Possibly the dumbest news cycle of the year involved former FBI Director James Comey being branded as a political terrorist for taking an Instagram shot of some goddamned seashells by the seashore. In May, the longtime Republican had arranged the shells into “8647,” marrying “86” — the old-timey lingo for bouncing an unruly patron or the restaurant slang for canceling an order — with “47,” indicating the 47th president. The Secret Service interviewed Comey over the picture and then tracked him for some time. Kash Patel followed up declaring that he diverted resources away from “chasing down child sex predators, fentanyl traffickers, terrorists” to chase down people making funny social media posts.
It was one of the earlier signs that the people running federal law enforcement right now are not the sharpest tools in the shed. Just tools.
A knock-on effect of Comey’s post, the administration fired his daughter Maureen, who had served for years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the SDNY. At the time, the younger Comey said, “fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.” Which is a more eloquent way of saying, “suckas just messed with the wrong lawyer.”
And so she has now sued.
Defendants have not provided any explanation whatsoever for terminating Ms. Comey. In truth, there is no legitimate explanation. Rather, Defendants fired Ms. Comey solely or substantially because her father is former FBI Director James B. Comey, or because of her perceived political affiliation and beliefs, or both.
She’s probably right, but let’s not sleep on her role as the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell prosecutor, a case that Donald Trump seems to care a lot about for some reason.
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