{"id":11580,"date":"2018-12-14T23:18:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T07:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11580"},"modified":"2018-12-14T23:18:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T07:18:16","slug":"comey-continues-to-display-his-lack-of-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/comey-continues-to-display-his-lack-of-credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Comey Continues to Display His Lack of Credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">F<\/span>ired former FBI director James Comey is at it again.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Comey testified before members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In a single appearance, Comey, on 245 separate occasions, while under oath, stonewalled questions with \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t remember\u201d or \u201cI don\u2019t recall,\u201d according to a congressional interrogator, Rep. Jim Jordan. (R-Ohio).<\/p>\n<p>If any private citizen tried Comey\u2019s gambit with federal IRS auditors or FBI investigators, he would likely be indicted for perjury or obstruction.<\/p>\n<p>Why did Comey, the nation\u2019s former top-ranking federal investigator, avoid telling \u201cthe whole truth and nothing but the truth\u201d while under oath?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is, unfortunately, obvious. Comey has been called to testify before members of Congress on numerous occasions. He has written a long book and gone on an extensive book tour, and his paper trail is long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2018\/12\/12\/comey-continues-to-display-his-lack-of-credibility\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Fired former FBI director James Comey is at it again. Last week, Comey testified before members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In a single appearance, Comey, on 245 separate occasions, while under oath, stonewalled questions with \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1171,1151,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-30M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10592,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/beware-of-narratives-and-misinformation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11580,"position":0},"title":"Beware of Narratives and Misinformation","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 Narratives surrounding the DNC hack & Antifa reveal media bias and government bureaucracy at their worst. \u00a0 U.S. intelligence agencies said Russia was responsible for hacking Democratic National Committee e-mail accounts, leading to the publication of about 20,000 stolen e-mails on WikiLeaks. \u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comey&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comey","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/comey\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11809,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-fright-of-james-comey\/","url_meta":{"origin":11580,"position":1},"title":"The Fright of James Comey","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In a\u00a0recent op-ed, fired FBI Director James Comey was back again preaching to the nation about the dangers of Donald Trump and his capacity to corrupt any top-ranking federal official of lower character than Comey\u2019s own. 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