So then why did Comey make such a big deal about it?????

See where I’m going?

I cannot imagine any domestic situation having higher stakes than this.

I thinks this specific action SCREAMS something HUGE. Armed Federal agents vs. POTUS?????

WTF.

Bart Gellman’s Angler, Chpt 1: “A Very Short List” reports the following individuals:
1. Frank Keating, ..the first Republican to break the Oklahoma jinx on reelection…56 years old, telegenic, and going places…[he’d been OK Gov when] terrorists in a Ryder van blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building [in 1995]…had friendly bets with GWBush over the Sooners-Longhorns games…Keating had vouched for Bush with right-to-lifers and had been an early endorser of GWBush for Pres…

p. 3: “I want you to know the [list of VP candidates for GWBush is very short,” Cheney [told Keating]. People would talk about all kinds of names, Cheney said matter-of-factly, but most of them would be decoys. Three, maybe four, were genuine…. “Keating knew Cheney, trusted him. He had helped recruit Cheney five years before to chair the memorial committee for the Oklahoma City bombings…”

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p. 4: “Two states east in TN, Lamar Alexander got word that Cheney was looking for him…he had made up his mind to skip the GOP convention in July… [Alexander had been in the Cabinet of Bush41, along with Cheney]…”

p. 5: “…Alexander did have one question. What should he tell reporters?… “Of course we want to keep this private,” Cheney said. But he added: “Confirm that you’re a candidate. Tell them you’re filling out the questionnaire.”

Bill Frist and Tom Ridge, John Engler and John Kasich, Chuck Hagel and John Danforth and John Kyl — they all got similar calls and similar instructions…

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p. 7: “Only three people were privy to the dossiers that Cheney assembled. One was his older daughter, Liz Cheney**, thirty-three… Another was David J Gribben III, a loyal retainer since high school… The third was David Addington…”

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Bart Gellman’s book is one hell of a read, I’ll say that for it.
But look at the range of GOP illuminati who got treated like dirt by Cheney, his 33-year-old daughter, Addington, and Cheney’s long-time high school pal.

** Yes, the same Liz Cheney who was all over the chat programs in April-May 2009 defending her father and claiming that the Torture Memos should not be released. And who, under BushCheney was given a veritable carte blanche overseeing a swath of the Dept of State that included the geographical regions of the Near East and areas around the Caspian Sea. Interesting coincidence, eh?