I really don’t have anything to add, except to repeat his words: James Comey should resign TODAY.
There ARE still people in the News Media who are willing to speak truth to power, but they aren’t working for the New York Times or broadcast or cable News stations anymore.
They are reporting from Mother Jones, Rolling Stone and GQ Magazine.
We truly are living in the Twilight Zone.
For those without ability to listen to or play the video, I will be adding the transcript in pieces.
TRANSCRIPT:
This is Monday, October 31st, and this is The Closer, I’m Keith Olbermann
Donald Trump is for once, correct. It is worse than Watergate. And as in Watergate, the Director of the FBI must resign. First he must retract his statement, then resign.
There are only two alternatives here. Jame B Comey either knowingly tried to tamper with a presidential election, 11 days out, on a hint of a possibility of a rumor of an inference of a chance of Clinton emails that reportedly aren’t from Clinton and aren’t to Clinton, which his bureau had not bothered to tell him about nor gotten a warrant for until last night — OR — James B Comey had no idea that his statement would impact a presidential election in such a way that there would not be a chance to disprove the negative he threw against the wall like the shit, by all accounts, it is.
In the former case, Comey, once that rarest of individuals, the non-partisan legal hero from the Bush Administration, is a criminal, who has desperately and personally and at the last minute, tried to deliver this country and it’s 240 years of democracy into the hands of a self-obsessed, compulsively lying fascist, with no respect nor interest in anyone or anything besides himself and no understanding of the real world and the billions of people he could kill in a fit of pique over something sombody would say about him on TV.
In the later case, Comey is merely criminally stupid. A man who did not foresee that his actions were the equivalent of crying “fire” in a theater, without saying which theater he means and with no evidence that there is any fire anywhere.
Regardless of which, stupidity or criminality, his viability as the head of the FBI ended the moment he sent his note last Friday to, among others, the Chairman of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — who should also resign, today.
Because this is far worse than just an FBI Director swinging the mighty weight of his Bureau against one presidential candidate while refusing to confirm that the Bureau is even investigating the other presidential candidate and his staff, and his former staff, for it’s manifestly obvious ties to Russian propaganda and disinformation.
Far worse than that.
The actions of the Chairman of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, before and after Comey’s letter, imply either collusion or guesswork on the part of the Chairman that rises to the level of extra-sensory perception.
Because on Friday, on Saturday, yesterday and even this morning, the timeline of how that Chairman, Mr. Chaffetz of Utah, former wrinkle-cream spokesman, came to know about the investigation has been almost utterly ignored, and that timeline is at best disturbing.
On the night of Friday, October 7th, hours after the release of the Access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump boasting about his preferred methods for sexual assault, Representative Chaffetz spoke of his fifteen year old daughter.
Quote: “Do you think I can look her in the eye and tell her that I endorsed Donald Trump for president when he acts like this? And his apology? That was no apology. That was an apology for getting caught. So I’m not gonna put my good name and my reputation and my family behind Donald Trump for president when he acts like this. I just can’t do it.”
The morality of Chairman Chaffetz lasted exactly 19 days. At 9:05 pm Eastern Daylight Time last Wednesday night (the) 26th, Mr. Chaffetz, out of nowhere, suddenly Tweeted again.
So much for Mr. Chaffetz’s fifteen year old daughter.
Sometime around noon last Friday, Mr. Chaffetz received his communication from FBI Director Comey, about a hint of a possibility of a rumor of am inference of a chance of Clinton emails that aren’t from Clinton and aren’t to Clinton, which his bureau had not bothered to tell him about nor gotten a warrant for until last night.
Immediately after receiving Comey’s Ode to Vagueness, Mr. Chaffetz put two essential, critical and devastating words into Mr. Comey’s mouth.
At 12:57 pm Eastern Daylight Time, last Friday the 28th, 39 hours and 52 minutes after he repudiated his own moral stance and declared his support for this Trump, Chaffetz Tweeted…
That, of course, is not what Comey said. Mr. Comey did not say he had re-opened the case. Of all the pernicious, anti-FBI, anti-American, anti-democracy things James B Comey did last Friday — and before — saying he had re-opened this case was not one of them.
Jason Chaffetz said that. And that made it easy for people to think that Comey had legally re-opened this case. And then Donald Trump said that, and lied. And then television, with the exception of my former colleague, the noble Pete Williams of NBC, said that and broadcast that lie.
And then newspapers, with almost no exceptions, from left and right said that and printed that lie. And by the time they started backtracking, the toothpaste was outta the tube. Except that this was probably imaginary toothpaste.
If we take Director Comey at his word, he had no idea, he still has no idea. His agents reportedly knew of the emails at the beginning of October yet he did not get a warrant until last night.
He may not have the slightest idea, before the election. And he has nothing with which to undo his malfeasance or mis-feasance or betrayal of the democratic process.
But ignore not Chaffetz.
Why, after nearly three weeks of righteous indignation at Trump’s barbarism towards women, indeed, towards people. Why, late Wednesday night did he suddenly pivot back to supporting Trump? Why did he reverse, 36 hours before Comey’s historically, slovenly, craven note that left Pandora’s Box unjustly unlocked, so that a sniveling little coward like Chaffetz could peek inside and then deliberately exaggerate what he saw and then fuel Donald Trump’s latest delusional rage?
Most assuredly, Jason Chaffetz is a prophet worthy of his religion’s Joseph Smith — OR — he is the recipient of an accident of timing so unlikely as to be biblical — OR — he knew, or suspected he knew, that Comey’s note was coming.
However would he have found out about that?
FBI agents who reportedly knew, an FBI Director who was suddenly, reportedly, terrified of leaks, and if Chaffetz knew that Comey’s note was coming, then he and Comey or other sources in the FBI have colluded to try and manipulate the election.
In which case, Mr. Chaffetz and Mr. Comey may need the best criminal defense attorneys money may procure.
And if Chaffetz knew Comey’s note was coming, did he also tell Trump?
And who can clear this up a week and a day before the most important election since the Civil War?
Oh, and that fifteen year old daughter Mr. Chaffetz isn’t so worried about anymore? She has far more to worry about right now than listening to the psychopath Trump boasting about grabbing pussy. Because she may soon be looking for a paternity test to prove Jason Chaffetz is not her father. Because he and James Comey may have been the linchpins in a plot to turn over this country, by treachery, to Donald Trump.
And it is a plot that indeed, as Trump boasted, is worse than Watergate.
That’s The Closer, I’m Keith Olbermann. Watch this space.
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