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发帖数: 6571 | 1 October 31, 2016
The Rats are Leaving the Ship
By Frank Friday
The city I live in is sometimes called the biggest little town in the
country because everybody seems to know everybody else’s business, but we
have nothing on the nation’s capital. After James Comey’s bombshell
announcement that thanks to Anthony Wiener’s laptop, the Hillary
investigation is back on, who gets drafted by the Clintons to fight back?
Jamie Gorelick. Yeah, that Jamie Gorelick, the Clinton’s cover-up artist
who left DOJ for the big bucks at Fannie Mae, was involved in everything
from the 9/11 hearings to the IRS scandal and was even considered by Obama
to run the FBI. (Today, Ms. Gorelick tells us, James Comey is a threat to
our very democracy, but just three years ago, her friend was "one of the
great lawyers of the Justice Department.")
Of course, when President Bush came to office he wanted to clear away all
the Clinton mess, even appointing a lawyer of immeasurable talent and
integrity, he was told, to look into the 2001 Pardongate scandal. A guy by
the name of James Comey. It seems he had the goods on Hillary, her brother
Hugh, Bill, and his brother Roger. But Mr. Comey went all squishy. If you’
re a Republican, don’t expect that kind of treatment, though. Even if you
quit and resign your office, then like Nixon, you’d better hope to get a
pardon on the way out.
Comey certainly crossed me up earlier this year when I thought the enormous
FBI investigation taking place meant he was serious about the Hillary’s
latest scandals. In retrospect, it was just to keep from empaneling a grand
jury that might get out of control. Comey is best friends with Patrick
Fitzgerald, the special counsel/weasel who spent four years investigating
the leak of CIA desk jockey Valerie Plame’s name, even though he knew
within days of his appointment Richard Armitage was the leaker and no laws
had been broken. No matter, scalps must be taken, so journalists were jailed
for months on end and Scooter Libby eventually found guilty of an utterly
trivial offense, most likely with false evidence.
Comey and Fitzgerald have an interesting pattern of prosecutorial toughness
when it comes to Democrats. If you have no political pull, like Martha
Stewart, or are an embarrassment like Rod Blagojevich, they throw the book
at you, but the big shots get a pass. Lee Cary’s article in AT nicely
explains the extent to which Comey, Fitzgerald and Loretta Lynch were
willing to steer prosecutions around then Sen. Obama and nail Tony Resko and
Blagojevich. No doubt Obama was grateful, for he even thought to reward
Comey with a Supreme Court appointment.
It should also be noted Hilary and all her team had a combined defense using
the big-time DC attorney Beth Wilkinson, David Gregory’s wife; about as
well connected an insider as they come. Wilkinson was plucked out of
obscurity in 1993 for a top post in the Reno/Hubbell DOJ, then followed
Jamie Gorelick, (who else?) from DOJ to Fannie Mae when the place was run by
the most crooked of Clintonistas, starting with Franklin Raines. Washington
, DC is a pretty small place, especially among the best-connected DOJ
lawyers.
So you have to think that James Comey knows a lot more than he is letting on
. Starting with the likely fact that too many people involved in the Wiener
sexting investigation already know too much -- from Preet Bharara, the U.S.
Attorney in Manhattan, who was already tracking the Clinton Foundation, to
all the state and local law enforcement that began the investigation.
I am sure Mr. Comey also understands that lawyers who help the Clinton’s
don’t always fare so well. Ms. Gorelick has her Fannie Mae fortune but not
her reputation, to show for her efforts. On the other hand, Webb Hubbell had
to endure several years in prison for destroying evidence in the Castle
Grande scandal, and his colleague and collaborator, Vince Foster, died, they
say by suicide, rather than face the music.
I should think Mr. Comey further understands, no matter who is elected
president, he won’t be FBI director much longer, and that is now the least
of his concerns.
Frank Friday is an attorney in Louisville, KY.
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