ROTTEN FBI INVESTIGATION - Farce From the Beginning!

ROTTEN FBI INVESTIGATION: Glenn just linked to Andrew McCarthy’s NRO dissection of FBI Director Jim Comey’s flimflam investigation of Hillary’s criminal (grossly negligent) mishandling of classified information. McCarthy’s superb analysis deserves another link and quote. Like McCarthy, I too was once “hard-wired to presume the FBI’s integrity.” Note the past tense — “was once.” But not after this travesty. McCarthy is tough on Comey. Good. However, McCarthy’s language is much too diplomatic. Bad. The FBI participated in an obstruction of justice operation. McCarthy says so, albeit it with what strikes me as unwarranted delicacy.

But you might call Cheryl Mills, who was right by your side at the State Department while you were doing those things that got you jammed up, if your goal was to envelop those things in an obstructive fog of purported attorney-client privilege. The FBI was not required to treat a conspiracy to obstruct justice as if it were good-faith assistance of counsel. Nevertheless, co-conspirator Mills was laundered into lawyer Mills.

Comey’s investigation stank from the get-go. The FBI are the good guys but the good guys have gone crooked. Now Hillary’s blizzard of lies (William Safire’s term) have tarred the G-men. (Yeah, with Hillary a blizzard tars, stains and scars.) If Comey really wants to salvage the FBI’s reputation, he should either recommend indictment or resign — or better yet, do both.

115Posted at 11:08 pm by Austin Bay