James Comey, the fired FBI director, has for the past 2 years since his firing been making the rounds as a sage while hawking his book, “A Higher Loyalty”. Should he be accorded unquestioned esteem? Rod Rosenstein thinks otherwise. Take a look.
Rosenstein has been muzzled by his official and professional responsibilities as Deputy Attorney General while Comey makes the rubber chicken circuit. A few days ago in a CNN townhall, the dispatched FBI Director, wrapping himself in a messianic aura, smeared the retired Deputy AG as a person lacking in “strong character”. Well, Rosenstein is no longer manacled by his job and can fight back. The self-anointed prophet of God, Comey, may turn out to be a three-card-monte scammer.
Rosenstein presents a Comey who got out in front of his skis, probably due to Comey’s inflated self-regard. With Comey, investigators are prosecutors. He did this twice in the heat of the 2016 presidential election when he announced the non-prosecution of Hillary and then publicly resuscitated the investigation of her. The word “Investigation” after “Federal”, “Bureau”, and “of” will have to be replaced by “Prosecution”. But admittedly FBP doesn’t have the same ring as FBI.
A higher loyalty? Comey’s higher loyalty may not ascend much above the person looking back at him in the mirror. Somehow the ancient Greek story of Narcissus keeps coming to mind.
RogerG