Was he in a hole in the first place?
In this current administration itâs become hard to see the holes for all the pits?
Strictly speaking he is correctâŚ
Bet he doesnât bring up the leaks from the NY FBI office thoughâŚ
Barr is right only in the sense that Comey shouldnât have said anything about Clintonâs emails 11 days before the election.
"It sort of shows you what happens when you start disregarding the normal procedures and established practice.â
But trashing the Russia probe in a tongue-bath memo to Trump in pursuit of the AG job is totally within norms.
(And donât even get me started on Trumpâs âdisregarding the normal procedures and established practiceââŚ)
Barr is only repeating what every federal law professional knows full well, Comeyâs conduct was a disgraceful arrogation of self-righteousness. Comey can try to rewrite history via Twitter all he wants, no-one is interested in buying his self-serving tripe.
Only in our dreams
Is he failing the Barr exam?
Comey (R-Obama Appointee) was another disaster from the Obama years. He probably cost Clinton the Electoral Vote and maybe the Democrats a few Senate seats, but Obama didnât care:
â[Obama] held me back after one of the very last meetings I had with him, after the election, and said he didnât wanna talk to me about any particular case, 'cause he was very scrupulous about that. And he said, âBut I wanna just tell you something generally. I appointed you to be FBI director because of your integrity and your ability,ââ Comey said in an exclusive interview with ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos.
âThen he looked me in the eye and he said, 'Nothing has happened, nothing, in the last year that has changed my view of that,ââ Comey added.
Nothing happened.
âThe whole sequence was very herky jerky and bizarre.â
Must be describing the tRump administration.
Yup, and that is the key to the whole mistake made by Comey. How is that investigation into the New York field office/Giuliana going? Anyone heard a thing in the last couple of months? Did Sessions shut it down? Will Barr if it has not already been done? Some reporting by the NYT would be good here since they fell for the leaks from the NY Division that there was no investigation of dotard campaign/Russian election interference going on. Redeem yourselves Gray Lady staffers.
Iâm not watching the hearing - no CSPAN.
But from this description, it sounds like heâs not discussing Comey so much as whether Mueller can legally recommend charges (or even release his report to Congress?) without an okay from the AG.
I like this 10,000100 times.
Oh boy. Softball from Cornyn
âIâve never seen that, and I thought it was weird at the time,â Barr responded, "
But you are A-OK with having a Russian stooge in office who is unfit to lead even by the low standards of your party. You donât find that working for a compromised official to be âweirdâ or âoddâ or âqueerâ or âbizarreâ or âstrangeâ or âwrongâ ?
Yeah, that same passage leapt out at me too.
In an administration where norms and rules are shredded at a breathtaking pace, itâs astonishing that heâd want to point this out.
Except, of course, just like Lindsey, heâs also playing to an audience of one. And Individual-1 is hearing criticism of Comey. Music to his ears.
Because we all know McTurtle wouldnât care if heâd buggered his own sister, as long as heâs corrupt enough to play McTurtleâs game.
Barr called Comey âgiftedâ but called his announcement of a decision on the Clinton case âwrong,â and said Comey discussing ânegative informationâ about Clinton was ânot the way the Department of Justice does business.â
Creating the fallacy of the Deep State to discredit and disqualify everything that was and wasnât done with respect to their favorite punching bag, Hillary Clinton.
His response should disqualify him from any judicial appointment or Cabinet position, forever!
Youâve been waiting all week for that, havenât you!