In the US corporation / securities law there’s this thing called Sarbanes-Oxley, put in place after some business calamities I’m too lazy to look up right now.
Among other things it requires that the CEO and CFO (IIRC) of public companies personally sign off on the account filings required by the SEC.
Personally. Under penalty of perjury, I believe.
I wonder if Comey would be inclined to let a CEO disclaim responsibility for criminal misbehavior by middle management on the grounds that “I just signed it, I didn’t really know what it said.”
Sure. Sure he would.

AKA The Stalin Gambit

I thought that was the Schultz Gambit:

“I know NuHTHINK!! Nuhthink!!”
😀

We are paying tooo much attention to his demeanor, his slipperiness, his “oozing charm out of every pore”, and not enough to his criminality.

Try him and convict the SOB! If not, just hang him from the highest tree.

For this, Comey should be indicted, tried and imprisoned. All of his assets should be confiscated. To say he should do hard time is to say the least. Months in Rikers would be a good start, and then release into general population.

Yes, that sounds a little over the top. But then, what should be the penalty for very serious violations of the Constitution?

As for Comey’s “I didn’t know” plea — that just screams incompetence and irresponsibility. It might mean he won’t be charged with an illegal act, but it should also make anything he says in future unreliable.

As for Snow on Pines’ conclusion that we need to rethink the intelligence apparatus that was set up after 9-11, could we also throw airport security inspectors into this basket? They have gotten a little better, but they’re still a PITA and, as far as anyone knows, have never caught a single bomber or hijacker.

At this juncture, blind trust and naivete are fatal errors, and wariness and a healthy suspicion must rule the day, if we want to keep our Republic alive, and keep our Rights and Freedoms.

The rubber stamp, never look too deeply into, or “outside of the four corners of the documents” presented FISA Court is, to coin a phrase, “fatally flawed,” and should be abolished.

In fact, the whole post 9/11 intelligence apparatus that was supposed to make us “safer’ by spying on our foreign terrorist enemies should be entirely rethought.

So much unchecked power is just too open to and likely to be abused, and–as we’ve seen demonstrated–too easily turned into a political tool for widespread illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens, and oppression of the same.

Given the multiple and dedicated enemies we face, all this current apparatus would perhaps be an acceptable gamble, if the people running it were incredibly well-qualified–absolutely top-notch–had forsworn personal or party ambition, were absolutely loyal to our Constitution, to the vision of the Founders, and were always and only doing their best to protect us citizens.

But, as we have seen all too ample evidence of, none of these conditions has been met, in fact, quite the opposite.

In a world full of ambition, the weapons available to that ambition should be very carefully circumscribed, with all sorts of safeguards, and not have to rely on the supposed “goodness” and “fidelity” of the men who wield those weapons.

(I note that reporting says that this whole “Russian collusion” investigation, which–according to normal procedure–would have been run out of FBI field offices by the agents there, was, instead,taken over by and run from FBI headquarters, and by the top FBI leadership on the 7th floor at FBI headquarters.)

This is perhaps the clearest example of “throwing your subordinates under the bus.”

Or, to put it another way, this is a form of perhaps Judge Judy’s favorite excuse used by the guilty, “the other dude did it.”

Note, as well, that in this interview Blitzer points out–several times–that these were “deliberate” errors and blunders, but Blitzer never inquires about “why” such deliberate errors and omissions were made, what their aim was, or what or whose interests such “deliberate” mistakes might have served.

See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/andrew-mccabe-deflects-and-pushes-blame-of-fisa-curt-abuse-on-low-level-fbi-agents-video/

This was Comey’s biggest whopper by far. What could possibly have been worse? Unsurprisingly, Swamp Rat Wallace fails to ask the obvious follow up questions.