the problem is akin to that snippet from the andromeda strain, when a mechanical malfunction prevented instruction to filter out the same press that enabled these scams like ken dilanian now report on this matter, and provide the Iowahawk pillows

*not in the cicero sense,

Much of the RussiaGate, and related, leaking has come out and been validated. The problem is that only Comey, and only in certain circumstances, was legally empowered to leak to the press. The question here was whether Comey authorized leaking case related information to the MSM. McCabe, and his RussiaGate (etc) cohorts said that he did, in their defense. And Comey said that he didn’t. All under oath. I have felt all along that McCabe, in particular, and everyone else in general, played Comey as a dupe. As DD, McCabe was in charge of the day-to-day operation of the FBI. So, much of what went on was probably Comey signing off on what McCabe put in front of him.

In any case, much of the Comey case seems to revolve around sworn testimony by McCabe and others that Comey authorized their actions, most noticeably, their leaking. So, I think that the prosecution will, by necessity, have to put them on the stand (under oath) to build their case against Comey. They are locked into their previous statements (under oath), so will be mostly forced to repeat them. But if Comey is found not guilty, then McCabe (etc) lied anew, under oath, and Comey can be called as a witness against them in their own perjury cases, for claiming, anew, that he had authorized the leaks. Which then lets the DOJ prosecute McCabe (etc), whose offenses are otherwise outside the statute of limitations.

Win/win. It should be interesting.

Is Patel going to reveal anything, to make Comey et al sweat a little, or save it for the trial. So far the Grand Jury hasn’t leaked anything AFAIK, but they may have been shown something, although the already-known hi-jinx by Comey were certainly enough for an indictment, as Turley laid out.

Other reports:
“Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent James A. Gagliano served under four FBI directors from 1991-2016.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/opinion/the-james-comey-i-knew-at-the-fbi-fully-deserves-whatever-comeuppance-is-in-store/

This next one has an odd URL; the headline is a more accurate summary of the text:
“James Comey could face more charges as DOJ sifts through evidence — but will case stick?”
I have no idea what the “two words” are; they aren’t identified as such.
My reading of the post (IANAL) is that the deadline came up before the legal team had finished compiling all the data for their case, so they took what they had and ran with it
Predictions about what the judge and jury will do are a bit premature, although the track record in blue states is not good for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/us-news/these-two-words-led-to-federal-indictment-of-james-comey-as-ex-prosecutors-predict-former-fbi-chief-will-beat-perjury-rap/
Remember this paragraph; I will come back to it later:
“Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani predicted of the Trump DOJ: “I think they lose this case,” noting, “If the DOJ cared about this leak, they would have prosecuted it during the first Trump administration.” –”

Somebody seems to have convinced President Trump to quit talking.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/us-news/trump-predicts-there-will-be-others-after-james-comey-indictment/
“…, but denies having ‘list’ of enemies to prosecute”

At the end of the post, the authors reference the revelations from the FBI burn bag, so there may still be things Patel hasn’t made public.
“Documents on Arctic Haze were recently declassified by FBI Director Kash Patel, who also recovered other damning records related to Russigate in “burn bags” at the FBI’s Washington Field Office shortly after starting on the job.
Mike Davis, a lawyer and close Trump ally, told The Post Friday that he expects a superseding indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia that may target others involved in the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign.”

This one doesn’t need a lot of commentary here. The NY Post editors do a good job laying out all the ways that the Democrats used lawfare against Trump, including statements by Biden every bit as “interfering” as any of Trump’s Truth Social posts.

https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/opinion/democrats-destroyed-the-norms-they-want-trump-to-follow/
“How convenient, this amnesia about their own norm-smashing.
… Do we like having a political system based on giving as good as you got, and hitting back twice as hard?
Not at all. But the gang that prepared this poisoned feast can’t cry when they have to eat it too.”

Back to that statement above: “If the DOJ cared about this leak, they would have prosecuted it during the first Trump administration.”

My reaction then was “give me a break; where were YOU in 2016-2020?” and this post supports that:
“And some partisans stayed on through the entire Trump presidency: The FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop more than a year before The Post got access — yet instead of following the many leads, the bureau organized a campaign of lies to discredit any news stories that might come out before the election.”

Trump’s team is not making the same mistake, but are kicking out the Democrat partisans as fast as they can get to them, in what looks to me to be an orderly checklist of the organizations to weed out.

So I’m waiting to see what Hegseth does with the generals.
My only concern about their big in-person gathering would be a big strike on them by one of our enemies, or a coalition. We know there are now plenty of Chinese, Russian, Iranian South American cartel etc. agents in the US, but can they pull something together in a week?
None of them are Mossad, with ten-year-old fake pager ops.
We hope.

OTOH, why would any of them want to kill the flag officers who have done more to destroy our armed forces than they have?