Incompetent Comey admits being cluelessly 'overconfident'

Well Lordy Lordy, former incompetent FBI Director James Comey admitted on "Fox News Sunday" that he was "overconfident" in his defense of the FBI's use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and that the American public was right to judge him a clueless overachiever. It only took him two years, but I think we all know why.

Isn't the job of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate before coming to conclusions?

Comey's admission comes just a few days after Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report and testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee which detailed his concerns that 17 "significant errors and omissions" by the FBI's team when they applied for a FISA warrant to monitor Carter Page, Trump's campaign adviser.  

Horowitz referred “the entire chain of command” to the FBI and DOJ for “how to assess and address their performance failures” during the probe, which was conducted while Comey was in charge and apparently sat on his thumb, being totally oblivious of what his people were doing to subvert the Trump campaign. Thus, Comey is either incompetent, a liar who was involved in the process of undermining a presidential campaign, or both. But to believe he had no clue as to what his agency was doing is naive. 

"He's right, I was wrong," Comey said about how the FBI used the FISA process, adding, "I was overconfident as director in our procedures."

Overconfident or complicit in a partisan attack on Trump and his team?

Horowitz did say that he believes the FBI's Russian investigation and possible Trump campaign connections was initiated properly. But he also admitted that this assessment is based on a "low threshold." In other words, he may have asked a subject in the investigation "were you biased against Trump?" and the response was "no," and that was as far as it went insofar as testimony or documentary evidence was concerned. He admitted, however, that the issue of bias "gets murkier" regarding the FISA application process.

Ya think?

It was the unverified "dossier" gathered by former British spy Christopher Steele that the FBI relied on for the FISA application. This fake report was financed by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee as part of opposition research and was conducted by Fusion GPS, a firm where Nellie Ohr, the wife of high-ranking FBI agent Bruce Ohr worked.

Horowitz’s report stated that government attorneys were hesitant to approve a FISA warrant application until they relied on the bull crap report from Steele. That information also was used in subsequent renewals for the FISA warrant.

Meanwhile, Comey was still sitting on his thumb and writing his own version of the Bible, pausing only on occasion to take long walks in the woods while sharing his "[Valley Girl"] upspeaking wisdom to the trees.

The former incompetent FBI director downplayed the role of Steel's information in obtaining the FISA warrant against Page, claiming Sunday that it was "not a huge part of the presentation to the court," although recognizing that "it was the one that convinced the lawyers" to move forward.

He claimed he had not misstated the relevance of Steele's information, which he absolutely did, but said "if I was then I'm sorry that I did that."

Imagine Comey in an orange jumpsuit. That day may never come, but it's a comforting image.

Who took the photo?

The most disgusting part in all this business with the FBI and FISA warrant is how the agency omitted the exculpatory information about Page that probably would have made a difference to the judge who misjudged the veracity of the FBI. And this includes a purposeful omission by an attorney who was found to have altered an email to lie about Page, saying that he was not a CIA source, when in fact he was. Of course, this would have justified his contact with Russia, but the judge never knew that tidbit.

After the report was made public, Comey claimed that he was fully vindicated and that criticism of the report about the FBI's actions "was all lies." But at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing when Horowitz was asked about whether the FBI was vindicated, he replied, "I think the activities we found here don't vindicate anybody who touched this FISA."

On Sunday, Comey claimed that the FBI did not intentionally commit wrongdoing, but described the FBI's failures as "real sloppiness." He said that "in general" he was unaware of "the particulars of the investigation" when it was going on, but said that as the person at the head of the FBI at the time, it still falls on him, which is his way of saying, "Lordy. It's kind of my fault, but it isn't really my fault in a direct sense."

"I was responsible for this," he said, adding, "squirrel, look, squirrel!"

I doubt he will be held accountable other than a bruised ego. Same goes for Hillary Clinton, but in her case, she will be unscathed because one must have a sense of ethics and morality to get one's ego bruised.

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