OPINION:
Consider former FBI Director James F. Comey’s demonstrations of “A Higher Loyalty” to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Loretta Lynch. Mr. Comey complied with Ms. Lynch’s urging that the Clinton email “investigation” be termed a “matter.” Mr. Comey acceded to Peter Strzok’s changing of Mr. Comey’s description of Hillary Clinton’s handling of highly classified emails on her unsecured private server from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless,” thereby avoiding the incriminating wording of 18USC793(f)(1).
After Ms. Lynch’s ill-advised tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton in Phoenix, Mr. Comey stepped in and took the pressure off Ms. Lynch by giving Mrs. Clinton an open path to the White House through his premature closing of the Clinton investigation on July 5, 2016 — eight days after the Lynch meeting. Unfortunately for Mr. Comey, he had promised Congress continuing “transparency” with a commitment to “look at any new and substantial information” in the Clinton email investigation, and had to reopen the investigation on Oct. 28, 2016. Yet he managed the review of a reported 650,000 emails on the Anthony Weiner laptop to re-close the investigation on Nov. 6, 2016, two days before the election.
Then, on March 20, 2017, Mr. Comey again trashed FBI procedure by announcing an ongoing investigation. He placed a cloud over the new administration through a completely unnecessary prepared statement before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, saying the FBI was “investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government.” Are there any questions about whom Mr. Comey favored in the election, or why he was fired?
WILLIAM T. FIDURSKI
Clark, N.J.
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