Deep State Littlefinger James Comey With No Place to Hide
By John Kass
Sept. 28, 2025
When Americans think of former FBI Director James Comey, they think of an honest lawman raising his right hand, swearing his oath to Almighty God that he will tell the truth.
What they don’t think of is a liar, a perjurer, schemer without honor, an insect, a cockroach carrying a series of lies out of the Obama White House and got busy spreading them to undercut President Donald Trump’s first term and tear America apart.
Obama was behind it, of course. But his Deep State rats, the FBI’s Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper carried the lies directed from Obama’s White House and used their contacts in what we now call corporate legacy media establishment to sell the lies. And the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN and the rest fed those lies to the American people.
The Deep State can’t exist if they don’t have supportive media shoveling Deep State lies.
It was all about undercutting President Donald Trump.
And we all watched as America was torn apart.
But now that Comey has been criminally indicted, and as Democrat violence—including killings and constant threats to law enforcement and their families–and still Democrats rally to rehabilitate him.
What’s odd is that James Comey is the American Littlefinger.
And chaos is his ladder.
Reasonable critics say this is not the strongest case that could have been brought, and if Comey is anything, he is a slippery eel. They might get him, they might not, but whatever is done, he’s Littlefinger forever. If you’ve never heard of Littlefinger you must have been in a cabin with the Unabomber Theodore John Kaczynski. Or in a cave. Some may never watch “Game of Thrones.” But I’ve watched it.
Comey was so much like Littlefinger. Both were consumed by envy and ambition and always considering themselves to be the smartest, most cunning man in any room. But Comey took it farther. He wasn’t only thought of himself as the smartest, but also the holiest.
That’s why his FBI subordinates referred to the sanctimonious Comey sarcastically as “Cardinal Comey.”
Both have played this game of thrones, with the guiding principle is that “chaos is a ladder.” See for yourself, here in the link.
And all his life he’s been climbing.
“Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again,” says the Littlefinger in Game of Thrones. “The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb.”
Comey could have also whispered it in the corridor of the Senate where he lied and lied again, certain of his gifts as an intriguer of the first water, sanctimoniousm, never thinking he’d be caught in his own snare.
And Comey climbed it, the spider climbing his web of that Russia collusion hoax, lying about all of it. And it wasn’t only Trump. Democrats despise him for venting his sanctimony against Hillary Clinton’s illegal emails in the last days of her presidential campaign. He’s hated by all tribes.
In the Federalist’s essay After Harming The Country With Russiagate, Comey’s Indictment Is Well Deserved, Shawn Fleetwood writes:
” Could former FBI Director James Comey be the first major figure to face real accountability for his role in the destructive Russia collusion hoax?
“It’s a question worth asking given Thursday evening’s news that the cocky former intel chief has been indicted by a grand jury on counts of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. The charges were brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
” What’s particularly noteworthy about the indictment, however, is its relation to the Russia collusion hoax.”
As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman summarized, “The charges arise from testimony Comey gave in 2020 when Sen. Ted Cruz questioned him about testimony he previously provided in 2017, in which he stated ‘he did not authorize leaking information regarding the FBI’s investigations into President Donald Trump or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,’ as described by NBC News. Comey told Cruz he stood by the testimony.”
“But former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Comey was aware of the leak of information to the press and essentially gave it the stamp of approval after the fact, a 2018 Justice Department inspector general’s report found,” Lyman added.
Comey’s role in helping form and advance the Russia collusion hoax cannot be overstated.
“Roughly a month after Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 election, President Obama ordered his intel chiefs — including Comey — to put together an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) to identify “Russian activities and intentions in recent U.S. elections.” The ICA came away with the conclusion that “Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances.”
“The CIA and Comey-led FBI expressed “high confidence” in that judgment, while the NSA expressed “moderate confidence.”
“As revealed in a declassified 2020 House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report earlier this year, however, that central claim — which was foundational in Democrats’ destructive Trump-Russia hoax — was based weak and uncorroborated intel. Meanwhile, intelligence contradicting that central claim was left out of the ICA altogether.
“The goal in crafting the ICA, as is now glaringly apparent, was to give validity to the Clinton-manufactured narrative that Trump colluded with Moscow to steal the 2016 election.”
One of the rats I’m thinking of is John Brennan, the former boss of the Central Intelligence Agency.
How many Americans know that he voted for Communist Gus Hall for president? The CIA was the agency that Democrat political hacks like Anthony Blinken ran to, gathering signatures needed for the Big Lie that won Joe Biden the presidential election: the Big Lie of the Democrats that Russia was behind the terribly incriminating Hunter Biden laptop.
It wasn’t Russia. It was Hunter’s all along.
But Democrat control of Twitter vilified anyone supporting the view of the New York Post that it was Hunter Biden’s laptop. The corporate legacy media ignored the story, allowing senile Joe Biden to become president and open the borders to millions and millions of unskilled illegal migrants draining state and local governments.
Remember?
It was like black magic. There were those 51 shameless Intelligence operatives who signed the letter alleging that the laptop had “all the hallmarks” of a Russian intelligence operation. That letter was released just in time for Joe Biden to bark that he, his son and the rest of the Democrat Joe Biden Crime Family were the victims. It allowed Biden to gaslight the American people. Biden used the shameless 51 as his shield during his last debate of the 2020 presidential campaign.
It was all a lie, like the lies Comey told to Congress.
But so much of the lying by democrats is designed to make Comey a hero. He is not. He is more like Chicago’s top cop, Chief of Detectives William Hanhardt.
Hanhardt was lionized by the Chicago media as an heroic crimefighter. But a federal jury found he was the organizer of the Chicago Outfit’s national jewelry-theft ring. He was no hero. He was the mob’s man, the Chicago Outfit’s top cop, the de facto police superintendent. He ran things on the inside for years. The servant of Joey “the Clown” Lombardo.
It wasn’t just the ripple of a small stone tossed into a pond. It was a boulder. And it caused wave upon wave of rot-causing cynicism, soaking the police and the people of Chicago. The effect of Hanhardt as the mob’s cop in Chicago infected generations of police, the way Comey infected the FBI. That’s the sin. And the lickspittles defending him now, the pundits preening on their left-wing panel shows care nothing about honor.
They use it the way they would use a paper towel. To wipe up spills.
Chicago is loud about its sports and its politics. But noise doesn’t tell you the whole story. Sometimes, it’s silence that can tell you the truth of things.
And Chicago was never so silent than on the day the feds indicted former Chief of Detectives William Hanhardt.
In Italy, they have a phrase for this silence.
“Chi tace acconsente,” said my excellent barber, Raffaele Raia, born in Naples. “He who is silent says yes. The silence is the consent.”
I made that Hanhardt-Comey analogy the other day while recording an upcoming episode of The Chicago Way podcast. Our guest was the honorable Judge James Brown (retired). Judge Brown, who served 20 years on the Cook County bench thought the analogy was apt. Because when upper echelon law enforcement is known to be corrupt, the people lose faith in the rule of law. What follows is anarchy.
“The people they lose faith and trust in the system,” said the judge. “The FBI is the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world and the people the citizens have to know that the leaders of these institutions of the law enforcement agencies are going to play their play by the book that they’re going to follow the law…the people need to know that in order to have faith in the system. There’s enough distrust out there and when a leader lies under oath in front of the Congress they have to be held to account no doubt about it. Comey has an attitude that the ends justify the means. He’s got an arrogance and an air about him, I mean he was leaking information.”
I don’t know if they’ll convict him. He’s a lawyer and butter wouldn’t melt on his forked tongues. Right now I’m reading The Fall of the FBI by Thomas J. Baker and I’m thinking back to all the good FBI agents I’ve known. They are public servants. And there are many American Intelligence officials who care about American liberty and the Constitution of the United States and the responsibilities and obligations of citizenship.
There are many such public servants who are sickened by what Obama, Comey, Brennan and Clapper have done to their once-great agencies and America.
But the Deep State rats have been exposed. Prison is too good for them. They should belong to the gallows for what they’ve done. And they all know how Littlefinger’s adventures ended. It wasn’t pretty.
They’re all panicking now. Obama and the rest.
You can smell them from here.
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Comments 33
Lest we forget, in keeping with the machinations of a Games of Thrones analogy, Comey has retained the attorney Patrick Fitzgerald who led the bogus prosecution of Scooter Libbey(commuted) for allegedly exposing to the public CIA operative Valerie Plame, and though he went after Blago and George Ryan, he conveniently left Jackson Jr. off the target list.
Of course by “random” judicial selection, Comey’s judge is a Biden picked jurist…..what could go wrong, the chess moves are i order.
Amen.
Fitzgerald never went after Madigan either, and Madigan should have been a prime target back then. He never went after Governor Money Bags either, and he could have had a very strong case there. Fitzgerald just went after the easy cases that got a lot of publicity but accomplished next to nothing in actually reforming the system in Illinois. He was looking past being the Federal Attorney here to set up his now lucrative practice. Tells us a lot about his values. Now he is just another high-priced defender of political crooks.
Fitzgerald never went after Chicago’s very own Boss Hogg, Mayor Shortshanks himself, Ritchie Daley…
I was a Cook County prosecutor and always noticed the play going on between who the defendant’ s connected attorney was and who the judge was, there was always subliminal messaging going on between the two parties, as i expected between Fitzgerald and the Biden appointed judge.
John, the thing that rubs me the wrong way with this indictment, it’s just so ticky tacky. Of course we realize he lied to Congress, but there has been so much more.
Pat Fitzgerald will do doubt minimize consequences for Comey, and many Americans will sympathize with him. Making us just more divided .
The facts be damned as the mainstream media will spin the Comey indictment and others should they follow as “Trump’s revenge” and the majority of Americans will believe them.
My hope is that if nothing else Barrack Obama will be exposed for who he really is.
We have plenty of examples of all of the “scintillas” of corruption of the Obama years.
I don’t need to see them in print in the legacy media to know.
Obama was never going to go away.
And I knew Comey was a snake the day he gave cover to Hillary Clinton for her emails and illegal server.
BUT, DOJ has to indict Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, McCabe, Page, Strzok, Wiesmann, Brennan, Clapper-my god-the list is so long.
The certainty of retribution is the surest deterrence. Lots of highly placed civil servants, billionaire enablers, and elected democrats need to go to jail; let’s hope Comey is just the first. Revenge? Probably so, but it’s needed here to discourage others. After 2-3 convictions the weak will begin to flip.
Love the Hanhardt reference. Excellent analogy. Seven Feet of Sanctimony is going down – FINALLY! Thursday’s indictment is a placeholder charge. The big enchilada is still being developed with the grand jury.
It doesn’t matter if it’s political retribution. It doesn’t matter if the charges are weak. It doesn’t matter if he’s found not guilty. It will matter if the judge throws out the charges, but I suspect that won’t happen. If the latter doesn’t happen, justice will be done.
The process is the punishment. Comey deserves what he dished out to General Flynn, that is, financial ruin and the complete disruption of his life. Comey was proud and derisive in the way he set up and destroyed General Flynn for essentially doing his job. (They went after Flynn because Obama hated Flynn enough to fire him years before.) Comey snidely bragged about it. Now he will get at least a taste of that and hopefully much more.
The good news is that Comey is such a despised figure by both sides of the political divide that this trial will play loudly and continuously for months and his disgusting and constitutionally offensive behavior will be detailed again and again. Democrats will be forced to defend the indefensible. Trump will be cheer-leading from his exalted perch. He likely doesn’t care if the verdict is innocent. It’s the process and the process, whether the verdict is guilty or innocent, is always the punishment.
Yes you are correct. Anyone who has ever been caught in the legal web, knows its the process, that is the punishment. Unless you have Mark Cuban money, you’re in for a likely bankruptcy … and maybe worse … regardless of outcome.
I hope that Comey is financially ruined, if not convicted.
His indictment feels like small change in the wake of the other evils sweeping our country. The murder of Charlie Kirk is bringing it all to light.
It would be better if the Justice Department went after the far leftists who infect everything. It’s a target-rich battlefield.
It would seem that RICO laws could easily be used.
Just do it.
Yianni,
Sooner or later, Comey was bound to be carted out as the first of many to be indicted. So many liars – so little time! One by one, sooner or later, I’m confident they’ll be forced to throw kingpin Obama under the bus – we can only hope. Obama’s “legacy” will be forever tarnished, as it should be, seeing as how he was a liar and con man, dispatching all who opposed him. I wasn’t sucked in by his glowing rhetoric, sensing his disdain for the highest office of the land. His final insult will be sticking the taxpayers of Chicago with his edifice to himself – the “Obama library,” – the phallic of Jackson Park! He’ll be receiving retribution forever for his sins, as, after all, he’s married to Michelle!
Mr. Manta, your last sentence is golden!
It’s Obama . All the way down . The most destructive rascal to darken the USA and the Free World . The damage he has done will take decades to reckon. Comey is a bum , but just a small fish compared to Obama. It’s, it was Obama.
Great column, John, dramatic RICO-type connection of Chicago crime to national crime.
Too cheap to pay for HBO, I needed your handy link to understand the Littlefinger analogy. Artful creepiness! It’s as if an Obama strategy meeting were set in the Middle Ages.
What character would represent Obama himself — the powerful facade, the scheming and executive racketeering? Easy, actually. Orwell foresaw him in the 1948 “progressive” era: Big Brother of “1984.” Reread Big Brother’s most famous lines. They’re President Yes We Can gospel that might have been framed by Greek columns:
“Big Brother is watching you”
“You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him. You must adore him”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength”
“The object of power is power”
Our contemporary Big Brother deserves a monument to his grandeur, something large, tasteless, terrifying. Oh, wait, it’s being built right now! The worshippers will make the pilgrimage. Just turn left at 63rd Street.
The Obama/ Comey/ Brennan onions of abuse of power need a methodical and detailed peeling. Who else to do it? MSM are not touching it, and liberal Marxist historians will finish burying it.
It needs to be appended to the record already started by Nunes, Patel, Durham et al. Their sordid history makes them American IC’s erstwhile Beria serving Stalin. Their crimes need a recording that Hillary’s bleachbit can’t erase.
Interesting quote from your barber. There is a governor race in New Jersey. The Democrat went to the Naval Academy, but didn’t walk with her class. She was involved in a cheating scandal, one of the largest in Academy history. She did not cheat-but she knew about it and said nothing. She is a rat.
At West Point and US Air Force Academies, cadets who say nothing are considered complicit in the crime. At Navy, they are not. It becomes a gray area.
Comey was a rat. Brennan rat. Anyone who knew, and didn’t say anything, rat.
A mischief of vermin for sure !
Problem is, they can’t/won’t get the head rat, Barry !
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JK. One of your greatest columns ever, as young policemen we idolized Hanhardt a leader from the ERA of cops going after the bad guys, a man we believed had our backs.
As old men we ask how could the other bosses and politicians who promoted him not known or were suspicious of his actions.
Bothers me to see the FBI, the once premier law enforcement agency in the world now no more than the KGB, or the law enforcement arm of a third world dictatorship.
Excellent commentary also.
I call you out when I don’t like your position, and I’ll give you credit when I think you’re on to something. Every word you’ve written here is true, the analogy with GOT is apropos and Obama, or his employers as I don’t think any POTUS has been his own man since that November day in Dallas in 1963, is behind all of it.
Even if Trump is not your cup of tea, I personally find him disgusting, wrong is wrong, the law is the law, and the lies peddled by Obama and his lackeys, the deception the CIA, FBI, the God Awful media. It all needs to be made public, it must be put on the record. Comey deserves the full treatment. Put him in the witness stand and dare him to perjure himself. Brennan, Clapper, Obama himself, all deserve the same.
Unfortunately, the media will work overtime to defend these scumbags, and Congress will not take back the power it has ceded to the Executive Branch, but what was done to Trump cannot stand. They couldn’t beat him fair and square, and instead of getting better policies and offering working people safety, affordable health care, healthy food, clean air, they only seek to make their donors happy and enrich themselves.
So, yes, the Democrats are trash. I cannot say the alternative is much better. Energy prices are going up, tariffs are driving other prices up, ICE is not making any friends, the war pigs keep feeding the war machine. Family farms are still going by the wayside, corporate big Ag, and CHINA, and scumbag Bill Gates are buying up fertile land, Epstein was a Boy Scout and Ghislane Maxwell never saw anyone with any clout ever get a “massage” from a young girl
George Orwell is becoming more prescient every day. We are screwed.
But, with regard to Comey, bring it on. Bury him. He is Littlefinger personified
Great job, Mr. Kass, as always. What bothers me the most about Comey, McCabe, and Stroke (misspelling intentional in his case) is what they did to the reputation of the FBI. I worked with the FBI throughout my 36 year law enforcement career and had many, many close Friends there. They were honorable men and women with unquestioned integrity and honor. It bothers the hell out of me when I see that honor besmirched by anyone.
When the mishandling of classified material by hillary was downplayed by Comey I thought that somebody had him in their pocket. You’ve already identified who does. When the hunter laptop story was dumped it was even more obvious, and when the “Elite of the Intelligence Community” all signed up with that phony “Russian Hoax” letter I saw how far the Intelligence Community had sunk. Pathetic.
I also remember how my Friends at CPD felt when Hanhardt was uncovered for what he really was, and it was really sad. Great job, Mr. Kass, keep speaking the truth- our country certainly needs it badly.
This article alone should be eligible for a Pulitzer. I have never read anyone put the facts together in such a logical and sensible manner. Thanks to you John. There were resignations from many high ranking bureaucrats in the recent new Trump administration. Most have been there for years, under different political parties. Some have stated that they did not agree with Trumps policies and they resigned. My guess is they were approached by Deep State operatives and asked to undermine, leak information and spy on the Trump administration much like Comey and the rest of their operatives. The first Trump administration had many of these embedded it is now known who they are. The people who resigned are walking away. They know the playbook and want nothing to do with it. They have served honorably and want nothing to do with illegal and unconstitutional activities. If Comey, and Brennan and Bolton are allowed to walk away from their actions without accountability these actions will continue without check. Time to find all of these agents of the Deep State jail cells. I think they have ALL said it best…” no one is above the law..” I’m glad these words are now coming back to haunt them. I hope they choke on them.
Strangely enough, I always considered Lindsey Graham as Littlefinger…
Thanks again for a great (although sickening) column. We all need you to keep writing to help us be informed. For older people like me, it is hard to keep up with all the news but with your help we can at least try. Keep us informed, John.
Ms. Berge.
I’m in the same boat as you. In Illinois, the news media is a joke and feeds us only what they want us to know – or think. That’s why I read JKN and return to the same article for days after it’s been written just to read the replies from all our JKN followers. Lot’s of knowledge “flying around” on this site.
John Kass, may I say ditto to Delores Berge….God bless you young lady. We older people have a mind and the ability to remember, but John Kass puts the string we have formed in our mind into a glorious story of journalistic ability….Thank you again John Kass. I hate to steal from a bad cop, but, Let the Trial Begin…..
As always, Faith Family Freedom and keep on keeping on John Kass.
Tom
How does corruption start and rear its ugly head? There is almost always a high ranking politician(s) at the top of the scheme. Sometimes it is intentional and other times simply pure stupidity. In the case of Chicago, in regards to Hanhardt, Jane Byrne was surprisingly elected mayor and named Joe DiLeonardi acting police superintendent. DiLeonardi was a flashy dresser but was known as an honest competent police officer.
I had an in working in the mayors office who was present when Bryne asked DiLeonardi to promote Hanhardt to a command position. DiLeonardi told her he would not and that Hanhardt was dirty with the mob. Guess what? Bryne who wanted the support of unions pushing Hanhardt, dumps DiLeonardi as acting, and names Richard Brzeczek permanent superintendent. Lo and behold, Hanhardt is promoted to a command position, eventually Chief of Detectives, to the joy of many of his cronies on the PD. With his influence, Hanhardt was able to place many of his cronies to high positions in the PD. DiLeonardi eventually retired and was named Chief US Marshal in the Chicago Area.
Great work as always John. I learn a lot in the comment section and I thank you all. The question I have is when is the ‘legacy media’ going to stop running cover, or are they in such a bubble they don’t realize that the average prole on the street knows more than they do. Ignore, deny, obfuscate, and the playbook is so tiring. Thanks again, Phil
Good column, great analogies, pithy and en pointe.
I have become so jaded, however, that I do not believe we will see justice served this side of eternity.
But, like many others, I still dearly wish to see the “You can’t get me” smirks wiped off so many fatuous political faces…
John, excellent column and a great reminder as to our native city’s penchant to elect and appoint rogues and villains to positions of power. Any Chicagoan could have told the country in 2008, that you don’t elect a president from Chicago, even if he was Obama, the ‘god’ that walked the earth.
Now, to the Comey situation. If I was Trump I would have started the criminal prosecutions for Russiagate and assorted Democrat crimes with Brennan or Clapper. The evidence of criminality (that can be prosecuted) is greater with those two clowns than with the odious Comey. As a former Chicago prosecutor, in these type of cases, we always started with the most guilty first. You get some wins under your belt, you try to mold the media to frame the situation in the light most favorable to the prosecution and by the third or fourth criminal trial, the entire City knows that everyone associated with this crime is guilty, thus making it more likely that the jury pool is inclined to convict.
Though we don’t know for sure, the most probable explanation for Trump to start with Comey is that Trump despises Comey more than the other malefactors. Comey was front and center in the attempted coup against Trump. I hope that Comey is convicted but I wish that Trump would have started with the more easily provable cases first.
John, isn’t it great that we live in a time that is so fertile with political stories at every level of government?
Hell, you have plenty of grist just from Chicago alone, but I’m glad you view things through such a wide lens.
It’s kind of like, if you believe that Obama has a US birth certificate then you believe that James Comey’s FBI was the pillar of patriotism.
To me, Comey was a snake the day he defended not recommending charges for Hillary Clinton.
Everyone knows that the Clintons are a target rich environment for corruption, yet here we are being force fed morality by the one who wrote the check for the Russia Hoax.
And I will only say that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel need to get their asses in gear. There is a need for revenge, retribution; whatever.
But there will never be unity until the people who tried and tried and tried to keep Trump from becoming President, then attempting to remove him as President and then attempting to assassinate him as a presidential candidate and still, to this day, trying everything they can to block his agenda for the American people.
Let God forgive these POSs, because I won’t.