Comey and the Obama administration lacked candor in their description of the investigation of the Trump campaign

Andrew McCarthy:

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To tell Trump he was not under investigation was misleading. Just like Susan Rice’s email was misleading. The plan forged by top Obama political and law-enforcement officials was to pursue an investigation of President Trump without sharing the full details of the investigation. They made a plan: Give Trump just a sliver of what the probe is about, tell him he is not under investigation, and keep investigating him under the guise of investigating Page, Manafort, and the Steele dossier.

It is getting close to two years with no apparent evidence of an actionable Trump–Russia conspiracy. Nevertheless, it is still necessary to ask: Is President Trump under investigation for collusion with the Kremlin? If not, shouldn’t he and the country be told that?

And since counterintelligence investigations are conducted to inform the president — the constitutional officer responsible for national security against foreign threats — it is worth asking: What was the difference between what the FBI told the FISA court about the Trump–Russia investigation and what they told the president of the United States about it?

This comes at the end of a long analysis of the actions of the Obama administration in their handling of the Clinton opposition research effort dressed up as an intelligence report which they used to spy on the Trump campaign.   McCarty carefully lays out the case that amounts to a concerted fraud by omission in their dealings with President Trump.  It is definitely worth reading in full.  I think it indicts more than just Comey in this conspiracy to deceive the President.