Comey a Wimp?

Instead of a tale of two cities yesterday we witnessed a tale of two directors

As the Russian collusion delusions was still subject to Blues’ false conjecture

Efram Zimbalist Junior and Mike Connors must must be rolling in their graves

After Thursday any chance of a remake of their FBI series a goodbye wave

One director had presidents and politicians living in fear

That a scandalous story about their transgressions would in print appear

The other director was supposedly a choir boy of integrity but as we learned was lacking any spine

Leaking to the press not transgressions but memos of conversations and would not stand up when a president or AG crossed the line

J Edgar Hoover was the first director of a fledging force known as the FBI

Served as such for 48 years and after coming home after a day at the office died

The Fourth Amendment to him was a nuisance better to have on politicians secret files

No politician or bureaucrat dared to cross him on either side of the aisle

A rabid anti Communist and a closet gay

He ruled the FBI with an iron fist in his day

Comey on the other hand was a director serving under a newly politicized DOJ

Where politics not pursuit of justice first and foremost held sway

Either unwilling or unable to stand up to the troika of Holder, Obama and Lynch

Willing to accede with yards upon yards when Hoover would not bend an inch

An FBI Director without any spine

Could not tell Lynch or Trump they had crossed the line

All he seemed willing to do over Trump’s alleged obstruction on Flynn

Was to open his FBI computer to create a memo with the best CYA spin

Not to be delivered to his boss but indirectly to leak to the New York Times

Written in such a way with great effort to avoid being classified so the leak would not be a crime

Integrity in any agency has to start at the top

In Comey’s case a complete and utter flop

No one wants an FBI in the Hoover mode

Where secret files are the rule and the 4^th to quickly unload

But when a president or DOJ crosses the line

We expect a Director to do the right thing and in protest resign.

© June 11, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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