Click here for an article by Digby (Heather Parton) at Salon entitled "So much for the “upstanding” James Comey: The FBI director’s long career as preening partisan hack."
Some of us are anything but surprised [at Comey's Clinton-damaging letter regarding the Weiner/Abadein emails]. Liberals who lived through the ’90s and the endless Whitewater probe that went nowhere met President Barack Obama’s appointment of James Comey as director of the FBI with a primal scream of “Are you kidding me?” It was inconceivable that, just as former president Bill Clinton had foolishly appointed a Republican FBI director, Louis Freeh, who saw it as his primary duty to investigate a president he did not respect, a Democratic president was appointing a GOP lawyer to the same job 20 years later in an even more toxic political environment.
And:
Comey is the first FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover to flout institutional processes, ignore scientific data and independently wield his authority however he chooses ....
Comey doesn’t resemble Hoover in temperament or background. But law enforcement and justice officials have for years worried that his independent, authoritarian style was dangerous, making him politically unassailable in the same way that Hoover was back in the bad old days. Legal luminaries like longtime Department of Justice official Philip Heymann, ex-attorney general Eric Holder and numerous other former federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials have objected to his latest action.
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