J.Edgar Comey's Big Fat Nothingburger

Comey’s ballyhooed testimony contained nothing not already known. It had nothing remotely about obstruction of justice and nothing that matters at all. It’s just a replay of what Comey has been leaking all along.

Indeed, it’s the Nothingburger that proves Imperial Washington has become completely unhinged in its groundless RussiaGate hysteria. Washington is stumbling toward a lawless defenestration of a sitting president in the name of a hypocritical obeisance to a tortured version of “the law”.

It is a smoking gun in only one sense: It proves why Comey should have been fired on day one and why the Wall Street assumption that it can count on “Washington governance as usual” is so dangerously misguided.

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