such as (often) simply elides the complex Emotional-center links: in ANY "fraught" situation.
He 'thought' he did the Boolean-simple-assed part ..as good as he could, thus completely MISSING the corollary-likelihood:

That he was almost guaranteeing that those vicious Lock-her-Up and .."I d like to smash X in-the-face" etc. Would spin it to death.
[except ..the coward would never try that, unless the victim were already in chains]
Apparently Comey could not Notice raw-Fascism On-The-Spot.. thus relapsed into academic-parsing of the Rulez-in-his-head.

As to his humility/Not; methinks ..much to be humble about. Comey: STAY AWAY from purest digital think, you mediocre-minded pecksniff!
He has no excuse: he SAW enough in '16 to KNOW what this Monster was about.