While many are asking questions about why James Comey was fired as FBI director, I think a much better question is, “How on earth did he ever get the job in the first place?”
Once one figures out the answer to that question, it’s easy to understand why he was fired and the kind of cushy, highly compensated position he will almost surely secure in the not-too-distant future.
How many Americans understand what Comey was doing before he got appointed FBI director?
I don’t think one in 10,000 know.
So, let’s start there.
Comey was a politically connected lawyer. The closest experiences he had to actual law enforcement were very short stints as a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he served as a colleague to future Attorney General Loretta Lynch, lasting less than a year. He served as a U.S. deputy attorney general for less than two years. But he was in that position long enough to ensure Clinton adviser Sandy Berger would get off the hook for stealing and destroying classified records from the National Archives. The documents were relevant to accusations the Clinton administration was negligent in the build-up to the 9/11 terrorist attack.
After that, Comey got a job as general counsel and senior vice president of Lockheed Martin at a salary of $6 million a year. That same year, the defense contractor became a major Clinton Foundation donor. Coincidence? Maybe. But Comey’s brother, Peter, works for DLA Piper, an accounting firm that performed the “independent audit” of the Clinton Foundation in 2015. The firm also is No. 5 on the top contributors list the Clinton Foundation, just ahead of Goldman Sachs.
How close are the brothers? In 2011, James granted brother Peter a $712,500 mortgage loan on his house.
From Lockheed Martin, James Comey became general counsel for Bridgewater Associates and later a senior research scholar at Columbia Law School and, most importantly, was appointed in 2013 to the board of directors of one of the largest and most corrupt banks in the world – HSBC. It should be noted that a year before Comey accepted the position, WND had reported documented accusations by an HSBC whistleblower the bank was involved in massive money-laundering schemes for terrorists and drug cartels. The accusations led a Justice Department investigation headed by Loretta Lynch that resulted in a $1.2 billion fine – a prosecution widely criticized for being too soft on the bank. No one was fired. No one went to jail.
Lynch’s later nomination by Barack Obama to be attorney general would be held up for Senate confirmation as she was questioned her on her role in the case.
Parenthetically, it’s worth mentioning that WND’s explosive series of exposes on HSBC resulted in retribution by the bank. Access to one of the stories was temporarily and illegally blocked for a period of hours at the demand of the powerful bank.
This was the financial institution to which Comey would serve as a director less than a year later. A few months after that, he was appointed FBI director by Barack Obama.
Those were his credentials. That was his resume. Those were his qualifications.
He was never a cop. He was never a detective. He was never an investigator.
But he was clearly an Obama guy – and probably recommended for the job by his old colleague Loretta Lynch.
The rest is history, as they say.
So, what is my prediction for his soft landing after getting the boot as FBI director?
He will find himself in a very lucrative position – maybe even back at HSBC – where he can lend his impeccable establishment credentials to the cover-up of crime, corruption and crookedness.
Just a hunch.
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