24-Year FBI Veteran Chris Swecker: Comey Let Politics “Infect” Investigation
With his conduct, Comey set in motion a cascading set of events that resulted in the FBI becoming a pawn in a political firestorm. He justified making up his own rules because he felt righteous.
ONAN COCA
FREEDOMOUTPOST.COM
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Chris Swecker is a 24-year veteran of the FBI who recently excoriated former FBI Director James Comey for the manner in which he led the agency.
Over the weekend, Swecker penned an op-ed detailing just how destructive Comey was for the FBI.
It pains me – as a former FBI executive who loves and respects the organization – to say that Comey’s short tenure at the FBI has proven to be the worst thing to happen to the agency since L. Patrick Gray withdrew his nomination for FBI Director and resigned from the Bureau during the Watergate scandal…
The 2016 FISA approvals in question were signed by none other than FBI Director Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The buck stops there. They were the top two officials in the FBI at the time.
McCabe, enabled by Comey, created an attitude among his inner circle that flaunted well- established laws and regulations. Comey usurped the role of the Justice Department in publicly exonerating Hillary Clinton from wrongdoing in her handling of government emails when she was secretary of state.
At the same time, Comey took highly conflicted Attorney General Loretta Lynch off the hook to formally recuse herself from the Hillary Clinton probe as a result of Lynch’s own inexcusable and inept conduct in meeting former President Bill Clinton while his wife was under Justice Department and FBI investigation.
With his conduct, Comey set in motion a cascading set of events that resulted in the FBI becoming a pawn in a political firestorm. He justified making up his own rules because he felt righteous.
In effect, Swecker says that Comey simply made up his own rules about how things would be run at the FBI and in the process ignored the many guidelines and processes by which the FBI normally operates.
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