One little item from Comey’s recent congressional questioning is astonishingly lawyerly, even for him. Then-chief of staff Reince Priebus asked Comey whether a conversation they were about to have was private. Comey said it was, despite the fact that he would write a memo about their talk and it would — of course — make it into the press. Asked by Rep. Trey Gowdy about how he used the word “private,” Comey answered that he meant he and Priebus were the only two people in the room.
As if that was what Priebus wanted to know.
Comey is not so careful about parsing terms when he blasts Trump and calls for his defeat. He is acting under extreme provocation, but he seems unaware that his pronouncements as a private citizen cast a pall over his public service when he wielded some of the most sensitive powers of government.
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