No one ever said the wheels of American justice turn quickly, with 65-year-old Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) inviting 60-year-old former FBI Director James Comey to testify before his committee. Comey won’t likely testify voluntarily without a subpoena because he wouldn’t be in friendly territory. When Comey testified in the House Intelligence Committee March 20, 2018, 60-year-old Chairman Adam Schiff fed him all the answers, looking to confirm that 74-year-old President Donald Trump colluded with Moscow to win the 2016 election. Comey was in friendly territory with Schiff but not so any longer with Graham. Graham wants to catch Comey in a lie about signing off in 2017 on warrant in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court to wiretap Former Trump campaign aid Carter Page. Comey told Schiff he did nothing wrong investigating Trump.
Comey gave Schiff everything he wanted to implicate Trump in Russian conspiracy to cheat in the 2016 election. Comey agreed heartily with Schiff who made the former FBI director a Democrat hero, despite the fact he was hated by 72-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for sabotaging her only 10 days before the Nov. 4, 2016 election. Playing with Hillary’s email scandal told you everything would needed to know about Comey’s ego at a time he had influence over the 2016 election. Graham wants Comey to testify under oath and explain why he sought a warrant from the FISA Court knowing he gave them discredited probable cause. Recently declassified documents show that the underlying source for Hillary’s paid opposition research AKA “the Steele” dossier was discredited by the FBI in January 2017, months before Comey signed off on the warrant.
Comey’s denied that he didn’t have proper probable cause to investigate the Trump campaign in 2016. When 70-year-old Atty. Gen. William Barr said April 19, 2019 that Comey spied on the Trump campaign, the former FBI director acted dumfounded. “With respect to Barr’s comments, I really don’t know what he’s talking about when he’s talking about spying on the campaign, so I can’t really react substantively,” Comey said April 11. Comey’s likely to repeat the same nonsense when or if he testifies before Graham’s Judiciary Committee. “If you want to find common ground between Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham, we all think James Comey was a disaster,” Graham said. Graham doesn’t buy Comey’s argument that his counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign was properly predicated because former FISA Court Chief Judge denounced the FBI.
Graham wants Comey to explain why he opened up a counterintelligence investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign. “So I am going to give him a chance to explain to the country about Crossfire Hurricane—one of the most corrupt investigations in the history of the FBI,” Graham said. Comey justified his actions, insisting he had more probable cause to investigate Trump than the discredited Steele Dossier. Comey has refused to share what other evidence he presented to the FISA Court to get warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials. Graham said that Comey signed a warrant to wiretap Page in April 2017, months after the sub-source of the Steele Dossier disavowed its contents as unreliable. Comey never informed the FISA Court that his allegations against Trump’s campaign had been discredited, instead used the Steele Dossier to mislead the FISA Court.
Signing the warrant to wiretap Page in April 2017, Graham wants Comey to say he knew nothing about the sub-source to the Steele Dossier. Comey was dumbfounded by Barr saying he spied on the Trump campaign because Comey believed he had every right to investigate the Trump campaign based on his probable cause. When Comey said April 11, 2017 he couldn’t respond of Barr saying he spied on the Trump campaign, Comey insisted he had every right to investigate Trump’s campaign based on the best evidence at the time. Graham wants Comey to testify to prove he had no probable cause for his counterintelligence investigation other that the Steele dossier, given to him by the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) in July 2016. McCain was part of the “Never Trumpers,” doing anything to sabotage Trump’s campaign. McCain and Comey knew at the time that Hillary’s Steele Dossier was not verified.
Comey’s argument that he had ample probable cause to investigate Trump in July 2016 based on Hillary’s Steele Dossier doesn’t add up. Declassified FBI documents show that the Steele Dossier was officially discredited by its “sub-source” in January 2017, even though Comey went to Former FISA Court Chief Judge Rosemary Collyer April 11, 2017. Graham wants to hear Comey justify his Crossfire Hurricane investigation when he knew the Steele Dossier sub-source admitted that the information was hearsay and “bar-room gossip.” “You got a lot to say, James Comey. Come in under oath and say it,” Graham taunted the former FBI Director. Trump fired Comey May 7, 2017, referring to Comey as a “dirty cop” for wiretapping his campaign without any probable cause. Comey once insisted that he had all the probable cause needed to investigate the Trump campaign, now he says he’s subject of a political witch hunt.
