By John Kass

Sept. 28, 2025

When Americans think of former FBI Director James Comey, they think of an honest lawman raising his right hand, swearing his oath to Almighty God that he will tell the truth.

What they don’t think of is a liar, a perjurer, schemer without honor, an insect, a cockroach carrying a series of lies out of the Obama White House and got busy spreading them to undercut President Donald Trump’s first term and tear America apart.

Obama was behind it, of course. But his Deep State rats, the FBI’s Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper carried the lies directed from Obama’s White House and used their contacts in what we now call corporate legacy media establishment to sell the lies. And the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN and the rest fed those lies to the American people.

The Deep State can’t exist if they don’t have supportive media shoveling Deep State lies.

It was all about undercutting President Donald Trump.

And we all  watched as America was torn apart.

But now that Comey has been criminally indicted, and as Democrat violence—including killings and constant threats to law enforcement and their families–and still Democrats rally to rehabilitate him.

What’s odd is that James Comey is the American Littlefinger.

And chaos is his ladder.

Reasonable critics say this is not the strongest case that could have been brought, and if Comey is anything, he is a slippery eel.  They might get him, they might not, but whatever is done, he’s Littlefinger forever. If you’ve never heard of Littlefinger you must have been in a cabin with the Unabomber Theodore John Kaczynski. Or in a cave. Some may never watch “Game of Thrones.” But I’ve watched it.

Comey was so much like Littlefinger. Both were consumed by envy and ambition and always considering themselves to be the smartest, most cunning man in any room. But Comey took it farther. He wasn’t only thought of himself as the smartest, but also the holiest.

That’s why his FBI subordinates referred to the sanctimonious Comey sarcastically as “Cardinal Comey.”

Both have played this game of thrones, with the guiding principle is that “chaos is a ladder.” See for yourself, here in the link.

And all his life he’s been climbing.

“Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again,” says the Littlefinger in Game of Thrones. “The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb.”

Comey could have also whispered it in the corridor of the Senate where he lied and lied again, certain of his gifts as an intriguer of the first water, sanctimoniousm, never thinking he’d be caught in his own snare.

And Comey climbed it, the spider climbing his web of that Russia collusion hoax, lying about all of it. And it wasn’t only Trump. Democrats despise him for venting his sanctimony against Hillary Clinton’s illegal emails in the last days of her presidential campaign. He’s hated by all tribes.

In the Federalist’s essay After Harming The Country With Russiagate, Comey’s Indictment Is Well Deserved, Shawn Fleetwood writes:

” Could former FBI Director James Comey be the first major figure to face real accountability for his role in the destructive Russia collusion hoax?

“It’s a question worth asking given Thursday evening’s news that the cocky former intel chief has been indicted by a grand jury on counts of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. The charges were brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

” What’s particularly noteworthy about the indictment, however, is its relation to the Russia collusion hoax.”

As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman summarized, “The charges arise from testimony Comey gave in 2020 when Sen. Ted Cruz questioned him about testimony he previously provided in 2017, in which he stated ‘he did not authorize leaking information regarding the FBI’s investigations into President Donald Trump or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,’ as described by NBC News. Comey told Cruz he stood by the testimony.”

“But former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Comey was aware of the leak of information to the press and essentially gave it the stamp of approval after the fact, a 2018 Justice Department inspector general’s report found,” Lyman added.

Comey’s role in helping form and advance the Russia collusion hoax cannot be overstated.

“Roughly a month after Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 election, President Obama ordered his intel chiefs — including Comey — to put together an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) to identify “Russian activities and intentions in recent U.S. elections.” The ICA came away with the conclusion that “Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances.”

“The CIA and Comey-led FBI expressed “high confidence” in that judgment, while the NSA expressed “moderate confidence.”

“As revealed in a declassified 2020 House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report earlier this year, however, that central claim — which was foundational in Democrats’ destructive Trump-Russia hoax — was based weak and uncorroborated intel. Meanwhile, intelligence contradicting that central claim was left out of the ICA altogether.

“The goal in crafting the ICA, as is now glaringly apparent, was to give validity to the Clinton-manufactured narrative that Trump colluded with Moscow to steal the 2016 election.”

One of the rats I’m thinking of is John Brennan, the former boss of the Central Intelligence Agency.

How many Americans know that he voted for Communist Gus Hall for president? The CIA was the agency that Democrat political hacks like Anthony Blinken ran to, gathering signatures needed for the Big Lie that won Joe Biden the presidential election: the Big Lie of the Democrats that Russia was behind the terribly incriminating Hunter Biden laptop.

It wasn’t Russia. It was Hunter’s all along.

But Democrat control of Twitter vilified anyone supporting the view of the New York Post that it was Hunter Biden’s laptop. The corporate legacy media ignored the story, allowing senile Joe Biden to become president and open the borders to millions and millions of unskilled illegal migrants draining state and local governments.

Remember?

It was like black magic. There were those 51 shameless Intelligence operatives who signed the letter alleging that the laptop had “all the hallmarks” of a Russian intelligence operation. That letter was released just in time for Joe Biden to bark that he, his son and the rest of the Democrat Joe Biden Crime Family were the victims. It allowed Biden to gaslight the American people. Biden used the shameless 51 as his shield during his last debate of the 2020 presidential campaign.

It was all a lie, like the lies Comey told to Congress.

But so much of the lying by democrats is designed to make Comey a hero. He is not. He is more like Chicago’s top cop, Chief of Detectives William Hanhardt.

Hanhardt was lionized by the Chicago media as an heroic crimefighter. But a federal jury found he was the organizer of the Chicago Outfit’s national jewelry-theft ring. He was no hero. He was the mob’s man, the Chicago Outfit’s top cop, the de facto police superintendent. He ran things on the inside for years. The servant of Joey “the Clown” Lombardo.

It wasn’t just the ripple of a small stone tossed into a pond. It was a boulder. And it caused wave upon wave of rot-causing cynicism, soaking the police and the people of Chicago. The effect of Hanhardt as the mob’s cop in Chicago infected generations of police, the way Comey infected the FBI. That’s the sin. And the lickspittles defending him now, the pundits preening on their left-wing panel shows care nothing about honor.

They use it the way they would use a paper towel. To wipe up spills.

Chicago is loud about its sports and its politics. But noise doesn’t tell you the whole story. Sometimes, it’s silence that can tell you the truth of things.

And Chicago was never so silent than on the day the feds indicted former Chief of Detectives William Hanhardt.

In Italy, they have a phrase for this silence.

“Chi tace acconsente,” said my excellent barber, Raffaele Raia, born in Naples. “He who is silent says yes.  The silence is the consent.”

I made that Hanhardt-Comey analogy the other day while recording an upcoming episode of The Chicago Way podcast. Our guest was the honorable Judge James Brown (retired). Judge Brown, who served 20 years on the Cook County bench thought the analogy was apt. Because when upper echelon law enforcement is known to be corrupt, the people lose faith in the rule of law. What follows is anarchy.

“The people they lose faith and trust in the system,” said the judge. “The FBI is the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world and the people the citizens have to know that the leaders of these institutions of the law enforcement agencies are going to play their play by the book that they’re going to follow the law…the people need to know that in order to have faith in the system. There’s enough distrust out there and when a leader lies under oath in front of the Congress they have to be held to account no doubt about it. Comey  has an attitude that the ends justify the means. He’s got an arrogance and an air about him, I mean he was leaking information.”

I don’t know if they’ll convict him. He’s a lawyer and butter wouldn’t melt on his forked tongues. Right now I’m reading The Fall of the FBI by Thomas J. Baker and I’m thinking back to all the good FBI agents I’ve known. They are public servants. And there are many American Intelligence officials who care about American liberty and the Constitution of the United States and the responsibilities and obligations of citizenship.

There are many such public servants who are sickened by what Obama, Comey, Brennan and Clapper have done to their once-great agencies and America.

But the Deep State rats have been exposed. Prison is too good for them. They should belong to the gallows for what they’ve done. And they all know how Littlefinger’s adventures ended. It wasn’t pretty.

They’re all panicking now. Obama and the rest.

You can smell them from here.

(Copyright John Kass 2025)

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