’s campaign staff or the Russian interference nonsense, he needed to go. It was evident that he can no longer be trusted to maintain the independence and integrity that the FBI should have. The investigations will continue the same as they did when he was there. It’s not like he was the only one actually working on it.

Comey allowed $900,000 (Thanks Senator Dianne Feinstein for letting us know!) flow from the U.S. Taxpayers for that dossier which was handed to Senator John McCain and was later debunked. Here’s another article if you want another opinion.

Comey 100% trusted the report from CrowdStrike on the DNC server hacking rather than demand to have access to the DNC servers. The DNC REFUSED access. I could write an entire article about CrowdStrike but I will let Lee Stranahan do that since he’s spent a good deal of time on it.

Now, to the hypocrisy part of this entire situation.

That title. “Dems indignant as Comey keeps his job.” This was on January 24, 2017. So, they were pissed he was able to keep his job but now wanted him to stay? I’m confused.

Here’s Senator Schumer giving his very dark and negative comments regarding the firing of Comey.

Yet we have on numerous occasions showing Schumer being appalled at what Comey did during the election.

He even went on to list that if it wasn’t for Comey, Clinton would have won the election. But now? They only focus on the timing when they wanted him gone.

Here Schumer is again stating that the Deputy AG Rosenstein should not be the one to appoint a special prosecutor to the Russian investigation. Even though Schumer was one of the 94 Senators who voted to confirm him.

Look at the bottom Tweet from November 6th and then back to the first one on the 9th. How can you call for Comey to be fired and then get mad at the guy for doing it?

Here we have John Podesta, former Chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign criticizing Comey for what he said in the FBI oversight hearing and then hours later defending Comey.