{"id":71224,"date":"2017-04-02T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T19:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71224"},"modified":"2017-04-02T15:44:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T19:44:01","slug":"snakes-in-the-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71224","title":{"rendered":"Snakes in the grass"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2013, President Barack Obama appointed James Comey as FBI Director.\u00a0 I have had my experiences with Presidents and their appointments.\u00a0 In my years of Army service, I learned and had it reinforced multiple times through service secretaries, defense secretaries, joint chiefs, and major command generals is that they closely mirror the President in ideology and worldview.\u00a0 I certainly understand that.\u00a0 If I was picking people for my team, I would certainly pick people with a similar worldview as mine.\u00a0 At least we would be in the same neighborhood of thinking.\u00a0 Following the Army, during federal government service, if I knew the President I never had to wonder about incoming Secretaries or, in Comey\u2019s case, Directors because I knew them and I knew their views and policies would closely mirror the President\u2019s.\u00a0 One should not expect anything different.\u00a0 For what other reason would any President select someone?\u00a0 So my view of Comey does not differ from my view of any other administration Secretary or Director.\u00a0 My view of Obama, by default, is my view of Comey.\u00a0 Just as it is my view of Lynch, Holder, Clinton, Kerry, et al.\u00a0 I know Comey is supposedly a registered Republican, but so are many others who would rather see Trump fail.\u00a0 This is why President Trump needs to thank him for his service and send him on his way \u2013 and if Trump is to survive he is but one of many who need to be shown the door.<\/p>\n

Comey\u2019s recent work history puts him as\u00a0U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York\u00a0from January 2002 to December 2003.\u00a0 From there he was appointed as Deputy Attorney General of the US under Attorney General John Ashcroft.\u00a0 In this capacity, he appointed friend Patrick Fitzgerald as Special Counsel to investigate and prosecute the Valerie Plame lie.\u00a0 It was an almost endless investigation that failed to prosecute the person who actually leaked CIA agent Plame\u2019s name.\u00a0 It was common knowledge that Colin Powell\u2019s man Richard Armitage leaked the identity of Plame and not anyone in the Bush Whitehouse.\u00a0 At the end of this political fishing expedition, Vice President Cheney\u2019s Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby was sacrificed for fibbing to the FBI. From there, Comey moved to a job as General Counsel and Senior Vice President at Lockheed Martin, a mega defense contractor who also likes to spread a lot of political cash including to the Clinton Foundation while Comey was there. He then became General Counsel at Bridgewater Associates, billed as the world\u2019s largest (and maybe weirdest by some accounts) global hedge fund managing more than a $150 billion in assets.\u00a0 His next adventure in public life, excluding his College Professorship, was a seat on the Board of Directors for HBSC Holdings also a Clinton Foundation donor<\/a> during his tenure.\u00a0 This Swiss bank gained much notoriety for laundering drug cartel money (Bloomberg<\/a>, The Guardian<\/a>, Reuters<\/a>, Rolling Stone<\/a>, Financial Times<\/a>).\u00a0 He held that position until July 2013 just prior to his appointment as FBI Director.<\/p>\n

A September 2016 Breitbart article laid out Comey\u2019s connections to the Clinton Foundation<\/a> through his former employers and his brother.\u00a0 This information was also placed into the Congressional Record<\/a>. \u00a0Since Washington is big on demanding recusals these days, maybe the question should have been asked of the FBI Director relating to Mrs. Clinton.<\/p>\n

To the legacy news media that most Americans still rely on these days, Hillary Clinton\u2019s violations of federal law involving conducting government business and mishandling classified material on an unsecured private server is old news, except for their attempts to pin everything to Trump\/Russian collusion.\u00a0 The alternative media (Daily Caller<\/a>, Huffington Post<\/a>, Hot Air \u2013 Mark Levin<\/a>) and others view it differently. The investigation was closed as nothing to see here by Director Comey<\/a>.\u00a0 Still most people, including legal scholars on all sides, but not the legacy media of course, believed and still do that Mrs. Clinton should have been held accountable for breaking federal laws but, according to Director Comey<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess.\u00a0 Maybe what he meant was that a reasonable prosecutor would appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate a lie called a leak only to let the known leaker walk.\u00a0 Amazingly, the FBI gave immunity to Clinton Aides<\/a>, in return for nada which also amazed some legal scholars and prosecutors.\u00a0 So Attorney General Lynch met with Bill Clinton (CNN<\/a>, Washington Times<\/a>) to discuss their grandchildren after which Director Comey schooled us on what a reasonable prosecutor would do.<\/p>\n

It is not just the mail server and mishandling of classified information, but also questionable corruption of the Clinton Foundation<\/a> itself.\u00a0 It is the Uranium One deal and more cash to the Clintons (World Net Daily<\/a>, New York Times<\/a>) and we didn\u2019t even make it down the bribe, or speech fee list<\/a>.\u00a0 Damn Russians have been working hard to make the Clintons look bad.\u00a0 Sure would like to know how they did that.<\/p>\n

And, make no mistake.\u00a0 Comey is knee deep in the surveillance of Trump and associates as far back as July 2016.\u00a0 How could he not be aware?\u00a0 He would be an incredibly stupid FBI Director if he wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Mr. President you have over 2000 appointments to fill<\/a>.\u00a0 Git jiggy widdit.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2017 J. D. Pendry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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