Are you paying attention? This whole Comey indictment is bogus

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10. I seriously doubt they can pull off a judicial coup on this dog.

Even at their presser Blanche and Patel keep going back to "We've investigated for a long, long, time." It brought to mind my time as a TA in grad school when a failing undergrad would complain with some variation of "But I worked for hours, and hours, and hours. How can you give me an F on this??"

Perhaps I'm reading in, but to me the entire announcement has an undertone of defensive embarrassment.

And then all the emphasis on "Indicted by grand jury" (i.e., Don't blame us. We just presented "the facts." if it's stupid, not our fault).

Not to mention the bit: "They are career agents, career prosecutors who work these matters." (Note, Patel didn't say "this matter," which means that after the initial interview with Comey, when the secret service dismissed the matter as trivial, "this matter" was NOT worked by career people.)

And then the idiocy of tryiing to imply Comey had some "guilty knowledge" because he apologized and deleted the post. (Which was effectively an "If you say 8647 means anything beyond throwing out 47 as you would a disruptive drunk from a bar, OK. Didn't mean that to me. Sorry. It's gone." )

Anyway, I have NO DOUBT they know EXACTLY how absurd it is, but Blanche is auditioning for AG and is willing to humiliate himself to prove he will jump through any hoop the felon-in-chief asks of him, however ludicrous.

From Patel:

These cases take time. Our investigators work methodically. They are career agents, career prosecutors who work these matters. They call the balls and strikes in the field as they see fit pursuant to the facts of the case and the law. They took that information and made a presentment to a grand jury. A jury of a peers in the district in which the alleged crime took place, and that grand jury spoke, and that grand jury returned a two count indictment against James Comey. James Comey allegedly threatened the life of the President of the United States. And as you all now know, shortly after posting that threat, he deleted that threat and then issued an apology. All of that information was presented to the grand jury, and Mr. Comey will have his day in court and his ability to speak to a jury of his peers. Thank you.