Former FBI Director James Comey is set to be arraigned in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday on charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Comey maintains his innocence, and we can expect him to plead not guilty to the charges.
What has yet to be seen is whether Comey will be subject to an arrest and perp walk in conjunction therewith. As Ward Clark notes in his reporting on that story, that seems unlikely given indications that Comey will appear voluntarily, but current FBI Director Kash Patel isn’t about to let the clowns in the media get by with contending that such would be unprecedented for the DOJ.
Ahead of Comey’s arraignment, Former House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes joined “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo to share his thoughts on the case against Comey and what additional repercussions there may be for him and his cohorts.
(Note: The Nunes segment begins around the one-minute mark.)
BARTIROMO: I wanna get your expectation of more charges to come against Jim Comey and more of his colleagues who worked on the Russia collusion story — pushed it through across the world. What are you expecting?
NUNES: Look, I’m expecting a full investigation. If you look at the transparency that’s been brought by the intelligence agencies under Trump — unprecedented level of transparency, where we’re now finally getting out documents that the American people had never seen. So, I think you’re beginning to see real clear clairvoyance on what happened between 2016 all the way to the Mar-a-Lago raid. And I think that’s where — culminating with the Mar-a-Lago raid — is where I think I really still have a lot of questions of documents that really need to get out there. And I think an investigation needs to kind of start there and go back, because we know for sure what happened in 2016 that Comey was well aware of is that this was all — the whole Russia Hoax — was designed to get Trump, because they were worried about the “her emails” coming public back in 2016 before the election. So, I think we have real clairvoyance there, Maria — you’ve covered on your show for many, many years.Where we still are missing information is, you know: How was Jack Smith appointed to go after Trump in ’22? Who decided to raid Mar-a-Lago? What documents were they looking for? These are all the questions that still remain to be answered, and I think where the investigators need to start — from there and then go back.