Law-abiding Republicans should not fret because the DOJ declined the IG’s recommendation to indict James Comey for lying and leaking. They should even ignore the former G-man’s demands for apologies, because justice will be delivered by Attorney General William Barr. He is playing a long game because he suspects Obama-era appointees weaponized the CIA, DOJ and FBI.
In fact, Barr only agreed to run the Department of Justice because John Brennan, Loretta Lynch and Jim Comey were so obviously partisan. He also knows Washington inside-out and will indict the big fish when convictions are probable. His declination was wise: why prosecute Comey for leaking and lying when a DC jury of anti-Trump jurors won’t likely convict?
Barr sees the big picture where Comey’s “higher calling” self-defense is connected to Michelle Obama’s “when they go low, we go high” self-exaltation. Both virtuous claims hide a dark meta-message: the ends justify the means because we are morally superior. Barr is now joined by Lindsay Graham to preserve a nation of laws where no one is above the law.
The clever Comey is portraying himself as a whistle blower with a “higher calling” to encourage a friendly DC jury to view his lying and leaking as “liberal” patriotism. So what? Attorney General Barr intends to convict the Deep State criminals and knew all along the Mueller investigation and first IG report were sideshows.
It is imperative to preserve our constitutional republic that we punish un-elected bureaucrats, who betrayed blind justice to engineer a Clinton restoration and undermine a new President. To this end, the savvy Barr believes real criminal indictments will come after the next IG report (on FISA abuse) and when DOJ attorney John Durham is ready to prosecute for the violation of candidate Trump’s civil rights.
The FISA court grants warrants in secret to permit spying on spies – not drag US citizens into court. And, because defense attorneys cannot challenge counter-intelligence warrants, the FISA judges demand DOJ and FBI must certify in writing their evidence has been thoroughly vetted and is the whole truth. In fact, the court turned down the original FISA warrant application.
The relevant crime was the FBI’s re-application with details from the Steele dossier. Fired G-Man Andrew McCabe stated under oath to Congress no warrant would have been granted without the dossier. The re-application failed to disclose (1) the FBI had fired Steele for leaking, (2) the dossier had not been verified, and (3) the details were completely part of the Clinton campaign’s opposition research. Mind you, judges HATE lies and liars in their courts.
Jed Babbin identified in The American Spectator the laws John Durham suspects were violated: “law[s] that [he] is certain speak directly to what the CIA and FBI conspirators did; the civil rights laws.” Durham’s case must prove coordination between the CIA and/or FBI for political purposes. Under federal conspiracy law (Title 18 US Code Section 371) it is a felony to conspire to commit any other federal crime. Convictions bring a 5-year sentence.
Durham will then prove the conspirators acted to violate Trump’s civil rights when they willfully subjected Trump to the “deprivation of rights, privileges or immunities secured or protected by the constitution or US law” (Title 18 US Code Section 242). In short, the DOJ will allege that Obama-Clinton cronies conspired to intentionally deprive a Republican of his constitutional right to be fairly elected president. Such a crime will make Watergate look like a jay-walking offense.
Comey’s fingerprints are all over this conspiracy’s “smoking guns.” He willfully changed Clinton’s “investigation” to a “matter” and her “gross negligence” to “extreme carelessness.” He signed applications for FISA warrants. He admitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017 that Trump had talked to him about Flynn violating the Logan Act and not “about the broader investigation into Russia or links to his campaign.”
In other words, the “collusion and obstruction” memo Comey leaked via a friend to the New York Times was a myth to trigger the partisan Mueller investigation to oust a president who fairly won 63 million popular votes and 60% of the electoral college. It is probable Barr will make an example of the traitorous Comey. Anything less is to betray the ideals of by the people of the people for the people. Laws and electoral order must prevail.