by Jon Rappoport<\/p>\n
Where was the devastating revelation about Trump\u2019s crimes during James Comey\u2019s Congressional testimony yesterday?<\/p>\n
\u201cWho produced this stinker? Find out and fire him. I thought I was the head of a movie studio. Apparently, I\u2019m marketing sleeping pills. I conked out after watching five minutes of Comey\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
If James Comey\u2019s testimony before Congress yesterday were a Hollywood movie, and if the press weren\u2019t obliged to make a very big deal out of it, the studio that produced it would have shut it down and eaten the box office losses. The movie theaters would have been empty, except for a few stragglers getting out of the rain.<\/p>\n
We did learn that Comey leaked his \u201cmemo\u201d of a conversation with Trump (about the Michael Flynn investigation) to the press. So the FBI director is a leaker. And we only have Comey\u2019s word that his \u201cmemo\u201d notes were correct and accurate.<\/p>\n
Then Comey stated that Attorney General Loretta Lynch told him to call his investigation into Hillary Clinton\u2019s private email server a \u201cmatter,\u201d not an investigation. So the former Attorney General was a partisan Hillary supporter.<\/p>\n
Comey asserted that Trump \u201cpressured\u201d him to cease investigating Michael Flynn. Trump didn\u2019t order Comey to stop that probe. And Trump could have, because the president, in the chain of command, is over and above the Justice Department and the FBI. Oops. That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
Attorney Alan Dershowitz : \u201cComey confirmed that under our Constitution, the president has the authority to direct the FBI to stop investigating any individual. I paraphrase, because the transcript is not yet available: the president can, in theory, decide who to investigate, who to stop investigating, who to prosecute and who not to prosecute. The president is the head of the unified executive branch of government, and the Justice Department and the FBI work under him and he may order them to do what he wishes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a matter of law, Comey is 100 percent correct. As I have long argued, and as Comey confirmed in his written statement, our history shows that many presidents\u2014from Adams to Jefferson, to Lincoln, to Roosevelt, to Kennedy, to Bush 1, and to Obama\u2014have directed the Justice Department with regard to ongoing investigations. The history is clear, the precedents are clear, the constitutional structure is clear, and common sense is clear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Was Comey investigating Trump\u2019s \u201cRussia connections?\u201d Business Insider: \u201cPresident Donald Trump\u2019s private attorney, Marc Kasowitz, on Wednesday said his client felt \u2018completely and totally vindicated\u2019 by James Comey\u2019s prepared opening statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cComey\u2019s remarks, released Wednesday in advance of Thursday\u2019s Senate hearing, confirmed previous statements by Trump that Comey had told him three times that he was not personally being investigated amid the FBI\u2019s wide-ranging inquiry into Russian meddling in the election and the Trump campaign\u2019s possible ties to Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n
So\u2026where were Comey\u2019s revelations yesterday? Nowhere. Where were his explosive charges about Trump\u2019s crimes? Nowhere.<\/p>\n
Comey should really take a long vacation. He should disappear from public life for quite some time. He\u2019s embarrassing himself.<\/p>\n