James Comey Does a Cersei Lanister!

Yesterday F. B. I. Director James Comey’s announced that Hillary Clinton will not be indicted for her feckless use of unsecured emails for secured material.  It took less than two hours for Hillary’s talking heads to castigate Comey for stepping out of his pew and giving up the details of her misconduct.
            Listening to Comey’s speech, I was put in mind of the last episode of this season’s Game of Thrones series.  A main character, Cersie Lanister, who seems to have been maneuvered into a corner, takes things into her own hands and destroys her foe and all of his henchmen in one unexpected conflagration.  Enter James B. Comey, seventh Director of the F.B.I.
            Comey is from Yonkers.  He worked his way up to assistant director at the Department of Justice, then left the DOJ in 2005 for private practice and remained there until 2013 when President Obama appointed him as director of the F.B.I.  He has seen the world of government and the world of business and worked successfully in both.  That means he has learned what a pile of crap looks like no matter what wrapper it wears. 
            Here is the crap Comey has looked at in the last few weeks.  His boss, President Obama, endorsed Clinton for President despite her being under investigation for an indictable offense.  Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton had an ex parte conversation which clearly had Hillary’s personal ambitions at their core.  Bill would have been waving his now famous finger in Lynch’s face and Lynch (like every other woman in this administration) dutifully putting on the Obama burqa and let Comey know that it was time for him to fall in line.
            But, like Cersei, Comey decided that he had another option.  He could tell the truth while appearing to follow the party line.  Take a look at these quotes from Comey’s speech:

1.      I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say.

2.     …110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent…

3.     …there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

4.     …we also developed evidence that the security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified e-mail systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information found elsewhere in the government.

5.     To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions.

6.     But that is not what we are deciding now.  As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.

7.     Only facts matter, and the FBI found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional way. I couldn’t be prouder to be part of this organization.

Hillary deliberately set up a system of e-communication designed to shield her activities (no little blue dress for this gal!) at the cost of national security.  Such a person cannot be trusted with the Presidency.  The Democratic leadership should try to find a better American as their nominee.

Hypocrisy does not keep the faith.