Comey to be arraigned today
Link to quote: No glory in James Comey getting away with his abuse of FBI power
James Comey will appear in court for an arraignment today. Believe it or not the judge supposedly "randomly" chosen happens to be a Biden appointed judge: U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff. Nachmanoff will read the two charges against Comey and ask Comey how he will plea. Based on the recent history of blue district juries, Comey will confidently plead innocent to both counts. BTW the two charges are lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation.
Based on the way I expect this to play out we should keep in mind that there are two components to this case:
1) The legal implications.
The first charge is that he lied to congress when he testified under oath that he had not authorized leaks to the media by FBI subordinates, primarily through Andrew McCabe (who admitted that he lied 3 times under oath according to the Inspector General of the DOJ. The second charge is that he obstructed justice by lying to congress.) Will there be a conviction? Will justice even come into play in this case? I'm very skeptical.
2) The moral implications.
The moral issues are really the more important ones. Comey was the FBI Director when the Russia/hoax took place. Comey was presiding over an investigation of Hillary Clinton having classified emails on a private server, which was then destroyed when it was under subpoena. He also presided over baseless investigations of the newly elected President.
In the case of Clinton, he said that she broke the law by having classified material on a private server, but he didn't think a jury would convict her. He took it upon himself to make that decision. The decision belonged to the DOJ, but the AG at the time had already compromised herself by secretly meeting with Bill Clinton when Hillary was supposedly being investigated.
In the case of Trump, he met with the new President and assured him that he wasn't the subject of an investigation (a lie.) Then Comey memorialized that private conversation by creating 4 memos, which he kept privately for clearly devious reasons, either to embarrass the President or maybe as an insurance policy to keep his job. Later he took one of those memos and gave it to a friend who was a professor at Columbia University and instructed him to leak it to the media. It was Comey who hired Christopher Steele who was working for the Hillary Clinton campaign to cook up a BS smear job of her opponent. Under Comey's leadership the FBI submitted fraudulent FISA warrant requests to spy on Trump and his associates.
I'm not skeptical about how history will judge Comey on honesty and morality: Guilty
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Are you going to be brining back your John Durham avatar? This place could use a few cheap laughs again.
News reports today suggest Durham's statements to DOJ indicate he found no wrongdoing by Comey related to the topic of this indictment.
John Durham proved that you can't get a conviction in certain jurisdictions.
Even when he got a confession, Judge Boesberg let the convicted walk.
As to the news reports that you are getting, do they mention anything about the IG report on Comey?
When someone blows your nonsense up in your face all you do is change the topic. It appears John Durham will be a witness that is going to help Comey. The only reason this case could go to trial is because Trump will DICTATE that it will.
Tell us how John Durham can help Comey with lying to congress and obstruction of a congressional investigation?
Because he spent two or three years investigating this matter, among other things, and found nothing warranting an indictment. Of course he will be called to testify. That will be reasonable doubt right there.
He wasn't investigating the matter to which Comey is being charged.
All of which involves Comey's testimony before congress.
Is that how that works? If Trump had just called Cyrus Vance to the stand he would have won that BS case in New York?
Its so easy to dunk on you it should be embarrassing
But this case is about Comey instructing other FBI agents to leak information.
Maybe the Grand Jury did find evidence.
Fortunately, we don't rely on copilot for trial resolutions.
John Durhams findings is not something that would have come up at the grand jury.
But you will admit that the Grand Jury needed reason to indict?
While JR checks with copilot for an answer, I must get some exercise.
Be back later.
better than checking your dubious sources
What Durham did or did not do is irrelevant.
The Gand Jury indicted him, now he will answer to the charges.
We don't really need big brother determining truth.
Who do you think is the personification of big brother nowadays? Trump!
"The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced this week that it has launched what is being dubbed a Disinformation Governance Board to combat “misinformation.”
"A government agency creating a “ministry of truth” to combat what it deems misinformation? And it’s going to fall under the leadership of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas? The guy presiding over the worst border crisis of our lifetimes, who publicly denies it is a crisis at all while privately admitting it is? Who better to give more responsibility in a democracy that largely rejects government intervention over free speech? What could possibly go wrong?"
Joe Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’
And let us never forget how the FBI under Garland & Wray interfered with social media. They even managed to portray the Hunter laptop as "Russian disinformation."
Trump is the PotUS now, Vic. If you were just 1% as critical of Trump as you are with Biden, we might actually be able to have a conversation.
And why would I be critical of the remedy?
Oh maybe because Trump:
And that is just off the top of my head.
What slander!
Slander = lies. Facts are not slander.
The only fact you have demonstrated is that you are obsessed with Trump.
Trump is the key problem in the USA today. And people like you keep propping him up. So too bad if people like me oppose that.
That is quite telling of the alternate reality you choose to embrace. You deny every single line item I put forth.
He is part of the remedy. He will be replaced in 3 years by likeminded people, and they may even be more effective because they will be far more polished. The point is the left's revolution has finally met its match, and they are going down.
Trump is a disaster.
And there you go again with this boogeyman crap as you flat out ignore the bad of Trump as (incompletely) enumerated @2.1.20
Looks to me like an irrational 'get those leftists' objective no matter what damage it does to the USA and its people.
and Vic sees all of this as owning the 'left', that the 'right' cannot afford, cause they are out of their collective gord, if they can;t, or should I say won't, see the harm that the mental midget with the Dicktater tot obsessions' is really in dress rehearsel for his new version of an old play, on words, asz the emperor has no close to watt his herd has heard, and thisis not an act. It is a fact,
A lectern has been set up outside the courthouse.
Will Comey (the left's knight in shining armor) speak?
Comey was a Republican most of his adult life. He left the party in 2016 (or, rather, the party left him) and has been an independent since.
So it seems that 'the Left' to you consists of those who do not support Trump.
Morning Joe also claims to be Republican. None of which has anything to do with Comey's actions or the fact that some like the things he did.
Both were Republicans.
Again, seems as though you define ‘the Left’ as anyone who does not support Trump.
The left is what it always has been since the late 60s when they were staging violent protests and setting off bombs. The only difference is that then they were protesting against "the establishment" and today they are "the establishment."
Based on your comments, 'the Left' to you are those who do not support Trump.
Shall we dance?
The left is responsible for just about every evil this country has endured for the past 60 years.
It sounds to me like you associate the left with democrats. No, TiG, the left is an extreme ideology that has recently dominated the democrat party. Not to be confused with never Trumpers or liberals.
They are leading the common sense dems and even the past liberals by the nose and few are speaking up against them.
Correct. The democrat party lacked spine and critical thinking. Schumer and the rest of them are petrified of people like AOC.
The boogeyman!
I made no statement about my view of 'the Left' (or 'the Right').
What do you consider to be 'extreme ideology'? It seems that every problem is deemed as from 'the Left' and every challenge to Trump is seen by you as coming from 'the Left'.
Its disturbingly humorous that Trump butt kissers have the nerve to talk about "moral implications".
Are you talking about me?
Btw Fox News' Alexandria Hoff is at the courthouse.
Alexandria is in Alexandria!
I absolutely goy a good laugh at that one myself. What a fckn waste of time and money. Trump is so damn pathetic!
Does anyone think leftwing media will televise him entering the building?
Why would anyone care about that?
Well, the MSNBC & CNN was absolutely giddy about seeing Trump appear for court appearances, why not show Comey in the perp walk?
BTW Comey must have went through a back door. He entered pled not guilty and left already. Nobody got a glimpse.