Why should anyone believe James Comey? Some quotes from a new book, by WP reporter Devlin Barrett, that covers Comey's conduct in Trump-Russia and Clinton email investigations in October 2016: 1/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…
"At key moments involving the Clinton or Russia cases, Comey's version of events is starkly at odds with accounts provided by DOJ officials. 'It's not that there's an outright lie in it, but the meaning gets all mangled,' opined one former senior DOJ official." 2/6
"By mid-2016, Justice Department officials had come to suspect Comey viewed himself as the most moral, ethical actor in any room he was in..." 3/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…
"Much later, several of them came to believe [Comey's] sense of moral superiority was driven in part by viewing even straightforward conversations with his superiors in a sinister light." 4/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…
Might that apply to any other Comey conversations? Perhaps his one-on-one talks with Trump? The famed Comey memos? Mangled meanings? Viewing conversations with superiors in a sinister light? Imagine that! 5/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…
Yet even as Comey's colleagues behind the scenes viewed his word with skepticism, media treated his descriptions of one-on-one talks with Trump as gold standard of credibility. Link: Why should anyone believe James Comey? 6/6 End washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…
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