James Hirsen: Could Comey's Free Speech Defense Be '86'd?

Could Comey's Free Speech Defense Be '86'd?

By James Hirsen, NY Times Bestselling Author, International Business Attorney, News Analyst & Cultural Commentator

Former FBI Director James Comey recently posted a photo of seashells on the sand that had been arranged to form the following pair of numbers: 86 47. Perhaps surprisingly for Comey, the seriousness of his wholly ill-advised post appears to be increasing with the passage of time. This is because the individual with whom the second seashell number is associated was saved by God's grace from two attempts of the first seashell number's kind. A political viewpoint? FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino sees it very differently: he said that the numeric symbolism was being used by copycats to send out threats that the FBI is mandated to investigate, which requires valuable time and resources. "We are now dealing with copycats, sending cryptic threats to public figures, using the '86' reference," Bongino wrote