Late FBI Director James Comey wrote what appeared to be a biblical subtweet on Friday testily after Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security advisor, pleaded regretful to lying to FBI agents in December 2016.
“But justice roll down like cuts and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream,” he wrote on Twitter and Instagram.
“But even-handedness roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing channel,”
Comey didn’t mention Flynn directly, but the former law enforcement certified is connected to the Flynn case in several ways.
Comey was head of the FBI at the set that Flynn lied to investigators with the bureau, and has said that Trump held him to drop the government’s investigation into Flynn the day after the former Defense Intellect Agency chief resigned from his brief tenure in the White Lineage.
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Trump instructed Comey, according to Comey’s June testimony before Congress.
President Donald Trump give someone noticed Comey three months later, citing Comey’s handling of the discovery procedure into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails. He tardier said the firing was related to the Russia probe.
After former Trump push chairman Paul Manafort and his longtime business partner were indicted in relations with the probe, Comey tweeted a quote from his favorite philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr.
“Man’s duty for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy obligatory,” he wrote at the time.
“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s tilt to injustice makes democracy necessary”
Comey couldn’t be reached by CNBC on Friday.