Name:   CRD - Subject:   Comey is neither. Date:   10/2/2020 3:56:52 PM (updated 10/2/2020 3:58:50 PM)

Let's frame this in terms that even you might understand Archie.  You are a store manager of an ATL midtown McDonalds.  Your district manager requests that you provide he/she with an accurate number of double cheeseburgers sold between the hours of 5pm - 11pm over the past month.  You, being the busy store manager that you are, delegate that counting to your shift supervisors and counter employees.  Once you have the report presented to you by them, you sign said report and forward to the district manager.  

The district manager then calls you to the corporate headquarters and reviews the report with you.  It seems that the numbers of double cheeseburgers sold and the cash register receipts don't quite match.  Someone might be skimming.  It is a sloppy report. The district manager wants to ferret this out  and the following dialogue transpires:

District Manager:    “Are you responsible for this report or not?"

You: " I sign off on every report that gets sent to headquarters,  including this one"

District Manager:  'There seems to be quite a discrepancy between the numbers and receipts. Not accusing you, but are you                                              responsible for the accuracy of the data given to us in this report that you signed off on,   yes or no?”

You:   “Yes in the sense of command responsibility, no in that I didn’t have personal knowledge it would have led me to understand                   that I wasn't supplying accurate information.”  

District Manager:  "So what you are saying is that you, via your intimate knowledge of the honesty and integrity of the individuals who                               you assigned this task, felt that the information supplied could have not been anything else other than accurate                                   and did not quite warrant close scrutiny, even by you, the store manager?"

You: “I don’t remember whether I knew the shift supervisor or counter clerks or not.  I knew that they were working for McDonald's Corporation, but this is as far as my involvement went."

Now Archie, I am sure you would describe the store manager as  an unbiased, honest, the buck stops with me, kind of corporate servant who has served the best interests of the McDonald's corporation to the best of his abilities.  Most of us would characterize him as a slimey, self preserving, egotistical, blame deferring, corrupt a-hole, who with further investigation, deserved to be fired and charged with impersonating an executive.

Taken in large part from Comey's most recent testimony.......