David Brock on Barbara Comstock (DoJ)

[grasswire]

Remember that Barbara Comstock was the mentor of Monica Goodling, Tim Griffin, and brought them over to work for her at DoJ after training them on the RNC's opposition research team and the Florida recount. Comstock works largely under the radar. She developed the attacks on Gore, for example. She's everywhere, and she's crazy.

Here's what David Brock wrote about her in his book "Blinded By the Right":



"One night in the winter of 1995, as the scandal over the firings of workers in the White house travel office reached a crescendo on the Hill I received a late night telephone call from one of Ted's colleagues on an investigative committee, Barbara Comstock. Around the committee, the two Barbaras were known s "the Barbarellas," a reference to the 1968 movie starring Jane Fonda as a space-age vixen whose cosmic adventures take her to bizarre planets via rocket ships. Late night calls from Barbara Comstock were not unusual. She often telephoned with the latest tid-bit she had dig up in the thousands of pages of administration records she pored through frantically, as if she were looking for a winning lootery ticket she had somehow mislaid. A plain woman with tousled reddish brown hair, she once dropped by my house to watch the rerun of a dreadfully dull Whitewater hearing she had sat through all day. Comstock sat on the edge of her chair shaking, screaming over and over again, "Liars!" As Comstock's leads failed to pan out and she was unable to catch anyone in a lie, the Republican aid confided that the Clinton scandals were driving her to distraction, to the unfortunate point that she was ignoring the needs of her own family. A very smart lawyer by training and the main breadwinner for her charismatic, happy-go-lucky husband and kids, Comstock remarked that maybe she couldn't get Hillary's sins off her brain "because Hillary reminds me of me. I am Hillary." In this admission a vivid illustration of a much wider "Hillary" phenomenon can be seen. Comstock knew nothing about Hillary Clinton. Comstock's "Hillary" was imaginary, a construction composed entirely of the negative points in her own life.

Comstock invited me to go along on an expedition to the Washington home of senior White House aid David Watkins, the central figure in the travel scandal Olsen and Comstock were probing. A short time later, Republican lawyers Comstock, Olson, and other congressional investigators, including David Bossie, and Whitewater investigator Christopher Bartomolucci, pulled up outside my house in an SUV. Though I wasn't sure what the group hoped to accomplish --- they were visibly frustrated with their inability so far to incriminate Watkins --- I went along for the ride. Olsen explained that Congressman Sonny Bono had cleared us into the privated, gated community where both Bono and Watkins lived, in the northwest section of Georgetown. When we arrived at our destination, Olsen giddily leapt from the truck, trespassed onto Watkins's property, and hopped down a steep cliff that abutted his home. Barbara peered into Watkins's window where she observed him --- watching television. No crime there. (Blinded by The Right by David Brock, p 208,209.)"

[lolly]

1. Yes, very revealing

I just saw that section quoted somewhere else a few days ago.

It's pretty obvious that Republicans, especially the women, project a lot of self-loathing and guilt, since they live lives so clearly opposed to all their supposed principles.

[emulatorloo]

2. Don't forget Barbara Comstock and Scooter Libby Defense Fund - and WAY MORE -- links:

She and her law firm Blank Rome had their hand in some juicy Katrina related contracts too.

As well as homeland security pork barrel contracts, etc etc

She is everywhere


to follow up on your David Brock ref -- media matters page on Barbara Comstock:

http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/barbaracomstock

also This one from Firedoglake is REALLY REALLY REALLY worth reading -- it has a history of all the nasty things she has been involved in:

It's Evil Harpie Time With Barbara Comstock
http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006/02/its-evil-harpie-time-with-barbara.html

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When Digby sounded the warning about Barbara Comstock, head of Scooter Libby's defense fund, I had no idea what a toxic waste dump the comments section would turn into as people went to work delving into the sewage pit that is her past.

This is f**king heart of darkness stuff.

This is a woman who is the author of some of the most despicable and destructive memes the GOP has used to both artificially prop itself up and decimate the Democrats through endless repetition in the mighty Wurlitzer. She's had her skeevy hands on some of the most foul dirty tricks ever perpetuated by the modern Rethugs. She's a high-level GOP operative. She's best buds with Kate O'Beirne. What else can you say.

A brief history of Barbara Comstock's corrupt shenanigans:

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[grasswire]

3. Waxman needs to subpoena Comstock

I believe that Comstock is running the politicization of the DoJ from outside. Congress must see any and all of her communications with DoJ employees.

[Supersedeas]

5. - interesting -

[Cha]

4. America is full of evil, greedy,

mentally challenged people..barbara comstock is one of them.

[pscot]

6. Demented Bitch

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