Quote:GREGG JARRETT: Comey’s Russian hoax is a reminder of how he is similar to Nixon
Former FBI director's handwritten notes found in burn bags show he was aware of Hillary Clinton's scheme
By Gregg Jarrett Fox News
Published November 14, 2025 1:01pm EST

In the annals of "smoking gun" documents, the recently revealed handwritten notes by James Comey rank right up there with the infamous tapes that imploded Richard Nixon’s presidency.

Unfortunately, the ex-FBI potentate is "Nixonian" in a myriad of ways — needy, narcissistic, vindictive and manipulative. They both professed honesty but treated truth with utter contempt. Nixon gave us Watergate while Comey bequeathed the Russia Hoax. Each was forced from office mired in disgrace.

Alas, there’s one more eerie resemblance. Just as Nixon tried to sabotage his infamous Oval Office recordings, Comey’s combustible notes were consigned to an incinerator.

Stuffed in one of five "burn bags" that were secretly squirreled away in a locked high security room at the FBI, his self-incriminating scribbles were supposed to go up in smoke. For reasons unknown or undisclosed, they did not.

In one damning note, Comey confirms what some of us have known and argued all along — he knew almost at the outset of the Russia collusion narrative that it was an odious fiction conjured up by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign and personally approved by her on July 26, 2016.

Clinton’s objective, according to Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report, was "to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services," thereby tipping the upcoming presidential election in her favor.

When later questioned by Congress about his knowledge of the epic deceit, Comey claimed an acute case of amnesia. He feigned no recollection whatsoever of Clinton’s opprobrious plot to smear Trump.

However, Comey’s missive to himself puts a conspicuous lie to that testimony. It reads, "HRC plan to tie Trump." It is not something that anyone would ever forget.

While it is difficult to discern, the information appears attributable to "JB," which is almost certainly then-CIA Director John Brennan. This comports with Brennan’s own declassified handwritten notes that intelligence communications had uncovered Clinton’s political chicanery.