Once again, and hopefully for the last time, we see James Comey's insatiable appetite for self-aggrandizement. He literally believes he is the only honest man on the planet.
Something tells me you don't know what the word, "literally" means.
Multiple problems with what he is saying:
--Why did he decide to start writing memos on the conversations with the President, his boss, even before he was inaugurated? He did so immediately after their first meeting, even though he himself admits the President had said nothing to him that raised alarm. This sounds extortionate, at its worst, and over the top boyscoutish--as if he assumed Trump would be bad--at its best. I've been a boss, many of us have been, and you always know the employees who are keeping book on you, in the hopes of destroying you at a time convenient to them, or for use in getting something they want. In my professional career, these employees were almost universally problem children, and this behavior was never considered honorable. Honorable employees would immediately, in the open, call you out, sometimes to your face, or report you to your boss, if you did something which broke the rules or was inappropriate. The mere writing of the memos is not honorable.
He started keeping memos of his interactions because he felt something was odd that trump wanted to see him about sticking around for his job. The oddness being that the director of the FBI, is a ten year appointment. Why would he need to talk about staying on?
--Comey wrote no memos for the conversations he had with President Obama. And he repeatedly, on many occassions, refused to discuss his conversations with President Obama, stating it was his policy that conversations with the President were private, when asked under oath in Congressional hearings. in other words, one standard for Obama, but a different standard for Trump.
Comey had two conversation with Obama while he was president and one of those conversations was to say goodbye.
--He alleges, that he believes the President was trying to obstruct the FBI's Flynn investigation, even though, by his own admission, the President didn't stop, or order him to stop, the Flynn investigation. And in fact, Comey continued the investigation unobstructed. But he makes the serious charge of obstruction of justice--an offense that he knows would be impeachable--yet he decided to keep it secret, from all but a few FBI leaders, even though he was the Chief law enforcement officer for the nation and had just witnessed, what he apparently believed, to be a serious crime and a serious violation of the FBI's independence. In my professional experience, an employee who witnesses a crime, money stolen, sexual harassment, etc., and doesn't report it, is considered almost complicit in the crime. Its considered a serious violation in and of itself.
Comey made no such charge.
--What did he do with this information that the President had committed a serious crime? He kept it "closely held" and pocketed it, for use "down the road." This doesn't sound honorable, it sounds extortionate. Keep the goods on your boss, so that when you get in a jam, you can use it to get what you want. He himself recognizes the disconnect between his allegation and his actions, and so, once again, he explains his actions, as he did in the Clinton investigation, as necessary, because, once again, he is the only honest man in the room. He alleges he couldn't say anything to the Attorney General, because he was compromised in the Russia investigation and would soon, even though he hadn't yet, recuse himself. And he couldn't say anything to the acting Deputy Attorney General, because they would soon be gone. Despite what might be coming, at the time of the alleged crime, both the Attorney General, and his Deputy, were fully empowered to hear Comey out, so Comey's explanation makes no sense. And he is silent on why he didn't say anything--given his allegation of the seriousness of the matter--to the Congress. Even though now, three months after the fact, and after being fired, he is all too willing to tell them all about it and to emphasize how serous it is.
Sessions was on the verge of recusing himself, why would he discuss this with someone who has a conflict of interest?
--His actions look more consitent with extortion, than trying to do what is right. Keeping the goods on the President "closely held" and for use "down the road" has, at minimum, the appearance of wanting to hold the matter over the President's head, consistent with an effort to keep his job as FBI Director. He won't say this, of course, because it would hardly comport with his self image of being the only honest man in the room. Read, I wanted to remain FBI Director and not lose my job, so I didn't want to accuse the President, and I thought if I kept this in my backpocket he would leave me alone, and if he didn't, I could use it, along with all the memos I wrote, to manipulate him into keeping me on the job. Comey admits that in their first private dinner, Trump brought up his job, and that he told him that he "loved" his job, and wanted to stay, so it was on his mind.
So comeys actions looked like extortion but telling comey to make the Flynn investigation go away and asking comey to clear the air regarding trump and the Russians along with a loyalty pledge is nothing. Lol
Are these acts--keeping tabs on your boss behind his back, accusing your boss of a serious crime, but not to his face, and only months after, after you have been fired, not reporting the crime but holding it for later use, and reversing your preexisting policy of not discussing your conversations with the President, the actions of an honorable man?
Sounds like victim blaming to me.
No, because, unlike his self-image, James Comey is not the only honest man in the room.
The President was right in firing Comey. And Comey's actions in this matter prove it.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hillary-clinton-fbi-james-comey-230491
Democrats declare open season on Jim Comey
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