There is a very bad television show on television these days called Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. A weak spinoff from the highly successful Criminal Minds show that is now ending its twelfth year on CBS, the Beyond Borders version tries to replace strong characterizations with travelogues and requires that the viewer be foolishly gullible. Any similarity between that program and the actual responsibilities of American Federal Bureau of Investigation agents abroad is purely coincidental.
And it was seeing FBI Director James Comey before the Senate Judicial Committee the other day reminded us of the further fictions of the fallible FBI. Since the days of Director J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI has been a failed and fallacious organization that sucks the blood of America rather than serving its people. Hoover was a warped and devious director who was more interested in gaining advantage for himself than any concept of service to the country. Comey seems no better.
And why Comey has not been dismissed from his position is an indictment of the American system of justice. There is no question that his interference in the election in October 2016 propelled Donald Trump into the presidency. In the face of Clinton’s healthy lead in the election, Comey deliberately interfered to help Trump. Despite the votes of three million more American voters than Trump, Clinton lost the Electoral College and the presidency.
Both Director Comey and his victim Hillary Clinton consider that Russia’s involvement was also harmful but no clear proof of this has been made public.
It was the combination of the Trump tribes’ idiotic cadence of “Lock her up,” Comey’s false charges and Clinton’s inability to shake the suspicions that ultimately took her down to her core vote—leaving enough for Trump to win.
If Clinton is true to her disappointed supporters, she has only herself to blame. Trump was the neophyte during the campaign and she constantly struggled to figure out the best way to handle him. If she had settled on a basic strategy in the beginning when she saw why Trump won the Republican nod and stuck with that strategy, she would have won easily.
Instead, she treated Trump as a politician. Her realization too late that even he did not expect to win could only serve to confuse her campaign.
Clinton’s main regret in losing was most likely that she lost the privilege of signing the executive order to fire James Comey.
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