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Hart: Drama queen James Comey spins his case in Comey v. Comb-Over

A copy of former FBI Director James Comey's new book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," is on display, Friday, April 13, 2018, in New York. In the book, Comey compares U.S. President Donald Trump to a mob boss demanding loyalty, suggests he's unfit to lead and mocks the president's appearance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
A copy of former FBI Director James Comey's new book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," is on display, Friday, April 13, 2018, in New York. In the book, Comey compares U.S. President Donald Trump to a mob boss demanding loyalty, suggests he's unfit to lead and mocks the president's appearance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) A copy of former FBI Director James Comey's new book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," is on display, Friday, April 13, 2018, in New York. In the book, Comey compares U.S. President Donald Trump to a mob boss demanding loyalty, suggests he's unfit to lead and mocks the president's appearance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

By Ron Hart 4 min read

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson about a dinner guest

In preparation for James Comey’s opening act with his buddy George Stephanopoulos, I watched the movie “Chappaquiddick” on a rainy Sunday afternoon. This new movie about an old subject reminds us that when the rising Democrat party star and Chappaquiddick Swim Champion of 1968, Ted Kennedy, left a mistress to drown and ran away, the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, a DA, and law enforcement were involved in the crime and the cover-up.

photo Former FBI director James Comey poses for photographs at an appearance at a Barnes & Noble book store to speak on Wednesday in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

If you think for one second that higher-ups at the FBI and politically ambitious U.S. attorneys would not lie, cheat, or conceal in order to help a political candidate – read history.

We have grown an alphabet soup of powerful agencies like the FBI, DHS, NSA, DOJ, IRS, etc. They can bully us because we invest them with immense powers to arrest and to ruin lives – with scant accountability. We allow them to operate in clubby secrecy because they tell us we have to. Why?