Former FBI director James Comey remarked about the damage done to the FBI’s reputation saying: ‘That Damage Has Nothing To Do with Me’
Former FBI Director James Comey attacks a Fox News reporter, claims that he is in no way responsible for the damage that has been done to the FBI. pic.twitter.com/BMUX6NdlWr
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) December 17, 2018
But, if we take a look at the list below put together by the crew over at grabien.com, we can clearly see he has played a major part in the depletion of the FBI’s reputation.
Here is a list of 36 scandals James Comey is implicated in by grabien.com:
| At the DoJ, Comey relentlessly pursued a banker for financial charges; when he couldn’t find any criminality, he charged him with obstruction of justice “because of a single ambiguous email” (a conviction later overturned) | 09/01/2000 | The Federalist |
| During the Valerie Plame leak investigation, Comey demanded AG Ashcroft recuse himself for conflict of interest; he instead chose the godfather of his daughter, Patrick Fitzgerald, to run the probe | 09/26/2003 | The Wall Street Journal |
| Despite knowing who leaked Valerie Plame’s identity to a reporter, Comey tasked a special counsel to investigate the Bush Administration for years, eventually ensaring a non-leaker with a process charge | 09/26/2003 | The Federalist |
| As deputy AG, Comey badly bungled the anthrax investigation, largely destroying the life of an innocent man (who later won a large settlement against the feds) | 03/01/2004 | RealClearPolitics |
| As Bush’s deputy AG, Comey schemed to become the AG himself when Ashcroft was hospitalized; he did so to stop an NSA counterterror program and set himself up for future political career | 03/01/2004 | The Federalist |
| After Comey assumed for himself the role of attorney general, he did not tell President Bush | 03/02/2004 | The Federalist |
| Comey aggressively targeted Martha Stewart for insider trading; when he couldn’t find wrongdoing, he charged her for “having misled people by denying having committed a crime with which she was not charged” | 07/16/2004 | CATO Institute |
| As deputy AG, Comey used “bogus ‘secret’ information to entrap two lobbyists for the pro-Israel group” AIPAC; the case was later dropped, but not before two reputations were destroyed | 08/27/2004 | The Wall Street Journal |
| During Comey’s probe Valerie Plame probe, reporter Judith Miller was jailed for 85 days for refusing to divulge sources; she says crucial information was withheld from her | 06/27/2005 | The Wall Street Journal |
| During a 2007 hearing into the firings of U.S. attorneys, Comey coordinated with Sen. Schumer and Preet Bharara to make a surprise appearance and attack Gonzales with a (disputed) account | 05/24/2007 | The Federalist |
| After the NSA scandal exploded in 2013, Comey’s FBI was exposed conducting its own data mining on innocent Americans; the agency retains that material for decades (even if no wrongdoing is found) | 06/30/2013 | Bloomberg |
| The father of the radical Islamist who detonated a backpack bomb in New York City in 2016 alerted the FBI to his son’s radicalization but the FBI let him go | 08/28/2013 | NJ.com |
| Comey’s FBI was warned about the Boston bomber but let him go | 03/25/2014 | NBC News |
| In 2015, Comey’s FBI conducted a controversial raid on a Texas political meeting, finger printing, photographing, and seizing phones from attendees | 03/01/2015 | World Net Daily |
| Comey created diplomatic chaos with Poland after saying the country was an “accomplice” during the Holocaust. | 04/21/2015 | The Daily Mail |
| Comey was forced to apologize after an error in the FBI’s background check system allowed Dylann Roof to buy his gun | 07/10/2015 | The Atlantic |
| During the FBI’s Hillary probe, “A technician who destroyed evidence lied to FBI investigators even after he received immunity, and Comey did nothing” | 04/01/2016 | The Federalist; The Wall Street Journal |
| Comey promised transparency into the investigation into the Pulse Night Club terrorist, but almost immediately redacted from transcript the killer’s reference to Islam | 06/12/2016 | The Federalist |
| Comey’s FBI twice interviewed the Pulse Night Club terrorist but let him go | 06/13/2016 | The New York Times |
| Under Comey, the FBI blew its highest profile corruption investigations (into Sen. Ted Stevens); a federal judge blamed the “worst prosecutorial misconduct” he’d ever seen | 07/01/2016 | The Federalist |
| Under Comey, the FBI authorized informants to break the law 22,800 times in just four years | 08/23/2016 | The Daily Dot |
| During its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified material, the FBI made an unusual deal in which Clinton aides were both given immunity and allowed to destroy their laptops. | 10/03/2016 | Fox News |
| Comey’s FBI was embedded with the ISIS-affiliated terrorists who struck the ‘Draw Mohammad’ event but failed to act | 03/26/2017 | CBS News |
| Comey claimed in Senate testimony he didn’t feel compelled to memorialize his meetings with presidents besides Trump; however, that’s untrue | 06/10/2017 | Powerline |
| James Comey’s Trump memos contained classified information, likely meaning he violated his own agencies security protocols | 07/09/2017 | The Hill |
| Comey drafted an exoneration statement for Hillary Clinton months before the FBI even investigated her | 10/16/2017 | Newsweek |
| Under Comey, the FBI’s database for gun buyers lost millions of records | 11/10/2017 | The Washington Post |
| Under Comey, the FBI’s case against Cliven Bundy was destroyed after the feds were caught deliberately withholding evidence | 12/21/2017 | The Oregonian |
| Sexual misconduct was rampant at the FBI under Comey’s watch, with at least 14 agents sanctioned | 02/25/2018 | The Daily Caller |
| Comey’s FBI blew its case against Omar Mateen’s wife due to agents’ misconduct | 04/03/2018 | USA Today |
| Agent Peter Strzok was considered so hostile to Trump, Robert Mueller dropped him from the Russia probe; Comey, however, found him fit to lead the Clinton probe | 04/17/2018 | RealClearPolitics |
| On the FBI’s Hillary probe, Comey claimed there was no coordination between the DoJ and FBI, but texts and emails later showed that to be untrue | 04/19/2018 | The Washington Examiner |
| Comey’s memos reveal that he briefed Trump on the Steele dossier specifically so it would leak to the media | 04/20/2018 | The Federalist |
| The memos Comey leaked contained classified material, prompting the DoJ inspector general to investigate his illegal leak | 04/20/2018 | The Wall Street Journal |
| During the Hillary probe, the FBI lost track of Hillary’s server for months | 05/05/2018 | Jack Posobiec |
| During his book tour, Comey claimed he didn’t know the FBI thought Michael Flynn believed he was telling the truth | 05/14/2018 | Townhall |
Source: James Comey: The Biggest Scandals and Controversies in His Career
Report by Monique Jameson for MilneNews.com
