Here we go! FBI launching an investigation into James Comey

[Patented Phil 1,469]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/25/fbi-looking-james-comeys-books-honeypot-operation-targeting-2016/?utm_campaign=twt_app&utm_medium=twt_app_link&utm_source=twt_app
 

By Kerry PicketThe Washington TimesTuesday, February 25, 2025

FBI leadership is starting an investigation into the origins of the agency’s plan a decade ago to infiltrate the campaign of presidential candidate Donald Trump using two female undercover “honeypot” agents.

The off-the-books investigation, launched in 2015 by FBI Director James B. Comey, was revealed by an agency whistleblower in a protected disclosure to the House Judiciary Committee last year and first reported exclusively by The Washington Times in October.

In the intelligence community, a honeypot commonly refers to an undercover operative, usually a woman, who feigns sexual or romantic interest to obtain information from a target.

The whistleblower said two female FBI undercover employees infiltrated Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as “honeypots” while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff.

The Times has learned that the bureau, now led by Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is looking for those once-undercover employees under Mr. Comey’s direction.

The FBI declined to comment.

According to the whistleblower disclosure, which The Times reviewed, the investigation differed from Crossfire Hurricane, a later FBI counterintelligence operation that looked into never-proved allegations that the campaign was colluding with Russia.

The whistleblower said the early off-the-books criminal investigation targeted Mr. Trump and his staff.

Mr. Trump launched his presidential campaign on June 16, 2015, about a year before the FBIopened Crossfire Hurricane.

The whistleblower agent “personally knew” that Mr. Comey ordered an FBI investigation into Mr. Trump and that Mr. Comey “personally directed it,” according to the disclosure.

The investigation did not appear to target a specific crime but was more of what agents would describe as a fishing expedition to find anything incriminating against Mr. Trump.

The whistleblower said the undercover operation was obscured from Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, who investigated misconduct in the bureau’s probe of the Trump campaign.

“The case had no predicated foundation, so Comey personally directed the investigation without creating an official case file in Sentinel or any other FBI system,” according to the whistleblower’s disclosure. “The FBI has multiple methods of protecting highly sensitive investigations, so Comey did not have a legitimate reason not to officially create an official investigation file or have a file number.”

The disclosure says the secret investigation may have indicated institutional bias at the FBI against Mr. Trump, though “it does not appear that any information about this investigation was turned over to Trump’s criminal defense counsels.”

The investigation was eventually closed because a major newspaper obtained a photograph of one of the undercovers and was about to publish it, but the FBI press office told the outlet that the photograph was an FBI informant who would be killed if the photograph was publicly released.

In fact, it was a photograph of the FBI undercover employee.

The FBI whistleblower employee noted in the disclosure that one of the undercovers agreed to be transferred to the CIA so she would not be available as a potential witness.

The other undercover employee was rewarded for her activities through a promotion in the bureau and is now a high-level FBI executive in a major field office.

The whistleblower employee observed one or more employees in the FBI being directed to never discuss the operation with anyone ever again, including other people involved in the 2016 Trump campaign infiltration operation.

The FBI employee making this disclosure took this admonishment as a direct threat to the employees who received it.

[Patented Phil 1,469]

I have my doubts that anything will come of this, but you never know.  “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”

[League Champion 1,911]

3 hours ago, Patented Phil said:

I have my doubts that anything will come of this, but you never know.  “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”

More wonderful news. Apparently they have witnesses who are willing to talk. Kash isn't going to back off. 

[RLLD 4,230]

I have no issue with Comey being held accountable, i they can prove what clearly did.   The problem might be proving it.  One would think that the whistleblowers would be enough, but they only matter when its a conservative being accused....it would seem.

We can infer that any evidence will be portrayed as false or wrong or misinformation.....by liberals.....if that does happen, then I see that response as confirmation they were complicit.  Though, it could also be true that they just mischaracterize it to feed their overall defensive scheme to protect the rest of their corruption.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,433]

Nice. At the very least let him lawyer up and pay those bills. Guy brags about setting people up and liberals are ok with it. 

[Mike Honcho 5,281]

Let me get this straight, right-wing boy scout Comey sent hot agents to infiltrate the Trump Campaign in an off-the-books investigation. So, there will be no actual evidence that it occurred, just word of the whistle-blower.  Yeah, seems totally legit. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,433]

4 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

Let me get this straight, right-wing boy scout Comey sent hot agents to infiltrate the Trump Campaign in an off-the-books investigation. So, there will be no actual evidence that it occurred, just word of the whistle-blower.  Yeah, seems totally legit. 

You like when he bragged about setting people up ?

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,350]

8 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

Let me get this straight, right-wing boy scout Comey sent hot agents to infiltrate the Trump Campaign in an off-the-books investigation. So, there will be no actual evidence that it occurred, just word of the whistle-blower.  Yeah, seems totally legit. 

I mean to be fair, they ran an entire scam off a made up dossier with no evidence so why not?

 

[jbycho 754]

Go get him. 

[Fnord 2,272]

47 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

Let me get this straight, right-wing boy scout Comey sent hot agents to infiltrate the Trump Campaign in an off-the-books investigation. So, there will be no actual evidence that it occurred, just word of the whistle-blower.  Yeah, seems totally legit. 

My first thought as well.

But, whatever. There has been enough identified misbehavior within the FBI that this wouldn't be particularly surprising. If the whistleblower seems legit, it's worth investigating. 

[The Girlfriend 209]

We are officially living in an episode of Punk’d.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,433]

Did one of you idiots call him a boy scout? To actually think you get to head the fbi by being a boy scout. So fockin naive. Like a child. 

[weepaws 3,193]

America has became Luke and Laura.  Sad.  

[seafoam1 3,025]

Just now, weepaws said:

America has became Luke and Laura.  Sad.  

Is that one of your christian cartoons? 

[League Champion 1,911]

2 hours ago, weepaws said:

America has became Luke and Laura.  Sad.  

Indeed Amen 

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,106]

5 hours ago, Mike Honcho said:

Let me get this straight, right-wing boy scout Comey sent hot agents to infiltrate the Trump Campaign in an off-the-books investigation. So, there will be no actual evidence that it occurred, just word of the whistle-blower.  Yeah, seems totally legit. 

Weird how the left picks and chooses which whistleblowers to believe.

40 year old allegation against a SCOTUS candidate: #believeAllWhistlblowersAllTheTimeNoMatterWhatEspeciallyIfTheyAreWomen

Allegation of wrongdoing at the FBI 9 years ago to current day:  You can't trust whistleblowers!

[shadrap 228]

On 3/15/2024 at 11:11 PM, The Real timschochet said:

I stopped here. If you agree with Trump about this then you’re as extreme as he is. The only choice for rational people is to outvote you in this coming election and every election. Hopefully we will. 

 

5 hours ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

I mean to be fair, they ran an entire scam off a made up dossier with no evidence so why not?

 

Comey was complicit in the fake Russia investigation.  Allowed FBI fake fisa applications.  FBI has been poisoned for years.

[Mike Hunt 282]

31 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Weird how the left picks and chooses which whistleblowers to believe.

40 year old allegation against a SCOTUS candidate: #believeAllWhistlblowersAllTheTimeNoMatterWhatEspeciallyIfTheyAreWomen

Allegation of wrongdoing at the FBI 9 years ago to current day:  You can't trust whistleblowers!

40 year old allegation by a "drunk" whistle blower who did not remember how or who drove her home from a party.

 

Can`t make this stuff up.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,106]

24 minutes ago, Mike Hunt said:

40 year old allegation by a "drunk" whistle blower who did not remember how or who drove her home from a party.

 

Can`t make this stuff up.

Yep.  The left believed her 110%.  Can't believe this whistleblower, though.  He probably should have waited 40 years and become a drunk.

[The Girlfriend 209]

Precious 

[Voltaire 5,316]

See how it goes and if this story has legs... climbing way up the thigh legs.

[The Real timschochet 6,764]

2 hours ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Yep.  The left believed her 110%.  Can't believe this whistleblower, though.  He probably should have waited 40 years and become a drunk.

I believed her after I watched her testify in public before millions of people. If this whistleblower is ready to do the same I will watch and let you know, 

[Tebok 442]

The Washington Times.

[seafoam1 3,025]

6 hours ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Weird how the left picks and chooses which whistleblowers to believe.

40 year old allegation against a SCOTUS candidate: #believeAllWhistlblowersAllTheTimeNoMatterWhatEspeciallyIfTheyAreWomen

Allegation of wrongdoing at the FBI 9 years ago to current day:  You can't trust whistleblowers!

Liberals don't have brains. They are all idiots. 

[RLLD 4,230]

14 hours ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Yep.  The left believed her 110%.  Can't believe this whistleblower, though.  He probably should have waited 40 years and become a drunk.

The quality of a "whistleblower" is often the value of their accusations politically.....  you should not expect liberals to support ones that call out liberal malfeasance any more than conservatives trust those who call them out.

That being said, it sure seems like the part of law and order....and the constitution....loses that stance once their weaponization of accusations is pointed back at them