Guilty

Let me tell you a short story.

The novel that became the movie Jack Reacher started life being called One Shot. As a Reacher fan, I was not particularly impressed that this was the cinematic entry point into the life of a fascinating character, but let's put that aside for a moment.

The plot: There's a man who commits a heinous crime overseas as part of our armed forces. He just wants to kill someone, to understand that feeling. That this man ended up killing four men responsible for the horrible gangrape of women was just a stroke of luck for him, which resulted in no prosecution of his crime. But Jack Reacher found the man. Jack Reacher knew.

When this same man was set up as the patsy for a similar crime on domestic shores that he did not commit, he says no words, writes the name "Jack Reacher" on a legal pad, and is carted off to holding, where he is beaten senseless. Jack Reacher solves this crime, proving the man innocent.

I think James Comey is a much better investigator than Jack Reacher.

If I am ever, EVER, accused of a crime I did not commit, I want James Comey to investigate it. Because Comey is tenacious, he is bright, he knows law as well as many judges in the land, and he is a fierce investigator. He'll get to the truth and shine it into the light of day.

Why would Trump decide to fire the man over the Hillary emails? I can only come up with one conclusion.

Therefore, I posit the following:

Donald Trump is guilty of illegal activities involving Russian collusion.

It is the only logical explanation.

Comey has made mistakes. I know plenty of people who don't like what he did 10 days before the election--I'm one of them. I don't like his misrepresentation of some facts about that case. But do I think getting a number wrong is cause for dismissal?

No.

I believe Jeff Sessions was told to find a reason to get rid of Comey, and he came up with a very lame one.

We're headed into an incredibly dangerous place as a nation. It appears that the inmates are running the asylum.

I don't know if Comey can or would be reinstated by whomever ends up as the next President (coming to a White House near you, on or around July 2017), but to Pence, Ryan, Hatch--whomever manages to get in there, let me tell you: reinstating Comey would go a long, long way to reestablishing trust within the government--and maybe with a lot of the American people.

And, by the way, whats-her-face who fronts for Melissa McCarthy...I mean, Sean Spicer (I think your name is Sarah Huckabee Sanders)...no, the American people are NOT tired of asking the questions about Russian interference. We're tired of not getting answers. We're not saying "just let that go". We're saying, "Get to the damn point already."

I have to remind myself that Watergate took 2 full years to topple a Presidency, and I'm impatient about 6 months.

Speaking of which...Donald Trump just set up the next Deep Throat. Someone loyal to Comey is going to leak. Leak on his own terms, perhaps, but it's going to happen.

Paging Carl Bernstein...