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If there’s a bright side — work with me here — to the sickening orgy of pardons that Joe Biden issued on his way out the door, let it be this: He forgot James Comey.
The chances that the smarmy, lying, Lurch-like former FBI director will ever see justice for the lawlessness with which he conducted himself are vanishingly small, but, for example, so were the chances of Donald Trump ever again returning to the White House on January 7, 2021.
At issue here is not Comey’s role in the whole Russia collusion hoax — the Clinton-financed Obama-era conspiracy that included fake dossiers, falsified FISA warrants, and a successful deep-state scheme to spy on the American people’s duly elected president, imprison his defenders, and utterly hamstrung his entire administration.
No, the bookselling Comey’s duplicitous role in all that illegality has been well-documented. At issue here is a more recent allegation from an FBI whistleblower that was first reported by The Washington Times’s Kerry Picket in late October, just days before the 2024 presidential election:
The House Judiciary Committee is examining a whistleblower report that the FBI targeted Donald Trump soon after he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015, an off-the-books operation ordered by FBI Director James B. Comey that predated the Crossfire Hurricane operation.
An FBI agent involved in the probe revealed the off-the-books criminal investigation on Tuesday in a protected disclosure sent to the committee.
The whistleblower disclosure said two female FBI undercover agents infiltrated Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as “honeypots” while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff on the trail.
According to a “protected disclosure” to the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee, the whistleblowing agent “personally knew” that then-Director James Comey had ordered the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign and had “personally directed it.”
Further, as former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker notes, it appears to be a “booming, egregious violation” of the rules governing the attorney general and the FBI. (If the plot was set into motion sometime after Trump’s 2015 announcement for president, the AG at the time would’ve been Loretta Lynch — yep, the same Loretta Lynch who just happened to bump into Bill Clinton on that tarmac in Phoenix just before the 2016 election — you know, just to exchange pleasantries and talk about grandkids and such.)
Also according to the whistleblower’s disclosure, “The case had no predicated foundation, so Comey personally directed the investigation without creating an official case file in Sentinel or any other FBI system.” The apparent target of the honeypots within the Trump campaign was a relatively low-level Trump staffer, George Papadopoulos. Why would Comey not have created an official case file, unless he was up to no good? Inquiring minds want to know.
Time flies, though. All this happened nearly 10 years ago, and it seems likely that the statute of limitations for any prosecution has long since expired. Still, the FBI is under new management, and the Times’s Picket is now reporting that Director Kash Patel “is looking for those once-undercover employees under Mr. Comey’s direction.”
If Patel is indeed looking into this, it’s news to his boss. As Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News’s Jesse Waters on Wednesday night, “I don’t know anything about what you’re saying about James Comey right now. Don’t know anything about that.”
Interestingly, as Picket reports, the honeypot investigation was ultimately closed “when a major newspaper obtained a photograph of one of the undercovers and was about to publish it, but the FBI press office told the outlet that the photograph was an FBI informant who would be killed if the photograph was publicly released.”
So the FBI lied about that, too.
Soon thereafter, one of the honeypots transferred to the CIA so she wouldn’t have to serve as a potential witness, and the other one “was rewarded for her activities through a promotion in the bureau and is now a high-level FBI executive in a major field office.”
Who says crime doesn’t pay?
As Ed Morrissey writes at Hot Air, “If the FBI used its counter-intelligence authority to target a presidential candidate or campaign, that goes well beyond its authority. And if Comey participated in it, then serious charges could result for him and anyone else who participated in it.”
We’re not sure what, if anything, will come of Patel’s look-see into all this, but hope springs eternal. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the FBI could sure stand some sterilization. As I wrote almost four years ago:
The bureau’s slide into rank partisanship didn’t happen overnight; it happened over the course of years. It was obvious that at least the leadership of the FBI had become corruptly partisan during the Barack Obama years, when it slow-walked the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s “private” email server and then launched a phony investigation of then-candidate Donald Trump … which was put together by a Trump-hating British spy, was chock-full of Russian disinformation, was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, was vouched for by smarmy, scummy, slippery FBI Director James Comey.
That neither James Comey nor any other principals involved in the targeting of Donald Trump have ever been held to account is both a national disgrace and a blight on the concept of the Rule of Law.
