Jim Comey illegally used private email account

Fired FBI director James Comey used his private Gmail account HUNDREDS OF TIMES to conduct sensitive government business. At least seven of those email messages were deemed so freaking sensitive by the Justice Department, they declined to release them.

Comey, who is capable of acting incredibly sincere while lying through his teeth repeatedly claimed in that sincere "Lordy, Lordy" way he has, that he only used his private account for "incidental" purposes and never for any classified information.

Dear Vladimir,
Those diagrams I promised you on the F-35 will be in tomorrow's email. Peace, brother--Love, Jimmy.

The Justice Department acknowledged in response to a FOIA request that Comey and his chief of staff spoke about business on about 1,200 pages of messages, 156 of which were obtained by The Post, and 1,200 obtained by Russia, North Korea and China.

The Cause of Action Institute, a conservative watchdog group, filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit for Comey's Gmail emails involving his FBI work.

The Justice Department nearly had a cow when they discovered that there were 1,200 pages of messages for Comey and his chief of staff that fell into that category.

Justice handed over the 156 but refused the release of the seven because they would "disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions."

Another 363 emails were withheld as they discussed privileged agency communications or out of personal privacy concerns.

The CEO fo Causeof Action slammed Comey for minimizing how he used his Gmail account. "Using private email to conduct official government business endangers transparency and accountability, and that is why we sued the Department of Justice," said John Vecchione.

"We're deeply concerned that the FBI withheld numerous emails citing FOIA's law enforcement exemptions. This runs counter to Comey's statements that his use of email was incidental and never involved any sensitive matters."

Great point--if Comey was telling the truth, why try to withhold the emails in the first place?

Ironically, on Oct. 7, 2015, Comey recognizes his hypocrisy of his agency investigating Hillary Clinton's email practices while he's exchanging FBI information on his own private account because his government account was down.

Two days after his "mobile is not sending emails," Comey asked an aide that the testimony he was to deliver to the Senate be sent on his private account, noting that it was an "embarrassing" situation.

"He [the aide] will need to send to personal email I suppose," Comey wrote. "Embarrassing for us."

Lisa Rosenberg, executive director of Open the Government, a nonpartisan coalition advocating for government transparency, said that Comey's practice of using personal email while investigating Clinton reeks of a double standard.

"It's just so transparently hypocritical to have one standard for a person you are investigating and an entirely different standard for yourself when you are the one who's enforcing the law," she said.

But that's like telling Jim Acosta to put the mic down.

The fact that Comey lied to the inspector general at Justice, and thumbed his nose at the public, should justify Justice seeking justice in this case.

Comey is not the Boy Scout he pretends to be. He is a full-blown liar and hypocrite. If he skates past these concerns, then there is a separate justice for those at the top.

More email release is expected soon.


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