Trump, Comey, CHIP grants and Four Minutes With Forsha - The Highland County Press

After reading a news release from U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley this weekend, maybe those critical of President Trump over his firing of former FBI Director James Comey might want to reconsider.

Or not.

After all, liberals tend to be experts on things they know nothing about.

The senator’s release, co-signed by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (no supporter of Trump), seems to reveal that Comey had formed his conclusion in the Hillary Ramrod Clinton probe before completing interviews with key witnesses. Good police work, G-man.

Grassley and Graham are requesting documents linked to a Hatch Act investigation. The Hatch Act prohibits government employees from using their official position to influence an election.

The senators say that transcripts reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee reveal that Comey began drafting an exoneration statement in the Clinton email investigation before the FBI had interviewed key witnesses – while Clinton was running for president.

“Conclusion first, fact-gathering second – that’s no way to run an investigation,” the senators wrote in a letter to the FBI. “The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy.”

I agree. But surely the liberal progressives out there will disagree. (On a side note, funny thing about “progressives.” Former Ohio Republican Gov. James Rhodes ran as a “progressive” back in the day.)

The senators allege that Comey “began drafting a statement to announce the conclusion of the Clinton email investigation in April or May of 2016, before the FBI interviewed up to 17 key witnesses, including Clinton and several of her closest aides. The draft statement also came before the Department entered into immunity agreements with Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson where the Department agreed to a very limited review of Clinton’s emails and to destroy their laptops after review.”

The senators continue: “In an extraordinary July 2016 announcement, Comey exonerated Clinton despite noting: ‘There is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information.’”

When I watched Comey’s announcement on television last year, I remember thinking that the build-up to the possible attorney general indictment might be too good to be true. It was.

After making a case against Clinton for several minutes, Comey did an about-face and said there would be no prosecution of the former carpetbagging first lady from Arkansas, senator from New York and secretary of state from Washington, D.C.

Comey appeared to me to be a self-appointed investigator, judge and jury. That’s not the way our system ought to work. But when it works that way in Washington, why are we not surprised when it works that way on the state and local levels?

Good riddance to Comey. Chalk one up for President Trump.
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