Enjoy.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/409252-the-insufferable-hypocrisy-of-james-comeys-act-ii
Couric wound down their chat by asking what he hoped his legacy would be. Pausing a beat and sensing no irony in his studied response, James Comey replied: “This is an odd thing” – pause again, “but I hope to be forgotten.”
It was an absurd response. A person who rushes to publish his set-the-record-straight memoir, “A Higher Loyalty” — with more than a million copies sold, Barnes & Noble currently ranks it fifth on its 2018 top-sellers list – won’t soon be forgotten. Then there’s the mega-deal that must have been in the works in June, and reportedly is near completion, with CBS Television Studios to transform his book into a television or movie offering. Celluloid treatments of a man’s life tend to help folks to forget him, right?
No, the man who has taken to Twitter and Instagram with youthful zeal wants to be remembered. In fact, the notion of being forgotten must keep him awake at night. Flashbacks to missed opportunities when he was FBI director and could have confronted Donald Trump directly — which would have been the honorable, righteous thing to do — are now relegated to Twitter-snipes and proselytizing on behalf of the #Resistance.
Comey abdicated his responsibilities and shrank from opportunities to confront his “tormentor.” Instead, he kept copious notes on their White House meetings, turning them into the framework for his book, and then shamefully leaked sensitive FBI documents to the New York Times through a surrogate. He needed a “voice,” and being the 6-foot 8-inch director of the 36,000-employee FBI apparently didn’t afford him one.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/409252-the-insufferable-hypocrisy-of-james-comeys-act-ii
Couric wound down their chat by asking what he hoped his legacy would be. Pausing a beat and sensing no irony in his studied response, James Comey replied: “This is an odd thing” – pause again, “but I hope to be forgotten.”
It was an absurd response. A person who rushes to publish his set-the-record-straight memoir, “A Higher Loyalty” — with more than a million copies sold, Barnes & Noble currently ranks it fifth on its 2018 top-sellers list – won’t soon be forgotten. Then there’s the mega-deal that must have been in the works in June, and reportedly is near completion, with CBS Television Studios to transform his book into a television or movie offering. Celluloid treatments of a man’s life tend to help folks to forget him, right?
No, the man who has taken to Twitter and Instagram with youthful zeal wants to be remembered. In fact, the notion of being forgotten must keep him awake at night. Flashbacks to missed opportunities when he was FBI director and could have confronted Donald Trump directly — which would have been the honorable, righteous thing to do — are now relegated to Twitter-snipes and proselytizing on behalf of the #Resistance.
Comey abdicated his responsibilities and shrank from opportunities to confront his “tormentor.” Instead, he kept copious notes on their White House meetings, turning them into the framework for his book, and then shamefully leaked sensitive FBI documents to the New York Times through a surrogate. He needed a “voice,” and being the 6-foot 8-inch director of the 36,000-employee FBI apparently didn’t afford him one.
