Chris E. Swecker (seen in the below photo), a former assistant
director of the FBI, offers his take on James Comey’s actions, book and TV interview for
Foxnews.com
Through his actions during
his relatively brief tenure as FBI Director and now in penning and promoting a
salacious “tell all” book, it is now quite evident that James Comey’s higher
loyalty is to James Comey, and James Comey alone. It is not, by any stretch of
the imagination, to the FBI, where I served for 24 years, or to the selfless
men and women who work there – all of whom he has tossed, once again, into the
middle of a political firestorm.
The ancient Greeks had a word
for the excessive vanity that would cause someone to place his interests before
those of his country and those of the dedicated public servants he was called
to lead – it’s called hubris.
There is no other plausible
explanation for his series of ill-advised actions, beginning with the
then-director’s now-infamous press conference in July 2016, when he acted
contrary to 28 US Code Section 547, Section 9 of the United States Attorneys
Manual and over 100 years of established practice between the FBI and the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ). He did this in declaring, without ever consulting
with a DOJ prosecutor, that Hillary Clinton was un-prosecutable in the wake of
a kid gloves investigation.
His actions are unworthy of
the storied law enforcement agency I served for close to a quarter of a
century, and they shocked many of us who worked with and around him during his
years serving in the Department of Justice.
...The American system was
designed by our founding fathers to interject an objective party with legal
training between those who are investigating and those who decide whether to
invoke the legal process to deprive someone of his or her life, liberty or
property.
This brilliant system, which
Comey trashed, was designed to keep the FBI and other law enforcement agencies
out of politics. Now his book renews the controversy to the detriment of nearly
everyone but Jim Comey, who is clearly out to repair his tarnished reputation
and mete out some payback for his dismissal by President Trump.
Sunday’s interview on ABC –
and every action he has taken since usurping the role of the Justice Department
– has only thrust the FBI deeper into the political crucible. It has also
apparently reinforced Comey’s misplaced belief that he, and he alone, is better
equipped than anyone else in the criminal justice system to make important
decisions.
You can read the rest of the
piece via the below link:
No comments:
Post a Comment