Posted by Tina
Yesterday J Soden brought a Breitbart story to our attention about connections FBI Director James Comey has to the Clinton foundation:
…deeply entrenched in the big-money cronyism culture of Washington, D.C. His personal and professional relationships — all undisclosed as he announced the Bureau would not prosecute Clinton — reinforce bipartisan concerns that he may have politicized the criminal probe.
These concerns focus on millions of dollars that Comey accepted from a Clinton Foundation defense contractor, Comey’s former membership on a Clinton Foundation corporate partner’s board, and his surprising financial relationship with his brother Peter Comey, who works at the law firm that does the Clinton Foundation’s taxes.
Comey’s connection is to a former employer, Lockheed Martin, a company that has donated to the Clinton Foundation and was a Clinton Global Initiative member in 2010 . Lockheed paid Comey $6 million in the year prior to his becoming FBI Director. When Obama appointed him he said he would recuse himself in cases involving his former employer. In 2013 Lockheed Martin won 17 approvals for private contracts from the Hillary Clinton State Department.
As J wrote in comments:
If true, that puts Comey’s reputation alongside $hrilLIARy’s down in the sewer.
This certainly raises questions about his ability to investigate Hillary Clinton and the foundation without bias. A story today over at Politico, ” The Case Against James Comey ~ “Not since Hoover has an FBI director shown such a lack of accountability,” suggests just that:
The FBI’s history is divided into two distinct epochs: Hoover and post-Hoover. After Hoover’s death in office in 1972, Congress enacted laws designed to curtail the abuses—from illegal wiretaps and “black bag” jobs to campaigns of intimidation and blackmail—that defined his 48-year reign. Of the six directors who have followed, all but one have projected far lower profiles, eschewing the dramatic assertions of power that made Hoover so dangerous. Only James Comey, the seventh and current FBI director, has strayed from this well-worn path.
On the surface, there are few direct parallels between Comey, a widely respected former prosecutor, and his most infamous predecessor. Where Hoover was pugnacious and inscrutable—lurching, hunched and furtive, between power and paranoia—the 55-year-old Comey is affable and open, with a reputation for honesty and a well-known aversion to politics. Yet there is a growing consensus that Comey has wielded the powers of the directorship more aggressively than anyone since Hoover—to the consternation, and even anger, of some of his colleagues.
Since taking office, Comey has repeatedly injected his views into executive branch deliberations on issues such as sentencing reform and the roots of violence against police officers. He has undermined key presidential priorities such as crafting a coherent federal policy on cybersecurity and encryption. Most recently, he shattered longstanding precedent by publicly offering his own conclusions about the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email. (The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.)
It would be difficult to argue—in terms of temperament, manner, or motivation—that he is, or ever will be, the next J. Edgar Hoover. But increasing numbers of critics believe he has displayed a worrying disregard for the rules and norms that have constrained all but one of his predecessors, straying with blithe confidence—and with increasing regularity—across the fine line that separates independence from unaccountability.
The investigation into the Clinton foundation will go on for a long time. It will follow the Clintons right into the White House if we are so ignorant as a nation as to put them there. We face a lot of problems. Many of our citizens are out of work and hurting. The economy is floundering and some say we’re headed for another crash. Terrorists are threatening nations across Europe and in America. Their capabilities have been bolstered by deals with Iran that filled their terror coffers with piles of cash. America needs strong leadership. Hillary is not the guy! And it sure looks like we can’t on Comey for justice.
“The investigation into the Clinton foundation will go on for a long time.”
But after the interminable “Whitewater”, and the savagely unkind and interminable “Foster/Benghazi”, do you really think anyone is paying attention? You have been “crying wolf” for thirty years … and it has gotten old.
Crying wolf?
I look at it as crying foul.
“savagely unkind”
Yes poor Hillary has been such a victim. She hasn’t brought any of this on herself. And she has suffered so much…a real rags to riches kind of suffering.
Facts are facts. The facts point to criminality, deceptive secretive practices, underhanded dealings, gross negligence, carelessness, lying, and power hungry ambition.
Director Comey showed poor judgment in his investigation. He didn’t put Hillary under oath. He didn’t record the interview. Even tough she claimed her concussion caused her to forget, he didn’t subpoena her medical records. He narrowed the investigation to exclude certain aspects of her activities. He allowed Cheryl Mills to be present as Hillary’s lawyer in the interview even though she is one of those involved in the cover up. She’s one of the aides that destroyed evidence engaging in obstruction of justice.
You wouldn’t find any of that acceptable if this was an investigation into any republican running for president and you know it! There is a stench that follows this couple. It isn’t confined to them alone. People did go to jail in the investigations about Whitewater and Bills horndogging ways but this goes much deeper and is much more widespread. The mafia got away with murder for decades before anyone went to jail which shows that it doesn’t take a conviction to see that people are criminals.