The former FBI Director fired for looking into Russian interference in our election finally speaks — and passes the investigative baton to his old friend Robert Mueller.
In the most manifestly heartfelt moment of his testimony, James Comey spoke as a true and passionate patriot about the Russian effort to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
“Nobody tells us what to think, what to fight about… except for other Americans, but we had a foreign government…try to shape the way we think, we vote, we act…which is a big deal,” he told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
He went on, “It’s not about Democrats and Republicans. They are coming after America, which I hope we all love equally.”
The question left for the country is why all those who profess to love America do not share Comey’s outrage.
That includes Trump supporters, even though the Russian effort benefitted their candidate.
That also includes President Trump himself, even though he was the intended beneficiary of that effort.
In pressing Comey to drop the investigation into a “good guy” like Mike Flynn, Trump may simply not have understood the rules are different from when he was wheeling and dealing in New York real estate.
But any true American should be roused to fury by the thought that a foreign power would seek to subvert the democracy that makes us who we are.
How can Trump talk about making America great again and try to dismiss such subversion as just Fake News concocted by a bunch of sore losers?
As Comey and virtually everybody else in the know asserts, the Russian effort was the realest of news.
“There should be no fuzz on this whatsoever,” Comey declared.
“The Russians interfered in our election during 2016 cycle. They did it with purpose. They did it with sophistication. They did it with overwhelming technical efforts. It was an active measures campaign driven from the top of that government. There is no fuzz on that. Community and members of this committee have seen the intelligence. It’s not a close call. That happened.”http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-return-of-james-comey-patriot