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   In news:10bd4f1$2pve1$2@dont-email.me, Dawn Flood    
   typed:   
      
   > On 9/28/2025 8:36 PM, Harvey wrote:   
      
   >> Trump indicted Comey for lying.   
      
   >> Hillary sucked off Comey for days to get him to drop the evidence   
   >> destruction charges.   
      
   >> Maybe she lied on a load agreement and Trump can indict her for that.   
      
   > Comey will either be acquitted, or (more likely) the judge overseeing   
   > his case will dismiss the charges against him, with prejudice.   
      
   Comey Faces Indictment, but His Real Crimes Remain Untouched   
      
   Victor Davis Hanson   
   We have no idea whether the current DOJ indictments will lead to a conviction   
   of   
   James Comey, namely that he authorized FBI subordinates to leak to the media   
   and   
   then lied about it, obstructing Congress in the process.   
      
   It may come down to the word of Comey, a known fabricator, against the   
   testimony   
   of his former subordinate, Andrew McCabe, an admitted liar. Take your pick.   
      
   We know, however, that Comey is not facing a Trumpian $500 million in potential   
   fines, nor 93 indictments, nor the scrutiny of five different local, state, and   
   federal prosecutors. Nor, like some of the J6 arrested, will he be sent to   
   solitary confinement to await a trial in a year or two or be charged with   
   "illegal parading."   
      
   We also know of the crimes or unethical conduct for which James Comey is not   
   currently being indicted or investigated.   
      
   He is not being charged with pleading amnesia or ignorance in 2018-e.g., "I   
   didn't   
   know," "I couldn't recall," "I didn't remember"-a reported 245 times while   
   under   
   oath to House investigators and misleading them.   
      
   He is not being charged with leaking in 2017 a confidential FBI memo of a   
   conversation with then President Trump-which he improperly stored in his   
   personal safe, in violation of FBI protocols-to the New York Times via a   
   third-party Columbia professor.   
      
   He is not being charged for falsely assuring the President of the United States   
   in 2017 that he was not the object of the current Crossfire Hurricane "Russian   
   collusion" investigation-when, in fact, Trump, as the Mueller investigation   
   revealed, was the real target of almost that entire ruse.   
      
   He is not being charged for deliberately leaking an FBI memo of a conversation   
   with President Trump for the purpose of injuring him by prompting the   
   appointment of his friend and predecessor, Robert Mueller, as a special counsel   
   to investigate the supposed crimes of Donald Trump. Comey's gambit resulted in   
   a   
   22-month and $30 million administration hiatus, only to find no actionable   
   wrongdoing by Trump.   
      
   He is not being investigated for usurping the role of the DOJ in 2016 when, as   
   an FBI investigator, he served simultaneously as investigator and prosecutor,   
   creating a conflict of interest.   
      
   He was tasked with both finding evidence of Hillary Clinton's alleged   
   wrongdoing   
   and also making the federal prosecutorial decision whether to indict her for   
   transmitting classified material over an unsecured email server. And after   
   finding evidence of her culpability, he chose not to indict her on the grounds   
   that her candidacy at the time meant no reasonable prosecutor (of which he was   
   then not supposed to be one) would bring such a case against her.   
      
   He is not being investigated for improperly disclosing his newly reopened   
   investigative case against Hillary Clinton on the eve of the 2016 election. Nor   
   is he being investigated for predetermining that Hillary Clinton was innocent   
   of   
   the charges of unlawfully transmitting confidential material before his own FBI   
   investigation was complete-and before Comey's FBI had even interviewed her.   
      
   He is not being investigated for tasking Peter Strzok to alter his own original   
   condemnation of Clinton's conduct by replacing the initial and correct term   
   "gross negligence," a phrase that denotes a federal crime, with "extreme   
   carelessness," which involves no criminal liability.   
      
   He is not being investigated for, nor charged with, birthing the entire   
   governmental role in the Russian collusion hoax that warped the 2016   
   presidential election and transition by his use of the discredited Christopher   
   Steele as an FBI confidant/source.   
      
   He is not being investigated for using the fraudulent Steele dossier as a   
   "central and essential" document to obtain a FISA court writ to improperly   
   surveil Carter Page-an act that even he later admitted was wrong.   
      
   He is not being investigated for stumbling upon a rock mosaic on a beach   
   arranged to read "8647" ("get rid of/remove Trump") and then on social media   
   nonchalantly posting that clear threat to injure/remove/eject the current   
   president.   
      
   He is not being investigated for stating to the country that it was unclear   
   whether Trump did or did not cavort with Moscow prostitutes-as alleged solely   
   by   
   the discredited, spurious Steele dossier, which he, as FBI director, knowingly   
   helped disseminate and knew was bogus.   
      
   Under Comey, the FBI used the fabulist Steele as a "confidential human source"   
   to produce his fantasies before firing him-only to later offer him a reported   
   "up to $1 million" to confirm anything in his dossier, in a vain bid to salvage   
   the FBI's rapidly eroding reputation.   
      
   He is not being charged with or investigated for not acting in 2016 on Hillary   
   Clinton's overt use of fabricated material to mask her own criminal exposure   
   and   
   siccing the FBI on her political opponent. Or, as the FBI itself put it of   
   Clinton's ruse: "US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan   
   concerning US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering   
   US elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private   
   email server."   
      
   He is not being investigated for attempting in 2017 to entrap or ambush   
   then-National Security Advisor designate retired Gen. Michael Flynn by sending   
   two FBI agents (including the ubiquitous Peter Strzok) to interview him-in   
   expectation-after Comey subordinate Andrew McCabe's disingenuous call to   
   mislead   
   Flynn into thinking he need not have a lawyer present-that Flynn would likely   
   be   
   naive and vulnerable without counsel.   
      
   Or, as Comey later bragged publicly about his gambit:   
      
   "We did not tell the White House, 'Hey, we're going to come talk to your guy.'   
   In a more organized administration, or a more experienced administration, they   
   would not have let that happen."   
      
   So Comey's problem is not really legal, at least not entirely.   
      
   It is moral and ethical. It is no exaggeration that no single person has been   
   more responsible than Comey for tarnishing the reputation of the FBI between   
      
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