Victor Davis Hanson: Many Who Weaponized US Intelligence Got Off Scot-Free, Will Comey?

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

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“For far too long, previous corrupt leadership and their enablers weaponized federal law enforcement, damaging once proud institutions and severely eroding public trust,” said FBI Director Kash Patel following the Justice Department’s charging of former FBI Director James Comey with perjury and obstruction of Congress. Comey’s right-hand man, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, was not charged by the Department of Justice in 2020 after the DOJ’s inspector general found that he had “authorized an aide to talk with The Wall Street Journal about the FBI's probe into the Clinton Foundation,” according to NPR. James Clapper lied to Congress about the nature and scope of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance operations. Former CIA Director John Brennan lied two times under oath to Congress. Until James Comey’s recent indictment, many of the individuals who played an integral role in weaponizing America’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies to target political enemies like Donald Trump got off scot-free, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words”: (00:00) Introduction and Overview (00:59) Details of Comey's Indictment (02:01) Comparisons and Legal Context (06:05) Conclusion and Final Thoughts 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I would like to talk about the legal aspects of the recent indictment of James Comey.
0:05.0	The great question, is this delayed justice or is this retribution?
0:09.0	When they look at the career of Andrew McCabe and they see that he admittedly lied four times under oath,
0:15.0	John Renant, when he lied twice, when James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence,
0:20.0	admitted that he lied once under oath,
0:22.6	when we see James Comey admit that he misled the president not filing that report in FBI files,
0:29.6	but putting it in his private safe and leaking it, then we get a larger picture that our bureaucrats had weaponized the CIA, weaponized the FBI, weaponized the
0:39.6	directory of national intelligence, lied on numerous occasions and got off. People are very angry.
0:45.3	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
0:59.9	I would like to talk about the legal aspects of the recent indictment of James Comey.
1:05.1	He's been indicted on two counts.
1:07.5	One, lying to Congress about authorizing his subordinates to leak to the press. He says he
1:14.7	didn't. The indictment says he did authorize that. And second, obstructing a congressional
1:21.0	investigation by sole lying. He says because he didn't lie, he obviously couldn't obstruct an
1:26.4	investigation.
1:33.6	But what I'm interested in legally is we're getting the same type of atmosphere that we saw with the Mueller investigation. Before anything had really transpired, we were told that this was a
1:40.2	hunter-killer team of professional prosecutors. They were all-stars. They were pros, and they were
1:47.3	going to make short work of Donald Trump's legal team and find Donald Trump guilty of colluding
1:53.0	with the Russians. 22 months later, and $40 million, they found no actionable offense. But what am I
2:00.8	getting at?
2:01.2	Right now, the press is going wild that Comey has been unjustly indicted because they say or
2:10.9	they argue that the prosecutor in the DOJ, Mr. Eric Siebert, decided that he didn't want to prosecute the case because he felt
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