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7 Jun 2017, 5:21 am by Jack Goldsmith
  I think Trump’s firing of James Comey was a travesty. [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 4:09 pm by Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
That’s because of the bizarre circumstances surrounding his appointment: namely, President Donald Trump’s campaign of pressure against, and abrupt dismissal of, Wray’s predecessor, James Comey, and the president’s particularly active interest in the Russia investigation, a matter in which he has multiple personal interests. [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 4:09 pm by Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
That’s because of the bizarre circumstances surrounding his appointment: namely, President Donald Trump’s campaign of pressure against, and abrupt dismissal of, Wray’s predecessor, James Comey, and the president’s particularly active interest in the Russia investigation, a matter in which he has multiple personal interests. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 3:30 am by Matthew Kahn
At former Director James Comey’s June 8 testimony before the Senate intelligence committee, he concluded his prepared remarks by saying, “The FBI is honest. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 8:28 pm by Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittes
Some questions were raised when Wray reassigned FBI General Counsel James Baker; it was unclear whether Wray caved to pressure from Trump (who attacked Baker) and Sessions, or simply wanted his own hand-picked General Counsel, as is the norm. [read post]
12 Jul 2017, 1:58 pm by Benjamin Wittes
The present point is that the last message the Senate Judiciary Committee should be sending to Wray right now is that the ultimately unforgivable sin of James Comey was his handling of the Clinton email matter. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 3:30 am by Matthew Kahn
At former Director James Comey’s June 8 testimony before the Senate intelligence committee, he concluded his prepared remarks by saying, “The FBI is honest. [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 5:49 pm by davidruiz
When Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) asked former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans? [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 4:30 am by Benjamin Wittes
Here are twenty questions I urge senators to ask Wray. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 12:10 pm by Benjamin Wittes, Nora Ellingsen
Christopher Wray took the oath of office at the FBI yesterday, and thus started the clock ticking on a difficult problem he’s going to have to address: the fate of his deputy, Andrew McCabe, who has been serving as acting director since President Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey. [read post]
In the wake of James Comey’s firing as FBI director, Andrew McCabe’s firing as deputy director, Peter Strzok’s dismissal and a constant drumbeat of negative attention from Trump-friendly media. [read post]
Setting aside this confusion, however, the data we are confident in appears to mostly be good news for FBI Director Chris Wray. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 4:00 am by jonathanturley
In his most recent appearance before Congress, FBI Director Christopher Wray refused to provide any new information on various scandals but seemed eager to assign past abuses to his predecessor, James Comey. [read post]
4 Aug 2017, 3:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  At the Justice Department, Wray worked under former FBI director James Comey who was serving as Deputy Attorney General during that time. [read post]
7 Jul 2017, 1:18 pm by Anonymous
Wray was reputedly one of the senior Justice Department officials ready to resign if then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey chose to do so over STELLARWIND’s legality—though Wray himself wasn’t aware of its existence at the time. [read post]
1 Jun 2023, 9:03 am by Tom Smith
On Tuesday, in response to Wray’s refusal to hand over the documents, Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer announced the House will move to hold the FBI director in contempt of Congress. [read post]
23 Jan 2018, 12:50 pm by William Ford
Yesterday’s pressure to remove McCabe follows previous attacks from Trump and other Republicans aimed at the deputy director and encouragement of Wray to demote or reassign the senior aides of his predecessor, James Comey. [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 1:02 pm by William Ford
The staffing changes—which replace two senior aides to Wray’s predecessor, James Comey—come after a period of concerted political pressure on Wray from both the attorney general and the president, who want Wray to replace the senior civil servants who worked under Comey. [read post]
31 Jul 2019, 12:29 pm by Andrew Crocker
Then-FBI Director James Comey and others portrayed the encryption on Apple devices as an unbreakable lock that stood in the way of public safety and national security. [read post]