James Comey Still Thinks He Did Nothing Wrong —

Former FBI Director James Comey spent years utilizing the FBI as a political weapon — and on Sunday, he confirmed up on NBC‘s “Meet the Press” going through a second federal indictment to clarify why everybody else is the issue.

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Comey was indicted last month on two felony counts associated to an Instagram post that includes seashells organized to read “86 47,” which prosecutors say was “a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the president of the United States.” He shortly deleted the post after it ignited a firestorm. He declined to talk about the specifics of the case, but had no drawback taking a shot at Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. 

Blanche beforehand told Welker the case was about “a body of evidence” collected over roughly 11 months — not just one post. Comey’s response was to lecture him about speaking an excessive amount of.

“I don’t talk about the case because the federal court rules require you not. I would urge the Acting Attorney General to bone up on the rules.”

As for the post itself, he defended it by noting he is now a personal citizen who makes use of Instagram “the way any awkward, nerdy dad would.” The post was not a image of brunch, however. It was “86 47,” slang for getting rid of somebody, according to prosecutors, aimed at the forty seventh president. 

Despite going through two indictments from the same system, he insisted he still has “complete faith” in the judicial system, calling it “the only leg” of the three-branch authorities stool that is “still standing.” He also repeated his public declare of innocence, telling Welker: “I’m not just not guilty, I am innocent, and so let’s go.”

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Welker pressed him on his determination to reopen the Hillary Clinton electronic mail investigation 11 days before the 2016 election, a call that Democrats have never forgiven and Republicans have never forgotten. Comey acknowledged errors during his tenure but stood by the big ones. He said he’d do it again.

“But again, we made the decision because it was the least-bad option. Both options sucked, honestly. But this was the one most consistent with the values of the department. So as painful as it is, I’d have to do the same thing again.”

That reply is not going to fulfill Democrats who still blame him for sinking Clinton, nor Republicans who bear in mind him as the person who handed the Russia probe to Robert Mueller. His reply, as always, was that he did the onerous but vital factor.

On the query of political payback, he was more direct. He declined to remark on the current “shell case” — his phrases — but had no such hesitation about the prior indictment, which a choose threw out after ruling that appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan had been unlawfully positioned in her place.

“The president of the United States cannot use the Justice Department to target people because he wants to retaliate against them. We just can’t operate as a republic if that happens.”

That’s a outstanding line from a man whose FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into a sitting president’s marketing campaign based on what his own inspector common later called a flawed and biased course of.

He declared the Justice Department “seriously broken at the top” while urging profession staff to “hang on” for another two and a half years, until, presumably, a friendlier administration arrives. “We need good people in those roles. America does,” he said.

The interview was traditional Comey: would not talk about the indictment, besides to criticize the people bringing it; would not concede a lot on 2016, besides that the choices have been unhealthy; would not categorical confidence in the current DOJ, besides for the staff ready out the clock.

For a man who insists the courtroom is the right venue, he still had an terrible lot to say on national tv.

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