Former Assistant Director of FBI Drops Bombshell: ‘Comey Is in Trouble’
By C. Douglas Golden
Kevin R. Brock is the former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI. I’m going to guess he wasn’t a friend of James Comey’s. If he was, well, I’m pretty sure he’s been unfriended.
That’s because Brock, in a commentary piece for The Hill titled “James Comey is in trouble and he knows it,” noted that the former FBI director is in a bit of a pickle thanks to Attorney General William Barr’s recent intimations that he’s going after Comey. Not only that, Brock believes Comey deserves every bit of it.
“James Comey’s planet is getting noticeably warmer. Attorney General William Barr’s emissions are the suspected cause,” Brock wrote in the Tuesday piece.
“Barr has made plain that he intends to examine carefully how and why Comey, as FBI director, decided that the bureau should investigate two presidential campaigns and if, in so doing, any rules or laws were broken.”
Brock was referring, in part, to a Tuesday Fox News report that Barr had been assembling a team to look into how the FBI handled the 2016 election, specifically the counterintelligence operation opened against the Trump campaign.
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He then quipped that “the fired former FBI director apparently has decided that photos of him on Twitter standing amid tall trees and in the middle of empty country roads, acting all metaphysical, is no longer a sufficient strategy.” (But those posts were pretty amusing, I must say.)
“No, Comey has realized, probably too late, that he has to try to counter, more directly, the narrative being set by the unsparing attorney general whose words in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week landed in the Trump-opposition world like holy water on Linda Blair. Shrieking heads haven’t stopped spinning since.”
Comey’s first move, according to Brock, was a “curious” piece for The New York Times, titled (conveniently) “How Trump Co-opts Leaders Like Bill Barr.”
“How could Mr. Barr, a bright and accomplished lawyer, start channeling the president in using words like ‘no collusion’ and F.B.I. ‘spying’?” Comey wrote. “And downplaying acts of obstruction of justice as products of the president’s being ‘frustrated and angry,’ something he would never say to justify the thousands of crimes prosecuted every day that are the product of frustration and anger?
“How could he write and say things about the report by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, that were apparently so misleading that they prompted written protest from the special counsel himself?
“How could Mr. Barr go before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday and downplay President Trump’s attempt to fire Mr. Mueller before he completed his work?”
Well, because they were all true or matters of opinion, a concept Comey is unfamiliar with because one gets the impression he’s the kind of man who takes his own opinion, right or wrong, as a matter of fact.
full story at https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/former-assistant-director-fbi-drops-bombshell-comey-trouble/