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James Comey got caught up between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, two of the biggest hyenas who have every lived (even if she is more polished than he is). But Comey may be the most honest man ever to achieve the kind of power he did. And I say that as someone who is always super skeptical of the Feds. For those of you who have posted things questioning Comey's integrity, read up about the incident when he was in the Justice Department and AG John Ashcroft was in the hospital in really bad shape, and Andy Card and Alberto Gonzalez tried to bypass Ashcroft to reauthorize the domestic surveillance program even though the Justice Department had just determined it was illegal. Comey alerted Bob Mueller, who was head of the FBI at the time, and raced to the hospital to prevent the two slimeballs from getting a barely conscious Ashcroft to sign anything. At the time, Andy Card may have been the most powerful man in DC, so Comey was putting his career on the line to do what he thought was right.

I have no doubt that Comey's account of it was overly dramatic. He likes to present himself as the most ethical, earnest man on earth. But just because he has an ego, doesn't mean he actually isn't the real deal. In the Clinton / Trump sagas that he had the misfortune to get caught in the middle of, he never stood a chance -- no matter what he did, there would be partisans ready to shred his reputation. But I don't see how anyone being honest with themselves can question his integrity and the fact that he really tried to do what he thought was right -- whether or not you agree that he took the right courses of action. Contrast that to the ammoral bullshit artist who fired him.