There’s something darkly ironic about watching James Comey — former FBI director, media darling, and best-selling moralist — now facing charges for misleading Congress. According to the Department of Justice, Comey lied under oath in 2020 when he claimed he hadn’t authorized leaks of classified information to the press. The leak, allegedly facilitated by his deputy Andrew McCabe, related to the Clinton email investigation and appears to be the central focus of the indictment. Predictably, mainstream pundits are painting Comey as a victim of Trump’s revenge tour — a once-heroic civil servant being politically persecuted by an embittered ex-president. But before you buy the story of Saint Comey at the stake, it’s worth asking: Is he really a victim of…
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